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    Eden Brent @ The Center For Southern Folklore

    Eden Brent @ The Center For Southern Folklore

    Presented by Center For Southern Folklore at Center for Southern Folklore

    June 19, 2009

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    Blues/jazz artist Eden Brent appears Friday night June 19 in The Center For Southern Folklore Hall, 119 S. Main Street @ The Peabody Place Trolley Stop in the heart of downtown Memphis. Admission is $15 for advance tickets; $18 on the day of the show, and $25 for Golden Circle preferred seating which includes a special meet-and-greet session beginning at 6:30 p.m. Showtime is 8:00 p.m. Eden Brent ? the person and the performer is a proud product of Mississippi Delta country. The uniquely Southern blend of blues, jazz, soul, gospel and pop she grew up listening to provided the soundtrack for her life. Alternately sweet and sassy, her vocal stylings have been described by one critic as "Bessie Smith meets Diana Krall meets Janis Joplin." Eden developed her soulful vocal-and-piano chops via family sing-a-longs before earning a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of North Texas. But it was a 16-year apprenticeship with Greenville, Mississippi's late blues pioneer Boogaloo Ames, who ultimately dubbed his protege "Little Boogaloo," that cemented her passion for a career in music. "Music school taught me to think, but Boogaloo taught me to boogie-woogie," says Brent, who appeared alongside her mentor in the 1999 PBS documentary "Boogaloo & Eden: Sustaining the Sound." Eden has long been associated with the Center for Southern Folklore, performing for many years at the Center's annual Memphis Music & Heritage Festival on Labor Day weekend. In 2006 she won the Blues Foundation's 2006 International Blues Challenge held at the Center and in June of 2008, the Center hosted a CD release party for her CD "Mississippi Number One." http://www.edenbrent.com/


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        June 19, 2009

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