Series Hits the High Notes of African-American Music

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Delta Blue, a local band that celebrates African-American music and dancing, will be kicking off a new family concert series with an outdoor show in Oakland on Saturday.

The five-man band, named after the Mississippi Delta region, will perform its old-style guitar blues, Dixieland jazz, classic rock and roll, James Brown songs, and more. Band members will invite the children and parents in the audience to join them in the singing and dancing, says band leader Stacy Gray. Band members will tell the story of how this form of music developed in the South decades ago.

"Our program is not only entertaining, but it's educational as well," says Gray, of North Versailles. …