The Americana Music Triangle makes its way across the south and down U.S. 61 straight into the heart of Vicksburg.

“This goes along with America’s Blues Highway, Highway 61, we’re right in the middle of it all. The Trace is the spine going through there, and of course the music part of it is along the river,” Vicksburg Convention and Visitors Bureau Executive Director Bill Seratt said.

The points of the triangle are Nashville, Memphis and New Orleans, but the trail hits other notable locations like Helena, Ark.; Muscle Shoals, Ala., and Vicksburg. Musical locations along the Gold Record Road, as it’s called, in Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama are marked on the triangle’s map.

Vicksburg to Memphis is a featured leg of the triangle. The trip’s website recommends travelers stop at LD’s Kitchen for food and music and Catfish Row Art Park to witness the Floodwall Murals. The Blue Room marker is noted for visitors to stop and read on the Mississippi Blues Trail.

“Part of the journey is actually finding the music, and in this town we can deliver the music at least three nights a week in multiple locations,” Seratt said.

In addition to those main attractions, the trail promotes multiple destinations around Vicksburg, including the Bottleneck Blues Bar at Ameristar Casino, Walnut Hills and T’Beaux’s Blues La Roux for food and music. Of course, festivals are important to the music scenes and ones like the RiverFest Music and Arts Festival are a part of the experience.

“We’ve got quite a presence with live entertainment and that is a great demand generator for tourism,” board member Shirley Waring said. “If we can get the word out about our program of work and what our schedule is, the more exposure we can get for that, the better informed our visitors are to come and enjoy Vicksburg.”

Not only do they promote music attractions, but the trip also recommends places like Anchuca Mansion and Inn, the Vicksburg National Military Park, Goldie’s Trail Bar-B-Que and The Tomato Place among others.

“We’ve got so many things that the blues enthusiasts, to entertain them so when they come through here they don’t just stand in from of a marker. We’ve got things to engage them with this fabulous music,” Waring said.

There are five specific driving trails laid out for people who can only visit parts of the triangle, like Memphis to Nashville, Nashville to Muscle Shoals, Tupelo to New Orleans and New Orleans to Natchez.

“The music product of Mississippi is big business for the state of Mississippi,” Seratt said. “Mississippi is the birthplace of American music and this project reaches beyond Highway 61.”

The triangle was laid out by Aubrey Preston, who has bought and preserved historic buildings as well as the entire town of Leiper’s Fork, Tenn., just outside of Nashville.

“Aubrey Preston is paying all of the web set up and getting all of the collateral materials done,” Seratt said.