Memphis, Tennessee

On Monday April 23 we plan to go to Sun Studios, Graceland and the Rock & Soul Museum. We’ll dine tonight on Beale Street.
On Tuesday April 24 we will visit the Stax Museum and the amazing National Civil Rights Museum. We’ll sample some of the local cuisine away from Beale Street.

On Wednesday April 25 we will head off to Helena, Arkansas where we will visit Sonny Payne and see him present the King Biscuit Time show – the longest running radio show in history – at the Delta Cultural Center. We might even get to sit in with him.

Then we will head to Clarksdale, Mississippi where we’ll visit the Crossroads, the Delta Blues Museum, Morgan Freeman’s Ground Zero club for a snack, Cathead Records for some CDs and then down Highway 61 to Vicksburg where we will stay at the Ameristar.

On Thursday April 26 we head on in to New Orleans and check in to the Bourbon Orleans where we will meet up with Nancy Covey’s Cajun Country tour. In the evening we will all have dinner together and maybe head out to a club.

Friday April 27 – Sunday April 29 – It’s Jazz Fest all the way with gigs at night.

Arriving In Memphis

We will be picking you up at the airport in several mini-buses and we will ferry everyone to the hotel.

In Memphis you are staying at the Holiday Inn Select Downtown which is on Union right opoosite the famous Peabody and just a few minutes walk to Beale Street. Check it out at: http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/hi/160/en/hd/memdn

A couple of us are staying next door at The Best Western Benchmark which does not have a swimming pool but which does have a Denny’s downstairs where you can get The Lumberjack Breakfast!