Grammy Museum Mississippi Grand Opening

So once again the challenge with a blog of this nature is keeping any kind of logical order to the time line of events. We are already weeks behind and so I am going to simply jump in with some fun stuff.
One of our set stops on this trip was to attend the opening of the new Grammy Music Museum in Cleveland Mississippi in the Mississippi Delta.

This is 17 year old MS guitarist Kingfish ripping it up at the museum opening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UwfcMe9gGw

We were visiting our good friend Rob Saarnio who is the director of the history museums at Ole Miss in Oxford. On the way to Cleveland we stopped off at the legendary Dockery Farms Plantation where Blues Legend Charlie Patton lived, worked and played music in the 1920s.

The Plantation has been restored in a state of arrested decay and there was a fundraiser going on in conjunction with the museum opening. Just by chance we ended up meeting the decendants of the Dockery family, Joe's daughter Kay and Granddaughter Carolyn pictured below with Rob. How cool and crazy is that!!!

We were also lucky to meet Scott Barretta, a wonderful Blues historian who designed most of these wonderful Mississippi Blues Trails Markers found all over the state. This shot is Kate and Rob enjoying the beautiful sunny day. 

The Museum itself was a mixed bag but some of it was outstanding. The building is beautiful and the exhibit on Mississippi music was great but much of the Grammy Awards overview was predictably bogus. . . . .sorry to say.