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Carolina Music Ways Benefit
Features Joe Robinson and Mel Jones
Popular Performers Bridge Region's Urban and Rural Music
Winston-Salem, NC: Carolina
Music Ways Music Heritage
Resource Group will present an
evening of music with two of the
area's most popular entertainers at
the 411 Club in Winston-Salem on
Sunday, April 2nd from 6;00 - 8:00
p.m. Proceeds from ticket sales
will benefit Carolina Music Ways, a
non-profit organization that serves
the Northwest Piedmont through ™
the education, performance, and
preservation of the region's diverse music traditions (www.carolinamu-
sicways.org).
Showcasing some of the area’s finest jazz, blues, and bluegrass
musicians, the benefit will feature the Joe Robinson Quartet and Mel Jones
and his Bag O’ Bones. Rooted in the region’s music heritage, both groups
add their own entertaining styles and contemporary feel to music traditions
that have defined the area’s musical character for generations.
Nationally-acclaimed
trumpeter Joe Robinson has
worked with a myriad of Jazz
greats, including Donald Byrd,
The Benny Carter Group, Lou
Donaldson, Gerald Albright, and
Boney James. After discovering
an old bugle at age thirteen on
an outing in Winston-Salem’s
Happy Hill neighborhood,
Robinson began his love affair
with jazz. Encouraged by his band director at Atkins High School, the late
Harry Wheeler, Robinson attended the prestigious Berklee School of Music
in Boston. He has performed at national jazz fes
tivals, as well as at numerous venues around North
Carolina. Robinson’s CDs Better Late Than Never
and Movin’ On receive extensive regional airplay.
Popular showman Mel Jones recently won the
Charlotte 2005 “Acoustic Blues Challenge". His
Mocksville-based band, Mel Jones and His Bag of
Bones, performs country blues with jazz and blue-
grass elements added to the mix. Beginning his
musical career as a rock n’ roll and R&B drummer,
Jones discovered bluegrass and old time sting-
band music when he moved to Davie County,
where he learned
to play the har
monica from old-timers. Combining all
these musical elements with his charismat-
I ic showmanship, Jones has earned
^ himself a dedicated fan base. He has four
r mSM CDs to his credit and is working on a fifth.
Parking for the Carolina Music Ways
Benefit will be available on the street for
free and for a fee in the parking garage
across from the 411 Club, which is located at 411 Cherry Street, next to
the Marriott Hotel in downtown Winston-Salem.
Admission is $10.00. Ticket sales will benefit Carolina Music Ways, a
non-profit organization celebrating the region’s rich and diverse musical
talent and heritage. For more information, cali the 411 Club at (336) 725-
1411 or go to www.carolinamusicways.org . For more information on Joe
Robinson, visit www.joerobinson.net. For more on Mel Jones, visit
www.bonesblues.com.
Carolina Music Ways Music Heritage Resource Group is a non-prof
it, grassroots, multicultural organization based in Winston-Salem. The
organization works with peopie from around the region to highlight
some of the best heritage music performed anywhere in the United
States, inciuding jazz, biues, gospel, bluegrass, old-time stringband,
and Moravian music. To iearn more about the region's heritage
music, current events, artists, and organizations keeping these tradi
tions alive, visit www.carolinamusicways.org.
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