Delta Music Institute

DSU’s Delta Music Institute and Delta State Athletics are teaming up  in the creation of a new football jingle called “Down In The Delta.” The jingle was written by DMI Director Tricia Walker and produced in the DMI Studios with DMI faculty member Mike Iacopelli at the console. Musicians on the jingle included Walker, DMI instructor [...]

We’re happy to report that the B. B. King concert tonight at the Bologna Performing Arts Center is SOLD OUT! That means that this blog will cover the event and give you all the inside scoop after the fact… The King of the Blues, born and raised in the Mississippi Delta, will turn 85 this [...]

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 [...]

Cole Furlow, Delta State graduate of the Delta Music Institute, is releasing his first full length release, “End of Days, Why Not You?” from his project DEAD GAZE. Copies will be available to purchase from Mirroruniversetapes.blogspot.com on March 16. Congratulations, Cole!

From left, Tricia Walker, singer and songwriter and director of the Delta Music Institute (DMI), accompanies award winning singer-songwriter Patti Ryan, as Duff Durrough, bandleader for Thacker Mountain Radio’s house band, The Yalobushwhackers, provides musical backing. Ryan was performing one of the most successful country hits of all time, “Looking for Love,” which she co-wrote [...]

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 [...]

Six student songwriters from the Delta Music Institute will be performing original songs this Thursday, November 5, from 7:00 – 9:00 pm at the Bean Counter in Cleveland, MS. The event is sponsored by the DSU chapter of Grammy U, an organization of students involved in music and entertainment industry studies. There is no cover [...]