Blues & Brews Series: Cedric Burnside

Dive into the heart of the blues!

Starting January 2025, the Orange Blossom Opry introduces the OBO Blues & Brews Series—a listening room experience where national blues legends take the stage. Enjoy intimate performances with a cold beer or a glass of wine in hand. Where the blues come alive!

Cedric Burnside
Date: Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Time: 7:00pm
Cost: $51 - $45 - $40 - $36

Grammy Award winning Cedric Burnside

The blues is music for all time-past, present, and future-and few ar- tists simultaneously exemplify those multiple temporal moments of the genre like North Mississippi's CEDRIC BURNSIDE. The Mississippi Hill Country blues guitarist and singer/songwriter contains within him the legacy and future of the region's prescient sound stories. At once African and American and southern and Mississippian, these stories tell about love, hurt, connection, and redemption in the South. His newest contribution to this tradition is the Grammy-winning I Be Trying, a 13-track album treatise on life's challenges, pleasures, and beauty. "Life can go any kind of way," Burnside says. With almost 30 years of performing and living blues in him, he would know.

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Dance Songs for Hard Times conveys the hopes and fears of pandemic living. Rev. Peyton, the Big Damn Band’s vocalist and world-class fingerstyle guitarist, details bleak financial challenges on the songs “Ways and Means” and “Dirty Hustlin’.”