Othar Turner's 2000 Concert & Tour History

Othar Turner's 2000 Concert History

Veteran bluesman Othar Turner was the last surviving master of the Mississippi back-country fife-and-drum tradition. He was born in 1908, spending his adult life as a sharecropper in the city of Como, an area several miles northeast of the Delta region which also gave rise to musicians including Fred McDowell, R.L. Burnside, and Junior Kimbrough. Beginning his performing career around 1923, Turner initially played the blues as well before picking up the thread of the fife-and-drum tradition...

Date	Concert	Venue	Location
Sep 24, 2000	Muddy Waters Tribute Concert Bonnie Raitt / Jimmie Vaughan / Double Trouble - Tommy Shannon & Chris Layton / Charlie Musselwhite / Roy Rogers / Paul Rogers / Chris Whitley / Deborah Coleman / Levon Helm / James Cotton / Willie "Big Eyes" Smith / Hubert Sumlin / Calvin "Fuzz" Jones / Johnnie Johnson / Robert Lockwood Jr. / Othar Turner Show all bands Videos Photos	Severance Hall, Case Western Reserve College	Cleveland, Ohio, United States