{"id":166028,"date":"2026-09-17T12:58:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T17:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=166028"},"modified":"2026-09-17T13:11:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T18:11:56","slug":"mississippi-john-hurt-upcoming-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/mississippi-john-hurt-upcoming-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi John Hurt Upcoming Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI shall not be moved\u201d sang Mississippi John Hurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mary Frances Hurt is honoring her grandfather\u2019s spirit of faith and determination by hosting the 2026 Mississippi John Hurt Homecoming Festival on Saturday and Sunday, October 3-4, 2026, at the Mississippi John Hurt and Jerry Richardson Educational Center located at 1973 CR 109, Carrollton, Mississippi. Saturday\u2019s events include a guitar workshop and open mic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spiritual program featuring Dorothy McClung and the West Singers spiritual group with Reverend Vicky West, followed by a Memorial Walk to the nearby Mississippi John Hurt gravesite will take place on Sunday. Visit the Mississippi John Hurt Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/msjohnhurtfoundation.org\/\">website <\/a>for further information.<\/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>\u201cI shall not be moved\u201d sang Mississippi John Hurt. Mary Frances Hurt is honoring her grandfather\u2019s spirit of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":166029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20919,7887,52,21323,35027],"tags":[1740,6795,35801,5,27782,1380,35768],"class_list":["post-166028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blues","category-local-music","category-music-shows","category-songwriters","category-upcoming-events","tag-carrollton","tag-event","tag-john-hurt","tag-mississippi","tag-mississippi-john-hurt-2","tag-music","tag-upcoming-event"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/festival-web-banner26.jpg?fit=1032%2C540&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166028","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=166028"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166040,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166028\/revisions\/166040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}