When I was growing up in the Mississippi Delta, the go-to big city was Memphis, a city that in the 1950s was starkly divided along black/white, rich/poor lines. So how was it that a statue of a ...

It’s one of the most familiar creation myths in the American imagination: a lonely crossroads in the Mississippi Delta; a down-at-the-heels musician and Satan himself, come to bestow fretboard mojo in ...

If Beale Street could talk, it would say, Who the hell is the guy depicted in that big statue by the entrance to the park? W. C. Handy, once so famous as the Father of the Blues that he was ...

It’s one of the most familiar creation myths in the American imagination: a lonely crossroads in the Mississippi Delta; a down-at-the-heels musician and Satan himself, come to bestow fretboard mojo in ...

A view of Mr. Handy : one afternoon in Memphis, 1918 -- Slavery, the AME Church, and emancipation : the Handy family of Alabama, 1811-1873 -- W.C. Handy and the music of black and white America, ...

FLORENCE, Ala. (WAFF) - W.C. Handy Music Festival officially kicked off Wednesday and will last for the next two weeks. 14 days of music, good food and fun, that’s what locals say W.C. Handy Music ...

When she moved to Florence, Ala., from her native Illinois in 1996, Algene Norwood didn’t know a soul. She decided that she “had to get out and get active and meet people.” She did that by ...

HENDERSON, Ky. − It’s time for a summer fixture in downtown Henderson: The W.C. Handy Blues & Barbecue Festival. What is this event, you ask? Henderson’s volunteer-run music festival has grown through ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (TENNESSEE VALLEY LIVING) - Mark your calendars because this weekend is the W.C. Handy Festival. The W.C. Handy Festival pays tribute to William Christopher (W.C.) Handy, also known ...

W.C. Handy (front, left), composer of "St. Louis Blues," visits Old Rock House Saloon in this circa 1935 photo in "Scenes of Historic Wonder: St. Louis." Photo by St. Louis Globe-Democrat, courtesy of ...