{"id":44387,"date":"2018-02-05T13:43:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T19:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=44387"},"modified":"2018-02-06T11:17:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T17:17:13","slug":"legends-of-motown-celebrating-the-supremes-opening-march-3-at-grammy-museum-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/legends-of-motown-celebrating-the-supremes-opening-march-3-at-grammy-museum-mississippi\/","title":{"rendered":"Legends of Motown: Celebrating The Supremes Opening March 3 at GRAMMY Museum Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>GRAMMY Museum\u00a0Mississippi<\/strong>, in Cleveland,\u00a0will explore the enduring legacy and influence of <strong>Motown Records<\/strong>&#8216; premier recording artists with the unveiling of\u00a0<strong><em>Legends Of Motown: Celebrating The Supremes<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0March 3. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;We are honored to showcase some of Mary Wilson\u2019s treasured memorabilia from her time with The Supremes. Celebrating the history of Mississippi artists is a necessary and important part of\u00a0GRAMMY Museum\u00a0Mississippi,&#8221; said Executive Director, <strong>Emily Havens<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Curated by the GRAMMY Museum\u00a0in <strong>Los Angeles<\/strong>, the exhibit will offer visitors a unique look at the life and career of one of the most successful American singing groups of the &#8217;60s, <strong>the Supremes<\/strong>, through rare artifacts from the private collection of founding member <strong>Ms. Mary Wilson<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">On display through\u00a0Septeber 3, 2018, the exhibit features rare photographs from the personal collection of Mary Wilson; concert posters; tour books, fan memorabilia; and an assortment of performance gowns, including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Primette Pristine&#8221; gowns worn in 1961, one of the earliest sets purchased by the Supremes when they were still known as the Primettes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;White De Mink&#8221; outfit worn on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The Hollywood Palace&#8221; in 1966<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Turquoise Freeze&#8221; dresses worn during a 1967 appearance on &#8220;The Ed Sullivan Show&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Red Hot&#8221; gown worn by Ms. Wilson on &#8220;The Ed Sullivan Show&#8221; in 1970 for the debut of the new Supremes lineup featuring Cindy Birdsong and Jean Terrell<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;The Mary Wilson &#8216;Supreme&#8217; gown collection is a dream come true for me,&#8221; said Ms. Wilson. &#8220;This collection is a gift that I give to all of those who have ever loved music and glamour. As you look at all of these wonderful treasures, please be reminded that three little black girls&#8217; dared to dream, and made their dreams come true. Thank you, Motown, and the thousands of fans all over the world.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In conjunction with the exhibit opening, Ms. Wilson and <strong>Tena Clark<\/strong> will be at the Museum for two programs\u00a0March 9.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Women in Music:<\/em>\u00a0Mary Wilson and Tena Clark education program will begin at\u00a011 am.\u00a0<em>An Evening with<\/em>\u00a0Mary Wilson will begin at\u00a07 pm and include a conversation moderated by Tena Clark.\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAMMY Museum\u00a0Mississippi, in Cleveland,\u00a0will explore the enduring legacy and influence of Motown Records&#8216; premier recording artists with the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":44390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4934],"tags":[57,8903,9031,11633,4539,11631,5,9815,642,3469,1380,4,7060,11632,3,9816,753],"class_list":["post-44387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-cleveland","tag-emily-havens","tag-grammy-museum","tag-legends-of-motown-celebrating-the-supremes","tag-los-angeles","tag-mary-wilson","tag-mississippi","tag-motown","tag-ms","tag-museum","tag-music","tag-oxford","tag-supremes","tag-tena-clark","tag-the-local-voice","tag-the-supremes","tag-tlv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018-02-05-the-supremes.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}