21st Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival
Tentative lineup: August 8-9-10, 2008
| FRIDAY, AUG. 8, 2008 |
| MAIN STAGE - BLUES ALLEY – DOWNTOWN CLARKSDALE |
| 4:00 pm |
South of Memphis |
| 4:30 pm |
Delta Blues Museum Students |
| 5:00 pm |
Stan Street |
| 5:30 pm |
Joy |
| 6:30 pm |
Ms. Jody |
| 7:30 pm |
Guitar Mikey with Nellie Tiger Travis |
| 8:30 pm |
Nathaniel Kimble |
| 9:30 pm |
Latimore |
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| SATURDAY, AUG. 9, 2008 |
| MAIN STAGE - BLUES ALLEY – DOWNTOWN CLARKSDALE |
| 1:00 pm |
Razorblade |
| 1:45 pm |
Big T (Terry Williams) |
| 2:30 pm |
Wesley Jefferson and the Southern Soul Band |
| 3:15 pm |
James “Jimbo” Mathus |
| 4:00 pm |
Eddie Lee Coleman Band |
| 5:00 pm |
Willie King and the Liberators |
| 6:00 pm |
Lil' Howlin' Wolf |
| 7:00 pm |
Early Wright and Julius Guy Award Presentations |
| 7:30 pm |
Super Chikan Johnson |
| 8:30 pm |
Jimmy Burns |
| 9:30 pm |
Shemekia Copeland |
OTHAR TURNER STAGE, CLARKSDALE STATION
INSIDE THE DEPOT BLUES CLUB - ISSAQUENA & BLUES ALLEY |
| 9:00 am |
Foster ‘Tater’ Wiley |
| 9:30 am |
Big T and Arthniece “Gas Man” Jones |
| 10:00 am |
Eddie Cusic |
| 10:30 am |
Pat Thomas |
| 11:00 am |
Robert Belfour |
| 11:30 am |
Shardee Turner & the Rising Star Fife & Drum Corps |
THE SUNFLOWER RIVER WALK ACOUSTIC STAGE
(LOCATED AT SUNFLOWER AVE. & THIRD STREET) |
| 2:00 pm |
L.C. Ulmer |
| 2:45 pm |
Cadillac John and Bill Abel |
| 3:30 pm |
Terry Harmonica Bean |
| 4:15 pm |
Jimmy “Duck” Holmes |
| 5:00 pm |
Kenny Brown |
| 5:45 pm |
Bill Howlin’ Madd Perry |
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| SUNDAY, AUG. 10, 2008 |
| SUNFLOWER RIVER GOSPEL FEST – MAIN STAGE |
| 4:30 pm |
Christopher Coleman |
| 4:45 pm |
Betty Alexander |
| 5:20 pm |
The Myles Familys |
| 6:00 pm |
John Howard |
| 6:45 pm |
Chapel Hill Baptist Male Chorus |
| 7:30 pm |
Selvy Singers |
| 8:30 pm |
Darrell McFadden & the Desciples |
The Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival is free and open to the public.
Donations to keep the festival free are tax-deductible and welcome: Sunflower
River Blues Association, Box 1562, Clarksdale, Mississippi 38614. The festival
is staged entirely by volunteers committed to keeping the festival free and accessible
to all in the birthplace of Delta blues. The association is a 501 c 3 non-profit
organization. Funds from grants, foundations, corporations, businesses, and individuals
are used exclusively to pay performers and production costs.
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Shemekia Copeland
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Nellie "Tiger" Travis and Guitar Mikey
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Jimmy Burns
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James "Super Chikan" Johnson
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Nathaniel Kimble
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