When and Where:  Saturday and Sunday, May 19-20, 2012 at Foxfire Ranch, a horse farm 50 miles south of Memphis in Waterford, Mississippi.  (Plus a BBQ and open jam session in Oxford, 20 miles down the pike from Foxfire, on Friday, May 18.)

What:  a two-day intensive for blues harmonica students (all levels) and their friends, featuring lectures, workshops, jam sessions, and concerts with some of the finest harp masters in the world and two living legends of Mississippi blues guitar.  Onsite and offsite camping!  Plenty of home-cooked soul food available.  Registrants will have a chance to jam with the Sons of Blues band from Chicago, Dr. Feelgood Potts' Memphis blues band, AND the Howl-N-Madd Perry band from North Mississippi!

Who:  a world-class lineup of teacher/performers representing the best in traditional and contemporary blues harmonica.  (Please see photos and videos below, and/or click on artists' names):  

   §BILLY BRANCH and the SONS OF BLUES, the Grammy nominee (and our 2010 HCH headliner) returns to Mississippi with his powerhouse band from Chicago

   §MITCH KASHMAR, Delta Groove recording artist.  (The late William Clarke called this West Coast knockout "my absolute favorite blues harp player of his generation")

   §PHIL WIGGINS, living legend of the Piedmont blues.  ("Arguably America's foremost blues harmonica virtuoso," according to the National Council for the Traditional Arts)  (check out this interview in "Blues Blast" magazine)

   §Dr. ROBERT "FEEL GOOD" POTTS, 2011 Blues Critic Awards nominee from Greenwood, Mississippi.  (Performing his hit single, "My In-Laws (Ain't Nothin' But Outlaws"))

   §ADAM GUSSOW, funky overblow maestro and one-man-band dynamo,"Mr. Satan's Apprentice" from the streets of Harlem and Oxford, Mississippi

   §JIMI LEE, Austin's rack-harp virtuoso...singer/songwriter/guitarist/bluesman, showcasing his "GrooveTrax" with a lecture entitled "Every Groove a Bluesman Needs to Know."

   §TODD PARROTT, dazzling gospel/blues in a country vein, from Charlotte, North Carolina

   §BRANDON BAILEY, Memphis youth phenom with his loop-based "Memphis Grooves"

   §BILL "HOWL-N-MADD" PERRY, Hill Country bluesman extraordinaire!

Hours:  10 AM - 12 midnight Saturday; 10 AM - 12 midnight Sunday, plus, on Friday, "blues, brews, and BBQ" meetup at The Shak BBQ joint just outside Oxford, MS, featuring the juke-joint duo, Adam Gussow and Shine Turner (4 - 7:30 PM), and the famous HCH jam at Rooster's Blues House on the Square in Oxford, hosted by Deak Harp and his band (9 PM - 1 AM)

Cost:  $175.  $50 for a non-playing spouse, partner, or friend.  Kids 12 and under free when accompanied by a full-priced registrant!  [Note:  there's no cover charge for the Friday afternoon/evening musical events, which are free and open to the public, but you pay for whatever beer, booze, BBQ, etc. you choose to drink and eat.]

Housing:  In addition to on-site camping ($10/night), cabins and campsites with full hookups are available at Wall Doxey State Park (4 miles away).  Motel rooms are available in Holly Springs (8 miles away) and Oxford (20 miles away).

Extras:  Cold beer and wine for sale all day Saturday/Sunday.....No charge to bring your own coolers!

PLUS special sessions on mics, amps, tabbing, pedals, and more, with Greg Heumann, Randy Landry, Wayne Snyder, and Mike Fugazzi