Get your tickets now! Join the Friends of Brooks Memorial Library on Friday, March 21, at 7:30 PM, for a concert to support the services and programs at Brooks Memorial Library–The Land Where the Blues Began: Images and Music of the Mississippi Delta with Scott Ainslie.
Scott Ainslie has combed the Library of Congress photo archives and combined archival photos with his own images of the Mississippi Delta for a concert tour that explores this formative region of the American South. Visually and musically entertaining, the concert is a richly varied exploration of the region that was ground zero for the development of the Blues.
Premiered in January, 2014 at Randolph-Macon College, Ainslie’s Land Where the Blues Began sketches out the African retentions and the regional history of the music and features songs from Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, David Honeyboy Edwards, and Lonnie Johnson. Images are projected on a full screen during the concert to give the audience a feel for the land, the people, and the history of this music.
Tickets are $20.00/ $15.00 for Friends of Library members, and are on sale at Brattleboro Tix, at the library’s circulation desks, and at the door. The purpose of the Friends is to support Brooks Memorial Library in providing the highest quality library services to the community by means of advocacy, public relations and fund raising.
