2023 Deep Roots Spring Series - Mississippi Marshall Deluxe @ Backdraft
2023-04-25 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Backdraft, 337 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
Mississippi Marshall is a singer/songwriter/guitarist raised right in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. Marshall’s original guitar stylings range from old style Delta Blues to in-your-face blues boogie. His original music reflects his life experiences and for over 30 years, he has toured the country, headlining Blues clubs and festivals, including the Juke Joint Festival, Unity Festival, World Catfish Festival, Que on the Yazoo, and the Sam Chatmon Festival, both as a solo artist and with his band, The Juke Daddys.

Mississippi Marshall is a two-time International Blues Challenge Semi-Finalist and a Mississippi Music Foundation award winner for Best Instrumental. He is currently working on his fourth album.

2023 Deep Roots Spring Series - Jon Byrd @ Darry's Food & Drink
2023-04-27 18:30 - 20:30 | Darry’s Food & Drink, 122 East TM Jones Hwy., Boyle, MS, 38730, United States
Delta singer/songwriter Jon Byrd brings country favorites and original songs to the November Farmers – Bakers- Makers- Market in Cleveland, MS. Jon’s musical interests began when his grandfather bought him a drum set, and Jon started singing and playing along to Country music videos on CMT. George Strait was his main influence along with Alan Jackson, Brooks and Dunn and Kenny Chesney. Jon’s mother taught three guitar chords— G,C,D and he took it from there. His new album, Bed of Coals, was released in fall of 2022 and is available on all streaming platforms.

2023 Deep Roots Spring Series - Billy Maines @ Papa Roc's
2023-04-28 18:30 - 20:30 | Papa Roc’s, 3442 Hwy. 8 West, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
American singer/songwriter Billy Maines grew up in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains in a village on the Hudson River near Woodstock, New York. He started taking guitar lessons at an early age and played in various rock bands during high school. While attending college at Cortland College in New York, Billy began honing his writing skills for a performing duo.
After graduation, Maines relocated to Boulder, Colorado, where the wide open music scene inspired his writing and encouraged his performing with different bands up and down the ‘front range’ of the Rockies. He plays guitar, harmonica, mandolin, and fiddle across genres of Americana, Alternative Rock and the Blues. He credits his main musical influences as The Band, Neil Young, Muddy Waters, and Bob Dylan.
After moving to the Mississippi Delta in 2004, he learned to appreciate the rich heritage of the music of Mississippi and formed an original rock band called The Rind. After the band dissolved, Billy began to perform as a solo artist and continues to do so today.
https://www.facebook.com/billymainesmusicman

2023 Deep Roots Spring Series - Neshun @ 8 West Grille
2023-04-29 19:00 - 21:00 | 8 West Grille, 1300 Hwy. 8 West, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
Vocalist Neshun Holmes from McComb, Mississippi, is a graduate of the DMI Entertainment Industry Studies program at Delta State University. She performed with the DMI All-Stars in Los Angeles as part of the GRAMMY Museum’s ‘Mississippi Night’ in 2019. She recently earned a graduate degree from Delta State while performing around town and working as a local barista. Her back up musician is Clayton Moulder, guitarist and current entertainment industry studies major at Delta State.

2023 Deep Roots Spring Series - Mary Claire @ Bar Fontaine
2023-05-01 18:30 - 20:30 | Staple Food & Drink, 215 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
Vocalist/pianist Mary Claire Rackley from Gulfport, Mississippi, is a recent graduate of the DMI Entertainment Industry Studies program at Delta State University. She performed with the DMI All-Stars in Los Angeles as part of the GRAMMY Museum’s ‘Mississippi Night’ in 2019. She is currently pursuing a graduate degree at Delta State while performing around town and working as an administrative assistant for the Delta Music Institute.

