Watch Your Step - The Men Of Eastwood at Carver Theatre

The Men of Eastwood is yet another step into the history of Black popular music and its influence on today s music. It is the second part of a planned three part series of musical revues, The Eastwood Project, celebrating the Chitlin Circuit and the artists and music that traveled the circuit. It is a musical memory of the Eastwood Country Club, Keyhole Club and Carver Library Auditorium (The Jo Long Theatre), the entertainers who played on the circuit and the Circuit itself. It is a musical journey through four decades of music, the places and events and artists that created this body of black popular music and the communities that nurtured the music and the artists, who in turn gave expression and nurture to those communities...

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The Men of Eastwood is yet another step into the history of Black popular music and its influence on today s music. It is the second part of a planned three part series of musical revues, The Eastwood Project, celebrating the Chitlin Circuit and the artists and music that traveled the circuit. It is a musical memory of the Eastwood Country Club, Keyhole Club and Carver Library Auditorium (The Jo Long Theatre), the entertainers who played on the circuit and the Circuit itself. It is a musical journey through four decades of music, the places and events and artists that created this body of black popular music and the communities that nurtured the music and the artists, who in turn gave expression and nurture to those communities. The Eastwood Country Club becomes the metaphor for all of this, presenting, as it did, such male artists as Fats Domino, Lou Rawls, The Temptations, Billy Eckstein, and many, many more.

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