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summer festival at Otha's place - July 7
summer festival at Otha's place - July 7
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kudzurunner
3351 posts
Jul 05, 2012
10:10 AM
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There's a brand-new one-day blues picnic happening this Saturday, July 7th, at Otha Turner's farm in Gravel Springs, MS, just outside Como. It's on Roger Stolle's Cathead website:
7/7 (Sat) - Summer Festival at Otha’s Place
Gravel Springs, MS
New blues, roots and gospel event on Otha Turner’s old property Details TBA. 3pm-11pm.
DIRECTIONS: Get off of I-55 on the Senatobia exit and turn away from town down Highway 4. Go approximately three Miles down that road to Gravel Springs Road (the second road to the right on 4 from Senatobia). Turn right on Gravel Springs Road. Go to the second 4-way stop and turn left (that road is OB McClinton Road) Follow that road about a half mile and the Turner's Picnic is on the right there will be lots of cars & people gathered there. Park along the side of the road.
Scroll down the page below for a poster. Sharde Thomas and the Rising Star Fife & Drum band will be there, plus others. I just may drive up and play.
http://www.cathead.biz/CatHead/Music_Calendar.html
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bloozefish
29 posts
Jul 05, 2012
2:24 PM
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Kudzu,
isn't Sharpe a granddaughter of Otha, keeping the fife 'n drums thing going?
james
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JohnnieHarp
121 posts
Jul 05, 2012
2:30 PM
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Adam, been meaning to post a link re: Fife and Drum and this thread reminded me.
Recently there was a feature on the excellent CBC radio science show Quirks and Quarks, regarding the discovery of some 40,000 year old bone/ivory fife-like instruments in a cave in southern Germany. In the interview (linked below) they seem to ignore the liklihood that fife-like instruments were likely made from reeds then and before.
Anyhow, maybe the blues were being played in Europe by our ancestors, at a time when the Neanderthals were still around?!
Podcast Link - Click to play / Right click to download
Web page link
40,000 year old Fife / Flute pic
Last Edited by on Jul 05, 2012 2:43 PM
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