Join Us for a Special Event!
SPECIAL EMERITUS COLLEGE MUSIC EVENT – OCTOBER 18TH
Event: Interview Mac Arnold and enjoy Mac’s music along with one band member
Date: Friday, October 18, 2024, at 10:00 am (Coffee House Music Session)
Place: Emeritus College Seminar Room
Cost: Free (donations are welcome!)
The Clemson University Emeritus College has arranged for legendary Blues performer Mac Arnold to discuss his career and provide musical entertainment during our regularly scheduled Coffee House event on Friday, October 18, 2024, beginning at 10 AM.
You may be familiar with Mac, but here is a brief bio: Born in Ware Place, SC to a family of sharecroppers, he and his brother, Leroy, taught themselves how to play guitar by fashioning a broom stick and a gas can into an instrument. As a teenager, Mac formed a band with James Brown playing the piano. In 1965, he moved to Chicago to be close to the electric blues scene and became a part of Muddy Waters’ band. By the 1970s, Mac was in Los Angeles and began coordinating music on the TV show Soul Train, later playing bass on the theme song for the extraordinarily successful television show Sanford and Son, starring Redd Fox. Mac became remarkably busy doing recording work with Otis Redding, B.B. King, Bill Withers, and others. In the 1980s, he returned to South Carolina to become an organic farmer. Mac eventually formed the Plate Full O’Blues band, and they toured together.
We will interview Mac about his career and enjoy a jam session with a member of the Plate Full O’Blues band. Please invite friends and family who would appreciate getting to know this South Carolina treasure. He is a very humble and approachable man. Please feel free to ask him questions as this will be very informal and lots of fun. Sponsored by The Debbie and Vince Jackson Endowment for Music and your contributions, which make music events at the Emeritus College possible.
