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W.C. Handy website at the University of North Alabama Archived November 21, 2018, at the Wayback Machine; W.C. Handy's 1993 Lifework Award for Performing Achievement; Induction into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame; The Blues Foundation's W.C. Handy Blues Awards; Book excerpt on Handy by Tom Morgan; Rare American Sheet Music Collection at Duke ...
The Blues Hall of Fame is a music museum operated by the Blues Foundation at 421 S. Main Street in Memphis, ... W.C. Handy: 1941 2018
In 1912, the sheet music for "The Memphis Blues" by W.C. Handy was published, enabling musicians everywhere to emulate the city's signature sound. Other significant composers worked in gospel ...
The Blues Foundation is an American nonprofit corporation, headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, that is affiliated with more than 175 blues organizations from various parts of the world. Founded in 1980, a 25-person board of directors governs the foundation whose stated mission is to preserve blues heritage, celebrate blues recording and ...
Since its establishment in 2012, the Hall of Fame has inducted more than 48 individuals or groups. It is administered by the non-profit Memphis Rock N' Soul Museum. [1] In July 2015, the Memphis Music Hall of Fame opened a 'brick and mortar' museum and exhibit hall, which features memorabilia, video interviews, and interactive exhibits.
Memphis' most significant musical claims to fame are as "Home of the Blues" and "Birthplace of Rock and Roll". The African-American composer, W.C. Handy, is said to have written the first commercially successful blues song, "St. Louis Blues", in a bar on Beale Street in 1912. [11] Handy resided in Memphis from 1909 through 1917. [11]
Mayor Hecht Lackey said during the 1956 dedication ceremony for the pool that the project had been “a political football” for years.
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]