The nation lost a great blues man today and Oklahoma lost a favorite son.
D.C. Minner, blues musician and co-founder of the annual Dusk Til Dawn Blues Festival, passed away Tuesday at the age of 73. Minner is an Oklahoma blues legend who started his career as a bassist working in the bands of Chuck Berry, Bo Didley, OV Wright and Freddie King.
Born in Rentiesville, Oklahoma in 1935, Minner would later say he knew he was going to play music for living when he was a preschooler. In 1988, D.C. Minner & his wife Selby converted their grandmother’s prohibition-era corn-whiskey hall in Rentiesville, OK into The Down Home Blues Club - a rural after-hours club. In 1991, they would start the annual Dusk Til Dawn Blues Festival.
The Minners would later create the Blues in the Schools program through the Oklahoma Arts Council. The couple won a W.C. Handy Award and the Blues Foundation’s Keeping the Blues Alive Award for their efforts. D.C. Minner was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame in 1999 and the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in 2003.
Services for D.C. Minner
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, May 17, 2008
11am - Memorial at The Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in Muskogee
3pm - Funeral at First Baptist Church & Honey Springs Cemetery in Rentiesville
Later - Celebration at The Down Home Blues Club in Rentiesville, Oklahoma.
http://www.dcminnerblues.com/
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