Show/Hide
Repeat
Welcome to the Delta Music Experience
Amanda Gresham created Delta Music Experience to bring people to Louisiana and The Mississippi Delta through unique musical vacations by River, Rails and Roads to create an awareness of and appreciation for the music, culture, art, and cuisine of Louisiana and The Mississippi Delta.
“To feel the blues in your heart, experience the blues in your soul.
The soul of the blues lives in the delta and Delta Music Experience takes you there!”
- Amanda Gresham
In addition to Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta, Delta Music Experiences are nation wide and include vacations, trips, events, concerts, festival pavilions and stages as well as harbor cruises. You will be entertained, educated and enriched on these one-of-a-kind Delta Music Experiences that provide blues enthusiasts a way to discover the roots of the music, get to know musicians on a more personal level and feel the music in an up-close intimate setting.
Click on photo icons to learn more...
BOOK NOW! PDF - DMExperience Details
Space is limited. Reserve early to guarantee availability.
The Real Deal Delta Experience
April 9-16, 2012
Picture yourself on a vacation filled with music, friendship and laughter that will enrich your life and brighten your spirit. Delta Music Experience (DME) gives musicians and music enthusiasts the opportunity to experience music and travel together – into the heart of The Mississippi Delta - in an intimate setting.
Many writers and musicians have described their River Road Journey’s through the Mississippi Delta. Now you can travel that path with musicians, musical guides, historians, and educators.
Explore the Mississippi Delta including Clarksdale, Greenwood, Indianola, Greenville, Leland and Cleveland via the BluesBus Express on The River Road and Highway 61. You'll discover the roots of blues music and the places where some of the blues greats both past and present began their careers. This land is where the unique American music called Blues was born. DME offers a small traveler-to-musician ratio that offers everyone the opportunity to connect with the musicians, spend time with friends and family and forge new friendships on an extraordinary musical journey that is the only one of its kind.
Mizz Lowe's LOWEdown RUSH featuring special guest Bobby Rush, Nationally recognized and Delta-born Bluesman Super Chikan, Pacific NW Region's First Lady of Blues, Blues Powerhouse, Eden Brent along with Phenomenal Delta Duo Lightnin' Malcolm and Cameron Kimbrough will give you an up close and personal musical experience you will remember for a lifetime. Explore the backroads of the MS Delta only the locals know, discover the roots of blues music with stories handed down through generations.
On the DMExpress Blues Bus and various DMExclusive performances, workshops and excursions, it is easy for guests to spend quality time with artists while maximizing their DME Real Deal Delta Experience.
DME’s unique musical vacations create an awareness of and appreciation for the music, culture, art and cuisine of the Louisiana and Mississippi Delta. DME’s soul-stirring performances, spontaneous jams, discussion groups, workshops, and personal stories will leave you entertained, educated and enriched.
Book your trip today. Call 504.524.BLUEs (2583) for information.
April 9-16, 2012 - DME Real Deal Delta Packages
Booking for one - $875
Booking for two - $1450
Lodging for 7 nights ranges from $99-$200 p/n double occupancy
--- Transportation from Memphis, TN to Clarksdale, MS on April 9th.
--- DMExpress Blues Bus transportation along The River Road and Highway 61 & 49 including Clarksdale, Greenwood, Greenville, Indianola, Leland and Cleveland.
---Live musical performances and impromptus jams that will make you laugh, perhaps move you to tears but most of all fulfills your heart and soul in a way you won't to live without.
---Enriching insight from a local perspective showing you sites only known to insiders.
---Personal stories shared by DME musicians.
---Most meals, events, activities and excursions.
---Official Juke Joint Festival activities that weekend.
---Exclusive Access to your DME-VIP festival area and meet up zone, right in the heart of Juke Joint Fest. Know you have a home-base to return to all day. Relax in the spacious private patio and observe your surroundings. Have personal tables reserved for you and your new DMExperience friends to catch up on conversations, meet and plan where you are going to next, eat and drink and listen to music. You will be so thankful to have this accommodation during the festival.
