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Thank you for letting us know about this. I just made a small donation. Wish it could be more.
Thank you for letting us know about this. I just made a small donation. Wish it could be more. You're very welcome Ms. Suzy. It seems your trio performs at several different charity events already (I checked your website...very nice, clean design), so I appreciate your willingness to contribute to our efforts. Your contribution and those of several others have gotten us above the %80 mark. I am attaching one of Paul Oliver's photograph that has appeared in different publications, but it is often cropped and incomplete. It appears here in its entire composite glory! https://www.gofundme.com/chatmongraves http://www.mtzionmemorialfund.org/p/the-unmarked-grave-of-bo-carter.html The Dedication of Bo Carter's Headstone and Celebration in Nitta Yuma
July 29, 2017 - 5:00 p.m. - Nitta Yuma Cemetery - Nitta Yuma Plantation, Sharkey County, Mississippi LINK HERE TO EVENT PAGE - http://www.mtzionmemorialfund.org/2017/05/the-dedication-of-bo-carters-headstone.html We have informed the owner of the National Style N guitar of Bo Carter!!!! We are crossing our fingers and hoping that he will come to Nitta Yuma and reunite it with the fiddle of Lonnie Chatmon--which will be there--two emblems of the Chatmon family legacy--on July 29 in Nitta Yuma.... Miles Floyd, the grandson of Armenter Chatmon, will be on hand at the event. So will the original instruments owned and played by the Chatmon family. Henry Phelps, the landowner of the small hamlet, plans to have a large celebration and reception with food and refreshments following the dedication. He has done many excellent renovations of the historic buildings in Nitta Yuma, and the commemoration of Bo Carter's headstone offers everyone a chance to experience this jewel of the mid-Delta through the lens of a unique celebration. Several indebted and amazing musicians also plan to perform at the event in Nitta Yuma, MS on July 29, 2017, such as.... Blues musician Andy Cohen's amazing career has spanned decades so I have prepared a collection of content for your reading and viewing pleasure here http://www.mtzionmemorialfund.org/2017/06/andy-cohen-kent-state-to-memphis-going.html - Bill Steber is the photographer who got the good shots of the most recent group of the blues legends, whose work you may have seen at the local university or in Oxford American magazine, but he doubles as one of the potent musical forces behind the Murfreesboro, TN-based Jake Leg Stompers. - Ron Bombardi (who like Armenter Chatmon, or Bo Carter, adopted a new name as a musician, "Jersey Slim" Hawkins) is a professor and philosopher with dextrous mental abilities, which he readily transfers through his body so he walk around town, talk to people, and even write a few simple words every now and again in the academic journals and monographs. The longtime fiddle player for the Stompers, in fact, models his playing style after the Mississippi Sheiks most-accomplished fiddle player, Lonnie Chatmon, the brother of Bo Carter (The two brothers stand to the left of Walter Vinson in the below photo). It is very fitting then that his hero's fiddle will be available for his use in Nitta Yuma. Lonnie Chatmon's fiddle may be heard once again with the steel-bodied National Style N guitar of Bo Carter!!!! - Blues traveller and musician Steve Cheseborough, whose admiration and enthusiasm for the music of Bo Carter is all but limitless, has informed the owner of the National Style N guitar of Bo Carter!!!! We are crossing our fingers and hoping that the owner will come to Nitta Yuma and reunite the two emblems of the Chatmon family legacy in July.... - Moses Crouch is a hill country musician of the most committed order who is often heard cooking up his liniments and draining out special orders of snake oil juice with the Memphissippi Medicine. Despite being the youngest musician to confirm thusfar, his repertoire includes plenty of music with an old soul... Eric, you should really try if at all possible. Everyone else as well, because I received a confirmation yesterday from the individual who purchased the National of Bo Carter that he is going to attend with the instrument as well as one of his good friends and torchbearers of the hill country blues tradition. Thus, we will reunite two instruments owned by the Chatmons in Nitta Yuma on July 29th, and some pretty approximating players will be there to really make this a special event unlike any we have held since the early 1990s dedications.
I really appreciate everyone on weeniecampbell who helped make this whole thing possible. We wanted and tried to include everyone and we received a lot of support.... Hey Folks -- This is going to be a blast, as well as a tribute to one of American's great musicians, I encourage you all to consider attending. I went back and forth a few times myself on whether to go. Then I realized yes, I have to get my Daniel down there for this, whether I can afford it or not, whether it'll be hot and mosquito-y in the Delta in late July (I won't even say "or not" on that one), etc.
A few things to think about as you consider making the trip:
Touched down last night in SeaTac, and made my way to Port Townsend and Weenerhausen a few days late after a special detour through the welcoming warmth of the Mississippi Delta - specifically, Hollandale and a tiny cemetary on a farm in Nitta Yuma. Steve Cheseborough asked me to share the following message with y'all:
The photo (>which I'll upload as soon as I can get it down to the size limits - JP<) is of Bo Carter's stepgrandson, Miles Floyd, holding Bo Carter's guitar at the new headstone, during yesterday's ceremony in Nitta Yuma. I think the kids are Miles' stepkids. Me, too! Cheers, Jed Tons of good information and new photos of Bo up for a little while here:
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