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This video was created for David and Barbara Pryor’s 60th wedding anniversary celebration on November 28, 2017.
Parker Lucas Westbrook was born January 4, 1926, in Nashville, Howard County, Arkansas.
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Bobby Rush is the 2017 Traditional Blues Grammy winner for his CD Porcupine Meat, and it only took him fifty-one years in the business and fifty-some record releases to get there. He was born in 1933 and raised in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. As a teenager in Chicago, Illinois, Rush drew a mustache on his face to disguise his age and ran from club to club to fulfill multiple bookings in one night. Rush has performed with virtually every post-war blues legacy artist from Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf to Elmore James and Jimmy Reed.
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"The Juke Joint Project: An Exhibit" in the Pryor Center Atrium - Open to the Public: Mon-Fri, 8am-6pm
May 27, 2022, 8:00 am
Harpist-vocalist R.D. "The Real Deal" Olson brings high-energy blues to fill your soul and move your feet. Olson will perform from 5:30 to 6:30 on the front porch of the Juke Joint in the Pryor Center atrium. The public is invited.
May 27, 2022, 5:30 pm
Members of the NWA Jazz All-Stars Youth Ensemble will perform from 5:30 to 6:30 at the Juke Joint in the Pryor Center atrium. The public is invited.
June 3, 2022, 5:30 pm
