Openwide is a project sponsored by Keio University. It's focus is to
provide interaction between artists throughout the world across the
internet. The first such interaction focused on the Blues. Blues in
the Mississippi Delta and Blues in Japan were tossed into the melting
pot of a NetMeeting on August 13, 14, and 15, 1999 in Clarksdale,
Mississipp and Tokyo Japan.
The Open Wide staff consisted of five students and their director,
Gretchen Schoel. She brought the students to Clarksdale, Mississippi to
experience three days of the Blues, American southern culture, and to
setup an internet exchange between the Sunflower River Blues Festival
and Blues Musicians and Fans in Tokyo, Japan.
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