[Tabs] Braille, Blues, and Bar-be-cue Benefit Concert

Thu Oct 17 18:39:37 UTC 2013

I should also say, if you live in Nashville and need a ride, please let me
know!  We'd love to have a good showing :)Invite your friends!

In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.
    ~Louis Pasteur, lecture 1854

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Stephanie H. DeLuca <sjhhirst at gmail.com>wrote:

> Please pass this along!  Also, if you are interested in staying overnight
> at a hotel close to the venue, please email James Brown at
> James.Aaron.Brown at tn.gov ASAP.
>
> Braille, Blues, and Bar-be-cue Benefit Concert****
>
> ** **
>
> Dear NFBTN Members and Friends:****
>
> ** **
>
> Blind Mississippi Morris, the National Federation of the Blind of
> Tennessee, and Newby’s Memphis are joining forces to combat the over 70%
> unemployment rate among the blind.  Together, we are raising money for the
> Lev Williams Scholarship Fund, helping blind college students in Tennessee
> get the education they need to go on and be successful in today’s
> workforce!  Please forward this important message to all your friends.****
>
> ** **
>
> How can you support the Lev Williams Scholarship Fund?  First, ****
>
> click here<http://newbysmemphis.com/calendar/110213-blind-mississippi-morris-duwanye-burnside-and-davis-coen-braille-blues-and-bar-be-cue-benefit-concert/>to purchase VIP tickets to the Braille, Blues, and Bar-be-cue Benefit
> Concert at Newbys in Memphis on November 2, featuring Blind Mississippi
> Morris, his blues playing friends Burnside and Coen, and the impossible to
> forget world champion Willingham BBQ Cookers.  ****
>
> ** **
>
> If attending is not an option, you can donate items for our live Braille,
> Blues, and Bar-be-cue auction by contacting jp at jpwilliams.net, or by
> making a direct donation <http://www.nfb-tn.org/donations/> to the
> scholarship fund online at www.nfb-tn.org. ****
>
> ** **
>
> So why is the NFB of Tennessee naming the scholarship after Lev Williams?
> In 1958, as a 21-year old student, Lev Williams was the victim of a freak
> accident.  He and some friends were walking on campus at night when an
> unknown assailant fired a shotgun into the group.  He was hit in the face
> and later became totally blind because of the injury.  He probably would
> have been able to see out of one eye afterwards, but Lev was so determined
> to get back into school, that the strain caused the one good eye to fail.
> ****
>
> ** **
>
> In 1962, he completed requirements for a B.S. degree from Tennessee State
> University and went on to obtain a Master’s degree in Psychology from
> Washington University.  He was hired as a teacher in Memphis City Schools
> in 1965 and within several years became the supervisor of the city’s
> Visually Limited Program, teaching the blind children of Memphis, and
> leading the program into national recognition until retirement in 1998.  He
> was also active in the Memphis Federation of the Blind for nearly fifty
> years before passing away in June of 2013.  ****
>
> ** **
>
> Lev was a real example of what it truly means to have vision.  Please help
> us to carry on his legacy of achievement by****
>
> donating <http://www.nfb-tn.org/donations/> to the ****
>
> Lev Williams Scholarship Fund, which will provide scholarships to several
> deserving blind Tennessee college students each year.  Not only will it
> allow us to give monetary assistance to blind students, but it will also
> allow successfully employed blind people to connect with students and
> become valuable mentors.  With your support, those of us who are employed
> would like to pass the knowledge of how to be blind and have a viable
> career down to the next generation.  For further information, please
> contact JP Williams at:****
>
> jp at jpwilliams.net****
>
> Or****
>
> 615.438.0781****
>
> ** **
>
> Blind Mississippi Morris, Duwanye Burnside and Davis Coen "Braille, Blues,
> and Bar-be-Cue Benefit Concert"
> <http://newbysmemphis.com/calendar/110213-blind-mississippi-morris-duwanye-burnside-and-davis-coen-braille-blues-and-bar-be-cue-benefit-concert/>
> ****
>
> Sat Nov2 ****
>
> [image: duwanye burnside]****
>
> Tickets Available Online Now<http://newbysmemphis.com/calendar/110213-blind-mississippi-morris-duwanye-burnside-and-davis-coen-braille-blues-and-bar-be-cue-benefit-concert/#registration>
> ****
>
> Blind Mississippi Morris, Duwanye Burnside and Davis Coen “Braille, Blues,
> and Bar-be-Cue Benefit Concert” ****
>
> Blind Mississippi Morris, Duwanye Burnside and Davis Coen! Willingham’s
> BBQ and Cold Beer… What could be better… Helping the National Federation
> for the Blind of Tennessee!****
>
> Newby’s needs your help in joining forces to combat the over 70%
> unemployment rate among the blind. Together, we are raising money for
> scholarships that will help blind college students in Tennessee get the
> education they need to go on and be successful in today’s workforce!****
>
> $30.00 VIP ticket are available include meet and great the blues legends,
> beer and bbq provided by World Champion Willingham Cookers! Come on out and
> enjoy yourself on November 2, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, and support a great
> cause!****
>
> Come at 8:30 pm for the Benefit Concert – $15 donation! Blind Mississippi
> Morris, Duwanye Burnside and Davis Coen. From the Old School Memphis, Down
> through the Delta and back to the contemporary country-blues… The line up
> is for all music lovers! ****
>
