The 15th Annual Carl Jackson “Home for Christmas” Concert, will be held again this year on Saturday, Dec. 10 in Louisville with two shows, 4pm and 7pm.
This show completely sells out each year, and folks come from five states to see these incredible Nashville musicians that hometown native, Carl Jackson brings to his hometown of Louisville.
In addition to award winning writers and performers Jerry Salley, Larry Cordle, Valerie Storey, Bradley Walker, Johnny Rawls, and comedian Lonnie Shorr, the talk on the street after last year’s show was the addition of Joey & Rory.
Carl Jackson serves as one of their music producers so the ‘hot artist” duo is scheduled to be back in Louisville again this year.
Joey & Rory — the married duo consisting of Rory Lee Feek and Joey Martin Feek — came into the country music limelight as finalists on CMT’s Can You Duet. In addition to singing, Joey (the wife) runs a restaurant with her sister-in-law outside Nashville called Marcy Jo’s Mealhouse. Rory is an established songwriter. In 2010, it was announced that the duo were the winners of the 2010 Academy of Country Music Award for Top New Vocal Duo.
To get your tickets for this annual benefit at the Strand Theater, call the Chamber at 662-773-3921 or go by and see Martha Mills or Linda Skelton there. But you better hurry, because this show always sells out.
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Jackson also just finished “Mark Twain Words and Music” which will undoubtedly be up for several Grammy Awards in 2012. Jackson is a three time grammy winner.
Jackson has been awarded A Mississippi Country Music Trail Marker by the Mississippi Development Authority Tourism Division, which will unveiled at the concert. The Winston County Chamber and other residents are still seeking matching funds to help pay for the marker contact 662-773-3921 for more information.
Helping with the unveiling will be Senator Giles Ward, a representatives of the Dept. of Tourism and Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant along with Congressman Gregg Harper
Jackson also garnered a Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts in “Music” by the Mississippi Arts Commission.
The Mississippi Arts Commission (MAC) is pleased to release the names of the recipients of the 2012 Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts. This outstanding group will be honored at the 24th annual public ceremony on February 16, 2012 in Jackson (location to be determined.)
Excellence in Music Carl Jackson of Louisville, Mississippi, now resides in Gallatin, Tennessee
“We are proud to announce the six outstanding recipients to be honored during the 2012 Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts,” said Malcolm White, Executive Director of MAC. “We are always amazed by the outstanding nominees submitted each year and the continuous depth of the creative well flowing through our soil. Mississippi is indeed filled with an abundant supply of deserving creative individuals, organizations, enterprises and communities.”
Awards are made to individuals and organizations for outstanding work in a wide variety of art forms including visual, performing arts, and community development through the arts. Recipients do not have to reside in Mississippi, but they must have significant ties to the state through some years of residency. Nominations are made by the general public and a group of industry peers judges the submitted information to determine the recipients. Nomination information is sent out by the MAC in May each year.
Community support helps the MAC make this a very special occasion for those honored. Several sponsorship levels are available. Those interested should contact Susan Dobbs at the Mississippi Arts Commission at 601/359-6031 or sdobbs@arts.state.ms.us.
The Mississippi Arts Commission is a state agency, funded by the Mississippi Legislature, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Riley Foundation, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mississippi Foundation, and the Mississippi Endowment for the Arts at the Community Foundation of Greater Jackson. MAC is the official grants-making and service agency for the arts in Mississippi. The agency serves as an active supporter and promoter of arts in community life and in arts education.
The Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum in Hannibal, Missouri is pleased to announce that Mailboat Records, Inc. will manufacture and distribute its new CD project, Mark Twain: Words & Music.
The Mailboat label was founded by Jimmy Buffett, who provided the voice of Huckleberry Finn for the project, a double-CD that tells the life story of Mark Twain in spoken word and song. Several new songs were written expressly for the project.
Other voices on the album include Garrison Keillor as narrator, Clint Eastwood as Mark Twain, and Angela Lovell as Susy Clemens. Thirteen songs compliment the narrative and are performed by Emmylou Harris, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Rhonda Vincent, Bradley Walker, Carl Jackson, The Church Sisters, Sheryl Crow, Brad Paisley, Marty Raybon, Val Storey, Vince Gill, Joe Diffie, and Ricky Skaggs. Carl Jackson, a multiple Grammy Award-winner, produced the CD.
Jimmy Buffett, who has paid homage to Twain in his books and songs, said, “A hundred years after Mr. Twain left this world in the wake of Halley’s Comet, he is still a force to be reckoned with. Mailboat Records was named for a song that was based on Twain’s Following the Equator, so it seems apropos that we are distributing this great collection. It was a personal honor to participate in this project and get to be Huck Finn, if only for a few days.
Time has not eroded the spirit, force, character and humor of Huck and Mr. Twain’s words. The music on this album, I believe, fits Sam Clemen’s own words on the subject: ‘Singing is one of the most entrancing and bewitching and moving and eloquent of all the vehicles invented by man for the conveying of feeling.’ I think this collection does just that.”
Museum director Cindy Lovell conceived the CD as a tribute and benefit for the Museum and to commemorate the 175th anniversary of Twain’s birth last year. Proceeds will help maintain nine historical Museum properties including the Boyhood Home, a National Historic Landmark. Lovell began planning the project in 2005 with Jackson, her childhood friend.
“My dream for this project from Day One was for Carl to produce it and for Jimmy Buffett to be involved,” Lovell said. “I’ve been a Buffett fan since 1974 and always felt a kinship with him because of our shared love of Twain. I was over the moon when he offered to do the voice of Huck. And Carl is the best acoustic producer anywhere. I’m forever indebted to all of the great talents who stepped forward to give so generously in making this dream come true. The Museum has severely felt the effects of the economy, and this project will raise much needed revenue while sharing Twain’s legacy in a unique format. Signing with Mailboat Records was the cherry on the top of this project. .
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