The Friends of the Dover Public Library are pleased to present "A Walk Through the Delta", a blues program with Howard Stith and Mike Rogers, on Tuesday evening March 20 at 7pm in the library’s Lecture Hall. This musical performance will include a discussion of early Mississippi delta blues and its influence on modern pop music.
Delta blues is a distinctly American music that developed in the Deep South after the Civil War and reached its zenith just prior to World War II. Today it is often referred to as "roots music", and was the basis for both jazz and rock & roll.
Howard Stith plays acoustic 6 and 12-string guitar and has been a student of early blues for over 40 years. He has performed throughout the U.S., as well as in Europe and Japan, and has shared the stage with such notables as Peg Leg Sam, Mojo Buford, Lazy Bill Lucas and Hammie Nixon.
Mike Rogers plays harmonica in a multitude of styles from blues to folk, but was influenced greatly by the playing of Sonny Terry. Mike has also been performing for over 40 years and has played locally with the blues group "Roundhouse" and the folk group "Salt River”.
This program is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the Dover Public Library at 603-516-6050.
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