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Booker T. Jones: 60 Years of Green Onions
Sat, July 8, 2023 @ 7:00 pm–9:30 pm
A free community event in celebration of the 2023 Black Arts Festival and the 150th Anniversary of Kalamazoo Public Library
Join us on July 8 at Kalamazoo State Theatre and enjoy a free concert performed by this legend of Soul, Booker T. Jones! Jones’s 2019 memoir, Time is Tight: My Life Note by Note is currently available at KPL for checkout.
Booker T. Jones is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer, and arranger. Best known as the frontman of the band Booker T. & the MGs, he has worked with countless award-winning artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and has earned a Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement. Along with the band, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. Jones continues to record and tour internationally, both as a solo artist and as head of Booker T.’s Stax Revue.
This event is hosted by Kalamazoo State Theatre and presented by Kalamazoo Public Library, Black Arts & Cultural Center, and The Gilmore.
This is a free event. Limited seating is available. Please register at bit.ly/grnonion.
Doors open at 6 pm, show begins at 7 pm.
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