The W.C. Handy Music Festival returns to northwest Alabama, celebrating the "Father of the Blues" with nearly two weeks of ...

The Music Preservation Society unveils Daniel Nichols' design for the 2026 W.C. Handy Music Festival, featuring W.C. Handy ...

If Beale Street could talk, it would say, Who the hell is the guy depicted in that big statue by the entrance to the park? W. C. Handy, once so famous as the Father of the Blues that he was ...

A view of Mr. Handy : one afternoon in Memphis, 1918 -- Slavery, the AME Church, and emancipation : the Handy family of Alabama, 1811-1873 -- W.C. Handy and the music of black and white America, ...

In 1893, cornetist W.C. Handy, broke and hungry in St. Louis, had reached a low point in his life. When he encountered “a woman whose pain seemed even greater” than his, he heard her mutter, “Ma man’s ...

The 2025 W.C. Handy Music Festival is happening at several venues throughout the Shoals from Friday, July 18, through Tuesday, July 29, with other pre-events kicking off this week. The following list ...

A photograph, letters written, and pieces of music by African American composer William Christopher "W.C." Handy (1873-1958) sometimes called the "Father of the Blues". The collection consists of a ...

FLORENCE, Ala. (WAFF) - W.C. Handy Music Festival officially kicked off Wednesday and will last for the next two weeks. 14 days of music, good food and fun, that’s what locals say W.C. Handy Music ...

THE SHOALS, Ala. — The W.C. Handy Music Festival in The Shoals is coming July 23, but before that, one lucky artist will have the opportunity to design this year’s artwork. If selected, the design ...

It’s one of the most familiar creation myths in the American imagination: a lonely crossroads in the Mississippi Delta; a down-at-the-heels musician and Satan himself, come to bestow fretboard mojo in ...