Friday, September 11, 2009

Museum for bluesman B.B. King has strong 1st year

The AP is reporting that "Museum for bluesman B.B. King has strong 1st year"

According to the article;

A year after its opening, the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center has drawn about 30,000 visitors to the Mississippi Delta town roughly 100 miles northwest of Jackson where the Grammy-winning singer/songwriter/guitarist once made his living on a cotton plantation.

Attendance exceeded a first-year projection of 25,000, despite the museum's opening last fall amid hurricanes, high gas prices, economic woes and the end of the traditional summer travel season, said Connie Gibbons, the museum's executive director.


2 comments:

D.S. Williamson said...

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night (or high gas prices) will keep blues fans from paying homage to B.B. King with a trip to the museum. That's as it should be.
D.S. Williamson

coyotebanjo said...

Delighted to hear this. Connie Gibbons has got to be a big positive factor here: she ran the Buddy Holly Museum in Lubbock, TX from its inception, in the teeth of ignorant and stupid behavior by the city council, and made it extremely successful, until they finally decided they wanted someone more pliant, and she decided she didn't need the stupid runaround. She's a great person and a superb director. You go, girl!