About Sharkey County Fair

The Sharkey County Fair in Rolling Fork is an August fair in the Mississippi Delta, celebrating the cotton and blues heritage of a county that was the birthplace of Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) — the Chicago blues legend whose electrified Delta blues directly inspired the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, and the entire British Invasion.

What to Expect

Expect livestock shows, FFA and 4-H competitions, local food vendors, and a community fair in the flat Delta cotton and bottomland hardwood country of Sharkey County.

Visitor Tips

Rolling Fork is the birthplace of Muddy Waters — the Muddy Waters birthplace marker and the surrounding cotton plantation country where the blues legend worked as a sharecropper before moving to Chicago preserve one of the most important sites in the history of American music.

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