{"id":154948,"date":"2026-01-19T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=154948"},"modified":"2026-01-20T12:01:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:01:01","slug":"delta-blues-museums-47th-anniversary-events-a-weekend-of-celebration-from-january-29-february-1-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/delta-blues-museums-47th-anniversary-events-a-weekend-of-celebration-from-january-29-february-1-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Blues Museum&#8217;s 47th Anniversary Events: A weekend of celebration from January 29\u2013February 1, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Delta Blues Museum will host a number of special events and guests to celebrate its 47th anniversary<\/strong>, culminating with a GRAMMY Watch Party that is open to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">THURSDAY, JANUARY 29th<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The River and the Road to the Blues&#8221; Exhibit Opening Reception<br>Sponsored by Visit Mississippi and Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area<br>Museum Gallery<br>5:30PM &#8211; 7:30PM<br><em>*free and open to the public*<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FRIDAY, JANUARY 30th<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Official anniversary of Delta Blues Museum<\/em><\/strong><br>DBM Student Band &amp; Ravinia Jazz Scholars Blues Exchange<br>Museum Classroom<br>4PM &#8211; 6PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SATURDAY, JANUARY 31st<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Charlie Musselwhite&#8217;s birthday<br><em>*free cupcakes in the Gift Shop while supplies last*<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1st<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony\u00ae Livestream Watch Party<br>Hosted by the Board of Directors<br>Museum Upstairs Gallery<br>1:30PM &#8211; 5:30PM<br><em>*open to the public*<\/em><\/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>Delta Blues Museum will host a number of special events and guests to celebrate its 47th anniversary, culminating<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":136361,"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":[17331],"tags":[3470,1410,5],"class_list":["post-154948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-museums","tag-clarksdale","tag-delta-blues-museum","tag-mississippi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/DeltaBluesMuseum-45Years-Logo.jpg?fit=960%2C960&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154948","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=154948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154991,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154948\/revisions\/154991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}