{"id":3680,"date":"2013-04-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2013\/04\/29\/delta-center-welcomes-swedish-blues-fans\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:05:22","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:05:22","slug":"delta-center-welcomes-swedish-blues-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2013\/04\/delta-center-welcomes-swedish-blues-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Center Welcomes Swedish Blues Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/Images\/S5031683.jpg\" alt=\"Photo:  Swedish Blues fans at Po' Monkey's Lounge in Merigold.  Photo by Lee Aylward.\" class=\"caption\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State University recently provided an introduction to the Delta&#8217;s heritage to a group of 30 Swedish Blues Enthusiasts.&nbsp; Individuals came from all over Sweden and included some Swedish speaking Americans as well.&nbsp; The tour began in Memphis and ended in New Orleans.&nbsp; Stops in the Delta included the Delta Blues Museum, Ground Zero and Red&#8217;s Lounge in Clarksdale, Po&#8217; Monkey&#8217;s Lounge in Merigold, The Delta Center at DSU, Dockery Farms, the Senator&#8217;s Place in Cleveland, the B.B. King Museum, and Robert Johnson&#8217;s burial site.&nbsp; Many of the tour participants were Blues musicians, and all were very well-read, enthusiastic students of the Mississippi Delta.&nbsp; This was the third Delta tour by the Swedish travel company Travel Arena Falun, based in Falun, Sweden, and they expect to return to the Delta regularly. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State University recently provided an introduction to the Delta&#8217;s heritage to a group of 30 Swedish Blues Enthusiasts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3680","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\/3680","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=3680"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40757,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions\/40757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}