Join us in Memphis for four jammed packed days of music, muSIC,MUSIC!
Memphis Blues and Rock Music Tour
Perhaps more than any other American city, Memphis is Music. As a conduit between Mississippi's delta cotton fields andNorthern industrial cities, Memphis was the midwife as the blues morphed into rock n' roll.
According to legendary bluesman Muddy Waters, "Blues had a baby and they called it rock n' roll." On this trip, we're gonna visit the maternity ward where rock n' roll was born.
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W.C. Handy Biography
Rich in history, Memphis celebrates music like no other town in America. From the home W.C. Handy - the founder of the blues,
To Sun Records - who launched the careers of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Billy Lee Riley, Carl Perkins, Charlie Rich and Merle Haggard. Sun Records Link
To the home of Stax Records and the preeminent home of 60's southern soul music with Otis Redding, Booker T. and the MG's (Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn & , Sam & Dave, Albert King, Rufus and Carla Thomas, William Bell and 'The Black Jesus' Issac Hayes.
To the National Civil Rights Museum. formerly known as the Lorraine Motel,where Dr. Martin Luther King was tragically assassinated in 1968.
Our trip will include a visit to the home of the "King." Presley came from Mississippi but began his recording career at Sun Records in Memphis before moving to RCA Records.
Memphis is also home to the Gibson Guitar factory. Located downtown, Gibson builds guitars on site. We will tour the facility where some of the finest guitars in the world are manufactured.
The Rock n' Soul Museum is located in downtown Memphis - right around the corner from the Gibson factory and within "spitting distance" of the famous Beale Street blues area. The displays contain some of the finest memorabilia exhibits since Experience Music in Seattle or the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. And no trip to Memphis without a bus tour of this remarkable city. These buses include a singing guide who leads not only the tour but also the tourists in singing many of the memorable songs associated with the sites and sounds of Memphis. 
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Join us as we venture from Memphis down the blues highway into the delta where the blues was born! We'll see sites tied to Jimmy Reed, and Charly Patton. We'll drive via' Leland, Mississippi where Johnny Winter's father and grandfather were the mayors (and immortalized in song by Winter. To Indianola and the homes of Albert King and B.B. King.
And on to sites for Rev. Son House, James Cotton, Sonny Boy Williamson, Sam Cooke, Ike Turner, and the Riverside Hotel where Bessie Smith died.
Our tour to Mississippi includes stopping at the reputed graves of both of the legendary 'King of the Delta Blues, Robert Johnson.
Our bus tour into the delta area includes sites associated with other blues greats including...
For more information including dates and costs, contact Audrey @ Pegasus Travel (402)390-0122. Email at audrey.hulsey@pegasusomaha.com. Dates are ednesday, May 31st through Sunday, June 4th. (Leave Wednesday, come back on Sunday). Cost is $1575 and includes airfare, hotel, breakfast, transportation and admissions to all scheduled sites. You are "on your own" for evening entertainment. We'll be close enough to walk to Beale Street for live music.
And here's the fine print...
Pegasus travel agency, its agents, and Rick Galusha act only as agents in making arrangements for hotels, transportation, or any other services in connection with this itineraries of individual tour members, who by acceptance thereof, acknowledge that our agency, KIWR fm, Rick Galusha, RadiOmaha and.or their agents and suppliers, (hereafter referred to as the 'travel agency'), shall not be liable for injury, damages, loss, accident, delay or irregularity, liability or expense to person providing or rendering services included in the tour.
Further, the travel agency (et al) and.or their agents accept no responsibility for any sickness, pilferage, labor disputes, machinery breakdown, government restraints, acts of war or terrorism, weather conditions, defect in any vehicle of transportation or any misadventure or casualty or any other causes beyond their control.
The agency (et al) reserves the right to cancel, change, or substitute any service and to decline to accept or retain any tour members at any time for any reason. So be nice and behave yourself. If you are at-all-fussy, we're probably not a good fit for you.
The travel agency (et al) is not responsible for any charges increased costs incurred by passengers as a result of the cancellation of services due to be provided by its agents or suppliers for any reason.
Please note, the bus tour will not stop at every site. We will do our best to highlight sites and stop as often as time allows. If you have specific needs and wants, these must be submitted at the time of initial payment and in writing. We want you to have a good time. Most people are reasonable but some are not. We want to be accommodating and reasonably flexible but we also don't want to be sued or have our time ruined.
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