Event: John Davis Plays Blind Tom: Music as Storytelling
Time: Fri., Feb. 27, 2015 at 7 p.m.
Event Type: Musical Production
Location: Demopolis High School Auditorium
Cost: Free
Event Website: www.southernliterarytrail.org
Sponsor: Southern Literary Trials
Contact: Demopolis Public Library at 334-289-1595
Info: Demopolis native James Haskins, the country's most prolific writer of African-American history books, notes in his Black Music in America: A History Through its People: "People who really knew music, including the leading musicians of the time, were very respectful of Blind Tom, for they recognized that he was a master musician." Surviving records of the Demopolis Opera House, now restored downtown as "Rooster Hall," document that Tom appeared for concerts in the town on March 4, 1879, and April 25, 1885.