Detroit Loves Music! Benefit For Music Hall

        The Vivian Carpenter & Jon Barfield Challenge Grant Concert

                                    Starring: Chaka Kahn

With Special Guests: Jon Barfield & Irresistible, Michael Cooper & Con Funk Shun,

Michael Mindigall, Maurissa Rose, Ashton &  Rivonne Moore And More to be announced.

To Benefit Music Hall

Friday, February 12th at 8PM at Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts

Music Hall presents a special fund-raising concert on Friday Feb. 12, featuring Chaka Khan along with Jon Barfield & Irresistible, Michael Cooper & Con Funk Shun, Michael Mindigall, Maurissa Rose, Ashton & Rivonne Moore.

Headliner, Khan has sold about 70 million records worldwide and has won 10 Grammy awards. She also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and is a member of the Soul Music Hall of Fame.

This live fund-raiser is a challenge-grant theme with supporters Vivian Carpenter and Jon Barfield promising to donate an additional $100,000 if Music Hall raises $300,000.

With the impending April 30th deadline looming, Music Hall must raise 1.7 Million dollars by that date, or we will risk falling into loan default -which could effectively close the historic theater.

Levels of giving: The “Vivian Carpenter and Jon Barfield  $100,000 Challenge Grant” endeavors to raise at least $400,000 to retire legacy debt of the Music Hall, and ensure the survival of this iconic and diverse performance stage for our children and their children.

Giving Levels:

$500 includes 2 main floor tickets

$1,000 includes 4 premium main floor tickets

$5,000 includes 4 premium main floor and afterglow tickets

$10,000 includes 8 premium main floor and afterglow tickets

25,000 includes 10 premium main floor concert tickets, 10 pre-glow and afterglow tickets and your name permanently displayed on Music Hall’s Donor Wall in the main lobby. Acknowledgement of your support with logo placement in the audience program, in all Music Hall media outlets, on our live Twitter feed throughout the evening and commemorative t-shirt(s)

$50,000 includes 20 premium main floor concert tickets, 20 pre-glow and afterglow tickets, and your name permanently displayed on Music Hall’s Donor Wall in the main lobby. Acknowledgement of your support with logo placement in the audience program, in all Music Hall media outlets, on our live Twitter feed throughout the evening and commemorative t-shirt(s)

For reservations, donations and sponsorship information, please call 313 887 8510

Individual tickets are available  at ticketmaster.com and the Music Hall Box office

Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts

350 Madison Avenue

Detroit, MI   48226

http://www.musichall.org

313-887-8501

[youtube id=”iA4doAADhGk”] Legendary R&B/funk band Con Funk Shun has returned with their first new album in 20 years. “More Than Love” is the lead track and the title of the album that has longtime members Michael Cooper and Felton Pilate. Con Funk Shun became one of the premier funk bands of the ’70’s and ’80’s with their hits “Ffun,” “Love’s Train ” and “Chase Me” among their 25 charting songs. More Than Love is out now.

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Con Funk Shun is returning with their first new album in two decades with More Than Love in early 2015. “Your Night” is a preview of their renewed sound with most of their original lineup including Michael Cooper and Felton Pilate. The funk band was very successful in the ’70’s and ’80’s with songs like “Ffun” and “Electric Lady.” Cooper says the album was a must because they still love making music and their fanbase continues to be loyal.

Michael Cooper is the lead singer and co-founder of Con Funk Shun, one of the significant funk bands of the ’70’s. For those who know the band Cooper’s signature “Oww” is immediately evident because of the way “Love’s Train” is embedded in national funk memories. The band was very successful and spawned such seminal songs as “Ffun,” “Shake And Dance With Me” and “Chase Me” just to name a few. Cooper went solo in ’87 and the song “To Prove My Love” from his first solo album Love Is Such A Funny Game did well on the charts. “Over And Over” is from his second album Just What I Like. The tune did not make an impressive chart presence but it was recognized favorably on urban radio. By the ’90’s Con Funk Shun re-formed with Cooper and Felton Pilate at the helm with different members.In total Cooper released five solo albums and he tours regularly with the band to perform at various Old School concerts around the country.