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  1. Just down the road from the Valley Store, a short distance from the new St. James Church, one can find the Mississippi John Hurt Museum, a museum dedicated to the life and music of the gentle songster who enraptured the world during the 1960’s Folk Revival with his syncopated fingerpicked rhythms and kindly voice.

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  2. Feb 28, 2024 · It’s a town Hurt immortalized in Avalon Blues, recorded nearly a century ago, in 1928. A GoFundMe has been set up to raise money towards restoring the museum. Born John Smith Hurt in 1893, the guitarist and songwriter first began recording his personal and reflective music in the '20s.

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  3. Feb 22, 2024 · A fire in Avalon, Miss., destroyed the museum dedicated to singer and guitarist John Hurt, and erases one of the last sites marking the community's history as a formerly all-Black town.

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  5. Feb 23, 2024 · Located in northern Mississippis Carroll County, the small Mississippi John Hurt Museum was found engulfed in flames early Wednesday morning, and the building has been reduced to ash....

  6. Feb 24, 2024 · Mary Hurt is organizing this fundraiser to benefit Mississippi John Hurt Foundation Music Inc.. Learn more. Tax deductible. The music community suffered a devastating loss on February 21, 2024, when the Mississippi John Hurt Museum was destroyed by fire.

  7. Editor’s note: Local officials announced that on February 21, 2024, a devastating fire destroyed the Mississippi John Hurt Museum. The structure, along with the artifacts inside it, was...

  8. Feb 22, 2024 · MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: A museum in Avalon, Miss., was destroyed by a fire yesterday. It honored the legendary bluesman John Hurt. NPR's Neda Ulaby spoke to the musician's granddaughter. NEDA ULABY, BYLINE: The Mississippi John Hurt Museum was a sharecropper shack with a tin roof, 200 years old. It was filled with memorabilia, all of it now gone.

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