Friday\u2019s lineup will feature Jamaican-born Mystic Bowie<\/strong>, also known as the lead singer of the 1980s Talking Heads<\/strong> side project Tom Tom Club<\/strong>. Bowie\u2019s Talking Dreads<\/strong> performance will highlight not only his Jamaican musical heritage, but also his unique fusion of reggae and Talking Heads classics. Also Friday are The Minks<\/strong>, a Nashville-based \u201cpsychedelic-bloos\u201d band; Mississippi native Mohead<\/strong>; and Memphis-based singer-songwriter Rollin Rosatti<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Saturday will highlight two of Americana music\u2019s brightest stars: headliner\u00a0Deer Tick<\/strong>, a band known for strong songwriting, excellent music, an avid fan base developed over the course of eight albums, and a bio that simply states, \u201cDeer Tick likes to rock out;\u201d and fan favorite\u00a0Keller Williams<\/strong>, an artist often described as a \u201cone-man jam-band\u201d and known for his collaborations with\u00a0Yonder Mountain String Band<\/strong>, String Cheese Incident<\/strong>, and Umphrey\u2019s McGee<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Saturday\u2019s line-up also includes the esteemed Texas-born Americana singer-songwriter\u00a0Radney Foster<\/strong>; Jackson, Miss. bluesman\u00a0Jarekus Singleton<\/strong>; Harrison AR bluegrass band\u00a0National Park Radio<\/strong>; Austin blues rockers\u00a0Red on Yellow<\/strong>; and emerging singer-songwriter\u00a0Tyler Tisdale.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n After the main stage concludes each night, the Stovall Store stage will feature late-night blues sets by Big A and the All-Stars <\/strong>on Friday and the Stone Gas Band <\/strong>on Saturday, with a special \u201cBurning of the Blues\u201d celebration Saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tickets are offered at www.mightyrootsmusicfestival.com<\/a> on both a single-day and weekend pass basis. In addition to general admission tickets, a VIP ticket offers access to a private area in the historic gin building, special viewing areas, and the Back 40 Bar. Organizers are also creating plans to facilitate safety distancing protocols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Contributing to the immersive experience of the festival, campsites and RV sites are also available. Food truck concessions will be anchored by Doe\u2019s Eat Place<\/strong> truck from Greenville<\/strong> and the Lost Pizza<\/strong> truck from Cleveland<\/strong>. The Mighty Roots Music Festival is presented by WADE, Inc.<\/strong>, north Mississippi\u2019s John Deere<\/strong> dealer.\u00a0\u00a0Sponsors include Visit Mississippi<\/strong>, Visit Clarksdale<\/strong>, Sonic Drive-Ins<\/strong>, Guaranty Bank<\/strong>, Delta Magazine<\/strong>, and Clark Beverage Group<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The festival\u2019s co-founders are Greenville-based hit singer-songwriter and recording artist Steve Azar<\/strong> and Mississippi native and festival producer Howard Stovall. Decades-long veterans of the national music scene, the two worked together closely on the Mighty Mississippi Music Festival (2013\u20132018), which Azar co-founded in Greenville as one of the two premier anchor events for the highly successful \u201cBridging the Blues\u201d tourism and marketing program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Mighty Roots Music Festival is very much a reboot of Mighty Mississippi festival in a new location\u2014Stovall Farms, the place where Muddy Waters<\/strong> grew up and was first recorded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201dWe created such an inspiring and honest experience at Mighty Mississippi, and Howard\u2019s farm is just the perfect place to recapture that all over again with an authentic roots music festival. The venue is beyond cool and says so much about our delta\u2019s rich history and culture,\u201d notes Azar. \u201cOnce people experience our VIP area in the old gin building, hopefully they will mark this event down on their calendar as a must-attend for years to come.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n The location is not just home to the Mighty Roots Festival but is also a must-see destination for music fans from around the world, with deep local connections to some of the most legendary names in music, including Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker<\/strong>, Bessie Smith<\/strong>, Pinetop Perkins<\/strong>, and Ike Turner<\/strong>, among others. Clarksdale is known to feature live blues music 365 days a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stovall\u2019s roots in the area run as deeply as possible \u2014 his family history on the land extends back to the 1830s \u2014 but Azar also has local roots: \u201cMy Mom is from Clarksdale, my Uncle Joe was Mayor and my cousins have the best BBQ joint in Mississippi with their world renown Abe\u2019s. So, it is home to me!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to great music and a great party, the event represents an important economic boost to Coahoma County<\/strong>, Miss., a rural area that has historically suffered from higher unemployment rates and lower income metrics than average. \u201cThe economic impact of a major tourism event like this is immediate and can be significant,\u201d states Stovall, who worked in the 1990s to help establish Coahoma\u2019s County\u2019s tourism tax. \u201cBringing in several thousand people and their buying power can move the needles noticeably in our community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Find The Might Roots Music Festival<\/strong> at:https:\/\/www.mightyrootsmusicfestival.com\/<\/a>Facebook<\/strong><\/a> @mightyrootsmusicfestivalInstagram @mightyrootsmusicfestival<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n New event set to take place in the Mississippi Delta Bringing some much-needed good news to music fans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":111026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[16405,208,3470,14687,4163,18557,16401,16399,16393,11315,18555,4001,16394,16402,16400,16403,16398,16406,18558,16395,16396,16404,18556,18559],"class_list":["post-111025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-shows","tag-big-a-the-allstars","tag-blues","tag-clarksdale","tag-coahoma-county","tag-deer-tick","tag-delta-magazine","tag-jarekus-singleton","tag-keller-williams","tag-mighty-roots-music-festival","tag-mississsippi","tag-mohead","tag-muddy-waters","tag-mystic-bowie","tag-national-park-radio","tag-radney-foster","tag-red-on-yellow","tag-rollin-rosatti","tag-stone-gas-band","tag-stovall-gin-company","tag-talking-dreads","tag-the-minks","tag-tyler-tisdale","tag-visist-clarksdale","tag-visit-mississippi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/feat-mighty-roots-music-festival.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\")
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