Tori Bailey, Chairperson for the 2007 W.C. Handy Music Festival held in Florence, AL from July 22 to 28, explains the festivals origins and speculates about how Handy would feel about the event. To learn more about the festival, W.C Handy and other creative artists in this Year of Alabama Arts, go to www.800alabama.com/yoa
he would be laughing at what it has become!!!!
its a joke.
maddmax333 2 years ago
Wrong, WC Handy, was a composer, a good listener and documetalist of the Blues in the South.
I reward him cause he understood, what was goin' on in the South and the very first time a Blues was heard and put into notes, was at a railwaystation in 1898, where WC Handy picked up the very first "notes" of the Blues from a black sitting down "hollerin'" !
I'm very glad he is celebrated, but most of those, he got insperation of are not. They are forgotten.
Keep the Blues alive !
Peace.
Urban
kickingmule 3 years ago