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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 ...
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. Memphis Music Hall of Fame: A guide to the ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Memphis Music Hall of Fame Class of 2024 inductee Jazze Pha, right, performs with Hall of Famers, left and center, 8Ball & MJG during the induction ceremony on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, at the ...
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]
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