Wednesday, May 6

1:00pm-5:00pm Ticket Will Call and Silent Auction Marriott

6:00pm Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Marriott

Thursday, May 7

10:00am-2:00pm Silent Auction & Blues Music Award Merchandise Sales Marriott

10:00am-4:00pm Ticket Will Call Marriott

2:00pm Mississippi Blues Trail Marker Unveiling (Mississippi Fred McDowell), Como, MS

3:00pm Drink Ticket Sales Open Marriott

5:00pm Ticket Will Call and Drink Ticket Sales Convention Center

5:30pm Pre-Awards Reception featuring performances by 2009 Blues Music Award nominees. Earwig Records Presents Sharon McConnell's "A Cast of Blues" Convention Center

5:30-11:00pm Silent auction & Blues Music Award Merchandise Sales Convention Center

7:00pm-1:00am -- Dinner, Awards & Nominee performances Convention Center

Additional Events

Wednesday, May 6

8:30am-10:30pm Delta Blues/B.B. King Museum Tour

8:00pm Watermelon Slim & The Workers Ground Zero Blues Club, Memphis

8:00pm Nick Moss & the Flip Tops Rum Boogie Cafe, Beale Street

Friday, May 8

11:30 am Mississippi Blues Trail Marker Unveiling (FedEx Forum plaza in front of Rock 'n Soul Museum

12:00pm Marcia Ball Alfred's, Beale Street

4:00-5:00pm ~ Sneak Preview Happy Hour with Robin Rogers @ Flying Saucer, 130 Peabody Place, Memphis Robin returns for main show at 9:30pm - 1:30pm

5:30pm Beale Street Note Unveiling for Will Shade & the Memphis Jug Band and Gus Cannon & Cannon’s Jug Stompers Beale Street

6:00pm-2:00am Delta Groove/Eclecto Groove Extravaganza New Daisy Theatre, Beale Street

8:00pm Billy Gibson Rum Boogie Café, Beale Street

9:00pm Watermelon Slim & The Workers, Ground Zero Blues Club, Clarksdale, MS

Saturday, May 9

8:00pm Dave Fields with Billy Gibson and Dave Hughes Ground Zero Blues Club, Memphis

8:00pm South Memphis Stringband (Luther Dickinson, Alvin Youngblood Hart & Jimbo Mathis) Otherlands Coffeehouse

Sunday, May 10

8:30pm Robin Rogers Hueys Midtown 1927 Madison Ave.,Memphis