Friday, Jan. 26
NEW ROXY:
Noon:
Stomping Ground (music video; J.B. Lawrence)
12:15 pm:
Yazoo Revisited: Integration in a Deep Southern Town (documentary, David Rae Morris)
2 pm:
Front Porch Stage: King Biscuit Blues (concert performance)
3 pm:
Fannie Lou Hamer: Stand Up! (documentary; MPB)
GRANDMA’S SPORTS BAR:
12:30 pm:
Moonshine & Mojo Hands: The Mississippi Blues Series (world’s first Blues reality series; Roger Stolle, Jeff Konkel)
3 pm:
Mississippi Bluesmen: Big George Brock (concert performance; MPB)
3:45:
Talking Black in America: The Language and Life Project (documentary; NC State Language & Life Project)
4:15:
Mississippi: An Eric Tingstad-Delta Bohemian Experience (introduction by Madge Marley Howell)
4:45:
Lightnin’ Malcolm’s Ain’t No Place (music video; intro/Q&A with director Coop Cooper)
4:50:
If You Build it, They Will Come: A Juke Joint’s Field of Dreams (documentary short, Great Big Story)
5 pm:
Reception with live music by LUCIOUS SPILLER
6:30 pm:
Shake Sister Shake (documentary, Lisa Eismen)
Saturday, Jan. 27
NEW ROXY:
Noon:
History Bus Tour of Clarksdale with Robert Birdsong
12:30 pm:
Conversations from the Open Road: The Blues! (three student short-films; executive producer Mary
Catharsis by Isaac Cleveland
Music Will Bring Us Together by Finn Wheeler
Alright by Keenan Reinsborough
1 pm:
Celebrating Storytellers: A Mississippi Bicentennial Collection (mini-documentaries)
4 pm:
Messippi: Clarksdale’s Quapaw Canoe Co. (documentary; Chris Battaglia; Q&A to follow)
GRANDMA’S SPORTS BAR:
Noon:
Mr. Handy’s Blues: Father of the Blues (documentary; Joanne Fish)
1:30 pm:
History Bus Tour of Clarksdale with Robert Birdsong
2 pm:
Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary (documentary; John Scheinfeld)
2 pm:
WORKSHOP: Kids, make a film on your phone with filmmaker Coop Cooper
2:30 pm:
Big Fish Blues: Long Island Blues History (documentary; Leslye Abbey)
4 pm:
Love Is a Sensation: Kosciusko Folk Artist LV Hull (special documentary preview; Intro/Q&A with director Yaphet Smith)
5 pm:
Reception with live music by SEAN “BAD” APPLE
6:30:
Two Trains Runnin’: Mississippi Blues Meets Civil Rights in Freedom Summer (documentary; introduced by special guest Dick Waterman)