“Monday Night Football style” jingle written, recorded, and produced at the Delta Music Institute. Video directed by Jimmy Smith of DSU Athletics.

Written by Tricia Walker
Engineered by Mike Iacopelli
Performed by Barry Bays (bass/guitar), Brian Schilling (drums), Tricia Walker (keyboards), Stephen Chew (vocals), DMI summer campers and DSU football players (BGVs)

Interested in these bands entertaining at your event? Give us a call at 662-846-4579. Thanks for supporting live music!

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 of Delta State college students, will compete during the afternoon lineup on Friday, Jan. 22, showcasing their talents for record labels, media, festivals, managers, talent buyers and the fans.
The IBC has evolved into the nation’s biggest and most respected showcase for Blues musicians ready to take their act to the national stage. The IBC is a judged “Battle of the Bands” in which competitors take the stage and play a short set for a panel of judges. The acts are judged based on an established set of criteria.

Each Affiliate of The Blues Foundation has the right to send a band and solo/duo act to represent the organization at the IBC Semi-Finals. Ol’ Skool Revue competed and was selected by the Crossroads Blues Society, an IBC affiliate from Rosedale, Mississippi.

In 2009, 100 bands and 60 solo/duo acts entered, filling the clubs up and down Beale Street for the semi-finals on Thursday and Friday and the finals at the Orpheum Theater on Saturday.
The Delta Music Institute is an independent center of study under the College of Arts & Sciences at Delta State University. It began with a generous donation by Fred Carl of the Viking Range Corporation in 2003.

The focus of the DMI is to provide students with a broad and thorough education in the technological, creative, and business areas of the music and entertainment industry.

For information, contact the DMI office at (662) 846-4579 or e-mail dmi.deltastate.edu.

Here’s a shout out to all our friends along the Mississippi Gulf Coast! DMI’s premier soul band, Ol’ Skool Revue, is headed your way for three shows this Friday and Saturday. The band is looking for opportunities to meet high school students out there who may have an interest in the Delta Music Institute, a recording arts and music industry program here at Delta State University. Here’s the info:

Friday during the lunch hour (11 am-1:15pm) the band will be performing at Ocean Springs High School.

Friday evening around 6 pm the band will be performing outside the Biloxi High football stadium before the Biloxi-Harrison Central game.

Saturday morning at 11:30 am the band will be the opening act for the 5th Annual Ocean Springs Music Festival…check out their link at www.oceanspringsmusic.com.

Saturday afternoon, DMI instructors Mike Iacopelli, Barry Bays, and Tricia Walker will be giving three music biz mini-workshops, free of charge, at the Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Center at Ocean Springs. Here’s the site for the Mary C: www.themaryc.org

We’ll be looking for you out on the road! Sign up on our website at dmi.deltastate.edu so we can stay in touch…spread the word!