PICKENS — To heat things up after a stretch of cold and bleak weather, the Hagood Mill will present “Deep Winter Blues” this Valentine’s Day weekend.

The site will be open from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 15, for the event.

Upcountry South Carolina is a historical Mecca for the blues. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the streets of Laurens County, Greenville, Spartanburg and Anderson reverberated with the music of bluesmen/street preachers as they were strolling with their tin cups extended. Many of the musicians became famous on the streets of New York City in the folk revival of the ‘50s

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