Delta Music Institute

Award winning musicians and songwriters Bryan Kennedy and Gordon Kennedy will be the featured musical guests during the live broadcast of Thacker Mountain Radio as part of the DMI Anniversary Celebration on Saturday, March 5 at 3:00 pm in Studio A of the Delta Music Institute in the historic Whitfield Building on the Delta State [...]

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 [...]

This is an interesting blog entry from Music Think Tank. Are there DMI bands that could follow this model? Social Networking and Making It In One Year

Here’s a great blog post from Fast Forward…good tips for indy artists: http://blog.discmakers.com/2009/09/tips-in-no-apparent-order/?cmpid=EmailAudio

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 [...]