A music festival in Bentonia: Nothing but the Blues and the Blue Front

Imagine this: a Yazoo County town with a population of less than 500 welcoming close to 10,000 people traveling from places like Las Vegas, Canada, Japan and Bolivia. And it’s all for one thing – the blues.
Every year, on the third Saturday in June, blues legend Jimmy “Duck” Holmes hosts the Bentonia Blues Festival. The day-long event takes place on the farm where Holmes grew up, known by locals simply as “Holmes Farm.” But, for the past two years, Holmes has