The music continues on Thursday when The Green McDonough Blues Band performs at Hammerstone's in Soulard. From Friday through the weekend of April 2, the 12th Annual African Film Festival at Washington University showcases an excursion into different African countries, highlighting a variety of genres and themes. Free and open to the public. Morpho Mardi Gras will be on display at the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Butterfly House. With more than 1,000 Blue Morpho butterflies floating through the air, you’ll participate in some Mardi Gras-related activities, including creating your own masquerade mask. Take the kids! Friday is the last chance to see the traveling exhibition Women of the Blues: A Coast-to-Coast Collection at the National Blues Museum, featuring over 60 photographs of ‘Women of the Blues’, in performance and in portrait, representing soul blues to Chicago blues to rock blues. The images include Mavis Staples, Susan Tedeschi (Grammy-winning rock blues icon), Chicago’s soul blues diva, Nellie ‘Tiger’ Travis, among others.
This Weekend in St. Louis
