Durham jazz fest to host top performers and Hehmsoth art exhibit

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The Eddie Durham Jazz Festival returns this Saturday, welcoming renowned musicians as well as an art installation by Hank Hehmsoth to Eddie Durham Park, located at 205 MLK Drive across from the Calaboose African American History Museum, sponsor of the event.

Blues guitarist Michael ‘Murch” Powers headlines a star-studded lineup that also includes Morris Nelms and the Calaboose Players, Sonia Love, the Swing Junction Swing Dancers, the Texas State University Jazz Ensemble and Austin-based soul band Tomar and the FCs. In a four-star review of the “Onyx Root” album for The Guardian newspaper, critic Robin Denselow said Powers is a “good, varied player … but what makes him special is the way he makes old songs his own.”