Understanding The Blues Legacy Worldwide.

The museum is located in the heart of Florence, Alabama. Her nickname ( "Alabama Renaissance City"). The W.C. Handy Cabin, Museum and library is dedicated to one of Florence's most famous sons known as the "Father of the Blues", Handy was born in a log cabin at this site in 1873. 

The cabin, museum and library contain a collection of Handy's personal papers, artifacts and other items he donated before his death in 1958.

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Florence is a city in, and the county seat of, Lauderdale County, Alabama, United States, in the state's northwest corner. Florence is the largest and principal city of the Florence-Muscle Shoals Metropolitan Statistical Area (which includes Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia metropolitan areas in Colbert and Lauderdale counties). Florence is considered northwestern Alabama's primary economic hub.

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W.C. Handy The Father of the Blues, William Christopher Handy, was born in Florence in 1873 in a simple cabin that today houses a large collection of his personal papers, memorabilia and artifacts. Born with a natural musical bent-as a boy he visualized birdcalls as notes on a scale. Handy went on to compose such well-known blues jewels as St. Louis Blues, Beale Street Blues, and Memphis Blues. Feel the blues down to your toes standing next to the very piano that shook with St. Louis Blues for the first time; see his hand-written sheets of music-originals of many of his tunes. (Library of Congress/(audio) July 14,1914, sound of Memphis Blues)

Learn more about W. C. Handy , visite the Museum and Cabin at 620 West College Street, Florence, Alabama, 35630

Staff/Phone: 256-760-6434 (available)