Aristotle Announces High-Speed Internet for Bentonia Area, Celebrates at Blues Festival
The Aristotle team was thrilled to attend the Bentonia Blues Festival, held June 19 – 21 2025, in historic Bentonia, MS, where Aristotle partnered with Mayor Clint Lancaster to establish a Free Wi-Fi Zone in the downtown area for visitors and residents alike, just in time for the festival!
And in the coming months, Aristotle will bring both fast fiber internet and high-speed, fixed-wireless internet to Bentonia and surrounding areas!
About the Bentonia Blues Festival
The Bentonia Blues Festival began in 1972 on a farm just up the road from the world-famous Blue Front Cafe on land owned by the Holmes family. It was a tiny event, with only one D.J. and Walter “Big Daddy” Hood (“500 lbs. of Blues”) performing a capella. The location of the festival was moved to downtown Bentonia, Mississippi in 2006. Since that time, the festival has grown from an attendance of a couple hundred to ten thousand in recent years, prompting the festival to be moved back to the original location on the Holmes farm from time to time. The festival has attracted blues performers and fans from far and wide.“When I started this festival in 1972, it was to help preserve the Bentonia style of blues, which is unique to this area. I knew then that it would be a great event, but I never knew it would be as big as it is now,” says Jimmy “Duck” Holmes, owner of the Blue Front Cafe and creator of the Bentonia Blues Festival. “The fact that so many people have become aware of this music and want to celebrate it every year with us here in Bentonia really warms my heart. Every year we have people here from a different country or state that’s never been before. The Bentonia blues is still alive, and it’s right here.”
Aristotle Celebrates the Blues
