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Keep The Blues Alive In Clarksdale !!!
For those who don’t know what a Mississippi saxophone is, it is the term used in Mississippi and Chicago for a harmonica, in particular a blues harp -a poor man's saxophone.
The Mississippi Sax Fest is the only Music Festival in the World totally dedicated the preservation and presentation of Blues Harmonica in the Blues Harmonica tradition.
There is no better place in the world to have this festival than Clarksdale Mississippi, considered by many as the birthplace of the Delta blues. Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Robert Nighthawk, Son House, Pinetop Perkins, Jimmy Rogers, Ike Turner Charlie Parton, Howling Wolf, Houston Stackhouse, Sonny Boy Williamson, Robert, Jr Lockwood and even the White Jimmy Rodgers, all lived and /or played in Clarksdale Mississippi.
This is also the site of the notorious CROSSROADS, where legend has it that Robert Johnson made a deal with the Devil. His sold his Soul for Mastery of the blues guitar.
Although many businesses in town have contributed sponsorship money, it is not enough to present this annual festival in 2017. We are very grateful for whatever sponsors we can get. The Mississippi Tourism Agency has kindly been a supporter for the last three years. Our main sponsor in 2016 was a benevolent blues fan from Georgia, who underwrote the major portion of the festival. He did it for the pure love of the blues and the blues harmonica. Unfortunately, he is unable to participate for the 2017 fest.
Last year Lazy Lester was the headliner along with Snooky Pryor’s son, Rip Lee Pryor, Brandon Santini and RJ Mischo. The fesival awarded Lifetime Achievement Awards to Lazy Lester and James Cotton.
This year the lineup is Kim Wilson, Billy Boy Arnold, Paul Oscher (Muddy Waters band member),Terry Harmonica Bean and others.
The All Star Backup Band consists of Billy Flynn on guitar, Kenny "Beedy Eyes "Smith (Son of Willie "Big Eyed " Smith) on drums, Bob Stroger on bass, little Frank Krakowski second guitar and Clay Swafford on piano.
David Berntson, advocate of Blues in the Schools, will be handing out 100 harmonicas (courtesy of Hohner) to kids and teaching a youth harmonica class the morning of the festival.
There will also be a Blues Harmonica Workshop on Friday.
We need to ask all you blues harmonica fans and players to pitch in and help us keep this new festival tradition growing in the right direction. It is only a month out. We need to raise fifteen thousand dollars ASAP to support the festival, which is set for Saturday, May 27th. We have already sold advance tickets but need to sell more. What we need most is donations and your unconditional support of the blues and the blues harmonica. Every little bit helps.
Show your love and passion for the blues. Support this festival and keep the blues alive.
Any donation of $30.00 or more will get free access to the festival. (Donations of $20 or more from the first week of this campaign also will be eligible for this reward.)
Donations over $50 will recieve a 5x7 post card with the poster of the festival on it and a 5x7 white index card with all the artists signatures perfect for mounting side by side.
Donations over $100 will be rewarded by VIP seating, festival t shirt, festival poster signed by the artists and invitation to the Meet and Greet cocktail hour at Deak's Mississippi Saxophones and Blues Emporium.
Donations of $500 dollars will receive 6 vip tickets with all the perks.
If somebody donates $5,000 the stage will named after that person for this year.
If you cant make the show this year you will be on the guest list for next year with same perks.
This is a two day event Friday and Saturday. Harp workshop on fri and music at Club Zero by Martin Lang backed by the festival band and on Sat after the fest there is Jam at Ground Zero Blues Club run by RJ Mischo with the fest band.
For tickets and additional details, check out www.mssaxfest.com .
Thank you for your heartfelt generosity,
Deak Harp for the MISSISSIPPI SAX FESTIVAL
Notable Quotes in Support of this Festival:
"A lotta Bullshit passes for 'Blues Harmonica'
nowadays. The Mississippi Saxophone festival
features only the very best of the very deepest
-Show some support for the real stuff"
-Rick Estrin of Rick Estrin and the Nitecats
" The Mississippi Sax festival brings an important focus on harmonica music and the critical role that blues harp played in the evolution of blues music. As the only music festival showcasing entirely blues harmonica, it's important for this event to sustain and grow in the future"
-Charles Ross, president, Tampa Bay Blues Festival and harp player with Bactrack Blues Band.
"Even though everyone loves Deak Harp and knows here is a man who by himself can entertain a tent full of a thousand blues fans..He is a one-man show..
However he cannot do the Mississippi Saxophone festival by himself..He needs all of us helping his festival..This is the only festival that celbrates the harmonica in the home of the blues-Clarksdale Mississippi...Join us in supporting this good cause."
-Robert Jr whitall- Publisherof Big City Rhythm&Blues Magazine.
