2024 Deep Roots Summer Series - Will Coppage @ Bar Fontaine
2024-05-31 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Chicago) | Staple Food & Drink, 215 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
Will Coppage is a native of the Mississippi Delta. Starting on bass, Coppage grew his guitar chops and performance ability while service in the USAF in Okinawa, Japan. After leaving the Air Force, Coppage found himself exploring the music scene in Wilmington, NC where he found regional success in the newly formed touring group, Willie and Me. By 2006, the band had shared the stage and festivals with groups such as Widespread Panic, The Avett Brothers, and Umphrey’s Mcgee. To strengthen his skills as a lyricist, Coppage completed both a BFA and MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry and also became proficient on a number of instruments. 2024 has opened new doors, as Coppage has focused on performing his music solo. He stays on the road to reach new fans and audiences. Between playing shows and spending time with his family, Coppage is in and out of studios crafting his first solo album, which he hope will be released in Fall of 2024.

2024 Farmer's Market - Mississippi Marshall & the Juke Daddys
2024-06-01 08:30 - 10:30 | Cleveland MS Farmer’s Market, 401 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. Marshall and his grandson, Grayson, were semifinalists at the 2024 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN. He recently released his fourth album titled I Believe I’ll Go Back Home.

2024 Deep Roots Summer Series - Guitar Frenchie @ 8 West Grille
2024-06-01 19:00 - 21:00 | 8 West Grille, 1300 Hwy. 8 West, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
This hot-shot southpaw guitarist from Nimes, France, funded his move to the States by selling his Gibson Les Paul guitar. He’s forged through a rough-and-tumble 20 years, from jamming with blues legends to playing for hire. “I grew up on all American music — Rock ’n’ Roll and Blues — but back when I was playing in France I felt somewhat like a copycat,” Frenchie says. “But as soon as I landed in the U.S. I felt at home, because this was where the music I loved was born.” Although he’s played with many greats over the years, Frenchie says “the highlight of my musical career was becoming a U.S. citizen” in August 2016. America has inspired Kevin “Frenchie” Sciou to follow his own path. From his humble beginnings to the sophomore release of his Frenchie’s Blues Destroyers album Praise: He defiantly beat the odds in his pursuit of the American Dream.”

2024 Deep Roots Summer Series - Delta Sun & Brisket @ Bar Fontaine
2024-06-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Staple Food & Drink, 215 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, 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.

2024 Deep Roots Summer Series - Alanna Mosley @ Backdraft
2024-06-04 18:30 - 20:30 | Backdraft, 337 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. 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. 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.

2024 Deep Roots Summer Series - Neshun @ Darry's Food & Drink
2024-06-06 18:30 - 20:30 | Darry’s Food & Drink, 122 East TM Jones Hwy., Boyle, MS, 38730, 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 Nick Aultman, guitarist and current entertainment industry studies major at Delta State.

Deep Roots: Live @ 5! - Bobo Sherard
2024-06-07 17:00 - 19:00 | Delta Arts Alliance (Outdoor Awning), 104 S. Court St., Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
Americana trio Bobo Sherard brings a Delta-flavored mix of alternative country and rock songs. They are fronted by Deep Roots singer/songwriter Jeff McCreary.

2024 Deep Roots Summer Series - Mary Claire @ Bar Fontaine
2024-06-07 19:30 - 21:30 | Staple Food & Drink, 215 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
Vocalist/pianist Mary Claire Rackley from Gulfport, 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 is the lead singer for the rock band, Elektra, based out of Cleveland, and when she is not performing, she teaches music at Bayou Academy.

2024 Farmer's Market - Billy Maines
2024-06-08 08:30 - 10:30 | Cleveland MS Farmer’s Market, 401 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
Americana 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 an acoustic artist and continues to do so today.

2024 Deep Roots Summer Series - Variety @ 8 West Grille
2024-06-08 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. 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!

2024 Deep Roots Summer Series - Guitar Frenchie @ Bar Fontaine
2024-06-10 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-06-21 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-07-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Staple Food & Drink, 215 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States

2024 Deep Roots Summer Series - Delta String Band @ Backdraft
2024-06-11 18:30 - 20:30 | Backdraft, 337 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
Roots musicians Charles Sullivan and Cody Ruth are members of the Delta String Band, an Americana band based out of Greenville, Mississippi. Similar to what the band presents, Charles and Cody sing 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, this duo brings their own flavor to the music they plays, and that “old school way” means playing music in its truest, purest, stripped-down form.

