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Jimmy "Duck" Holmes and Phil Wiggins & Blues House Party in Concert
Venue: Floyd Country Store, Floyd
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Organizations: Jimmy "Duck" Holmes, Mountains of Music Homecoming, Phil Wiggins and Blues House Party
Date: Saturday, June 9, 2018
Time: 7:30 - 10:00 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost:
Adults: • Advance Tickets: $20.00 • After May 31, 2018: $25.00

Children 12 & Under: $12.00

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Description:
Floyd Country Store presents Jimmy "Duck" Holmes and Phil Wiggins and Blues House Party in concert as part of The Crooked Road's 2018 Mountains of Music Homecoming on Saturday, June 9, 2018.

Jimmy "Duck" Holmes is one of the most celebrated rural blues musicians performing today and owns the Blue Front Cafe, Mississippi's oldest juke joint. Jimmy has lived a life steeped in blues. Today he is the last living practitioner of the celebrated style of Bentonia blues made famous by Skip James and Jack Owens.

In addition, Holmes operates what is arguably the oldest juke joint left in Mississippi with the Blue Front Café which was started by his parents in 1948 and is the organizer of one of the longest-running festivals in the state - the Bentonia Blues Festival.

Learning directly from Henry Stuckey (the Bentonia musician who introduced that style of blues playing) and influenced by other blues masters from Bentonia, especially Skip James and Jack Owens, Holmes sings his own compositions as well as classic blues from the local repertoire, and he accompanies his performances on acoustic guitar tuned to open D minor or open E minor, yielding a particularly mournful, haunting sound.

Holmes’ family tree was deeply rooted in the blues. In 1972 Holmes’ mother Mary started the Bentonia Blues Festival, which each year draws thousands of blues fans to Bentonia. While Holmes was recorded by folklorists Alan Lomax and David Evans in the 1970s, his first album, entitled Back to Bentonia, was released in 2006. He has subsequently released several other albums and has been featured in such documentary films as I Am the Blues (2016).

Links:

• https://www.facebook.com/jimmyduckholmes
• https://www.twitter.com/bentoniablues

Phil Wiggins and Blues House Party, led by blues harmonica wizard Phil Wiggins, perpetuates the Piedmont style of blues music and dance, a gentle and melodic blues style of the mid-Atlantic region. A native of the Washington, D.C. area, Wiggins has performed alongside a who’s who of blues performers including John Cephas, Sunnyland Slim, and Robert Belfour. Wiggin’s harmonica style includes complex syncopated patterns, breath-control and rhythm, stylistic virtuosity and fiery solo runs.

He is a two time winner of the prestigious WC Handy award. Regularly ranked among the world’s top harmonica players in both Reader and Critics polls by Living Blues magazine, he is active as musician, teacher and music director. He is only the third harmonica player to receive the lifetime honor of an NEA National Heritage Fellowship. Today he is the only living player of the instrument to hold the prestigious honor of being a "Master of Traditional Arts".

With House Party he is joined by Rick Franklin (guitar and vocals), Marcus Moore (fiddle) and Junious Brickhouse (dance). In 2017, Wiggins received the National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, America’s highest award for traditional artists.

Link: http://www.philwiggins.com/

Tickets are $20.00 in advance and $25.00 after May 31st for adults and $12.00 for children 12 and under.

To purchase tickets online, visit: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/8456288/.

For more information on the Mountains of Music Homecoming, visit: http://mtnsofmusic.com/shows/jimmy-duck-holmes-phil-wiggins-blues-house-party/ or https://www.facebook.com/mtnsofmusichomecoming/.

For more information on The Floyd Country Store, visit: http://www.floydcountrystore.com or https://www.facebook.com/floydcountrystore or call 540-745-4563.