2023 Deep Roots Spring Series - Danny Abraham @ Backdraft
2023-05-02 18:30 - 20:30 | Backdraft, 337 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
Danny Abraham, well-known Cleveland men’s clothier, started playing piano when he was six years old and played in bands and as a solo artist throughout his youth. “I played when I was at Ole Miss with a group that went all over recruiting students and was able to share the stage with celebrities like Bob Hope and others,” says Abraham. When I returned to Cleveland, to attend Delta State, I joined the campus music group Renaissance, and we literally toured all over the world. Even after I opened my store, Abraham’s, I continued to play with people whenever and wherever I could.”
Danny’s first CD, Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me, was a labor of love and faith. The gospel collection of all original compositions was produced by the legendary Gordon Mote and recorded in Nashville. Abraham said he was blessed to be surrounded by a number of talented and well-known musicians on his CD. From Cleveland/Delta business legend to gospel performer, Danny Abraham’s life is proof that with faith and hard work, anything and everything is possible.

2023 Deep Roots Spring Series - Delta Sun & Brisket @ Darry's Food & Drink
2023-05-04 18:30 - 20:30 | Darry’s Food & Drink, 122 East TM Jones Hwy., Boyle, MS, 38730, United States
Mike “Delta Sun” Slaton and Chris “Brisket” Livingston are singer/songwriters from the birthplace of American Music, the great state of Mississippi. They have been performing for audiences around the Southeastern United States for over 25 years. Their original and cover songs are inspired by legendary artists such as John Prine, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Tom Petty, Grateful Dead, and Widespread Panic. Delta Sun & Brisket are currently performing acoustic shows at local venues around the Mississippi Delta and sometimes perform with the band Pharmtruck out of Oxford, MS.

2023 Deep Roots Spring Series - Holley Peel @ Papa Roc's
2023-05-05 18:30 - 20:30 | Papa Roc’s, 3442 Hwy. 8 West, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
Singer/songwriter Holley Peel, whose music carries a strong storytelling influence in a bluesy/ Americana style,was born and raised in Columbus, Mississippi, but has settled in the Delta as her base of operations. The fourth-generation pianist started learning piano at six years old with two years of Suzuki method lessons before taking classical lessons for another eight years.
Her musical favorites cover a wide variety, including Bob Marley, Bon Iver, Susan Tedeschi, Gillian Welch, The Meters, Glen Hansard, Stevie Wonder, and Ryan Adams.

2023 Deep Roots Spring Series - Alanna Mosley @ 8 West Grille
2023-05-06 19:00 - 21:00 | 8 West Grille, 1300 Hwy. 8 West, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
Alanna Mosley is a singer-songwriter from Carrollton, Mississippi. Her music—best described as Americana or roots—blurs genre lines, and her cover tune catalog spans decades. With guitar in hand, Mosley is an unstoppable jukebox of great music that invites the listener to keep humming along.
At an early age, Mosley was soaking in her music education: 90s guitar queens Patty Griffin and Shawn Colvin, country rockers like Dwight Yoakam and Steve Earle, and the gauntlet of great singer-songwriters from Carole King to Brandi Carlile. She began playing guitar at the age of 12 and hasn’t quit since. Over the years, Mosley has built an impressive repertoire of cover songs while also honing her own songwriting skills. She released an EP of original music in 2014, and in 2016 she was the winner of the prestigious Jimmie Rodgers Songwriting Competition. After living and gigging in Charlotte, North Carolina for several years, she returned to the Mississippi Delta in full force, constantly filling her calendar with festival, radio, restaurant, and private gigs.
It seems that, all over the southeast, Mosley is doing a great job of connecting with people through music. Her artistry can be summed up in the words of her friend and fellow creative, Geoff Latham: “Alanna Mosley’s appeal is her warmth and clearly genuine enjoyment of sharing her musical gifts with her audience. When Alanna performs, she isn’t playing music for you, she’s inviting you to sing along and enjoy the song with her… Though her music roots are sunk deep in the loamy soil of Delta Blues, her branches cast a wide shadow over country, rock, pop, and bluegrass, and it’s a shade that begs the listener to kick off their shoes, have a seat, and stay a while.” If you’re a lover of great music in need of some shade, find out where Alanna Mosley might be playing near you at www.alannamosley.com.

