The Delta stretches across northwestern Mississippi like a big fallen leaf, tucked between two rivers. It spans 220 miles north to south and, at its widest, 87 miles east to west. How can so many ...

INDIANOLA, MS ‒ On the stage at Club Ebony in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, blues artist Alphonso Sanders sings an original song called “Delta Sun,” dedicated to life in a hot and challenging ...

A new work in Washington from composer Damien Geter and librettist Jarrod Lee depicts the life and legend of the great ...

Blues music was born in the Mississippi River delta, a pivotal event in American music history. You can visit the place historians call the Home of the Blues.

TRAVERSE CITY — For Traverse City singer and guitarist Nick Veine, exploring the passion, messaging and “everyman” musical approach of the historically significant Delta blues has inspired his own ...

Nashville, Austin, New Orleans, Chicago, and New York are some of the more notable American locations for music. However, the location that partially gave these places their music: the Mississippi ...

Police have been asked to investigate after an exhibit at the Pryor Center was vandalized with a swastika last week, ...

Since 2001, actor and narrator Morgan Freeman has owned and operated Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Mississippi, celebrating blues music in the birthplace of the artform. Located just about a ...

Lee reflects on the queer lineage of Black art, from Langston Hughes to James Baldwin, and his return to IN Series in a new ...