Legends Celebration: A Musical Tribute for Juneteenth

06/09/2023

🌟🔦✨📢 LEGENDS 2023 SPOTLIGHT ON Cassandra Wilson! Born and raised in Jackson, MS, Cassandra always had a passion for music. She began writing songs in her youth. After she graduated from MSU she joined a cooperative organization, M-Base, that experimented with jazz, hip-hop, rap, and funk and became their vocalist. She began writing her own songs which resulted in commercial and musical success.

•• Legends Celebration Concert: A “Legendary” musical tribute for Juneteenth on Saturday, June 17 at 6:30pm in Natchez - Live Concert featuring gospel, blues, R&B, and jazz! • Experience Amazing Live Music from these Legendary Performers: DOROTHY MOORE • YZ EALEY • ALVIN YOUNGBLOOD HART • ALVIN SHELBY • ORA REED • and many, many more!!

•• Tickets On Sale Now: bit.ly/Legends2023-Tickets online or at the door: $15 - 50 // Limited VIP Tables Available (seats 8!) // Natchez City Auditorium // 207 Jefferson Street // Saturday, June 17, 2023, at 6:30pm // Produced by Magnolia Sessions

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TITLE SPONSORS: Dan Gibson Mayor of Natchez, the Historic City of Natchez, and Taco Bell
SUPPORTING SPONSORS: Magnolia Bluffs Casino Hotel and Visit Natchez
MEDIA SPONSORS: Mid-South Broadcasting, 97.7 The Beat Natchez, Jam'n 106.3 / AM 1450, The Natchez Democrat, Bluff City Post Newspaper and NatVid Life & Style Magazine
CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS: Entergy Mississippi, Delta Bank, Natchez Balloon Festival, Little Easy Tours, and Sparklight
ADDITIONAL SPONSORS: Home Bank, Coca-Cola, Copiah-Lincoln Community College, United Mississippi Bank, Natchez Ford, Mississippi Auto Direct, the Pilgrimage Garden Club, Merit Health Natchez, Southwest Distributors Inc., and Concordia Bank & Trust Company

06/09/2023

🌟🔦✨📢 LEGENDS 2023 SPOTLIGHT ON Ora Reed! Born and raised in the delta, Ora Reed conquered the piano at the same time she conquered her ABCs. Reed always had a passion for music and this led to her traveling the world spreading her musical journey to places like Brazil, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, and the United Arab Emirates. In 2017, Reed became an inductee for the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame, received the Mississippi Trailblazers Legacy Award, and was Mississippi’s Cultural Ambassador. She also served as Grand Marshal for the Martin Luther King Jr. Parade in Jackson, MS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1inTdSj9G4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIakuEV34j4

•• Legends Celebration Concert: A “Legendary” musical tribute for Juneteenth on Saturday, June 17 at 6:30pm in Natchez - Live Concert featuring gospel, blues, R&B, and jazz! • Experience Amazing Live Music from these Legendary Performers: DOROTHY MOORE • YZ EALEY • ALVIN YOUNGBLOOD HART • ALVIN SHELBY • ORA REED • and many, many more!!

•• Tickets On Sale Now: bit.ly/Legends2023-Tickets online or at the door: $15 - 50 // Limited VIP Tables Available (seats 8!) // Natchez City Auditorium // 207 Jefferson Street // Saturday, June 17, 2023, at 6:30pm // Produced by Magnolia Sessions

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TITLE SPONSORS: Dan Gibson Mayor of Natchez, the Historic City of Natchez, and Taco Bell
SUPPORTING SPONSORS: Magnolia Bluffs Casino Hotel and Visit Natchez
MEDIA SPONSORS: Mid-South Broadcasting, 97.7 The Beat Natchez, Jam'n 106.3 / AM 1450, The Natchez Democrat, Bluff City Post Newspaper, and NatVid Life & Style Magazine
CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS: Entergy Mississippi, Delta Bank, Natchez Balloon Festival, Little Easy Tours, and Sparklight
ADDITIONAL SPONSORS: Home Bank, Coca-Cola, Copiah-Lincoln Community College, United Mississippi Bank, Natchez Ford, Mississippi Auto Direct, the Pilgrimage Garden Club, Merit Health Natchez, Southwest Distributors Inc. and Concordia Bank & Trust Company