2023 Deep Roots Spring Series - Mississippi Marshall Deluxe @ Bar Fontaine
2023-05-08 18:30 - 20:30 | Staple Food & Drink, 215 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States

2023 Deep Roots Spring Series - Holley Peel @ Backdraft
2023-05-09 18:30 - 20:30 | Backdraft, 337 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States

2023 Deep Roots Spring Series - Charles Sullivan @ Darry's Food and Drink
2023-05-11 18:30 - 20:30 | Darry’s Food & Drink, 122 East TM Jones Hwy., Boyle, MS, 38730, United States
Singer/songwriter Charles Sullivan is a member of the Delta String Band, an Americana band based out of Greenville, Mississippi. Similar to what the band presents, Sullivan sings a variety of styles, from folk and bluegrass to straight-up country. With influences like bluegrass great Ralph Stanley, folk master John Prine, pure country kings Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings, and even genre-fusing groups like the Grateful Dead, Sullivan brings his own flavor to the music he plays, and that “old school way” means playing music in its truest, purest, stripped-down form.

2023 Deep Roots: Live At Five - Mississippi Mason w/Thomas Sanders
2023-05-12 17:00 - 20:00 | Delta Arts Alliance (Outdoor Awning), 104 S. Court St., Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
Mississippi Mason is a singer/songwriter hailing from Columbus, MS. Mason writes and sings music for “simple folks”–storytelling songs with catchy, singable melodies and accessible lyrics. Having tasted the music business while growing up traveling with his dad’s southern gospel band on the weekends, it’s no surprise that he ended up as a musician himself.
With influences from a wide range of old and new country, southern rock, and gospel artists, Mason seems at home in a ball cap as much as the cowboy hat to which he’s dedicated an entire song. As a writer, he seems less influenced by the bro-country of the last decade and more inspired by the writers of yesteryear. His idols are Johnny Cash, Jamey Johnson, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, and it shows. There’s even a quality to his voice that seems to belong in a bygone era–his smooth tone mimics mid-century country balladeer Jim Reeves at some points, and at others a 20th-century country tone that could have put him in the running to be the fifth member of the Highwaymen.
He is currently marketing, promoting, and touring in support of his new album, Just The Way I Am. The ultimate dream for Mason? To sing from the stage of the Grand Ole Opry and have his songs broadcast over WSM. It seems that he is well on his way. Just like country greats before him, he writes and sings with a rugged honesty that comes across as absolutely genuine. www.mississippimason.com
Sharing the bill will be piano prodigy Thomas Sanders. Sanders was born in the river town of Natchez, Mississippi, and began playing piano at eight years of age, feeling “drawn” to the piano after hearing old-time radio programs and the music of local performers. Often compared to Jerry Lee Lewis and Mickey Gilley, Thomas’ upbeat performing style is rooted in the genres of boogie-woogie, rock and roll, and country, and he works hard every show to provide high energy entertainment for his audiences.

2023 Deep Roots Spring Series - The Oddballs @ 8 West Grille
2023-05-13 19:00 - 21:00 | 8 West Grille, 1300 Hwy. 8 West, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
The Oddballs, a unique indie cover duo comprised of vocalist Lucy Kastla and guitarist Nick Aultman, offer up an eclectic sound ranging from pop alternative to soulful funk.

