Juke Joint Festival

Clarksdale, Mississippi holds claim as the "birthplace of the blues." For over twenty years now, "the world's biggest little blues festival" holds court, filling the tiny Delta town with a huge variety of music acts, racing pigs, monkeys riding dogs, workshops, history bus tours, and much, much more. A host of pre-festival celebrations will take place all week, but the main event is Saturday—which will center blues music on twenty two stages all throughout the city and long into the night. Get the whole schedule at jukejointfestival.com. 

Recommended Reading: 

The Travelers Hotel: Hospitality and the Arts—the secret to creative placemaking in Clarksdale

Standing at the Crossroads: In Clarksdale, the Delta Blues meet Southern Hospitality