{"id":83816,"date":"2020-01-29T13:18:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T19:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=83816"},"modified":"2020-01-29T17:32:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T23:32:39","slug":"como-black-history-month-celebration-hosted-by-rl-boyce-picnic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/como-black-history-month-celebration-hosted-by-rl-boyce-picnic\/","title":{"rendered":"Como: Black History Month Celebration Hosted by RL Boyce Picnic Saturday, February 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In celebration of <strong>Black History Month<\/strong> the <strong>RL BOYCE Picnic &amp; Blues Celebration<\/strong> is celebrating the African American residents of <strong>Como, Mississippi<\/strong> with a photo exhibition by <strong>John Shaw<\/strong> followed by a live Blues Jam with Como\u2019s &#8220;Big Blues Mane,&#8221; Grammy Nominee, and MAC Fellowship Grant recipient, <strong>RL BOYCE<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Shaw, a Tennessee photographer has documented folk life in Mississippi for over twenty years. He is working towards his Master Thesis in ethnomusicology at the <strong>University of Memphis<\/strong>. He is widely recognized by the Blues and Folk communities from his wildly popular blog, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thedeltareview.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">The Delta Review<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The opening reception for Shaw&#8217;s exhibition, <strong>&#8220;Como Folk,&#8221;<\/strong> will be held Saturday, February 1, 2020, from 5 to 7 pm at the <strong>Emily Jones Pointer Public Library<\/strong> (104 Main Street, Como, Miss.). The exhibit continues through the month, please check library for hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the opening reception, shake \u2018em on down at the <strong>Como Catfish Bar &amp; Grill<\/strong> with Como\u2019s biggest star Hill Country Blues Legend RL Boyce. The show will be from 8 pm to midnight with a $10 donation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"1096\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/RL_WINTER_JAM_cream_small.jpg?fit=701%2C1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/RL_WINTER_JAM_cream_small.jpg?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/RL_WINTER_JAM_cream_small.jpg?resize=205%2C300&amp;ssl=1 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/RL_WINTER_JAM_cream_small.jpg?resize=701%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 701w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eOTNfvrpGew\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><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\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of Black History Month the RL BOYCE Picnic &amp; Blues Celebration is celebrating the African American<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":83820,"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":[300],"tags":[5414,512,15874,15873,15872,2022,13755,6330,15869,15871,6177],"class_list":["post-83816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-localart","tag-black-history-month","tag-como","tag-como-catfish","tag-como-catfish-bar-grill","tag-emily-jones-pointer-public-library","tag-hill-country-blues","tag-photographer","tag-rl-boyce","tag-rl-boyce-picnic","tag-the-delta-review","tag-university-of-memphis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2020-1-29-Como-Folk.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83816","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=83816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}