> All Proceeds from the door receipts go to National Federation for the
> Blind of Tennessee****
>
> Biographies:****
>
> Davis Coen: is a contemporary country-blues musician who’s recent
> accomplishments have included featured music on Dan Aykroyd’s ‘House Of
> Blues Radio Hour’ and NPR’s ‘Morning Edition’ and ‘World Cafe’ programs.
> Also his music appears on the DVD release of Martin Scorsese’s PBS special
> ‘The Blues’; and on the DVD documentary about the music of the late-great
> Hillcountry Mississippi blues matriarch Jesse Mae Hemphill, titled ‘Dare
> You To Do It Again’. Other films with Coen’s music include “Fresh Cut
> Grass” (2004) and “Mental Scars” (2009).****
>
> Coen has been touring the U.S. since his teens, either as a solo guitar
> and vocal act, or commonly accompanied by bass and drums in trio line-up.
> He commonly appears at clubs, bars, and festivals throughout the Southeast
> and mid-south. He has also enjoyed a dozen tours of Europe, promoting eight
> album releases. He has shared a bill or opened for many of the classic
> blues artists who influenced his music; including James Cotton, Junior
> Wells, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Koko Taylor, Big Jack Johnson, T-Model
> Ford, and David “Honeyboy” Edwards. He has also shared bills with such
> non-blues performers as Richie Havens, Mountain, Eric Burdon, Tito Puente
> and Toots & The Maytals.****
>
> These past few years Davis has focused on clean-up kickoffs on coastal
> Mississippi for Katrina victims; performing before mayors of several
> cities. He was honored with an achievement award for his conglomerate MS
> Coast relief efforts.****
>
> Duwayne Burnside -
> Guitarist, singer, and songwriter Duwayne Burnside is one of 14 children
> born to legendary North Mississippi musician R.L. Burnside and his wife,
> Alice. He has been a frequent performer with the North Mississippi Allstars
> since the early 1990s, when that group, fronted by Luther and Cody
> Dickinson, formed. The young Burnside learned his first few guitar licks
> and chords from his father, but proved a quick study and soon began playing
> with local club owner Junior Kimbrough and the Soul Blues Boys. Growing up
> in Holly Springs, he was close to Memphis, and as soon as he was able to
> get to Memphis, he did, and soon had the chance to sit in with Little Jimmy
> King, Albert King, B.B. King, Bobby “Blue” Bland, and others. Duwayne also
> began playing in his Dad’s band, Sound Machine Groove, where he further
> honed his skills as a guitarist and showman. He recorded for Hightone and
> Fat Possum Records with his father’s group before moving to Memphis, where
> he opened his own club, Burnside Kitchen and Grill, near Highway 61. He
> booked the music, cooked the food, sold the beer, and had his own band
> perform there on a weekly basis.****
>
> Live at the Mint [Lucky 13]
> In 1998, Duwayne traveled to Los Angeles to record his first album, Live
> at the Mint, as Duwayne Burnside & the Mississippi Mafia. After returning
> to Memphis, he decided to take a break from the bar business and settled
> back home in Holly Springs. In 2001, he joined the North Mississippi
> Allstars on-stage for the first time in Birmingham, Alabama, and that led
> to incessant touring with the band. He recorded with them on their third
> album, Polaris, and is featured on two of the group’s EP’s. In 2004, he
> opened another version of the Burnside Blues Cafe in Holly Springs and
> formed a new band that fused soul blues with hill country blues. His albums
> under his own name include Live at the Mint (1998) and Under Pressure
> (2005), both for B.C. Records. An album celebrating his father’s life and
> music remains in the works. One of the last things he asked his father to
> do — R.L. Burnside passed at age 80 in 2005 — was sing with him at the
> massive, popular Bonnaroo Festival in Tennessee. Burnside continues to
> tour, helping to keep the North County, Mississippi hill-style blues
> flourishing.****
>
> Blind Mississippi Morris – Blind Mississippi Morris (born Morris Cummings,
> April 6, 1955, Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States) is an American blues
> artist.1<http://newbysmemphis.com/calendar/110213-blind-mississippi-morris-duwanye-burnside-and-davis-coen-braille-blues-and-bar-be-cue-benefit-concert/#fn341843965252a7c9acd90>
> ****
>
> Cummings lost his sight at the age of four, but that did not stop him from
> learning the blues. Morris has become a popular blues act on Beale Street.
> Morris and his band, the Pocket Rockets, are known as the “real deal from
> Beale”. Morris has a talented lineage. His cousins, Robert and Mary Diggs,
> led the Memphis Sheiks, and his aunt, Mary Tanner, played with the Harps of
> Melody. Morris is also a cousin of the late Willie Dixon.****
>
> Morris is the very embodiment of the Delta bluesman. He has been called a
> new disciple of the Delta blues, he was rated one of the 10 best harmonica
> players in the world by Bluzharp magazine. He has performed with musicians
> such as B. B. King, Rufus Thomas, Muddy Waters, David Porter and many other
> Memphis, Tennessee artists.****
>
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>
> All the Best,****
>
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> James Brown, President****
>
> National Federation of the Blind of Tennessee****
>
> E-mail: nfb.tennessee at gmail.com****
>
> Cell: (615) 412-9632****
>
> www.nfb-tn.org****
>
> [image: nfb logo]****
>
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