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Munnie Jordan - King Biscuit Blues Festival
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One of the nation's foremost showcases of blues music — as it's referred to in its online overview — is ready to party.
Like many other events, the festival shut down for two years due to covid.
"Helena-West Helena and surrounding Phillips County will be bustling for the King Biscuit Blues Festival 2023 - Munnie Jordan tells us all about it.
The festival takes place for three full days — Thursday-Saturday in historic downtown Helena on the banks of the Mississippi River — but kicks off with a "Warm Up Wednesday,"
The King Biscuit Blues Festival, founded in 1986, is one of the nation’s foremost showcases of blues music. Tens of thousands of blues enthusiasts converge on historic downtown Helena, Arkansas to hear stirring and uplifting performances of an American art form on the banks of the Mississippi River.
As the home of “King Biscuit Time,” the longest running radio show ever, Helena became legendary in the Delta. First broadcast in 1941, Sonny Boy Williamson II and Robert Lockwood Jr. played live in the studio as the “King Biscuit Entertainers.” Pinetop Perkins and James Peck Curtis later joined the band. The musicians played on KFFA every weekday, pausing for King Biscuit Flour commercials and announcements of their next nighttime performances.
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