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March 5, 2022 -‘A Night of Georgia Music’ at The Grand Opera House – Macon, GA
Concert featuring Robert McDuffie, Mike Mills, Chuck Leavell and Mercer’s McDuffie Center for Strings to be Taped for Distribution to PBS Stations Across AmericaMACON – Tickets for A Night of Georgia Music, a March 5, 2022, concert at Macon’s historic Grand Opera House featuring students from Mercer University’s Robert McDuffie Center for Strings, internationally renowned violin […]
The Rolling Stones rock on despite ‘gut punch’ of Watts’ death
Longtime Rolling Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell calls it “not much short of a miracle” that the legendary band’s mammoth U.S. “No Filter” tour has happened at all. After being unceremoniously shelved for a year due to the COVID pandemic, the rescheduled tour suffered an even bigger blow when beloved drummer Charlie Watts passed away just a month […]
I’ve played keyboard for The Rolling Stones for 40 years — here’s what my life is like on and off tour
By 1982, at the age of 30, I’d already spent half of my life working my way up the ranks of the music industry. Music played an integral part in my life ever since my childhood days when I’d tug on my mother’s skirt and beg her to play the piano for me. When I was […]
Chuck Leavell on the Allman Brothers, Rolling Stones and the Life of a Tree-Man
“Just like I consider myself a student of the piano, I consider myself a student of the environment and of forestry in particular,” observes Chuck Leavell, who is the subject of the new documentary film, The Tree-Man.The title originates from Leavell’s stewardship of over 2,500 acres of land at his Charlane Plantation in Twiggs County, Ga. […]
From the Allman Brothers Band to the Rolling Stones to farming trees, pianist Chuck Leavell never lost sight of his roots
Through an amazing and multi-faceted career, Chuck Leavell never lost sight of his Southern roots.The Alabama native learned piano and keyboards (mainly self-taught) as a youngster. started a band by the time he was 13, played on several records at the Muscle Shoals studios, and moved to Macon in 1970, attracted by the music scene […]