Bman's Blues Report

Mississippi Charles Bevel, multi-media artist and lecturer began his professional career in 1973. From 1973 through 1983 he performed intermittently as a musician, including a self terminated one year stint as a recording artist on the A&M record label. During that ten year period the most meaningful of those years of Mississippi were spent performing as a duo with another songwriter/performer, Chic Streetman. They also worked as an opening act for such artists as Taj Majal, Richie Havens, Hoyt Axton; Sonny Terry and Brownie Mcghee, Doc Watson, B.B. King, Third World, Albert King, Gil Scott Heron, etc. Mississippi's first appearance on stage as an actor was with the East Cleveland Community Theatre in Cleveland OH, in 1986. Very soon there after he was concurrently working at KARAMU--also located in Cleveland, and a venue well know in the theatre community as the training round for some of America's finest black actors. While at Karamu, Mississippi performed major roles...