06/09/2023

🌟🔦✨📢 LEGENDS 2023 SPOTLIGHT ON Alvin Shelby! Alvin Shelby has been involved in music performance and education for over 25 years. Because of his longevity in the music industry, he worked with many great talents such as Lemmie Battles from the Chicago Mass Choir, Dr. Margaret Douroux from Los Angeles, CA, Elton John, Benjamin Cone, David Curry, and many more. He also is a band leader and producer. Shelby produced many artists and choirs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5CiYZfXdc8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxWUcoBmLLQ

•• Legends Celebration Concert: A “Legendary” musical tribute for Juneteenth on Saturday, June 17 at 6:30pm in Natchez - Live Concert featuring gospel, blues, R&B, and jazz! • Experience Amazing Live Music from these Legendary Performers: DOROTHY MOORE • YZ EALEY • ALVIN YOUNGBLOOD HART • ALVIN SHELBY • ORA REED • and many, many more!!

•• Tickets On Sale Now: bit.ly/Legends2023-Tickets online or at the door: $15 - 50 // Limited VIP Tables Available (seats 8!) // Natchez City Auditorium // 207 Jefferson Street // Saturday, June 17, 2023, at 6:30pm // Produced by Magnolia Sessions

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TITLE SPONSORS: Dan Gibson Mayor of Natchez, the Historic City of Natchez, and Taco Bell
SUPPORTING SPONSORS: Magnolia Bluffs Casino Hotel and Visit Natchez
MEDIA SPONSORS: Mid-South Broadcasting, 97.7 The Beat Natchez, Jam'n 106.3 / AM 1450, The Natchez Democrat, Bluff City Post Newspaper, and NatVid Life & Style Magazine
CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS: Entergy Mississippi, Delta Bank, Natchez Balloon Festival, Little Easy Tours and Sparklight
ADDITIONAL SPONSORS: Home Bank, Coca-Cola, Copiah-Lincoln Community College, United Mississippi Bank, Natchez Ford, Mississippi Auto Direct, the Pilgrimage Garden Club, Merit Health Natchez, Southwest Distributors Inc. and Concordia Bank & Trust Company

06/09/2023

🌟🔦✨📢 LEGENDS 2023 SPOTLIGHT ON Alvin Youngblood Hart! Born in Oakland, California, Hart spent some time in Carroll County Mississippi. Because of his relatives, Hart was influenced in his youth by the Mississippi Country Blues. He is known to be a torchbearer for 1960s and 70s guitar rock and traditional country. In the early 2000s, Hart’s album “Down in the Alley” was nominated for Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5qysb5G5L0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFDxufcAckI

•• Legends Celebration Concert: A “Legendary” musical tribute for Juneteenth on Saturday, June 17 at 6:30pm in Natchez - Live Concert featuring gospel, blues, R&B, and jazz! • Experience Amazing Live Music from these Legendary Performers: DOROTHY MOORE • YZ EALEY • ALVIN YOUNGBLOOD HART • ALVIN SHELBY • ORA REED • and many, many more!!

Alvin Youngblood Hart On Tour

•• Tickets On Sale Now: bit.ly/Legends2023-Tickets online or at the door: $15 - 50 // Limited VIP Tables Available (seats 8!) // Natchez City Auditorium // 207 Jefferson Street // Saturday, June 17, 2023, at 6:30pm // Produced by Magnolia Sessions

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TITLE SPONSORS: Dan Gibson Mayor of Natchez, the Historic City of Natchez, and Taco Bell
SUPPORTING SPONSORS: Magnolia Bluffs Casino Hotel and Visit Natchez
MEDIA SPONSORS: Mid-South Broadcasting, 97.7 The Beat Natchez, Jam'n 106.3 / AM 1450 / Luy - ListenUpYall.com, The Natchez Democrat, Bluff City Post Newspaper, and NatVid Life & Style Magazine
CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS: Entergy Mississippi, Delta Bank, the Natchez Balloon Festival, Little Easy Tours, and Sparklight
ADDITIONAL SPONSORS: Home Bank, Coca-Cola, Copiah-Lincoln Community College, United Mississippi Bank, Natchez Ford, Mississippi Development Authority, the Pilgrimage Garden Club, Merit Health Natchez, Concordia Bank & Trust Company, and Southwest Distributors Inc.

