{"id":126413,"date":"2023-02-13T10:55:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T16:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=126413"},"modified":"2023-02-13T10:59:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T16:59:05","slug":"local-storyteller-slide-guitarist-due-will-perform-robert-johnson-at-the-crossroads-for-boys-girls-club-february-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/local-storyteller-slide-guitarist-due-will-perform-robert-johnson-at-the-crossroads-for-boys-girls-club-february-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Storyteller &#038; Slide Guitarist Duo Will Perform &#8220;Robert Johnson at the Crossroads&#8221; for Boys &#038; Girls Club February 22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Storyteller <strong>Rebecca Jernigan<\/strong> and slide guitarist <strong>Wendy Garrison<\/strong> will be telling and playing <strong>\u201cRobert Johnson at the Crossroads\u201d<\/strong> for youth and staff at the <strong>Barksdale Boys &amp; Girls Club<\/strong> Wednesday, February 22. Their performance is funded by the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mshumanities.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mississippi Humanities Council<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In colorful costumes Garrison and Jernigan retell the tale of legendary bluesman <strong>Robert Johnson<\/strong>. With music, drama, and sign language, they recount his fateful encounter with the prince of darkness at the crossroads of the Mississippi delta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Rebecca Jernigan developed the legend of Robert Johnson from historical sources. <a href=\"http:\/\/msslideguitar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr. Wendy Garrison&#8217;s<\/a> mournful rendition of blues is representative of music drawn from her first-hand experience.&nbsp; Her mastery of the slide guitar has earned her a slot on the Mississippi Arts Commission Folk Artist Directory <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arts.ms.gov\/folklife\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.arts.ms.gov\/folklife\/index.php<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Funded in part by the Mississippi Humanities Council, Rebecca and Wendy have performed together locally in the Oxford public schools for grades 4 through high school; the Oxford Boys and Girls Club; <strong>Oxford Double Decker Storyfest<\/strong>; the <strong>Yoknapatawpha Summer Writer&#8217;s Institute<\/strong>; <strong>Theatre Oxford<\/strong> productions; and statewide at the <strong>BB King Museum<\/strong> in Indianola; workshops such as &#8220;Resources in the Delta&#8221; at <strong>Delta State University<\/strong>; at the <strong>Tupelo Ballet Arts Showcase<\/strong>; and at the <strong>Words and Music Community Culture Series<\/strong> in Pass Christian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storyteller Rebecca Jernigan and slide guitarist Wendy Garrison will be telling and playing \u201cRobert Johnson at the Crossroads\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":126418,"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":[307],"tags":[24245,3666,4812,15950,1962,24244,1476],"class_list":["post-126413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-people","tag-barksdale-boys-girls-club","tag-mac","tag-mississippi-humanities-council","tag-rebecca-jernigan","tag-robert-johnson","tag-robert-johnson-at-the-crossroads","tag-wendy-garrison"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/wendy-rebecca.jpg?fit=448%2C336&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126413","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=126413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}