2023 Deep Roots Spring Series - Alanna Mosley @ Bar Fontaine
2023-05-15 18:30 - 20:30 | Staple Food & Drink, 215 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
Alanna Mosley is a singer-songwriter from Carrollton, Mississippi. Her music—best described as Americana or roots—blurs genre lines, and her cover tune catalog spans decades. With guitar in hand, Mosley is an unstoppable jukebox of great music that invites the listener to keep humming along.
At an early age, Mosley was soaking in her music education: 90s guitar queens Patty Griffin and Shawn Colvin, country rockers like Dwight Yoakam and Steve Earle, and the gauntlet of great singer-songwriters from Carole King to Brandi Carlile. She began playing guitar at the age of 12 and hasn’t quit since. Over the years, Mosley has built an impressive repertoire of cover songs while also honing her own songwriting skills. She released an EP of original music in 2014, and in 2016 she was the winner of the prestigious Jimmie Rodgers Songwriting Competition. After living and gigging in Charlotte, North Carolina for several years, she returned to the Mississippi Delta in full force, constantly filling her calendar with festival, radio, restaurant, and private gigs. If you’re a lover of great music in need of some shade, find out where Alanna Mosley might be playing near you at www.alannamosley.com.

2023 Deep Roots Spring Series -Mary Claire @ Backdraft
2023-05-16 18:30 - 20:30 | Backdraft, 337 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States

2023 Deep Roots Spring Series - Billy Maines @ Darry's Food and Drink
2023-05-18 18:30 - 20:30 | Darry’s Food & Drink, 122 East TM Jones Hwy., Boyle, MS, 38730, United States
American singer/songwriter Billy Maines grew up in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains in a village on the Hudson River near Woodstock, New York. He started taking guitar lessons at an early age and played in various rock bands during high school. While attending college at Cortland College in New York, Billy began honing his writing skills for a performing duo.
After graduation, Maines relocated to Boulder, Colorado, where the wide open music scene inspired his writing and encouraged his performing with different bands up and down the ‘front range’ of the Rockies. He plays guitar, harmonica, mandolin, and fiddle across genres of Americana, Alternative Rock and the Blues. He credits his main musical influences as The Band, Neil Young, Muddy Waters, and Bob Dylan.
After moving to the Mississippi Delta in 2004, he learned to appreciate the rich heritage of the music of Mississippi, began to perform as a solo artist and continues to do so today.
https://www.facebook.com/billymainesmusicman

2023 Deep Roots: Live At Five - Joe Garcia & the Big Guns w/Mike Slaton
2023-05-19 17:00 - 20:00 | Delta Arts Alliance (Outdoor Awning), 104 S. Court St., Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
From the Rivertown of Rosedale, by way of Pace, Mississippi, comes Delta favorite Joe Garcia & the Big Guns to bring some of the classic ‘feel good’ songs to the Live At Five series. Joe, a true son of the Delta, has a great passion for hunting, fishing, and spending time with his family and his music. Whether performing solo or with his full band, the Big Guns, Joe is out there singing for weddings, private parties, birthdays, or just about any kind of gig you can think of.
Opening the show will be Delta singer/songwriter Mike Slaton.

2023 Deep Roots Spring Series - Variety @ 8 West Grille
2023-05-20 19:00 - 21:00 | 8 West Grille, 1300 Hwy. 8 West, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
Variety is the popular ‘old school’ R&B/soul duo of siblings Eric Edwards and Shara White from Cleveland, Mississippi. They have been performing together across the country for more than 25 years. Their upbeat repertoire is the kind of music that, according to Eric, makes audiences want to ‘eat barbecue and drink cold beer.’

Eric and Shara, born and raised in the Mississippi Delta, grew up in a musical home where they both started playing and singing at the early ages of 5 and 6 years old, respectively. While citing their father, Eddie Lee Edwards, as their primary musical influence, they also are quick to acknowledge the contributions of their former band director, Mr. James Stamps, and musical friends Dr. Alphonso Sanders and Joe Johnson in encouraging and shaping the duo’s musical development and direction.

Eric’s voice has been compared to the Isley Brothers, and Shara’s voice draws comparisons to Whitney Houston, but they both feel that God has given them each a unique voice. Although known for their R&B style, the duo is also deeply rooted in gospel music. The duo has released an album together titled There Is No One Else, and in addition to writing original music for God’s Anointed Voices, Eric has released an R&B project titled Those Vinyl Days!

