HENDERSON, Ky. − For the 32nd time in 33 years, 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 ...

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 ...

For the 34th time, the granddaddy of Henderson’s “Rootin’ Tootin’ Songs of Summer” music series — the W.C. Handy Blues & Barbecue Festival — is coming on June 11-14. The volunteer-run music festival ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The legendary blues composer W.C. Handy will be remembered this week in a series of special performances as a part of the New York Festival of Song. Here & Now‘s Robin Young talks with Elliott Hurwitt ...

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, ...

An area known year round for its music kicks it up a notch for the rest of the month at the W.C. Handy Festival. In its 41st year, the festival features some 250 events in restaurants and other venues ...

During the month of February, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will publish a daily feature highlighting African American contributions to our state and nation. This is the fifth year of the AJC Sepia ...