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Named for the Preservation Hall venue located in New Orleans, Preservation Jazz Band performs traditional New Orleans-style jazz both at the hall and on tour around the world. When the Preservation Jazz Band began, New Orleans was a racially segregated community under Jim Crow laws. Preservation Hall made its mark by being one of the very few venues in New Orleans that welcomed both white and African-American musicians. Over the years the musicians in the band have changed, but the dedication to New Orleans Style Jazz and its traditions carry on to this day. In 1967, The Preservation Jazz Band performed alongside musical legends including Carlos Santana, The Grateful Dead and Steppenwolf at a Bill Graham production in San Francisco, CA. Led by Billie and De Pierce, this Preservation Jazz Band performance is said to be the introduction of New Orleans Jazz to the mainstream and led to many musical collaborations and tours over the years. After Hurricane Katrina, Preservation Hall’s doors were closed and stayed that way until the spring of 2006. While the hall was being rebuilt, Preservation Jazz Band continued to bring their music to the world with their continual tour. Musicians from around the globe came together to help because they felt that it was their duty to preserve the hall, the music and the heritage that reaches way back into the history of New Orleans.

Melvin James Brooks is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, composer and songwriter. He is known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies.

WOODSTOCK ROCKS Bethel, New York August 15 – 17, 1969 The largest rock concert ever, arrived and left, and we will never be the same again. The police estimated that there were a million people on the road trying to get to the festival. Controlling the overwhelming crowd was next to impossible. The festival actually took place on Max Yasgur's farm about fifty miles away. Woodstock was the original location since that was where Bob Dylan was currently residing. There were no clear headliners; the lineup included: Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Band, Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Santana, The Who, Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, Richie Havens, Sly and the Family Stone, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Sha-Na-Na, Joe Cocker, Jimi Hendrix, and many more. Jimi Hendrix’s guitar solo of the "Star Spangled Banner" might be the most memorable musical event of the festival. Woodstock was a peaceful gathering for one million young citizens who were virtually left on their own and discovered the words Sharing, Helping, Consideration, and Respect. Thousands left the Woodstock event with a totally different outlook on life, and rock music moved to the forefront of American pop culture.

The Bee Gees Musical Group A singing trio of brothers, Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, the three co-wrote most of their own hits. The bands record sales totaled more than 200 million, making them one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; their citation states “ Only Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks and Paul McCartney have outsold the Bee Gees”. They were proclaimed as being “The Most Significant New Talent of 1967” and an immediate comparison to The Beatles.