Share this:     | | Muscle Shoals Live: The River That Sings
April 20 at 8:30 PM
Collins Auditorium at David Lipscomb University
Nashville, TN
Come Celebrate the Musical Heritage from Muscle Shoals!
The concert will feature legendary session musicians such as Jimmy Johnson, David Hood, Will McFarlane, Jesse Boyce and guests vocalists such as Carla Russell and Mike Farris. Concert-goers will have a rare opportunity to enjoy live performances of classic renditions of songs released from the celebrated FAME Studios and Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
Jesse Boyce, MTMA Founder & Executive Director and contributor to many hit recordings as a writer and bassist at FAME Studios, says, "What we did at Muscle Shoals embodies the true spirit of America. It was about people of different backgrounds coming together and creating something unique and special. The songs that came out of Muscle Shoals have inspired people around the world, and this concert will give listeners the chance to hear them once more and get a renewed appreciation for that legacy and history."
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The concert will celebrate the music honored through the documentary Muscle Shoals. The documentary will be shown at the Nashville Film Festival preceding the concert. Please see below for more information on the film and the festival. | | | Recalling the Americana Music Assocation's Salute to Muscle Shoals in 2011
In 2011, the Americana Music Festival & Conference honored the heritage of Muscle Shoals. Rick Hall, legendary Fame Studios producer, received a Lifetime Achievement Award and a musical salute from Candi Staton at the 10th Annual Americana Honors & Awards Show. An exciting tribute captivated a packed house with performaces from Mike Farris, Candi Staton, Webb Wilder, Dez Dickerson, T Graham Brown and many more. Additionally, an all-star panel including David Briggs, Rick Hall, Norbert Putnam, Donnie Fritts, Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham and Jimmy Johnson discussed the sound of Muscle Shoals.
If you were in attendence then you understand how passionate the Americana Music Association is for the history of Muscle Shoals music; therefore we encourage you to attend Muscle Shoals LIVE and the documentary Muscle Shoals.
| | | AMERICANA at Nashville Film Festival (NaFF)
April 18 – 25
The "Americana" presence is strong at the 2013 Nashville Film Festival. Five Americana-related films will be shown this year. Come see the documentary about the Americana Music Honors & Awards long-time host, Jim Lauderdale: King of Broken Hearts. Plus, don't miss the Nashville debut of the highly acclaimed documentary, Muscle Shoals. Additionally, if you missed the screening of Very Extremely Dangerous at the 2012 Americana Music Festival & Conference then here is your second chance.
The box office opens on April 9th for everyone. The films are expected to sell out quickly so make plans to reserve your seats as soon as possible. Click here for more information. | | | MUSCLE SHOALS
Single Screening: Saturday, April 20 at 6pm
Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama is the unlikely breeding ground for some of America's most creative and defiant music.
Under the spiritual influence of the 'Singing River' as Native Americans called it, the music of Muscle Shoals changed the world and sold millions upon millions of copies. At its heart is Rick Hall who founded FAME Studios. Overcoming crushing poverty and staggering tragedies, he brought black and white together in Alabama's cauldron of racial hostility to create music for the generations while giving birth to the 'Muscle Shoals Sound' and 'The Swampers'.
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Percy Sledge, Gregg Allman, Clarence Carter, Etta James, Alicia Keys, Bono, and others bear witness to Muscle Shoals' magnetism, mystery, and why it remains influential today.
| | | JIM LAUDERDALE: KING OF BROKEN HEARTS
Screenings: Monday, April 22 at 6:15pm & Tuesday, April 23 at 3:30pm
Grammy Award-winning bluegrass singer, hit country songwriter, prolific recording artist, radio DJ, awards show host, harmony singer and guitarist for Elvis Costello and Willie Nelson, tai chi masterÖ Jim Lauderdaleís journey from banjo-playing Beatles fan in North Carolina to the face of Americana music takes him through the 1980s ëUrban Cowboyí NYC country club scene, playing James Brown covers in a honky-tonk in LA where he was spotted by Dwight Yoakamís producer, failed albums and record label frustrations before country superstar George Strait sold six million albums with two of Jimís songs and put Lauderdale tunes in the ears of music fans around America.
| | | VERY EXTREMELY DANGEROUS
Screenings: Saturday, April 20 at 8:15pm & Monday, April 22 at 2:15pm
Jerry McGill recorded one single on Sun Records, 1959, then slipped from a rock'n'roll career into robbing banks and running from the FBI. Now he's 70 and just diagnosed with lung cancer. We followed a heavily armed McGill and his fiance Joyce through four states as McGill battles death, and battles life itself, seeking peace, making war.
| | | THIS AIN'T NO MOUSE MUSIC
Screenings: Sunday, April 21 at 8:30pm & Monday, April 22 at 12:30pm
Chris Strachwitz is a quirky, funny, gruff, and charismatic character. In "This Ain't No Mouse Music!" we go along with Strachwitz for a hip-shaking stroll from New Orleans to Texas, Cajun country to Appalachia, and right into very the DNA of rock'n'roll. We join him for an intimate and passionate quest for the musical soul of America, as he visits old friends and searches for new talent that will carry the music into the next generation. Through interwoven archival and contemporary cinema verité, we come face to face with American masters of indigenous music, from the great zydeco king Clifton Chenier to Cajun fiddler Michael Doucet, from Tex Mex accordionist, Flaco Jiménez, to the young blue grass band, No Speed Limit, playing music that is endemic to their place and circumstance. Stories from Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, Linda Ronstadt, British rocker Richard Thompson, and the unique voices of the roots musicians themselves, add to our understanding that music, guided by a passionate vision, CAN change the world.
| | | FOLK
Screenings: Friday, April 19 at 6pm & Tuesday, April 23 at 3:30pm
Three singer-songwriters, at dramatically different stages in their careers, navigate the thriving subculture of American folk music. FOLK follows twenty-something Raina Rose, thirty-something Hilary Claire Adamson and sixty-something Dirk Hamilton as they confront relationship and financial challenges in their own lives while struggling to be heard in a quirky, colorful world of small town house concerts, jammed 24/7 folk conferences, and tiny bars and festivals set well back along the blue highways of America. The days when Guthrie and Dylan wrote the songs that changed America may be behind us, but Raina, Hilary and Dirk prove through their own lives and songs that folk musicians today still amplify the themes that resonate through our lives and across our cultural landscape -- re-defining success in the face of failure, finding wholeness in an increasingly fragmented world, and magnifying our humanity during times that would tear us apart.
| | | About the Americana Music Association The Americana Music Association is a professional non-profit trade organization whose mission is to advocate for the authentic voice of American Roots Music around the world. The Association produces events throughout the year including the annual Americana Music Festival and Conference, which will take place September 18-22, 2013 in Nashville, Tenn. Registration for the Festival and Conference is now available at discounted early bird rates through the store at www.americanamusic.org. and be part of what the NY Times calls "the coolest music scene today."
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