Live from Harlem: JFA Presents – Robert Kimbrough, Sr. Blues Connection - National Jazz Museum in HarlemNational Jazz Museum in Harlem

Live from Harlem: JFA Presents – Robert Kimbrough, Sr. Blues Connection

Thursday, October 8 @ 2:00 pm
58 W 129th Street, New York, NY 10027

Robert Kimbrough Sr continues the Cotton Patch Soul Blues style created by his father, the legendary Junior Kimbrough. From an early age, Robert was steeped in the sounds and life of North Mississippi and its distinctive style of blues. Growing up, Robert listened first-hand to the Mississippi blues royalty that played with his father at home, at Junior’s Juke Joint Club, and at ever-frequent weekend house parties and porch jam sessions. The blues was simply part of everyday life as a Kimbrough. Robert has released 6 albums, including 2019’s I Been Fixed, which won an AMG Heritage Award. He is a fixture at major Blues festivals, including his family’s own Kimbrough Cotton Patch Soul Blues Festival, now in its 10th year.

Presented in partnership with the Jazz Foundation of America, supported in part by an award from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and by the Howard Gilman Foundation.

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The Jazz Foundation of America is a national nonprofit dedicated to helping the jazz, blues, and roots musicians who have played the soundtrack to our lives. With compassion and discretion, JFA provides housing assistance, medical and legal referrals, disaster relief, and financial support to musicians and their families in times of crisis, while also creating employment opportunities in concert programming nationwide.

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This event will also stream on the Jazz Foundation and Jazz Museum YouTube Channels.