---A series of bonus DME-VIP events will be announced closer to April.
Limited lodging is available for this popular trip. Rates range from $99 p/n to $200 p/n. DME has reserved rooms for this week-long Juke Joint Fest Experience and all hotels rooms must be reserved from April 9th-16th for this trip.
Please call to secure your lodging. 504.524.2583.
Lodge at Hopson Sold Out
Big Pink Sold Out
Squeeze Box Sold Out
Blues Hound Flat Sold Out
Clark House (call DME for details)
Comfort Inn - limited
Executive Inn - limited
Uptown Inn - limited
The Little Pink Patio is your DMExclusive home base. This private festival area is the perfect place to meet up, sit at your own picnic table, eat food, catch up, relax, recharge & listen to music.
Honeyboy Edwards Benefit Tribute Concert
November 13, 2011
David Honeyboy Edwards, the “Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen” loved to say “The world don’t owe me nuthin” but we feel it does! Please honor and pay tribute to this great American bluesman with your contribution today. A Benefit Tribute Concert is planned for November 13 in Portland, OR at The Alberta Rose Theatre.
Click here to find out how you can be an Inaugural Contributor to the Fund.
Rockin' the Rivers
Until the next multi-night DME Rockin' the Rivers Vacation, take the Delta Music Experience Blues Cruises along the beautiful Willamette River and hear the blues in an intimate setting at Waterfront Blues Festival July 4-8, 2012.
Picture yourself onboard through these images from the 2005 DME Mardi Gras on the Mississippi or 2006 NOLA/NW Mardi Gras on the Columbia River.
DME want's to know what musicians you want to be Rockin' the Rivers with as well as when and where you want to travel. Your request could become a reality. Enter your preference in the "Your Message" section and will consider it when scouting for our next trip location.
July 4-8, 2012
Take the Delta Music Experience Blues Cruises along the beautiful Willamette River and hear the blues in an intimate setting at Waterfront Blues Festival. A no-host hors d’oeuvres buffet and full bar are available on all cruises. Get the Real Deal Delta Experience in DME Louisiana Pavilion, shop in the French Quarter Market and bring home art from the Amanda Gresham Gallery.
Purchase DME Blues Cruise Tickets
DME Blues Cruise Details
See Line up
July 20-22, 2012
See y’all at Winthrop Rhythm & Blues Festival where musicians get the backstage VIP-DMExperience.
July 9, 2011
San Jose Metro Fountain Blues Festival
San Jose Ca- New location will be at St. James Park
August 5-6, 2011
Willamette Valley Blues and Brews Festival
Island Park in Springfield, OR
June 1-3, 2012
Michael Arnone's Crawfish Fest
Sussex County Fairgrounds, New Jersey
The following pictures are from benefit concerts to support and raise awareness for United by Music: a program originated in The Netherlands, designed for talented people with intellectual and physical disabilities to learn and play blues music live on stage with professional musicians for general audiences.
Erika Olsen Photos: United by Music Benefit Concerts
Honeyboy Edwards and Michael Frank, Tommy Castro, Curtis Salgado, Karen Lovely, Lady “A”, Lloyd Jones and Mac Potts
Candye Kane
Doug MacLeod
Nathan James Band
Ryan Harder
Space is limited.
Reserve early to guarantee availability.
The Real Deal Delta Experience
April 9-16, 2012
Picture yourself on a vacation filled with music, friendship and laughter that will enrich your life and brighten your spirit. Delta Music Experience (DME) gives musicians and music enthusiasts the opportunity to experience music and travel together – into the heart of The Mississippi Delta - in an intimate setting.
Many writers and musicians have described their River Road Journey’s through the Mississippi Delta. Now you can travel that path with musicians, musical guides, historians, and educators.