2023 Deep Roots Spring Series - Neshun @ Bar Fontaine
2023-05-22 18:30 - 20:30 | Staple Food & Drink, 215 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States

2023 Deep Roots Spring Series - Billy Maines @ Backdraft
2023-05-23 18:30 - 20:30 | Backdraft, 337 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
American singer/songwriter Billy Maines grew up in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains in a village on the Hudson River near Woodstock, New York. He started taking guitar lessons at an early age and played in various rock bands during high school. While attending college at Cortland College in New York, Billy began honing his writing skills for a performing duo.
After graduation, Maines relocated to Boulder, Colorado, where the wide open music scene inspired his writing and encouraged his performing with different bands up and down the ‘front range’ of the Rockies. He plays guitar, harmonica, mandolin, and fiddle across genres of Americana, Alternative Rock and the Blues. He credits his main musical influences as The Band, Neil Young, Muddy Waters, and Bob Dylan.
After moving to the Mississippi Delta in 2004, he learned to appreciate the rich heritage of the music of Mississippi, began to perform as a solo artist and continues to do so today.

2023 Deep Roots Spring Series - Alanna Mosley @ Darry's Food and Drink
2023-05-25 18:30 - 20:30 | Darry’s Food & Drink, 122 East TM Jones Hwy., Boyle, MS, 38730, United States
Alanna Mosley is a singer-songwriter from Carrollton, Mississippi. Her music—best described as Americana or roots—blurs genre lines, and her cover tune catalog spans decades. With guitar in hand, Mosley is an unstoppable jukebox of great music that invites the listener to keep humming along.
At an early age, Mosley was soaking in her music education: 90s guitar queens Patty Griffin and Shawn Colvin, country rockers like Dwight Yoakam and Steve Earle, and the gauntlet of great singer-songwriters from Carole King to Brandi Carlile. She began playing guitar at the age of 12 and hasn’t quit since. Over the years, Mosley has built an impressive repertoire of cover songs while also honing her own songwriting skills. She released an EP of original music in 2014, and in 2016 she was the winner of the prestigious Jimmie Rodgers Songwriting Competition. After living and gigging in Charlotte, North Carolina for several years, she returned to the Mississippi Delta in full force. If you’re a lover of great music in need of some shade, find out where Alanna Mosley might be playing near you at www.alannamosley.com.

2023 Deep Roots: Live At Five - Gran Boiz w/Neshun
2023-05-26 17:00 - 20:00 | Delta Arts Alliance (Outdoor Awning), 104 S. Court St., Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
The Gran Boiz are a dynamic roots trio based in the Mississippi Delta community of Renova. Their blend of R&B, soul, and blues is a perfect combination for bringing people of all backgrounds together under the sweet strains of foot-stomping, hip-swaying music. Their influences include a wide variety of artists, including fellow Mississippians Sam Cooke and B.B. King.
Opening for the Gran Boiz will be neo soul singer Neshun.

