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St. Louis Blues is a 1958 American film broadly based on the life of W. C. Handy.It stars jazz and blues greats Nat "King" Cole, Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Eartha Kitt, and Barney Bigard, as well as gospel singer Mahalia Jackson and actress Ruby Dee.
The W. C. Handy Theatre was located at 2355 Park Avenue in the Orange Mound neighborhood of southeast Memphis. [3] The 1,275-capacity theater cost $200,000 to build. [ 4 ] In the lobby, there was a milk bar for theater patrons and transient passers-by. [ 5 ]
Handy was honored with two markers on the Mississippi Blues Trail, the "Enlightenment of W.C. Handy" in Clarksdale, Mississippi and a marker at his birthplace in Florence, Alabama. [50] [51] Blues Music Award was known as the W. C. Handy Award until the name change in 2006. W. C. Handy Music Festival is held annually in Florence, Alabama. [52]
Memphis Music Hall of Fame will induct 9 new members from soul singers to opera stars, garage rock bands to hip-hop producers. Here's what's planned.
A look at city's music history, from W.C. Handy to Yo Gotti. ... for "The Memphis Blues" by W.C. Handy was ... by an African American woman," according to the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.
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Home to the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, it opened in 2003. [2] [3] It also hosts comedians, [4] stage plays and children's theater, [5] ballet, [6] beauty pageants, [7] concerts, [8] and more. [1] It has previously hosted the Memphis mayor's swearing in ceremony, [9] the Memphis Music Hall of Fame ceremony, [10] and the Miss United States ...
The Memphis Music Hall of Fame, created as a tribute to the city's wide-ranging role in the fields of blues, gospel, jazz, R&B, country, rockabilly and hip-hop, was launched on November 29, 2012, featuring an induction ceremony for its first 25 honorees at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts.