Let’s hope they keep collectively for an encore.
Morgan Freeman rang in 2025 by performing a duet of Al Inexperienced’s “Let’s Stay Together” with none aside from Inexperienced himself.
The duo sang the 1972 R&B traditional at Freeman’s Floor Zero Blues Membership in Clarksdale, Mississippi, on New Yr’s Eve.
The membership posted a video of the efficiency on Instagram, captioning the clip, “Morgan Freeman & Al Green LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!”
Inexperienced, 78, commented on the submit with a celebration popper emoji.
Freeman, 87, additionally shared concerning the night on social, posting two pictures from the night on X (previously often called Twitter).
“We ushered in the New Year with Al Green and Kingfish at Ground Zero last night,” the star wrote. “Happy New Year, everyone!”
CNN reporter Omar Jimenez was on the Oscar winner’s blues bar and caught the sudden efficiency.
“Morgan Freeman got on stage to make his ‘dream come true.’ He said it was to sing with Al Green,” Jimenez captioned a clip of Freeman and Inexperienced’s duet.
Jimenez additionally interviewed Freeman reside on CNN through the New Yr’s Eve broadcast.
Requested concerning the membership’s origins, Freeman defined that he determined to create the bar after visiting Clarksdale and discovering there weren’t many blues venues on the town.
“We don’t really have em. Didn’t exist,” Freeman remembers the mayor of Clarksdale telling him.
“So the decision was made right then — you got to to have a blues club. We got to do something,” he stated. “There was a little club called Crossroads, but [there was] no guarantee that it would be up and running on Friday night or something. So we built this.”
With the assistance of co-owners Eric Meier, Howard Stovall and the late Invoice Luckett, Freeman opened Floor Zero Blues Membership in 2001 “to celebrate the area’s rich blues heritage and to provide a venue in which it can continue,” in line with the venue’s web site.
Clarksdale is believed to be the place blues music started.
Freeman not too long ago paid tribute to a different well-known jazz-lover, his pal Clint Eastwood. The “Lioness” star offered Eastwood, 94, with an award named within the “Juror #2” director’s honor on the 2024 Monterey Jazz Pageant in California in September.
“It was a great pleasure presenting my friend, Clint Eastwood, with the inaugural Clint Eastwood Award for Cultural Leadership at the @MontereyJazzFestival last weekend,” he captioned a photograph of him and Eastwood on Instagram.
“Clint is a true musician: pianist, composer and a jazz aficionado!” he added. “We had a wonderful time listening to the incredible music of Kyle Eastwood and Mavis Staples!”