"This festival dedicated to showcasing the great tradition of the blues harmonica, needs the support of blues lovers everywhere. Make a donation today.!!!"
-Jerry Portnoy -Harmonica player with Eric Clapton and Muddy Waters and a great educator.
"The Mississippi Saxophone Festival is the only harp-centric festival that I know, and has some of the best and most important harmonica players ever! This festival should be suppoerted and kept alive at all costs"
-Dennis Greuling 2017 BMA Nominee (harmonica) 3-time "Best Modern Harmonica Player (Real Blues Magazine and Host of Blues & the Beat on WFDU HD-2
"The harmonica has been such a paramount instrument in blues history. That's why the Mississippi saxophone festival is needed to show the importance of the instrument and the history of the genre through living legends of the art."
-Quon Willis aka Jontavious Willis . A Great blues player and blues historian.
"Deak Harp is one of the treasures of the contemporary Delta blues scene--not just for his own killer playing, but for bringing the very best contemporary players to Clarksdale. His Mississippi Sax Festival is THE blues harmonica event in Mississippi this year. I am 100% in his corner. Please support the troops!"
--Adam Gussow (Satan and Adam harpist, University of Mississippi "blues doctor")
"The blues harmonica, also known as the The Mississippi Saxophone, is the closest instrument to the human voice that you can get. It can sing, moan and emote the blues better than any instrument I know. The Mississippi Sax Fest will help to present the harmonica for what it is, one of the most soulful and musically complex instruments in existence. Please help to support this great instrument and festival"
-David Barrett of BluesHarmonica.com
"Harp is an essential part of the blues. Let's keep it going"
-David Evans professor of ethnomusicology, writer of "the country blues " and " big road blues" and outstanding world class blues musician
They call me Mr.Downchild. I started playing the Blues Harmonica in 1965 in London England. I have recorded and played with Blues Legends Robert Lockwood Jr,Pinetop Perkins Sam Lay,Hubert Sumlin,Sam Carr and more. The Mississippi Saxophone Festival is the only event of it's kind on the planet. Where the Blues Harmonica is celebrated in the land it originated ,the mighty mississippi delta. To support this festival you not only support the Blues as music but as a part of American history and culture The great Muddy waters sang 'The Blues had a baby,and they named it Rock an Roll' These Blues has changed the face of music not only in USA but around the world. I am proof of it. Support the Mississippi Saxophone Festival TODAY.
-Steev Inglish aka Mr.Downchild
And
Keep The Blues Alive In Clarksdale !!!
For those who don’t know what a Mississippi saxophone is, it is the term used in Mississippi and Chicago for a harmonica, in particular a blues harp -a poor man's saxophone.
The Mississippi Sax Fest is the only Music Festival in the World totally dedicated the preservation and presentation of Blues Harmonica in the Blues Harmonica tradition.
There is no better place in the world to have this festival than Clarksdale Mississippi, considered by many as the birthplace of the Delta blues. Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Robert Nighthawk, Son House, Pinetop Perkins, Jimmy Rogers, Ike Turner Charlie Parton, Howling Wolf, Houston Stackhouse, Sonny Boy Williamson, Robert, Jr Lockwood and even the White Jimmy Rodgers, all lived and /or played in Clarksdale Mississippi.
This is also the site of the notorious CROSSROADS, where legend has it that Robert Johnson made a deal with the Devil. His sold his Soul for Mastery of the blues guitar.
Although many businesses in town have contributed sponsorship money, it is not enough to present this annual festival in 2017. We are very grateful for whatever sponsors we can get. The Mississippi Tourism Agency has kindly been a supporter for the last three years. Our main sponsor in 2016 was a benevolent blues fan from Georgia, who underwrote the major portion of the festival. He did it for the pure love of the blues and the blues harmonica. Unfortunately, he is unable to participate for the 2017 fest.
Last year Lazy Lester was the headliner along with Snooky Pryor’s son, Rip Lee Pryor, Brandon Santini and RJ Mischo. The fesival awarded Lifetime Achievement Awards to Lazy Lester and James Cotton.
This year the lineup is Kim Wilson, Billy Boy Arnold, Paul Oscher (Muddy Waters band member),Terry Harmonica Bean and others.
The All Star Backup Band consists of Billy Flynn on guitar, Kenny "Beedy Eyes "Smith (Son of Willie "Big Eyed " Smith) on drums, Bob Stroger on bass, little Frank Krakowski second guitar and Clay Swafford on piano.
David Berntson, advocate of Blues in the Schools, will be handing out 100 harmonicas (courtesy of Hohner) to kids and teaching a youth harmonica class the morning of the festival.
There will also be a Blues Harmonica Workshop on Friday.
We need to ask all you blues harmonica fans and players to pitch in and help us keep this new festival tradition growing in the right direction. It is only a month out. We need to raise fifteen thousand dollars ASAP to support the festival, which is set for Saturday, May 27th. We have already sold advance tickets but need to sell more. What we need most is donations and your unconditional support of the blues and the blues harmonica. Every little bit helps.
