Gibson has partnered with Newport Festivals Basis by means of its philanthropic arm Gibson Provides at this summer time’s Newport Folks Competition to rejoice the music icon Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the fifty fifth anniversary of her groundbreaking Newport Folks Competition efficiency on July 16, 1967.
This Sunday, July 24 at 12:40 PM on the Newport Folks Competition Basis Stage a particular efficiency will function acclaimed singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Celisse performing traditional Sister Rosetta Tharpe songs reminiscent of “Didn’t It Rain,” in addition to a particular efficiency of SRT’s “Up Above My Head” alongside the youth gamers from RIOT RI–a native nonprofit that fosters the event of wholesome identities in ladies, ladies, trans, and gender-expansive youth and adults, by means of the facility of music. Gibson will donate six of the quickly to be launched new Epiphone Energy Gamers guitars to the RIOT RI Basis.
“Sister Rosetta Tharpe is considered one of music’s most vital and influential figures because the creator of rock and roll music” says Celisse.
“Celebrating the fifty fifth anniversary of her debut at Newport Folks Fest, in collaboration with RIOT RI additional affirms one of the crucial vital tenants of Newport’s mission, a dedication to honoring and remembering the true founders and innovators of American music. I’m extremely proud to be one of many many artists that stand on Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s shoulders and hope that in persevering with to call and rejoice her unimaginable contributions to fashionable music, it could encourage extra individuals to imagine that nice music can come from anybody.”
Based in 2011, Newport Festivals Basis’s mission is to protect the Newport Jazz and Folks Festivals and increase their impression by means of year-round music training and artist aid initiatives. The festivals have all the time strived to current artists who respect and honor jazz and folks music traditions, whereas on the identical time reflecting the adjustments in developments and the occasions wherein they dwell. As the primary fashionable music festivals within the U.S., they proceed, to today, to be leaders and innovators within the pageant panorama.
The sold-out 2022 Newport Folks Competition will happen this week at Fort Adams State Park on Friday, July 22, Saturday, July 23, and Sunday, July 24. The pageant will rejoice its 61st 12 months with wide selection, of singer-songwriters, indie and soul artists and folks rock bands together with Brandi Carlile and Associates, Bleachers, Courtney Barnett, Maren Morris, Trampled by Turtles, Dinosaur Jr, The Nationwide, The Roots, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night time Sweats, Valerie June, Celisse, Sierra Ferrell, Adia Victoria, Pleasure Oladokun, Japanese Breakfast, and plenty of extra.
The Gibson and Newport Festivals Basis partnership and Sister Rosetta Tharpe celebration follows the current announcement of Gibson’s annual Scholarship Program. Gibson introduced it’s going to award 15+ music scholarships in 2022 comprised of each money grants ($75,000), in addition to devices and kit on to highschool seniors as they put together to navigate their publish grad training and careers.
The Gibson Provides Scholarship Program launched with the Sister Rosetta Tharpe Scholarship–the first-ever music scholarship created in honor of the enduring and incomparable Godmother of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The Sister Rosetta Tharpe Scholarship, created by means of help by the Fund for the College District of Philadelphia, has been awarded to Sierra Guilmartin, a senior at Philadelphia Excessive College for Ladies who will pursue music on the College of the Arts in Philadelphia within the Fall.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s immense expertise and confidence arrived throughout an period when ladies, and particularly ladies of shade, had no voice. An period the place no girl dared play guitar on the entrance of the stage, not to mention entrance a solo act. No girl besides Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
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