{"id":51013,"date":"2015-07-16T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/?p=51013"},"modified":"2015-07-16T09:27:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T14:27:05","slug":"oxford-blues-fest-rocks-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/oxford-blues-fest-rocks-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Blues Fest Rocks Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Sixth Annual Blues Festival to take place on July 18.<\/p><\/div>\n

OXFORD, Miss. – Headliners including Blind Mississippi Morris and The Jeff Jensen Band, will play the Oxford Blues Fest<\/a> on the University of Mississippi campus this Saturday (July 18).<\/p>\n

Darryl Parker, producer and founder of Oxford Blues Fest,\u00a0is excited about this year\u2019s festival and expects this one to be the best one yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlues is America\u2019s music,\u201d he said, adding the festival will kick off with a panel discussion\u00a0on several topics related to blues music.<\/p>\n

The festival begins at 11 a.m. at the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics <\/a>with a panel discussion on\u00a0“Claiming the Land: Cemeteries and the Blues.” Steve Salter and Aaron Pritchard, of the Killer Blues Headstone Project, and Skip Henderson, founder of the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund, will be included in the panel\u00a0hosted by T. DeWayne Moore. Moore also will host a conversation with bluesmen Bobby Ray Watson and R.L. Boyce from 12:30 p.m. until 1:45 p.m. at the Overby Center.<\/p>\n

After the panel discussions, the music begins on the Grove stage. Organizers encourage everyone to bring a lawn chair, and they promise the show will go on, rain or shine.<\/p>\n

The music lineup for the festival is as follows:<\/p>\n