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 [...]

Here’s a little summer project for all you DMI friends and fans. The “Down In The Delta” jingle was written by Tricia Walker, and recorded and produced at the Delta Music Institute. Video directed by Jimmy Smith of DSU Athletics. “Monday Night Football style” jingle written, recorded, and produced at the Delta Music Institute. Video [...]

Just a friendly invitation to view this wonderful website about the Mississippi Delta…”the most Southern place on earth.” Y’all come see us! www.visitthedelta.com

What happens when you go down to The Crossroads with five great musicians and a world-famous photographer? This happens. Read more: http://www.esquire.com/the-side/music/miss#ixzz0ixN3zGw2

As part of Delta State’s Year of the Arts: Crossroads of Creativity celebration, DMI Director Tricia Walker submitted the following letter to the Editor to area news publications last week…enjoy! WE’RE ROLLING Moving forward in the Year of the Arts “We’re rolling….” Traditionally, these are the words a recording engineer utters when he’s about to [...]

The 2009 DMI Summer Camp took a tour of the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center thi afternoon in Indianola, Mississippi. Campers and staff enjoyed the interactive features and high-definition presentations at the museum.

As a part of Delta State University’s Delta Music Institute grand opening weekend, an official ribbon cutting ceremony was held Sunday, March 9, at the front of the Whitfield Building on the campus. Pictured are, from left, Malcolm White, executive director of the Mississippi Arts Commission, Hartley Peavey, founder and CEO of Meridian-based Peavey Electronics [...]