Show your love and passion for the blues. Support this festival and keep the blues alive.
Any donation of $30.00 or more will get free access to the festival. (Donations of $20 or more from the first week of this campaign also will be eligible for this reward.)
Donations over $50 will recieve a 5x7 post card with the poster of the festival on it and a 5x7 white index card with all the artists signatures perfect for mounting side by side.
Donations over $100 will be rewarded by VIP seating, festival t shirt, festival poster signed by the artists and invitation to the Meet and Greet cocktail hour at Deak's Mississippi Saxophones and Blues Emporium.
Donations of $500 dollars will receive 6 vip tickets with all the perks.
If somebody donates $5,000 the stage will named after that person for this year.
If you cant make the show this year you will be on the guest list for next year with same perks.
This is a two day event Friday and Saturday. Harp workshop on fri and music at Club Zero by Martin Lang backed by the festival band and on Sat after the fest there is Jam at Ground Zero Blues Club run by RJ Mischo with the fest band.
For tickets and additional details, check out www.mssaxfest.com .
Thank you for your heartfelt generosity,
Deak Harp for the MISSISSIPPI SAX FESTIVAL
Notable Quotes in Support of this Festival:
"A lotta Bullshit passes for 'Blues Harmonica'
nowadays. The Mississippi Saxophone festival
features only the very best of the very deepest
-Show some support for the real stuff"
-Rick Estrin of Rick Estrin and the Nitecats
" The Mississippi Sax festival brings an important focus on harmonica music and the critical role that blues harp played in the evolution of blues music. As the only music festival showcasing entirely blues harmonica, it's important for this event to sustain and grow in the future"
-Charles Ross, president, Tampa Bay Blues Festival and harp player with Bactrack Blues Band.
"Even though everyone loves Deak Harp and knows here is a man who by himself can entertain a tent full of a thousand blues fans..He is a one-man show..
However he cannot do the Mississippi Saxophone festival by himself..He needs all of us helping his festival..This is the only festival that celbrates the harmonica in the home of the blues-Clarksdale Mississippi...Join us in supporting this good cause."
-Robert Jr whitall- Publisherof Big City Rhythm&Blues Magazine.
"This festival dedicated to showcasing the great tradition of the blues harmonica, needs the support of blues lovers everywhere. Make a donation today.!!!"
-Jerry Portnoy -Harmonica player with Eric Clapton and Muddy Waters and a great educator.
"The Mississippi Saxophone Festival is the only harp-centric festival that I know, and has some of the best and most important harmonica players ever! This festival should be suppoerted and kept alive at all costs"
-Dennis Greuling 2017 BMA Nominee (harmonica) 3-time "Best Modern Harmonica Player (Real Blues Magazine and Host of Blues & the Beat on WFDU HD-2
"The harmonica has been such a paramount instrument in blues history. That's why the Mississippi saxophone festival is needed to show the importance of the instrument and the history of the genre through living legends of the art."
-Quon Willis aka Jontavious Willis . A Great blues player and blues historian.
"Deak Harp is one of the treasures of the contemporary Delta blues scene--not just for his own killer playing, but for bringing the very best contemporary players to Clarksdale. His Mississippi Sax Festival is THE blues harmonica event in Mississippi this year. I am 100% in his corner. Please support the troops!"
--Adam Gussow (Satan and Adam harpist, University of Mississippi "blues doctor")
"The blues harmonica, also known as the The Mississippi Saxophone, is the closest instrument to the human voice that you can get. It can sing, moan and emote the blues better than any instrument I know. The Mississippi Sax Fest will help to present the harmonica for what it is, one of the most soulful and musically complex instruments in existence. Please help to support this great instrument and festival"
-David Barrett of BluesHarmonica.com
"Harp is an essential part of the blues. Let's keep it going"
-David Evans professor of ethnomusicology, writer of "the country blues " and " big road blues" and outstanding world class blues musician
They call me Mr.Downchild. I started playing the Blues Harmonica in 1965 in London England. I have recorded and played with Blues Legends Robert Lockwood Jr,Pinetop Perkins Sam Lay,Hubert Sumlin,Sam Carr and more. The Mississippi Saxophone Festival is the only event of it's kind on the planet. Where the Blues Harmonica is celebrated in the land it originated ,the mighty mississippi delta. To support this festival you not only support the Blues as music but as a part of American history and culture The great Muddy waters sang 'The Blues had a baby,and they named it Rock an Roll' These Blues has changed the face of music not only in USA but around the world. I am proof of it. Support the Mississippi Saxophone Festival TODAY.
-Steev Inglish aka Mr.Downchild
Organizer
Deak Harp
Organizer
Clarksdale, MS
