{"id":136300,"date":"2024-01-25T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=136300"},"modified":"2024-01-24T20:17:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T02:17:50","slug":"the-lineup-for-14th-annual-clarksdale-film-music-festival-january-26-28-2024-in-clarksdale-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/the-lineup-for-14th-annual-clarksdale-film-music-festival-january-26-28-2024-in-clarksdale-mississippi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lineup for 14th Annual Clarksdale Film & Music Festival January 26-28, 2024 in Clarksdale, Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The historic little town of Clarksdale, Mississippi, presses \u201cplay\u201d on a brand-new, curated collection of movies, music, and special guests at its 14th annual Clarksdale Film & Music Festival January 26\u201328.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Read more about the 14th Annual Clarksdale Film & Music Festival here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, January 26, 2024<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

1:00 pm: Pre-Fest live blues by TERRY \u201cHARMONICA\u201d BEAN<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stone Pony Tack Room<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

3:00 pm: Land of the Blues<\/em> (21 min.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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3:30 pm: <\/strong>Africans Reasons<\/em> <\/strong>(90 min.<\/em>)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Award-winning director Jefferson Mello traveled to six countries and over many miles to explore the ancestry in the blues, rumba, and jongo, through the eyes of three main characters (including Pontotoc, Mississippi\u2019s Terry \u201cHarmonica\u201d Bean) and their beautiful stories. Although geographical spaces and musical instruments are different, the origins of all these rhythms are African. African Reasons is a delicate, intimate, and musically profound portrait in images and interviews with musicians and experts that traces the identity of these musical genres in the appreciation of their cultures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 pm: <\/strong>Daily reception with live music by JAMES \u201cSUPER CHICKAN\u201d JOHNSON<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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6:15 pm: A Life in Blues<\/em> <\/em><\/strong>(90 min.)<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Life in Blues<\/em> is a documentary film by Mark Rankin and Brian Wilson, who are flying down from Canada to for this world premiere event. After decades in the blues trenches\u2014from long juke-joint nights to international festival stages\u2014the life story of Clarksdale, Mississippi\u2019s blues-playing, truck-driving, folk-art-making legend James \u201cSuper Chikan\u201d Johnson will finally be told.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, January 27, 2024<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Stone Pony Tack Room<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

11:00 am: <\/strong>Tribute to RED PADEN<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:05 am: <\/strong>Mississippi Music Videos by TIM HARDIMAN (15 min.)<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:15 am: American Mileage: Cam Cole<\/em> (preview, 12 min.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:30 am: Spring Initiative: Student Films (10 min)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:45 am: <\/strong>\u201cGrowing a Film Industry on America\u2019s Richest Soil\u201d by NOLAN DEAN (25 min.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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12:30 pm: <\/em>King Bee: The Slim Harpo Story<\/em> (90 min.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This new documentary film is told by James \u201cSlim Harpo\u201d Moore himself, via a super-rare 1968 interview with Susan Cassidy Clark at Steve Paul\u2019s Scene in NYC. His wife Lovell, his stepson William Gambler, and his original King Bee bandmates James Johnson, Rudy Richard, and Jesse Kinchen also tell the story with the original King Bee. Harpo fans Dr. John, Ray Davies, Delbert McClinton, and Jimmie Vaughan also appear in the film. Slim Harpo (1924\u20131970) was a Grammy Hall of Famer from Baton Rouge and a leading example of the \u201cswamp blues\u201d style. The singer\/guitarist\/harmonica player is perhaps best remembered for hits like \u201cI\u2019m a King Bee\u201d (1957), \u201cRainin\u2019 in My Heart\u201d (1961), and \u201cBaby Scratch My Back\u201d (1966). Over 250 artists have recorded his music, including The Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Pink Floyd, Otis Redding, the Who, Hank Williams, Jr., and many more. This is the film\u2019s Clarksdale premiere, featuring the filmmakers John S. Zaffuto and Johnny Palazzotto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2:15 pm: Born in Chicago <\/em>(78 min.)<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born In Chicago<\/em> chronicles a uniquely musical passing of the torch. It\u2019s the story of first-generation blues performers who had made their way to Chicago from the Mississippi Delta and their unexpected followers\u2014young, white, middle class kids who followed the evocative music to smoky clubs deep in Chicago\u2019s ghettos. This new Chicago blues transcended the color lines of the 1960s as young, white Chicago musicians apprenticed themselves to legends such as Muddy Waters and Howlin\u2019 Wolf. Featuring Dan Aykroyd, Elvin Bishop, Mike Bloomfield, Charlie Musselwhite, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, and many more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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4:00 pm: <\/strong>CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE & ELVIN BISHOP concert film presented by SFJAZZ at Home (60 min.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

5:00 pm: Daily reception with live music by JIMBO MATHUS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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6:00 pm: The Secret World of Charley Patton<\/em> <\/em>with JIMBO MATHUS (20 min.)<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Secret World of Charley Patton<\/em> is a short film by Jimbo Mathus that chronicles the early Delta blues legend Charley Patton and his only child, Rosetta Patton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jimbo Mathus spent his youth playing music with family and friends and worked as a hand on Mississippi riverboats. Later, he scored platinum records with his band the Squirrel Nut Zippers and earned multiple music awards, including a Grammy with Buddy Guy. Through all those experiences, he also maintained a fascination with handmade, European-style marionettes. In 2023, Visit Clarksdale Tourism awarded a grant to Shared Experiences (SE) in downtown Clarksdale, and Jimbo Mathus became SE\u2019s first Artist in Residence. For a month he worked, creating marionettes and background sets to make a based-on-a-true-story short film that chronicles early Delta blues legend Charley Patton and his only child, Rosetta Patton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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6:30 pm: The Blues Society<\/em> <\/em>with AUGUSTA PALMER<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This acclaimed new documentary film offers a re-evaluation of the 1960s seen through the lens of the Memphis Country Blues Festival (1966\u20131969). It\u2019s the story of Blues masters like Furry Lewis and Robert Wilkins, who had attained fame in the 1920s but were living in obscurity by the 1960s. It\u2019s also the story of a group of white artists from the North and the South who created a celebration of African American music in a highly segregated city. The Blues Society follows the festival from its start in 1966 as an impromptu happening, through a period of cross-pollination with New York\u2019s East Village scene, and up to the 1969 Festival, which mushroomed into a three-day event and garnered substantial print and television coverage\u2014including an appearance on Steve Allen\u2019s national PBS show, Sounds of Summer<\/em>. Reaching into the present, the film ends in a 2017 concert where Rev. John Wilkins returns to the stage he last shared with his father 48 years earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday, January 28, 2024<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Bluesberry Caf\u00e9<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

1 pm: SEAN \u201cBAD\u201d APPLE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 pm: MISS AUSTRALIA \u201cHONEY BEE\u201d JONES<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 pm: WATERMELON SLIM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schedule and more details are available at\u00a0www.clarksdalefilmfestival.com<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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