Deep Roots Fall Series - Guitar Frenchie @ Backdraft
2025-09-06 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-09-16 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Backdraft, 337 Cotton Row, 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.”

Deep Roots Fall Series - Billy Maines @ Bar Fontaine
2025-09-08 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-09-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Staple Food & Drink, 215 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 a solo artist and continues to do so today.

Deep Roots Fall Series - Mississippi Marshall @ Backdraft
2025-09-09 18:30 - 20:30 | 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. 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.

'Brisket' Livingston @ Catfish Cabin
2025-09-11 18:30 - 20:30 | Catfish Cabin, 122 TM Jones Hwy., Boyle, MS, 38730, United States
Chris “Brisket” Livingston is a singer/songwriter from the birthplace of American Music, the great state of Mississippi. He plays acoustic, electric, and bass guitar, harmonica and trombone. Chris has been performing for audiences around the Southeastern United States for over 25 years. His original and cover songs are inspired by legendary artists such as John Prine, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Tom Petty, Grateful Dead, and Widespread Panic. He is currently performing solo acoustic shows at local venues around the Mississippi Delta and playing bass guitar with the band Pharmtruck out of Oxford, MS.

Deep Roots Fall Series - Variety @ Bar Fontaine
2025-09-12 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-09-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Staple Food & Drink, 215 Cotton Row, 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!

Deep Roots Fall Series - Alanna Mosley @ Backdraft
2025-09-13 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-09-30 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. 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.

Deep Roots Fall Series - Charles Sullivan II @ Bar Fontaine
2025-09-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Backdraft, 337 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, 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.

Ray Cashman @ Catfish Cabin
2025-09-18 18:30 - 20:30 | Catfish Cabin, 122 TM Jones Hwy., Boyle, MS, 38730, United States
Some folks play the blues while some write about it and present it as their own because it is. Ray Cashman is the latter. This guy is the real deal. His songs are on the radio around the world and his European show date list alone would be the envy of anybody looking to expand internationally. Growing up on the upper Texas coast, his music is referred to as gulf coast gumbo as it is made up of multiple regional influences both current and from the past. Cashman has had his music featured in film and television, and his 2007 release, Texassippi Stomp, was widely praised and landed on several ‘best of’ lists for blues recordings. Cashman has toured extensively in Europe and the UK and in the USA from the Gulf Coast to Canada. Cashman has performed at such notable festivals as SXSW- TX, King Biscuit Blues Festival – AR, Juke Joint Festival-MS, Lucca Blues Festival- IT, Deep Blues Festival-MS. He has released 9 studio albums with the latest being 2023 Delta Sound. After living for over 20 years in music cities such as Austin and Nashville, Cashman resides in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Deep Roots Fall Series - Mississippi Marshall @ Bar Fontaine
2025-09-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Staple Food & Drink, 215 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States

Deep Roots Fall Series - Tony Boyd @ Backdraft
2025-09-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Backdraft, 337 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
Tony Boyd is a solo musician born and raised in the hills of Sentobia, MS. Described as “a laid-back tribute to Americana,” Boyd has performed his own variety of folk, country and blues music throughout the region for over three decades. Boyd picked up the harmonica at the age of twelve, but only really started performing publicly in his thirties. Now, you can find him playing all throughout North Mississippi multiple times a week, filling venues with his soothing acoustic tunes. Bob Dylan is his main musical idol, and that’s plain to see and hear in the music that Boyd masters. “Artists who found themselves in the ‘country rock’ genre of the 70s definitely influenced me.” Boyd has quite the resume when it comes to the number and quality of shows he has played. He’s shared the stage on a number of occasions with Blackberry Smoke—an Atlanta-based touring rock band—and has opened for the likes of Kix Brooks, Cowboy Mouth, and Bo Diddley. He has even played the celebrated Thacker Mountain Radio show as a solo artist.

Deep Roots Fall Series - Guitar Frenchie @ Bar Fontaine
2025-09-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Staple Food & Drink, 215 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States

Deep Roots Fall Series - Delta String Band @ Backdraft
2025-09-23 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.

Mississippi Marshall @ Catfish Cabin
2025-09-25 18:30 - 20:30 | Catfish Cabin, 122 TM Jones Hwy., Boyle, MS, 38730, United States

Deep Roots Fall Series - Mary Claire @ Backdraft
2025-09-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Backdraft, 337 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. When is not performing solo, she is the lead singer for the rock band, Elektra, based out of Cleveland.

Deep Roots Fall Series - Billy Maines @ Bar Fontaine
2025-10-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Staple Food & Drink, 215 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 a solo and duo artist and continues to do so today.

Deep Roots 2025 Fall Series - Chris "Brisket" Livingston @ Bar Fontaine
2025-10-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Staple Food & Drink, 215 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States

Deep Roots 2025 Fall Series - Robin Webb @ Backdraft
2025-10-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Backdraft, 337 Cotton Row, 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. Robin holds a doctorate degree in music.

Deep Roots 2025 Fall Series - Delta String Band @ Bar Fontaine
2025-10-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Staple Food & Drink, 215 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States

Deep Roots 2025 Fall Series - Mississippi Marshall @ Backdraft
2025-10-07 18:30 - 20:30 | Backdraft, 337 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States

Deep Roots 2025 Fall Series - Alanna Mosley @ Backdraft
2025-10-09 18:30 - 20:30, 2025-10-14 18:30 - 20:30 | Backdraft, 337 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States

Deep Roots 2025 Fall Series - Michael "Cadillac" Dennis @ Bar Fontaine
2025-10-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Staple Food & Drink, 215 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States
Born and raised in the Mississippi Delta, ‘Cadillac’ Dennis’ musical journey began with singing and playing drums with the church choir as a kid. While majoring in music at Mississippi Valley State University, he began dabbling with guitar and piano. This led to his playing in a number of Gospel bands in his twenties, before starting to play guitar for various Blues artists. Dennis formed his own band, the Big Time Rhythm & Blues Band in the spring of 2010 and booked performances throughout the South, Northwest, and even Hawaii. He recently released a single, “2X Woman”, which he co-produced with the help of another Deep Roots musician, Eric Edwards.

Deep Roots 2025 Fall Series - Guitar Frenchie @ Backdraft
2025-10-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Backdraft, 337 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States

Deep Roots 2025 Fall Series - Mike 'Delta Sun' Slaton @ Bar Fontaine
2025-10-13 19:00 - 21:00 | 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.

Deep Roots 2025 Fall Series - Ray Cashman @ Bar Fontaine
2025-10-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Staple Food & Drink, 215 Cotton Row, Cleveland, MS, 38732, United States

Deep Roots 2025 Fall Series - Neshun @ Bar Fontaine
2025-10-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Staple Food & Drink, 215 Cotton Row, 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.
