B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center

B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center The mission of the B. B.

King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center, a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization, is to empower, unite and heal through music, art and education and share with the world the rich cultural heritage of the Mississippi Delta.

🎶 ‼️ TONIGHT at Club Ebony!! Ava Grace and The Sipsey River Band will make their way from Beale Street to Indianola to p...
09/04/2026

🎶 ‼️ TONIGHT at Club Ebony!! Ava Grace and The Sipsey River Band will make their way from Beale Street to Indianola to play on B.B. King’s stage!

Tickets $15 at the door.

09/04/2026

The BLUES WAS ALRIGHT last night Historic Club Ebony ‼️🎸‼️💥 with a dream lineup of musicians on stage following the B.B. King Day Symposium at MVSU f. Keith Johnson + Raful LilRay Neal and Jock Webb on harmonica and many more.

Join the Indianola community as we host JIM ABBOTT for a BOOK SIGNING of his new book, Paper Man: September 9th, 5:30pm ...
09/02/2026

Join the Indianola community as we host JIM ABBOTT for a BOOK SIGNING of his new book, Paper Man: September 9th, 5:30pm

Whether you knew Jim Abbott as the paper man or know him as a friend (or both), this is a wonderful opportunity to visit and hear fascinating stories from his new book. Told in anecdote-rich vignettes, Paper Man chronicles Abbott’s front-row seat to history and his encounters — in church pews and grocery-store aisles — with the very characters he wrote about each week.

Columnist Sid Salter wrote, “A son of the Mississippi Delta, Jim Abbott was no crusading interloper. He was a Mississippian who knew which political and social anthills not to kick — yet he kicked them anyway because they needed to be kicked.”

During Abbott’s rich life, he crossed paths with likes of James Meredith, Walt Disney, Duke Ellington, Robert Kennedy, B.B. King, Brooke Shields, Craig Claiborne, Pops Staples, John Fogerty, and Gene Hackman, among many more.

Ralph Eubanks, author of When It’s Darkness on the Delta, said, “Jim Abbott’s Paper Man is the story of one man’s love of the Delta and Mississippi, a love he professed by bravely practicing journalistic integrity as well as human kindness.”

Paper Man takes the reader from the Ole Miss riot to the jungles of Vietnam and from hiking the Grand Tetons to a deserted, post-Katrina New Orleans, but it is Abbott’s years behind the editor’s desk in Indianola that gives the book its greatest charm — and its lasting lessons about the power and the necessity of local journalism.

The musicians, the moment. 🎶💙 First Thursdays moves to Club Ebony in September for an absolute blues-fueled mind explosi...
09/01/2026

The musicians, the moment. 🎶💙 First Thursdays moves to Club Ebony in September for an absolute blues-fueled mind explosion 💥 following the B.B. King Day Symposium at MVSU.

12th Annual BLUES JAM SESSION, 7pm to 9pm
f. Alphonso Sanders, Lil Ray Neal, Keith Johnson, George Mumford, Jock Webb, Stan Jackson, Joe Eagle, Teno Tribbett and host of other truly amazing musicians.

It's free, y'all, with cash bar in B.B. King's legendary club, operated by the B.B. King Museum

📍404 Hannah Street, Indianola, Mississippi

"Bringing the Blues" back to B.B.'s hometown! Ava Grace LIVE at Historic Club Ebony on September 4th. Ava and The Sipsey...
08/20/2026

"Bringing the Blues" back to B.B.'s hometown! Ava Grace LIVE at Historic Club Ebony on September 4th.

Ava and The Sipsey River Band will make their way from Beale Street to Indianola for their debut at B.B.'s Historic Club Ebony

Tickets $15 at the door.

08/19/2026

Riding with B.B. King is his electric 💙 1984 El Camino! B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center

👀 ~rare~Lucille 🎸 spotting at Lansky Brothers inside The Peabody Memphis ‼️🤩Our archivist has never seen a signed Lucill...
08/12/2026

👀 ~rare~Lucille 🎸 spotting at Lansky Brothers inside The Peabody Memphis ‼️🤩

Our archivist has never seen a signed Lucille with “The Thrill is Gone” added by B.B. King. Anyone seen one?

📍 Walk in B.B. King’s shoes from the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center in Indianola to the Peabody Hotel and Beale Street in Memphis.

08/10/2026

Legendary night with Jesse Robinson and extra special when blues musician visitors from Poland to Portugal join him to jam on stage. 🎶 Fantastic!

If you love live music, never miss a First Thursdays B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center 🎸

Live music + Lost Pizza Co. Indianola tonight in the Barksdale Gin! 🎸🍕 We're hosting Jackson blues and jazz legend Jesse...
08/06/2026

Live music + Lost Pizza Co. Indianola tonight in the Barksdale Gin! 🎸🍕 We're hosting Jackson blues and jazz legend Jesse Robinson.

This event is free thanks to our August sponsor the Mississippi Delta Blues Society of Indianola, Inc. and a grant from The Lupin Foundation in Metarie, Louisiana.

Cash Bar and complimentary slices of pizza till their gone!

🎶First Thursdays season resumes this Thursday with legendary Mississippi musician JESSE ROBINSON 🎸From Subway Lounge day...
08/03/2026

🎶First Thursdays season resumes this Thursday with legendary Mississippi musician JESSE ROBINSON 🎸From Subway Lounge days to recording with Bobby "Blue" Bland and Cassandra Wilson to fronting the B.B. King Blues Band, Jesse's appearance at the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center is extra special.

Come by the Barksdale Gin inside the Museum for two hours of no-cover live music and slices of Lost Pizza Co. Indianola - what a treat! 🍕

Sponsored by the Mississippi Delta Blues Society of Indianola, Inc.

Address

400 Second Street
Indianola, MS
38751

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm

Telephone

(662) 887-9539

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