Othar Turner (a.k.a. Otha Turner) (b. east of Canton, Mississippi, June 2, 1907; d. February 26, 2003), was one of the last well-known fife players in the vanishing American fife and drum musical tradition. He lived his entire life in northern Mississippi as a farmer, where in 1923 at the age of 16 he first learned to play the fife and make them from sugarcane.
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15th Annual Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival Aug 9 - 10, 2002 Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States Uploaded by Bluz1954
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Otha Turner has had 1 concert.
Otha Turner is most often considered to be United States, Blues, and Southern.
The last Otha Turner concert was on August 09, 2002 at Delta Blues Museum, Depot Stage in Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States. The bands that performed were: Bobby "Blue" Bland / Charlie Musselwhite / Jimbo Mathus / Alvin Youngblood Hart / Otha Turner / Sam Carr / Eddie Cotton / Deep Cuts / Geneva Red / Big Jack Johnson.
