75 Years of Hollering “Goat” in Tate County, Mississippi: Blues and Fife and Drum

For 75 years, there has been a Labor Day picnic in Tate County, Mississippi, featuring barbecued goat and fife and drum music. The tradition was started by the late Otha Turner, an area farmer and …

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Hot Weather and Hot Blues at the Mississippi Hill Country’s Biggest Weekend

Each year, on the last weekend in June, blues musician Kenny Brown and his wife Sarah host the North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic at Betty Davis’s Ponderosa at Waterford, Mississippi. For …

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Preserving The Black Fife and Drum Culture in Coldwater

For 73 years, people in North Mississippi have been going to the Goat Picnic for goat sandwiches, music, dancing, and one of the rarest and most endangered forms of Black music, fife and drum. When…

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