Blues

Guitarist Tom Attah, center, performs at the Great British Rhythm and Blues Festival. Attah, a scholar, author and performer of the blues, is sharing his expertise with students at the University of Mississippi, where he teaches sociology and Southern studies courses. 

 Adam Kennedy I University of Mississippi

OXFORD — Tom Attah has played as a featured artist at the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts and at the Great British Rhythm and Blues Festival. He also composed and recorded acoustic guitar tunes for a permanent exhibition at the former home of Georg Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix in Mayfair, London.

He recently moved across the pond and into a classroom teaching sociology and Southern studies at the University of Mississippi. But Attah hasn't put down his guitar completely; it's just off to the side a bit as he teaches.

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