Delta Music Institute

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 [...]

Read all about it here….but make no mistake, we LOVE our Fighting Okra!! http://www.courierpress.com/news/2009/dec/09/time-magazine-dubs-purple-aces-among-10-worst-team/

P. Diddy’s Starmaker winner, Liz Davis, performs during 2005 Homecoming festivities at Delta State Mississippi native and former Delta State University student Liz Davis was crowned the winner of P. Diddy’s Starmaker during Sunday night’s finale broadcast of the MTV reality competition series. The 21 year-old claimed the show’s grand prize of a record deal [...]

Ol’ Skool Revue, the Delta Music Institute’s R&B/Soul/Funk/Blues band, performed last week as the opening act for Blind Mississippi Morris at the world famous Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Mississippi…good food, good groove, good times!

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DeltaRox, the Classic Rock band from the Delta Music Institute at Delta State University, did a great job last Saturday at the Downtown Jubilee! Festival in Grenada, Mississippi. After a killer performance, the band received four offers for upcoming gigs! Here’s a slideshow from the gig…rock on…

http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1165 Jerome “Top Notch” Williams, a DMI student from Clarksdale, Mississippi, is the featured focus of a new book, Let The World Listen Right, written by author Ali Neff and published by University Press of Mississippi. Let the World Listen Right draws from classic studies of the blues as well as extensive ethnographic work to [...]