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LIVE! Music: Jerron Paxton, Jontavious Willis, Robert Kimbrough Sr., Nekosee Fields Trio and Rising Stars Fife & Drum headline Arkansas Country Blues and Stringband Festival

Folklorist Rachel Reynolds and the Music Education Initiative have partnered together to bring a special weekend of music, learning and community to Fayetteville.

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Blues group picks band for challenge

The Port City Blues Society held the Road to Memphis competition Saturday night between two bands to decide who would represent the Pine Bluff nonprofit in the 39th annual International Blues Challenge held in Memphis each January.

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Celebrate Nelson Hackett Legacy With Downtown Historical Marker and Street Sign Unveiling

The U of A's Nelson Hackett Project and the Black Heritage Preservation Commission are celebrating the life of Nelson Hackett beginning at 4 p.m. Friday, June 16, in downtown Fayetteville.

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Live@5 program celebrates jazz, blues, art

The ARTSpace on Main in Pine Bluff was abuzz with activity Friday night.

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NWA Profile: Music lover and nonprofit leader Orson Weems aims to build up the music industry in Arkansas

Orson Weems has always loved and appreciated music. From the time he was a young boy, he admired his dad's impressive new stereo system with big speakers -- but then again, so did the rest of the neighborhood.

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Orson Weems has always loved and appreciated music. From the time he was a young boy, he admired his dad's impressive new stereo system with big speakers -- but then again, so did the rest of the neighborhood.

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Online map targets art education in NWA schools

The Walton Arts Center launched artlook, an interactive map, in January to help bring arts education opportunities to schools in NWA.

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Exhibits on blues coming up in PB

The Music Education Initiative, in partnership with the Pine Bluff Advertising and Promotion Commission and the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, will announce two upcoming exhibits, A Cast of Blues and Freedom & Blues, at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Loft Gallery at The ARTSpace, 623 S. Main St., according to a news release.

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Making Music … And Jobs: Nonprofit offers training in the industry

Orson Weems got the best education in the music industry under "the instruction, tutelage and mentorship of the legendary Al Bell," he says. Working alongside the former owner of Stax Records and owner of Al Bell Presents -- the man who launched the careers of the Staple Sisters and Isaac Hayes and so many more -- Weems gained the know-how to train others in the music business.

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The Faces Of The Blues: Icons live on in resin casts, photos, music

If you've not been lucky enough to be in the same room as Robert Johnson, Koko Taylor, Bobby Blue Bland or other blues icons, you might feel as if you have after visiting "A Cast of Blues."

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