06/09/2023

🌟🔦✨📢 LEGENDS 2023 SPOTLIGHT ON YZ Ealey! As he states in every performance, YZ Ealey is just “tryin’ to keep the Blues alive.”
He was mentored by his older brother, David, and received his first guitar from him. He began performing at local juke joints as a teenager. He performed in a band, YZ Ealey and the Merry Makers, with his brother in the early 1960s. They later became recording artists.
YZ continued to perform straight blues like B.B. King, Little Milton, and Albert King in the 1970s. In 2011, he and his brothers were honored with a historical marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80c73v8i6Zg
https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=87181

•• Legends Celebration Concert: A “Legendary” musical tribute for Juneteenth on Saturday, June 17 at 6:30pm in Natchez - Live Concert featuring gospel, blues, R&B, and jazz! • Experience Amazing Live Music from these Legendary Performers: DOROTHY MOORE • YZ EALEY • ALVIN YOUNGBLOOD HART • ALVIN SHELBY • ORA REED • and many, many more!!
YZ Ealey the Blues Man

•• Tickets On Sale Now: bit.ly/Legends2023-Tickets online or at the door: $15 - 50 // Limited VIP Tables Available (seats 8!) // Natchez City Auditorium // 207 Jefferson Street // Saturday, June 17, 2023, at 6:30pm // Produced by Magnolia Sessions

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TITLE SPONSORS: Dan Gibson Mayor of Natchez, the Historic City of Natchez, and Taco Bell
SUPPORTING SPONSORS: Magnolia Bluffs Casino Hotel and Visit Natchez
MEDIA SPONSORS: Mid-South Broadcasting, 97.7 The Beat Natchez, Jam'n 106.3 / AM 1450 / Luy - ListenUpYall.com, The Natchez Democrat, The Bluff City Post, and NatVid Life & Style Magazine
CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS: Entergy Mississippi, Delta Bank, Natchez Balloon Festival, Little Easy Tours, and Sparklight
ADDITIONAL SPONSORS: Home Bank, Coca-Cola, Copiah-Lincoln Community College, United Mississippi Bank, Natchez Ford, Mississippi Auto Direct, the Pilgrimage Garden Club, Merit Health Natchez, Concordia Bank & Trust Company, and Southwest Distributors Inc.

06/09/2023

🌟🔦✨📢 LEGENDS 2023 SPOTLIGHT ON Dorothy Moore! A twice Grammy-nominated Mississippi songbird vocalist. Dorothy Moore spent all her life in and around Jackson, Mississippi. Raised by her great-grandmother, Dorothy grew up listening to Mahalia Jackson, Gladys Knight, and Aretha Franklin. At the age of 13, she won a talent contest singing “Today I Sing the Blues”. After high school, she formed a vocal trio, Poppies. Due to her flexible range and richness, Moore was called to sing backgrounds on countless recording sessions: “Pickin Wild Mountain Berries” by Peggy Scott, “Groove Me” by King Floyd, “She’s Taken My Part” by Irma Thomas, and many more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5FoHLD9-lM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TBdgQcLvDo

•• Legends Celebration Concert: A “Legendary” musical tribute for Juneteenth on Saturday, June 17 at 6:30pm in Natchez - Live Concert featuring gospel, blues, R&B, and jazz! • Experience Amazing Live Music from these Legendary Performers: DOROTHY MOORE • YZ EALEY • ALVIN YOUNGBLOOD HART • ALVIN SHELBY • ORA REED • and many, many more!!

•• Tickets On Sale Now: bit.ly/Legends2023-Tickets online or at the door: $15 - 50 // Limited VIP Tables Available (seats 8!) // Natchez City Auditorium // 207 Jefferson Street // Saturday, June 17, 2023, at 6:30pm // Produced by Magnolia Sessions

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TITLE SPONSORS: Dan Gibson Mayor of Natchez, the Historic City of Natchez, and Taco Bell
SUPPORTING SPONSORS: Magnolia Bluffs Casino Hotel and Visit Natchez
MEDIA SPONSORS: Mid-South Broadcasting, 97.7 The Beat Natchez, Jam'n 106.3 / AM 1450 / Luy - ListenUpYall.com, The Natchez Democrat, Bluff City Post Newspaper and NatVid Life & Style Magazine
CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS: Entergy Mississippi, Delta Bank, Natchez Balloon Festival, Little Easy Tours, and Sparklight
ADDITIONAL SPONSORS: Home Bank, Coca-Cola, Copiah-Lincoln Community College, United Mississippi Bank, Natchez Ford, Mississippi Auto Direct, the Pilgrimage Garden Club, Merit Health Natchez, Concordia Bank & Trust Company, and Southwest Distributors Inc.