2023 Deep Roots Springs Series - Danny & Tricia @ 8 West Grille
2023-05-27 19:00 - 21:00 | 8 West Grille, 1300 Hwy. 8 West, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
Tricia Walker is a singer and songwriter whose songs have been recorded by Faith Hill, Patty Loveless and Alison Krauss, whose performance of Tricia’s Looking in the Eyes of Love earned a GRAMMY® award. A recording artist herself, Tricia has released eight studio recordings in multiple styles.
Tricia moved to Nashville where she worked as a songwriter for three different publishing companies, as a backing musician for Opry star Connie Smith, Shania Twain and Paul Overstreet, and founded the Original Women in the Round, one of the most celebrated foursomes at Nashville’s prestigious Bluebird Café, with Pam Tillis, Karen Staley and Ashley Cleveland.
Tricia returned to her native Mississippi in 2006 to become director of the Delta Music Institute, an entertainment industry studies program at her alma mater, Delta State University. She retired from DSU in 2019 as Director Emerita, DMI, and Professor of the Practice Emerita in Entertainment Industry Studies. She is now serving as the music ambassador for the City of Cleveland, MS where she is leading the Deep Roots music initiative.
Danny Abraham, well-known Cleveland men’s clothier, started playing piano when he was six years old and played in bands and as a solo artist throughout his youth. “I played when I was at Ole Miss with a group that went all over recruiting students and was able to share the stage with celebrities like Bob Hope and others,” says Abraham. When I returned to Cleveland, to attend Delta State, I joined the campus music group Renaissance, and we literally toured all over the world. Even after I opened my store, Abraham’s, I continued to play with people whenever and wherever I could.”
Danny’s first CD, Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me, was a labor of love and faith. The gospel collection of all original compositions was produced by the legendary Gordon Mote and recorded in Nashville. Abraham said he was blessed to be surrounded by a number of talented and well-known musicians on his CD. From Cleveland/Delta business legend to gospel performer, Danny Abraham’s life is proof that with faith and hard work, anything and everything is possible.

2023 Deep Roots Spring Series - Variety @ Bar Fontaine
2023-05-29 18:30 - 20:30 | Staple Food & Drink, 215 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States

2023 Deep Roots Spring Series - Charles Sullivan @ Backdraft
2023-05-30 18:30 - 20:30 | Backdraft, 337 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States

2023 Deep Roots Summer Series - Mike 'Delta Sun' Slaton @ Darry's Food & Drink
2023-06-01 18:30 - 20:30 | Darry’s Food & Drink, 122 East TM Jones Hwy., Boyle, MS, 38730, United States
Mike ‘Delta Sun’ Slaton starting picking and singing after his parents snuck him backstage on his fifth birthday to meet Willie Nelson after a concert in Shreveport, Louisiana. He immediately got ‘bit’ by the ‘music bug’ and gave his first live performance at his kindergarten talent show, singing “On The Road Again.”
Born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, Slaton lived in Nashville five years before moving to North Carolina to write and perform while working as an organic farmer. He moved back home to Greenville to be close to family and the ‘long, dark, complex memory of the Delta that inspires me and feeds my soul.’
His warm and poetic songs are influenced by meaningful experiences with his family and friends in the here and now and the memories of ancestors left behind and fall comfortably in the musical realm of Townes Van Zandt, John Prine, Steve Earle and Gillian Welch.
Slaton has released multiple solo acoustic recordings of his original songs, along with a six-song EP recorded with his band The Wheels in Wilmington, North Carolina. He has opened for the Avett Brothers, Lucero, Chatham County Line, Col. Bruce Hampton, Cary Hudson, and T-Model Ford.
Currently, Mike Slaton is focusing on writing and completing songs to record and release a record inspired by his home state of Mississippi.

2023 Deep Roots: Live at Five - Bobo Sherard w/Alanna Mosley
2023-06-02 17:00 - 20:00 | Delta Arts Alliance (Outdoor Awning), 104 S. Court St., Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
Bobo Sherard is a Americana band, featuring Deep Roots singer/songwriter Jeff McCreary. The band’s rootsy, alt-country vibe is a perfect musical representation of the magical, mysterious region that is the Mississippi Delta.
Opening the show for Bobo Sherard will be singer/songwriter Alanna Mosley.

Neshun @ Cleveland, Mississippi - Farmer's Market
2023-06-03 08:30 - 22:30 | Cleveland MS Farmer’s Market, 401 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
Soulful sounds at the market from Neshun with Clayton Moulder on guitar.

2023 Deep Roots Summer Series - Holley Peel @ 8 West Grille
2023-06-03 19:00 - 21:00 | 8 West Grille, 1300 Hwy. 8 West, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
