DELTA HOT TAMALE FESTIVAL ON MISSISSIPPI FOLKLIFE

NEW on Mississippi Folklife: I share words and images on Greenville, Mississippi's annual Delta Hot Tamale Festival.

"Even with all of this growth and recognition, the Delta Hot Tamale Festival is still a small-town to-do. Local Blues musicians perform, you might spot a craft vendor advertising funerary arrangements, concession stands are filled with jars of Kool-Aid pickles, and political candidates ask passersby for their support in upcoming elections." READ MORE.