06/09/2023

🌟🔦✨📢 LEGENDS 2023 SPOTLIGHT ON Hound Dog Taylor! Theodore Roosevelt Taylor was born in Natchez, MS. in 1942, He moved to Chicago where he worked the clubs and market on Maxwell Street. In the 60s Taylor and the HouseRockers, his band, toured North America and even parts of Europe. Even though he didn’t live that long to see his reputation grow with him, many live albums and other compilations have been posted posthumously.

•• Legends Celebration Concert: A “Legendary” musical tribute for Juneteenth on Saturday, June 17 at 6:30pm in Natchez - Live Concert featuring gospel, blues, R&B, and jazz! • Experience Amazing Live Music from these Legendary Performers: DOROTHY MOORE • YZ EALEY • ALVIN YOUNGBLOOD HART • ALVIN SHELBY • ORA REED • and many, many more!!

•• Tickets On Sale Now: bit.ly/Legends2023-Tickets online or at the door: $15 - 50 // Limited VIP Tables Available (seats 8!) // Natchez City Auditorium // 207 Jefferson Street // Saturday, June 17, 2023, at 6:30pm // Produced by Magnolia Sessions

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TITLE SPONSORS: Dan Gibson Mayor of Natchez, the Historic City of Natchez, and Taco Bell
SUPPORTING SPONSORS: Magnolia Bluffs Casino Hotel and Visit Natchez
MEDIA SPONSORS: Mid-South Broadcasting, 97.7 The Beat Natchez, Jam'n 106.3 / AM 1450, The Natchez Democrat, Bluff City Post Newspaper and NatVid Life & Style Magazine
CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS: Entergy Mississippi, Delta Bank, Natchez Balloon Festival, Little Easy Tours, and Sparklight
ADDITIONAL SPONSORS: Home Bank, Coca-Cola, Copiah-Lincoln Community College, United Mississippi Bank, Natchez Ford, Mississippi Auto Direct, the Pilgrimage Garden Club, Merit Health Natchez, Southwest Distributors Inc., and Concordia Bank & Trust Company

05/21/2023

05/21/2023

Tickets: bit.ly/Legends2023-Tickets •• Get ready for the Legends Celebration Concert: A “Legendary” musical tribute for Juneteenth on Saturday, June 17 at 6:30pm in Natchez! • Experience Amazing Live Music from these Legendary Performers:
• Grammy Nominee Dorothy Moore
• YZ Ealey the Blues Man
• Grammy Winner Alvin Youngblood Hart
• Alvin Shelby with The Legends Celebration Choir
• Mississippi’s International Musical Ambassador ORA REED
• and many, many more!!!

With presentations Honoring these Legends of Mississippi Music:
The Williams Brothers Gospel • Cassandra Wilson • Dorothy Moore •THE MISSISSIPPI MASS CHOIR • YZ Ealey the Blues Man • Daisy Newman • Hound Dog Taylor • Bud Scott • Larry Brown • Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield • and a special tribute to the memory of Walter Barnes and the Royal Creolians, and the victims of the Historic The Rhythm Club Fire.

Live Concert featuring gospel, blues, R&B, and jazz!
TICKETS ON SALE NOW: online or at the door: $15 - 50 // Limited VIP Tables Available (seats 8!) // Natchez City Auditorium // 207 Jefferson Street // Saturday, June 17, 2023 at 6:30pm // Produced by Magnolia Sessions
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TITLE SPONSORS: Dan Gibson Mayor of Natchez, The City of Natchez, MS and Taco Bell
SUPPORTING SPONSORS: Magnolia Bluffs Casino & Hotel, Visit Natchez

CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS: Entergy Mississippi, Delta Bank, Natchez Balloon Festival, Little Easy Tours and Sparklight

ADDITIONAL SPONSORS: Home Bank, Coca-Cola, Copiah-Lincoln Community College, United Mississippi Bank, Natchez Ford, Mississippi Auto Direct, Pilgrimage Garden Club, Merit Health Natchez and Concordia Bank

MEDIA SPONSORS: Mid-South Broadcasting, 97.7 The Beat Natchez, Luy - ListenUpYall.com, The Natchez Democrat, Bluff City Post Newspaper, and NatVid Life & Style Magazine

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