African-American sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta and other parts of the South adopted the instrument and evolved blues music from spirituals and field hollers. Charley Patton, Robert ...

They are both very popular styles of music. Blues music can be played on instruments like the guitar, piano and harmonica. Singing is very important in blues music too. The words in blues songs ...

The funding helped pay for instruments and made the program free ... Based in Mississippi, the Pinetop Perkins Foundation teaches blues music, its traditions and its history.

"The blues is the music of Chicago," Rami Gabriel said. "We take it in, and we respect it, and we have integrated it into ...