2024 Deep Roots Summer Series - Billy Maines @ Darry's Food & Drink
2024-06-13 18:30 - 20:30 | Darry’s Food & Drink, 122 East TM Jones Hwy., Boyle, MS, 38730, United States
Americana 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 an acoustic musician and continues to do so today.

Deep Roots: Live @ 5! - Alanna Mosley and Walt Busby
2024-06-14 17:00 - 19:00 | Delta Arts Alliance (Outdoor Awning), 104 S. Court St., 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. Joining Alanna will be Clarksdale musician and astrophotographer, Walt Busby.

2024 Deep Roots Summer Series - Mike 'Delta Sun' Slaton @ Bar Fontaine
2024-06-14 19:30 - 21:30 | Staple Food & Drink, 215 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
Mike 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.

2024 Farmer's Market - Mary Claire
2024-06-15 08:30 - 10:30 | Cleveland MS Farmer’s Market, 401 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States

2024 Deep Roots Summer Series - Alanna Mosley & Walt Busby @ 8 West Grille
2024-06-15 19:00 - 21:00 | 8 West Grille, 1300 Hwy. 8 West, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
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2024 Deep Roots Summer Series - Neshun @ Bar Fontaine
2024-06-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Staple Food & Drink, 215 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States

2024 Deep Roots Summer Series - Mississippi Marshall Deluxe @ Backdraft
2024-06-18 18:30 - 20:30 | Backdraft, 337 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States

2024 Deep Roots Summer Series - Alanna Mosley @ Darry's Food & Drink
2024-06-20 18:30 - 20:30 | Darry’s Food & Drink, 122 East TM Jones Hwy., Boyle, MS, 38730, United States

Deep Roots: Live @ 5! - Elektra
2024-06-21 17:00 - 19:00 | Delta Arts Alliance (Outdoor Awning), 104 S. Court St., Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
Cleveland based rock band, Elektra, comprised of musicians who met in the DMI Entertainment Industry Studies program at Delta State University, perform a mixture of classic and heavy rock favorites, much to the delight of audiences who revel in the genre. Mary Claire, who performs for the Deep Roots roster as a solo artist, fronts this energetic ensemble of rockers.

2024 Deep Roots Summer Series -Robin Webb @ 8 West Grille
2024-06-22 19:00 - 21:00 | 8 West Grille, 1300 Hwy. 8 West, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
Pianist Robin Webb has performed as a classical and cocktail soloist, in addition to combo and collaborative work on all seven continents, including Antarctica. Cruise ships, global destination resorts, New York and European cabaret houses and clubs, theatres on Broadway, London’s West End and regional cities kept Robin’s performance schedule busy before returning to his boyhood home, the Mississippi Delta. Since returning to the Delta, Robin has been pursuing a newfound love for jazz piano, having attended the Czech Republic Jazz Workshop, Stanford University Jazz Workshop, and University of North Texas workshops. Locally, he is a member of the Delta State University Jazz Band. He holds a doctorate degree in music, and when called upon, he teaches in the Department of Music and the DMI Entertainment Industry Studies program at Delta State.

2024 Deep Roots Summer Series - Billy Maines @ Bar Fontaine
2024-06-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Staple Food & Drink, 215 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States

2024 Deep Roots Summer Series - Delta Sun & Brisket @ Backdraft
2024-06-25 18:30 - 20:30 | Backdraft, 337 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States

2024 Deep Roots Summer Series - Guitar Frenchie @ Darry's Food & Drink
2024-06-27 18:30 - 20:30 | Darry’s Food & Drink, 122 East TM Jones Hwy., Boyle, MS, 38730, United States

Deep Roots: Live @ 5! - Mississippi Marshall and the Juke Daddys
2024-06-28 17:00 - 19:00 | Delta Arts Alliance (Outdoor Awning), 104 S. Court St., Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States

2024 Deep Roots Summer Series - Alanna Mosley @ Bar Fontaine
2024-06-28 19:30 - 21:30 | Staple Food & Drink, 215 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States

2024 Deep Roots Summer Series - Neshun @ 8 West Grille
2024-06-29 19:00 - 21:00 | 8 West Grille, 1300 Hwy. 8 West, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
