Bert Driver’s Burlap Room Presents A Night of Motown Sounds featuring The Jimmy Church Band and other special guests.
This is an outdoor event with plenty of space to socially distance while enjoying food from local food trucks along with craft beer from rural TN breweries, CBD products, local artisans and more. Feel free to bring your own chair. This is a kid and pet friendly event. Kids 10 and under are free with paid adult. Gates open at 4:00PM and live music starts at 6:00PM. Event is rain or shine.
THE JIMMY CHURCH BAND
This is one of the world's leading dance and show groups. This high energy band consists of a rhythm section, horn section, dazzling choreography, and the titillating voices of Cinnamon and Spice. The group travels throughout the U.S. and abroad performing for corporate parties, conventions, bar mitzvahs, wedding receptions, college and university sororities and fraternities, several Governor's Inaugural Balls, and numerous private parties.
The band's Song List ranges from Bruno Mars, Pharrell Williams, Robin Thicke, to Louie Armstrong, Journey, Whitney Houston, Keith Urban. The most requested songs performed are the "Motown Sounds" of the Supremes, Four Tops, Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Martha and the Vandellas, Smokey Robinson, Mary Wells, and Stevie Wonder. Other popular requests are for songs by the Jackson Five, the Spinners, Commodores, Kool and the Gang, Earth Wind and Fire, Michael Jackson, the Drifters, and the Platters. The group's song list also includes popular songs from artists such as Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, Roy Orbison, Jackie Wilson, Van Morrison, Madonna and many others.
Tickets are $20 advance, $25 day of. Purchase tickets online at eventbrite.com.
Opening Act: Jumpin Jordan And His Mighty Beanes
Marguerite Beane - Vocals
Jordan Morack - Saxophone/ flute
David Cooper - Trombone/Keys
Sam Glover - Guitar
Bailey Johnstone - Bass
Ian Strobino - Drums
They are a funk/Jazz hop/Neo-soul band from the greater Nashville area. This group of good friends looks forward to bringing fantastic music to the Burlap Room with selections from the masters, old and new, like Aretha Franklin, Moonchild, Al Green and Herbie Hancock.