100 Plus One™…Before Motown and Beyond…Celebrating America’s Music     

                                                               

                                                                          

 

(Memorial Quilt: immortalizes the images of musical legends)

“Lift Every Voice and Sing”

Created by Gregory J. Reed, Esq.

Organized by Keeper of the Word Foundation

 

Welcome! Welcome! Welcome!!!

 

Welcome to 100 Plus One™ a traveling exhibit comprised of 250 rare music artifacts connecting the legacy of African Americans' musical contributions to the world over the past 100 plus One years.

 

100 Plus One™ comes to the age where the artists and music companies may have to reflect and consider returning to its roots.  Americans along with African Americans have become off base in its music and the country has been on a mental vacation.  September 11, 2001 indicates the core of collective conscious and the soul of music and its culture is suffering in this new age.  Neo-soul artists such as Maxwell, Erykah Badu, Musiq, India Arie, Jill Scott, Alicia Keys, as well as independent companies and others are leading the way in the new music age of 100 Plus One™  and are realigning the music future in a new direction versus sampling the creativity of others.

        The exhibit is fun, informative, stimulating, provoking and educational.  100 Plus One™ is a healing and soothing exhibition that exhibit attendees will talk about for years.  100 Plus One™ celebrates black music’s survival and triumphs in all forms and the predecessors by bringing it front center domestically and internationally

 

TRAVELING EXHIBIT

 

African American  music is instrumental in cultural change and uplifting black people from spirituals to the Motown movement and beyond.  The exhibit’s social effects and conditions are interwoven with songs such as “Lift Every Voice and Sing”, “Keep on Pushing”, “Say It Loud”, “Ain’t No Stopping Us Now”, “What’s Going On”, etc., works by the Impressions, James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, etc.  The exhibition uses objects, documents, words, photographs, and images to tell the story of America’s original music.  It highlights the people, companies, producers, trailblazers, etc. that made the industry what it is.  The legacy of black music contributors is presented for the first time covering 100 Plus One years.  Covering all music genres from Scott Joplin, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Mahalia Jackson, Marvin Gaye to Alicia Keys, etc. beyond.

 

A compilation of music related artifacts connecting the historical significance of African-Americans’ musical contributions to the world for the past 100 Plus One™ years.  The concept is comprehensive and original covering spiritual, ragtime, blues, jazz to …Motown…rap, hip-hop genres and is complimentary to other established institutions such as The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Motown Historical Museum, and The Rhythm and Blues Foundation among others.

 

The timeline for the exhibit spans from 1900-2001.   Jazz and Motown artifacts and memorabilia anchor and dominate the 100 Plus One™ collection.  

 

 

 

Number of Works: 200 plus

Sizes: Varies

Linear Feet: The exhibit may be presented singularly or in 3 parts collectively

Participation Fee is negotiable.  Exhibit rates vary from $18,500 - $28,500 or $40,000 plus.

  

EXHIBIT INQUIRIES:

c/o Keeper of the Word Foundation, 1201 Bagley, Detroit, MI  48226, (313) 961-8526