The 2009 Keeping the Blues Alive recipients
Congratulations to all of the 2009 Award winners especially our friends
Dusty & Val and the folks at The Shack Up Inn.
Art and Photography: Dusty & Val Scott, Dusty Blues, Pittsburgh , PA
Art and Photography: Dusty & Val Scott, Dusty Blues - Pittsburgh , PA
If you're standin' in the photo pit of many a Blues festival, chances are Dusty Scott is shootin' next to you. Accompanying him and taking the wide angle shots is wife,Val. When the shootin' is done, Dusty is quick to develop and Val systematically publishes the images in a festival slideshow on their website, www.dustyBlues.com. Blues fans from around the world visit the site to check on their favorite artist or festival. What distinguishes the Scotts are their contributions to aspiring Blues artists and their behind- the-scenes activities in support of festival promoters. After a Blues event, they are often the go-to photographers to send a photo to a sponsor the next day or a magazine as it prepares to promote the event the following year. Their photographs can be found on the covers of magazines like Blues Revue or Two'j Blues, as well as on CD & DVD covers. They actively contribute to various society newsletters and band promotion banners.
Historical Preservation: Shack Up In, Clarksdale , MS
Historic Preservation: Shack Up Inn, Clarksdale , MS
The Shack Up Inn is nestled three miles south of the Hwy 61 and Hwy 49 crossroads outside Clarksdale on one of the oldest cotton farms in Mississippi, the forme Hopson Plantation. These down-home accommodations are nine sharecropper shacks slightly renovated and appropriately furnished with a potent dose of memorabilia. The Shack Up Inn is also known as Mississippi 's oldest B&B - "bed and beer." The houses were relocated from nearby farms, insulated, and retrofitted with electricity and plumbing. A live satellite Blues feed is piped into the television sets. Otherwise, the houses look pretty much the same as back in the day with their rusted tin roofs, leaning outhouse, washhouse and bottle tree. In addition to the shacks, the bins in the old cotton gin are unconventional upscale hotel rooms. The hotel lobby is located in the gin as is the Juke Joint Chapel, where you can hear great Blues.
GREAT JOB!!
WELL DESERVED HONORS!
