The Blue Shoe Project is pleased to announce
an exclusive fundraising event featuring 89 year old blues legend David
"Honeyboy" Edwards. "Honeyboy" will give an intimate performance at D'Jango on
the Parkway in Addison, Texas on February 25th to help raise money to promote
blues in the schools programs. Mr. Edwards will be in town to conduct a Black
History Month "storyteller" performance at Tarrant County Community College on
February 24th for attending students and community participants in celebration
of Black History month.

A recipient of the National Endowment of the Arts Heritage Fellowship, the
highest honor bestowed on a performing artist, Honeyboy Edwards represents the
Mississippi Delta Blues style that takes the listener on a musical journey to
the genre's origin. What makes this performance so noteworthy is that Honeyboy
played extensively in Texas in the 30's and 40's, and more specifically in Deep
Ellum.

Born in the heart of the Mississippi Delta in 1915,"Honeyboy Edwards is among
the last authentic performers in the blues idiom that developed in central
Mississippi during the second and third decades of [the 20th] century....Through
him, an entire body of great American music lives on."  (Robert Palmer, author
of Deep Blues and former pop music critic of The New York Times

"Delta blues veteran David Honeyboy Edwards has remained utterly true to his
roots through a career that began in Mississippi in the 1930s.  A Honeyboy
Edwards show is a rare, unselfconscious performance of living blues history." 
David Whiteis, Chicago Reader

"Everywhere Edwards leads us is a worthwhile place to go."  Acoustic Guitar
Magazine

Frequently sought out by film-makers, historians, and writers for his
recollections of earlier days and important musicians, Honeyboy has been a
featured musician and narrator in half a dozen films and is mentioned in most of
the major books about blues. In 1997, his own book, 'The World Don't Owe Me
Nothing: The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards', was published. 
This account is a deeply personal story of his early life as a sharecropper's
son and his years as an itinerant musician.  It also offers a "vivid oral
snapshot of an America that planted the blues."  The World Don't Owe Me Nothing
has received high critical acclaim.  It was declared a "Best Blues Book" by
Living Blues Magazine and was honored with the Handy Award for Literature. 

Honeyboy was a featured artist in Marin Scorsese's Year of the Blues PBS special
and recently performed at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival.  "This is a
tremendous opportunity to experience first hand a historical figure in the
evolution of American popular music that was present at the beginning of blues
music as a genre in the early part of the last century", explained Mr. Jeffry A.
Dyson, President of The Blue Shoe Project, a Texas non-profit that promotes
Blues in the Schools programs.  For more information about David "Honeyboy"
Edwards or ticketing information to this exclusive engagement visit The Blue
Shoe Project web site at www.blueshoeproject.org.

About The Blue Shoe Project

Founded in 2004, The Blue Shoe Project was formed for the purpose of increasing
the awareness of, educating and promoting appreciation for the Blues, R&B and
Roots music in our community and in secondary and post-secondary education
through the voice of music industry Legends.

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