Ol' Skool Revue @ the 26th International Blues Challenge
Ol' Skool Revue, R&B/Soul/Funk/Blues band from the Delta Music Institute at Delta State University, represented the Crossroads Blues Society of Rosedale with a blues set during the Youth Challenge showcase at the 26th International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN. The band performed at the historic New Daisy Theatre on Beale Street.....congratulations to the band and thanks to the Crossroads Blues Society for sponsoring this opportunity!
Delta Music Institute's Ol 'Skool Revue band to compete in International Blues Challenge
Ol’ Skool Revue, the Delta Music Institute’s (DMI) Blues/R&B/Soul/Funk band, has been selected to perform at the 2010 International Blues Challenge (IBC) in Memphis, January 20-23, 2010.
Ol’ Skool Revue will represent DMI and Delta State University in the Youth Challenge (IBC) during this 26th year of the International Blues Challenge. The band, made up of Delta State college students, will compete during the afternoon lineup on Friday, Jan. 22, showcasing their talents for record labels, media, festivals, managers, talent buyers and the fans.
The IBC has evolved into the nation's biggest and most respected showcase for Blues musicians ready to take their act to the national stage. The IBC is a judged "Battle of the Bands" in which competitors take the stage and play a short set for a panel of judges. The acts are judged based on an established set of criteria.
Each Affiliate of The Blues Foundation has the right to send a band and solo/duo act to represent the organization at the IBC Semi-Finals. Ol’ Skool Revue competed and was selected by the Crossroads Blues Society, an IBC affiliate from Rosedale, Mississippi.
In 2009, 100 bands and 60 solo/duo acts entered, filling the clubs up and down Beale Street for the semi-finals on Thursday and Friday and the finals at the Orpheum Theater on Saturday.
The Delta Music Institute is an independent center of study under the College of Arts & Sciences at Delta State University. It began with a generous donation by Fred Carl of the Viking Range Corporation in 2003.
The focus of the DMI is to provide students with a broad and thorough education in the technological, creative, and business areas of the music and entertainment industry.
For information, contact the DMI office at (662) 846-4579 or e-mail dmi.deltastate.edu.
Ol' Skool Revue on the Gulf Coast!
Ol' Skool Revue, DMI's R&B/Soul/Funk/Blues band, hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast last weekend for a whirlwind of performances and recruiting opportunities. The band performed three sets at Ocean Springs High School, followed by a pre-game show at the Biloxi-Harrison Central football game. The following morning, the band opened the 5th Annual Ocean Springs Music Festival while DMI instructors Tricia Walker, Mike Iacopelli, and Barry Bays facilitated three music industry workshops at the Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Center in Ocean Springs. Here's a little slideshow from the trip...even with a tire blowout at 70 mph leading to a 4 a.m. arrival back home, it was a great weekend! Rock on, chillun....
Ol’ Skool Revue
Ol’ Skool Revue, which was reformatted from the former DSU Blues band, has extended their repertoire to include hits from not only the blues, but also from the genres of R&B, Soul, and Funk. Band members have become students of the history of the songs, and the session musicians that made the songs hits, such as the Funk Brothers from Motown, the Stax session players from Memphis and the Muscle Shoals rhythm section from north Alabama.
