STRUT PRICINGPrices for this year’s Bessie Smith Strut will be $5 in advance or $10 at the gate the night of the event, officials said. Riverbend pins will be honored, and those who have the pins will not have to pay an additional fee.
Bessie Smith isn’t singing the blues anymore.
The Bessie Smith Strut will take place after all.
Irvin Overton, chairman of the board of directors for the Bessie Smith Cultural Center, said his organization has accepted responsibility for the event and is in the process of obtaining liability insurance.
“We are pretty much 99.9 percent sure the insurance will be obtained,” Overton said.