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Henry Turner Jr Kicks Off Saturdays Live In The Park

On Saturday 4th December Henry Turner Jr kicked off the Saturdays Live in the park concert series in the Perkins Rd art district at Beauvoir Park. Henry Turner Jr is President of Hit City Records, Producer of the event along with the New Jersey-based Puffin Foundation,, and Devine Guidance organization. In a festival-like atmosphere, the concert offered a sampler of the best of Louisiana's unique music, food Art and culture at Beauvoir Park throughout the fall, with the the artist known as Christopher Turner painting live to music on site. Exciting stage performances were headlined by Henry Turner Jr. and Flavor featuring Henry Turner Jr., guitar and lead vocalist; Ronnie Houston, drums; Challa. keyboards; Mike Simmons, Bass Guitar, Lil Donna Jane, Piano/vocal, Jonathan Boogie Long, Guitar/vocals, Roger Furr, Guitar/Vocals, Simon Oguinye, percussion; Steve Bekerage, bass guitar; and Ras Wayne Vicks, featured vocalist. Special guest appearances by Arch Bishop Jocita Williams, national gospel and jazz recording artist added another musical dimension.

The Saturdays live in the park 3.00 concert series are open to the public and will be held every Saturday as outside weather conditions permits and will serve as a meet up place for film makers to interact with original Louisiana music and Artist for collaboration as well.

This event is made possible by hundreds of community volunteers eager to share their cultures to promote greater mutual appreciation and spiritual unity. and you will be able to hear interviews on all music artist and feature Artists on www.blogtalkradio.com/hcrgoldenvibes . This is a family event and each Saturday there will be storytelling for all ages by Joanna Ballard ~ Louisiana Storyteller.

ABOUT HENRY TURNER JR:
What happens when you mix different people with several different styles of music and a deep love to create something unique? You get the band Henry Turner Jr. & Flavor. Henry Turner Jr. & Flavor started with Henry Turner Jr whose first thought was to create a band whose music provided completely different kind of sound and whose would be appreciated by a large number of people and musical markets. Henry, who is also the president of Hit City Records, has managed several successful independent bands and artists. This, with the love of music that started from an early age, has allowed him to bring together a unique collection of people. From this developed a band whose unique style & presence on stage has given them a special following in their native Louisiana and now the world.

Henry Turner Jnr is out now on Blue Pie for the world. Download Henry and some of the best world music we have in the catalogue today from iTunes for the world.

ABOUT BLUE PIE THE RECORD LABEL:

Blue Pie, the record label, is one of Australia's leading independent labels. The label has a wide and diverse range of alliances, global partnerships and proprietary technology that we make available to all our artists, labels and content partners. These relationships combined with our technology, systems and infrastructure allow our artists and labels to reach new and exciting fan bases and markets globally. Blue Pie is proud to represent over 80 labels and over 1300 artists worldwide.

Blue Pie's artists include:

Total Karnage, The Devyl Nellys, Dave Sharp, Serge Ermoll (ARIA Winner), Tony Hatch (Grammy Winner), Gordon Chambers (Grammy Winner), Janice Marie (Grammy Winner) Dave Evans (AC/DC), The Yeehaa Boys, Tommy Tutone, Star Ship, Hoss Howard, Todd Smallwood, John Enghauser, Evolution Eden, JP Ranger, Burning the Day, Sarah Saunders, the bLEED, Barry Crocker, Gordon Waller, Sheva, MLU, Dino Jag, and The Judes and to name a few.

Blue Pie's label roster includes:
· Electrik Blue Records USA (Blue Pie Label)
· Blue Pie USA (Blue Pie Label)
· Prime Records USA
· No Borders Records USA
· Reality Entertainment (For Australian and New Zealand)
· Globalev World Music
· Deluxe Records (Michael Browning's Label)
· Pride Music
· Subsonic Records
· Petrophonic Records
· + Over 65 others. See our website for details.





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