The 13th Annual W.C. Handy Heritage Awards will observe the 136th birthday of W.C. Handy – “Father of the Blues” – beginning at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 15 at the Holiday Inn Airport Hotel at 2240 Democrat Rd.

Veteran jazz/artist Herman Green will receive the Lifetime Music Achievement Award.

 Other awards and honorees:

Music Legacy Award – Emerson Able: (Stax Records, music director for the Isaac Hayes Movement, and retired Manassas High School band director.

Music Business Award – Novella Smith Arnold: Stax Records, public relations, former disc jockey.

Authentic Beale Street Musicians Awards – Toni Green, soul blues singer; Otis Clay,  – blues recording artist; Spencer Wiggins, rhythm & blues singer; Earl “The Pearl” Banks,  blues guitarist/singer; The Climates – (Robert T. Chisem Jr., David Glenn, James Rosser Sr., Raymond Edwards), Sun Studio rhythm & blues recording artists.

The award supports the W.C. Handy Memphis Home & Museum.

For more information, call 901-527-3427, or visit www.heritagetoursmemphis.com