Explore the Mississippi Delta including Clarksdale, Greenwood, Indianola, Greenville, Leland and Cleveland via the BluesBus Express on The River Road and Highway 61. You'll discover the roots of blues music and the places where some of the blues greats both past and present began their careers. This land is where the unique American music called Blues was born. DME offers a small traveler-to-musician ratio that offers everyone the opportunity to connect with the musicians, spend time with friends and family and forge new friendships on an extraordinary musical journey that is the only one of its kind.
Mizz Lowe's LOWEdown RUSH featuring special guest Bobby Rush, Nationally recognized and Delta-born Bluesman Super Chikan, Pacific NW Region's First Lady of Blues, Blues Powerhouse, Eden Brent along with Phenomenal Delta Duo Lightnin' Malcolm and Cameron Kimbrough will give you an up close and personal musical experience you will remember for a lifetime. Explore the backroads of the MS Delta only the locals know, discover the roots of blues music with stories handed down through generations.
On the DMExpress Blues Bus and various DMExclusive performances, workshops and excursions, it is easy for guests to spend quality time with artists while maximizing their DME Real Deal Delta Experience.
DME’s unique musical vacations create an awareness of and appreciation for the music, culture, art and cuisine of the Louisiana and Mississippi Delta. DME’s soul-stirring performances, spontaneous jams, discussion groups, workshops, and personal stories will leave you entertained, educated and enriched.
Book your trip today. Call 504.524.BLUEs (2583) for information.
April 9-16, 2012 - DME Real Deal Delta Packages
Booking for one - $875
Booking for two - $1450
Lodging for 7 nights ranges from $99-$200 p/n double occupancy
--- Transportation from Memphis, TN to Clarksdale, MS on April 9th.
--- DMExpress Blues Bus transportation along The River Road and Highway 61 & 49 including Clarksdale, Greenwood, Greenville, Indianola, Leland and Cleveland.
---Live musical performances and impromptus jams that will make you laugh, perhaps move you to tears but most of all fulfills your heart and soul in a way you won't to live without.
---Enriching insight from a local perspective showing you sites only known to insiders.
---Personal stories shared by DME musicians.
---Most meals, events, activities and excursions.
---Official Juke Joint Festival activities that weekend.
---Exclusive Access to your DME-VIP festival area and meet up zone, right in the heart of Juke Joint Fest. Know you have a home-base to return to all day. Relax in the spacious private patio and observe your surroundings. Have personal tables reserved for you and your new DMExperience friends to catch up on conversations, meet and plan where you are going to next, eat and drink and listen to music. You will be so thankful to have this accommodation during the festival.
---A series of bonus DME-VIP events will be announced closer to April.
Limited lodging is available for this popular trip. Rates range from $99 p/n to $200 p/n. DME has reserved rooms for this week-long Juke Joint Fest Experience and all hotels rooms must be reserved from April 9th-16th for this trip.
Please call to secure your lodging. 504.524.2583.
Lodge at Hopson Sold Out
Big Pink Sold Out
Squeeze Box Sold Out
Blues Hound Flat Sold Out
Clark House (call DME for details)
Comfort Inn - limited
Executive Inn - limited
Uptown Inn - limited
The Little Pink Patio is your DMExclusive home base. This private festival area is the perfect place to meet up, sit at your own picnic table, eat food, catch up, relax, recharge & listen to music.
Copyright © 2010-2012 Amanda Gresham | Powered by WhippetCreative.com
• On-The-Road Concert Tours
• On-Set Documentary Film
• Exhibits
• Professional Photography
Click to visit»
• Netherlands to North America
• Join the United by Music Family
• UbyM Showcases & Tours
• UbyM Photography & Videos
Click to visit»
• RtRRR Musical Travel Experiences
• RtR Vacations - All Aboard
• RtR Vacations - Vault
• RtR Vacations - Photos & Video
Click to visit»