Featuring "Super Chikan," "Kingfish" Ingram, and The All Night Long
Blues Band Join us for a musical trip to the juke joints of the
Mississippi delta…where the blues were born! We’re proud to
feature three extraordinary acts from Clarksdale, Mississippi - the
epicenter of the original sounds that would re-shape the musical
landscape of the world. James “Super Chikan” Johnson is a Blues
Music Award winning musician, guitar maker, folk artist and nephew of
the legendary “Big Jack” Johnson. With multiple highly acclaimed
award winning recordings to his credit, “Super Chikan” has toured
the world and is best known in the Clarksdale area for performing
regularly at Morgan Freeman's Ground Zero blues club, and for being
Freeman's favorite blues performer. Two years ago, he was honored with
four Blues Music Award nominations, including BB King Entertainer of
the Year, Song of the Year for "Fred's Dollar Store", Traditional
Blues Male Artist, and he won the BMA for Traditional Blues Album of
the Year for Chikadelic. He was previously nominated for the Best New
Artist Blues Music Award in 1998, and has received five Living Blues
Critics Awards. In 2004, “Super Chikan” received the Mississippi
Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. Accompanying him for
this performance are “The Fighting Cocks,” his extraordinary
all-female band. At the age of 15, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram has
already been tabbed as blues innovator. Exposed to the rich gospel
music emanating from his family’s church, combined with the blues he
heard in his Delta neighborhood, and being a cousin to the great and
legendary Country music singer, Charlie Pride…”Kingfish” became
a natural sponge of musical talent. His influences range from Robert
Johnson and Muddy Waters to B.B. King and Buddy Guy. “Kingfish”
began playing blues at age 6, and, after several years of lessons at
Clarksdale’s Delta Blues Museum and many nights playing with blues
veterans at local juke joints like Red’s Lounge, he has emerged as a
major draw for visiting blues tourists. Surprisingly at such a young
age, he can play just like his idols and mentors and possesses the
additional ability to create a style all his own. Sean “Bad” Apple
has studied at the feet of historical bluesman for the better part of
two decades. He is also one of a growing number of musicians who have
moved to Clarksdale, Mississippi, to absorb the area’s music and
culture. In 1993, he spent time learning from the 88-year-old
Bentonia, MS native, Jack Owens, one of Mississippi’s
most-significant early bluesmen. Apple also served as guitar player
for the Terry “Harmonica” Bean Blues Band for over two years out
of Pontotoc, MS. A man on a mission, Sean synthesized the music of his
mentors to assemble his own sound, his own brand of
Delta-meets-Hill-Country (i.e. two regions of Mississippi) blues
music. He is presented at the Franklin Theatre with his acclaimed The
All Night Long Blues Band to share the lessons taught to him by the
men and women who learned this music from the source.
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