In Summer 2016, my host, after I had bicycled several miles that day on my Underground Railroad Bicycle Tour, convinced me to go to an outdoor concert celebrating W. C. Handy and it was great! Such a good time with great music and everyone having a good time. I was exhausted but it it was *so* worth it.

I never got to go to the W.C. Handy events in Northwest Alabama, so it was a pleasure.

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#WCHandy #Music #m_music #UGRR #BicycleTour #BlackHistoryMonth #Blues

#bales2024filmchallenge

December 20: a #film featuring rhythm and blues, funk, or #blues for Walter "Wolfman" Washington's birthday (1943)

St. Louis Blues (Dudley Murphy, 1929) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/st-louis-blues-1929

Available in full here: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=hdoRQ2iqh8I

#DudleyMurphy #BessieSmith #WCHandy #ShortFilm #cinemastodon #HarlemRenaissance #BlackCulture

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

On November 16, 1873, #WCHandy, the American composer known as the "father of the blues," was born.