Deep Roots, a local live music initiative featuring area roots music artists and bands, will be hosting auditions in search of performers to expand their artist roster in preparation for live music opportunities to be scheduled this spring and summer. Auditions will...
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Deep Roots Announces 2022 Winter/Spring Series
Big Front Porch Productions, in partnership with The City of Cleveland, will present a winter/spring series of four monthly Deep Roots music shows inside the historic Ellis Theatre at the Delta Arts Alliance located at 104 Court St. in Cleveland. The 2022 Deep Roots...
More Music, Please!
July 21, 2021 The initial Deep Roots: Live Downtown! spring series wrapped up on June 11 and from all indications was a big success! The community continues to come out and enjoy the talents of our Deep Roots roster artists along with up and coming opening act...
Welcome to Deep Roots!
As the coronavirus pandemic drags on, we feel the continued longing for social connection and interaction in our communities, and we look forward to the day when we can safely gather together again and celebrate all that we hold dear. As we move towards that future...
The Revelators: Memphis to Monticello. Announcing the Release of a New CD.
Friends of Jerry Lee “Duff” Dorrough have compiled a CD of rare recordings of Duff’s band, The Revelators. The Revelators were primarily a gospel band formed in the later years of Duff’s very celebrated and diverse musical career. The band consisted of Duff, Jim...
Barry Bays: Multi-instrumentalist, session musician, DMI instructor
If you have been to a blues festival, juke joint, or listened to live music anywhere in the Mississippi Delta within the last twenty-five years, there is a decent chance you’ve seen Barry Bays play the bass guitar. Bays has been a mainstay on the Delta music scene as...
Harmony Quartet: Boyle musical family impresses
Started as a family musical ensemble in Boyle, the Harmony Quartet has evolved into something much bigger, with some members moving on to work with well-known recording artists to the group itself preparing to sign with a major label. Family patriarch Larry Williams...
Local Businessman Releases CD: Don’t Worry About Danny Abraham!
“Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me” was a labor of love and faith, according to Danny Abraham. His first CD, a gospel collection of all original compositions, this well-known Cleveland men’s clothier for the past 41 years said he may have just found his other true calling....