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The Delta State University Delta Center for Culture and Learning will present Chicago Bluesman Fernando Jones at 7 p.m., on Thursday, July 1, in the Recital Hall of the Bologna Performing Arts Center. The performance is free and open to the public.<\/font><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Delta State University Delta Center for Culture and Learning will present Chicago Bluesman Fernando Jones at 7 p.m., on Thursday, July 1, in the Recital Hall of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41402,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions\/41402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} <\/div>\nJones was the last student of the great songwriter Willie Dixon, from Vicksburg. He himself grew up on Chicago’s south side, but his parents are from Mississippi. Jones is a Bluesman, author, educator, songwriter and scholar who presently teaches the Blues at Columbia College in Chicago. He is visiting the Delta with 25 students and several fellow faculty members from Columbia. They are studying the Blues and its derivative forms.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n <\/div>\nWhile refuting the many negative stereotypes that haunt this music, Jones is on a mission to show its beauty through academic implementations, lectures, and concerts globally. As a result, Jones’ hands were photographed by <\/span>National Geographic Magazine<\/span>. <\/span><\/div>\n <\/div>\nHis book “<\/span>I Was There When The Blues Was Red Hot” <\/span>as been used as a resource by the likes of the Discovery Channel, the Chicago Tribune, Living Blues Magazine, London Times, and Al-Jazeera. Radio stations such as ABC, BBC, CBS, CLTV, NBC, WTTW, NPR and WGN have celebrated him for his playing style and unique perspective on the status of Black music in America.<\/span><\/div>\n <\/div>\nFor more information about this presentation or the Delta Center, call (662) 846-4311.<\/span><\/div>\n