Delta Music Institute

Thacker Mountain Radio, the Oxford-based music and literature program, returns to Delta State University this Saturday, March 31 from 3-4 pm as part of the Delta Music Institute’s (DMI) anniversary celebration. The show will be held in Studio A of the historic Whitfield Building on the Delta State campus. Guests will include Grammy-winning bluegrass musician [...]

Delta Music Institute, a music industry studies program at Delta State University, is set to launch its DMI All Access series, beginning with guest Tommy Couch, co-founder of Malaco Records, on Monday, October 3 at 6:00 pm in Studio A at the DMI. DMI All Access is planned to be a series of open forums [...]

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 [...]

Pictured, L to R: Joanna Sabine, DMI Director Tricia Walker, Katie Gibson Delta State University students Katie Gibson of Summerdale, Ala., and Joanna Sabine of Columbia, were invited to participate as production assistants for the 4th Annual Mississippi Grammy™ Legacy Celebration recently held at the Hard Rock Live! venue in Biloxi. Gibson and Sabine are [...]

Award winning singer-songwriters George Jackson, Troy Jones and Patti Ryan will be the featured songwriters during the live broadcast of Thacker Mountain Radio as part of the Delta Music Institute (DMI) Anniversary Celebration on Saturday, March 6 at 3 p.m. in Studio A of the DMI in the historic Whitfield Building on the Delta State [...]

The Mississippi Arts Commission (MAC), Mississippi Humanities Council, SonEdna Foundation, Inc., Delta Music Institute, and Delta State University, in celebration of the “Year of the Arts” at Delta State University, will partner to host the Mississippi Writers Roundtable for literary artists on Saturday, March 6, 2010. The convening of writers will be held from 10 [...]

The Delta State University’s Delta Music Institute will present Dr. Mark Snyder in a faculty recital on Tuesday, Feb. 16, at 8 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the Bologna Performing Arts Center. Snyder will perform his own works on tuba, clarinet and accordion. All of the compositions have video, electronics and live processing and [...]