HENDERSON, Ky. − For the 32nd time in 33 years, it’s time for a summer fixture in downtown Henderson: The W.C. Handy Blues & Barbecue Festival. What is this event, you ask? Henderson’s volunteer-run ...

For the 34th time, the granddaddy of Henderson’s “Rootin’ Tootin’ Songs of Summer” music series — the W.C. Handy Blues & Barbecue Festival — is coming on June 11-14. The volunteer-run music festival ...

HENDERSON, Ky. − It’s time for a summer fixture in downtown Henderson: The W.C. Handy Blues & Barbecue Festival. What is this event, you ask? Henderson’s volunteer-run music festival has grown through ...

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 ...

William Christopher Handy was neither born in nor become famous while in Henderson. But his years here set him on the path to become known as the “Father of the Blues.” According to legend, the ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. A photograph, letters written, and pieces of music by African American composer William Christopher "W.C." Handy ...

W.C. Handy wrote “The St. Louis Blues” and the “Beale Street Blues,” a song that helped make the Memphis thoroughfare famous, but his reputation in the pantheon of blues legends has been maligned by ...