Mississippi Delta Blues & Heritage Festival
Greenville, Mississippi
"da' blues is like coming' home"

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The 48th Mississippi

 

 

 

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2025 Delta Blues Festival

 

 

MEDIA ALERT

For Immediate Release

Monday, June 20, 2025

 

GREENVILLE, MISSISSIPPI — Mayor Errick D. Simmons in conjunction with Mississippi Action for Community Education, Inc. (MACE) will hold a pressconference on Friday, June27, 2025 at 12noon on the steps of the City Hall,40 Main Street, Greenville, MS to announce the Artist Line-up ForThe 48th AnnualMississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival. This year’s festival will be held on Saturday, September 20, 2025 at the Washington County Convention CenterFairgrounds. All media and the public are invited.

 

For additional information, contact Chauncy Wright at 662-645-7045 or 662-335-3523.

We look forward to seeing you on Saturday, September 21, 2024 in Greenville,  Mississippi……the Mississippi Delta and “Home of the Blues” for the 48th Annual Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival,  the oldest continuous running Blues Festival in the Country.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                            

 

                                                                                                   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   To inquire about vendor space for the 2025 Mississippi Delta Blues & Heritage Festival,

    please call Marie Payton @ 662-335-3162.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

48th Annual Mississippi Delta Blues & Heritage Festival
Saturday, September 21, 2025
Greenville, Mississippi

The Board of Directors of Mississippi Action for Community Education, Incorporated, along with the staff and all our volunteers wish to thank everyone who attended the 46th Annual Mississippi Delta Blues & Heritage Festival.  We appreciate your support and we look forward to seeing you on September 21, 2025 for the 48th Annual Mississippi Delta Blues & Heritage Festival.

The purpose of the Annual Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival is to reach a worldwide audience with a celebration of the contributions the Mississippi Delta Blues culture has made to the American story - and to help preserve that culture. Mississippi Delta Blues is globally recognized as one of America's most important musical forms. A major catalyst for American popular culture, it exists in both a folk context and as a product of the commercial music industry. In the face of a historically brutal social experience, Black folk in America affirmed their humanity by remembering and creating a rich expressive culture of poetry, tales, crafts, ritual, dance and music. This system embodied techniques of cultural transmission, transformation, adaptation and survival. Early Blues developed out of this rich fabric and cross-fertilized the work-songs, love-songs, slow drags, rags and spirituals. Delta Blues soon became the emotional and literary voice of Black singers across the South.

Ironically, Black and poor people from the Mississippi Delta, who gave the world the Blues, had limited access to traditional or contemporary institutional arts and cultural programming. The products of most rural peoples' art are inaccessible to them. They are housed in urban academic institutions and archives. They need to be preserved and showcased to larger general audiences as the legacy of a living culture.

While this art form was being celebrated internationally, the Delta region was still one of the poorest regions in the country. In 1976, Mississippi Action for Community Education, Incorporated (MACE) saw the need to help create financing for educational programs and gave birth to the "Delta Blues & Heritage Festival".

The success of the "Delta Blues & Heritage Festival" spurred the creation of festivals all over the Mississippi Delta and beyond.

 

THANK YOU to our SPONSORS!   

Please visit the Sponsor's Page to see our Sponsors for the 48th Annual Mississippi Delta Blues & Heritage Festival.

 

 

 

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