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Chris Thomas KingSaturday, March 22nd
6:15pm Blues History Chat
6:30-9pm Music
Dew Drop Jazz & Social Hall
Multi-talented Grammy Award-winning blues artist, composer and actor Chris Thomas King grew up among the finest blues musicians in the genre and began touring with artists like Buddy Guy and B. B. King while in his teens. He writes, arranges, sings and plays almost all of the instruments on many of his recordings. He's also a gifted actor and has had prominent roles in films including "Ray" and “O Brother, Where Art Thou”, which also sold over 10 million albums worldwide.
Presented by the Friends of the Dew Drop, this concert will feature home-cooked food for purchase provided by the Ladies of First Free Mission Baptist Church, located next door. Soft drinks, water, beer and wine will be available for purchase. The concert begins at 6:30pm and will run till 9pm.
Admission is $10 per adult. Students and children can enter free. No outside food or drinks are allowed and lawn chairs can be used outside the hall on the grounds. Please, no smoking allowed on premises, and no pets allowed, except certified service animals.
About the Dew Drop: In 1885, a group of civic-minded African American residents of the village of Mandeville, led by the late Olivia Eunio, created the Dew Drop Social and Benevolent Association. A decade later, in 1895, the organization laid a cornerstone and constructed a small wooden building 2 1/2 blocks from Lake Pontchartrain on Lamarque Street. The Association, like many created among African American residents following the Civil War, had chiefly benevolent goals - to care for the sick, provide help with funeral arrangements, food & temporary housing - all during a time when black residents could not obtain various types of insurance. Starting around the turn of the century, and for more than 40 years the Dew Drop was a sparkling center of musical activity for the neighborhood and community. Documentation reveals that early jazz greats such as Buddie Petit, Kid Ory, Bunk Johnson, George Lewis and even Louis Armstrong shared the small stage inside the building.
Today, known as one of the oldest, unaltered rural jazz halls in the U.S. the 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization, Friends of the Dew Drop, schedules and manages the hall’s performances and educational activities (JazzKids). Along with hundreds of evening concerts presented in the historic hall over two decades the Friends of the Dew Drop have also gifted 50+ free JazzKids music assemblies and master classes since 2015 to schools in St. Tammany Parish, reaching over 12,000 local students in grades PreK-12.
The mission of the Friends of the Dew Drop is to preserve the Dew Drop Jazz Hall and promote its significance in the origins and the cultural history of Mandeville though music performances, music education programs and benevolent activities in support of local and emerging artists.
For more information, please visit www.dewdropjazzhall.com.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Dew Drop Jazz & Social Hall, Dew Drop Social and Benevolent Hall, 430 Lamarque St, Mandeville, LA 70448, United States,Mandeville, Louisiana
