Delta Music Institute

From the Delta Business Journal: Newly appointed board works to bring music museum to Cleveland By Mark Stowers Photography by Jordan Thomas Mississippi just got another step closer to having its own GRAMMY museum. With the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, and the B.B. King Museum in Indianola, a GRAMMY museum could be the ideal [...]

Thacker Mountain Radio, the acclaimed live radio show based in Oxford, MS will return for a third annual Delta Edition broadcast on Saturday, March 5 at 3:00 p.m. from Studio A at the Delta Music Institute on the campus of Delta State University. For over ten years Thacker Mountain Radio has produced a live, unrehearsed [...]

Cole Furlow (DSU ’08) and his band, Dead Gaze, received a favorable review in this week’s Nw York Times after a stellar show during the CMJ Music Conference. Cole studied at the Delta Music Institute and graduated from Delta State with a Bachelor’s of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies with concentrations in sound recording technology and [...]

Fighting Okra Records, a new student-run record label at Delta State University, will officially launch on October 12, 2010 with a celebratory party in the State Room of the Nowell Student Union building on the campus of DSU. Fighting Okra Records, housed in the Delta Music Institute, is the combined outcome of students enrolled in [...]

DMI’s two bands, Ol’ Skool Revue and DeltaRox, debuted their new lineups at the Friday night lineup of events at 2010 Pig Pickin’ at Delta State University. Interested in these bands entertaining at your event? Give us a call at 662-846-4579. Thanks for supporting live music!

Pictured, L to R: Joanna Sabine, DMI Director Tricia Walker, Katie Gibson Delta State University students Katie Gibson of Summerdale, Ala., and Joanna Sabine of Columbia, were invited to participate as production assistants for the 4th Annual Mississippi Grammy™ Legacy Celebration recently held at the Hard Rock Live! venue in Biloxi. Gibson and Sabine are [...]

Ol’ Skool Revue, the Delta Music Institute’s (DMI) Blues/R&B/Soul/Funk band, has been selected to perform at the 2010 International Blues Challenge (IBC) in Memphis, January 20-23, 2010. Ol’ Skool Revue will represent DMI and Delta State University in the Youth Challenge (IBC) during this 26th year of the International Blues Challenge. The band, made up [...]