ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – Celebrations for Jimmy Carter’s upcoming 100th birthday start Tuesday with Atlanta’s Fox Theatre’s internet hosting of Delta Air Lines Presents: Jimmy Carter 100: A Celebration in Song,” at 7:30 p.m.
Carter will flip 100 on Oct. 1, 2024, marking one other milestone in the life of America’s longest residing ex-president in historical past.
Tuesday’s occasion consists of artists from pop, rock, gospel, nation, jazz, hip-hop and classical music. Performers embody Athens’ personal The B-52s; singer-songwriter Duane Betts, son of legendary Allman Brothers Band co-founder Dickey Betts; singer-songwriter Carlene Carter, daughter of June Carter Cash; Angélique Kidjo, BeBe Winans, India Arie; Lalah Hathaway; Chuck Leavell; D-Nice; Drive-By Truckers; Eric Church; GROUPLOVE; Maren Morris; The War And Treaty; and The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus.
Mary Wharton, director of the documentary “Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President,” may also current a brief movie exploring Carter’s relationship with widespread musicians.
Emmy award-winner Rickey Minor is the present’s musical director. Other superstar company embody Dale Murphy, Killer Mike, Sean Penn and Academy Award-winning actress Renée Zellweger.
“I think he understood how important music is and so you find the songs and the material and artists that can pay tribute to him through music, and I think it’s going to be a big celebration. We looked and we tried to pick the right song and the right timbres and inclusion of artists in all genres,” Minor stated. “The artists that are performing have chosen material that they feel will uplift, not only the President, but will uplift this country and the world,” he stated.
Hours forward of the present, Atlanta News First additionally spoke with the President and CEO of the Fox Theatre.
“My understanding is that he had a very eclectic taste in music and loved all kinds of music and felt music brought people together, so that’s what The Fox does,” stated Allan Vella, President and CEO of The Fox Theatre. “The Fox brings people together so we’re very honored to be hosting this very special event tonight,” he stated.
“He’s definitely special to us as one of Georgia’s own. He’s done such good work as a humanitarian all around the world but even here in Atlanta, in Georgia,” Vella stated. “If it’s in Habitat of Humanity or if it’s with the Carter Center, he’s just had a life of Service and so you have to love and appreciate that,” he stated.
On Saturday, Sept. 28, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta is internet hosting a JC100 Film Festival from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. The library stated will probably be displaying some of Carter’s favourite listing of movies that have been proven at the White House throughout his administration. Museum and occasion admission is free.
As Georgia governor, Carter began the state’s movie workplace after the success of “Deliverance,” one of the first movies ever made in the Peach State. Released in 1972 and primarily based on author James Dickey’s debut novel of the similar identify, it starred Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox and Jon Voight and was filmed in northeast Georgia communities of Clayton and Rabun counties. It grew to become an enormous industrial success.
Carter has been in hospice look after greater than a yr. He formally grew to become America’s oldest residing ex-president on March 21, 2019, surpassing George H.W. Bush, who died in November 2018 at the age of 94 years and 171 days previous. Prior to Bush, earlier document holders have been Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Herbert Hoover and John Adams.
Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump are the nation’s solely residing ex-presidents.
Carter’s final public look was in November at Rosalynn Carter’s funeral — the former first girl handed away at the age of 96, solely days after getting into hospice care herself.
Carter was born Oct. 1, 1924, in Plains, a small farming city positioned about 150 miles south of downtown Atlanta. He grew up in the close by neighborhood of Archery.
Carter attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology earlier than heading to the U.S. Naval Academy, the place he graduated with a bachelor’s diploma in 1946. While serving in the Navy, he grew to become a submariner and rose to the rank of lieutenant.
On July 7, 1946, Carter married Rosalynn Smith. Seven years later, he resigned from the Navy and returned to Georgia. Carter was an energetic member of the neighborhood and finally entered the political world in 1962, when he was elected to the Georgia Senate.
Four years later, he would run for governor, however misplaced in a major to the eventual winner, Lester Maddox. Carter would attempt once more 4 years later, and this time, would cruise to a simple victory over Republican Hal Suit. He was sworn in as Georgia’s 76th governor on January 12, 1971.
Carter’s rise to the White House ranks as one of the very unlikely political victories in U.S. historical past. He was nearly unknown to the nation and campaigned on a promise to by no means inform a lie.
Exactly three years to the date of his inauguration into the governor’s mansion, Carter introduced his candidacy for president of the United States. He would go onto win the Democratic nomination in 1976 and was elected on November 2, narrowly defeating incumbent Republican Gerald Ford.
The first – and nonetheless solely – president and First Lady from Georgia capped off the day by strolling in the inauguration parade down Pennsylvania Avenue, one thing by no means seen from a just-inaugurated U.S. chief government.
Carter was inaugurated on January 20, 1977, however would solely serve one time period in workplace. He was defeated soundly in the 1980 election by Republican Ronald Reagan.
While some presidents experience off into the sundown after serving in workplace, Carter was simply getting began. In 1982, Carter grew to become University Distinguished Professor at Emory University in Atlanta and based the Carter Center.
The Carters later grow to be the public face of Habitat for Humanity. They each volunteered for the group for 35 years, serving to construct properties alongside hundreds of volunteers all through the years.
In 2002, Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.”
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