\u201cTake Me to The River All-Stars\u201d<\/a> appearing at the Hope Center for the Arts on Friday will take audiences on a heartfelt journey into the soul of American music blending funk, R&B, brass-band fire, soul, and Mardi Gras Indian tradition.<\/p>\nShowtime is 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
The New Orleans all-star benefit for the Springfield Jazz & Roots Festival is co-presented by Blues to Green and the Hope Center for the Arts.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the first year we are holding a fundraiser entirely for the Springfield Jazz & Roots Festival which is a free event accessible to the community, but we do need support to keep it that way,\u201d said Kristin Neville, festival producer and executive director of Blues to Green, in an interview with The Republican.<\/p>\n
Inspired by the award-winning documentary, \u201cTake Me to the River: New Orleans,\u201d the concert brings together a heavyweight ensemble of New Orleans talent, including Cyril Neville along with his son Omari and nephew Ian Neville, Big Chief Bo Dollis Jr., Anjelika \u201cJelly\u201d Joseph, Robert Mercurio, Joe Ashlar, Brian Richburg Jr., and filmmaker Martin Shore. Their performances will showcase the rich musical traditions, cross-generational collaborations, and cultural depth that define New Orleans music. <\/p>\n
Released in 2022 but filmed in 2017, \u201cTake Me to the River: New Orleans\u201d is a full-length documentary film directed by Martin Shore about the music of New Orleans and Louisianna. It premiered on April 20, 2022, at the Broadside Theater in New Orleans and was digitally released in 2023. The soundtrack album was also released in 2022.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was the last time the Neville Brothers performed together,\u201d Neville said about the soundtrack album.<\/p>\n
Bringing the New Orleans all-stars to Springfield for a concert is an outgrowth of a collaborative idea between Neville and Kyle Homstead, one of the several educators at Hope Center for the Arts.<\/p>\n
\u201cKyle has worked on programming acts for the Springfield Jazz &Roots Festival for the past several years, We spoke about bringing acts performing at the Hope Center into schools in Springfield and Holyoke as part of the Blues to Green Legacy Education Project,\u201d Neville said about the endeavor, which brings acclaimed Black and Afro-Caribbean musicians into schools to use music to teach history and literature in a creative way.<\/p>\n
\u201cTake Me to the River is a relatively new musical act that evolved from the documentary film and the recording \u2018Take Me to the River New Orleans.\u2019 We started discussing the opportunity to bring them here based on the fact that my husband Charles Neville appeared in the film and the thread that connects him from New Orleans to Springfield,\u201d she added about her late husband.<\/p>\n
Charles Neville \u2014 who spent his later years in Western Massachusetts and became closely connected to Springfield, appearing in the Jazz & Roots Festival \u2014features prominently in the \u201cTake Me to the River\u201d film and album. His voice, presence, and iconic saxophone work are woven into the fabric of the project, making Friday\u2019s concert not only a celebration of New Orleans music but a meaningful tribute to an artist who helped shape Springfield\u2019s local cultural community.<\/p>\n
Blues to Green uses music and the arts to bring people together, celebrate cultural heritage, and advance racial and climate justice. The organization produces the Springfield Jazz & Roots Festival, leads the Legacy Education Project, and directs Arts for Racial & Climate Justice, including the documentary initiative \u201cBeyond the Storm.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tickets, available online at hopecenterforthearts.org<\/a>, are $45 for general admission. Donor Circle tickets are priced at $100 and include front row seating and a meet and greet before the concert.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.masslive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPRINGFIELD \u2014 From the screen to the live stage, the \u201cTake Me to The River All-Stars\u201d appearing at the Hope Center for the Arts on Friday will take audiences on a heartfelt journey into the soul of American music blending funk, R&B, brass-band fire, soul, and Mardi Gras Indian tradition. Showtime is 7 p.m. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2225835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2225836,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225835\/revisions\/2225836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}