It’s time to “raise the roof” (make some noise) and not raze the roof! Help raise the volume on our efforts to save the South’s first recording studio and raise funds to cover legal costs in the fight to keep it standing.

Raise the Roof: Benefit Concert to Save 152 Nassau

Join us this Sunday, August 25th, from 4pm to 8pm at Park Bar – overlooking the once and future roof of 152 Nassau Street – for a variety of musical performances celebrating Atlanta’s rich musical heritage.

Suggested donation: $10/person

Proceeds go to Historic Atlanta – a non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization that helps communities save and thoughtfully reuse Atlanta’s historically significant places through advocacy, education, and technical assistance.

Can’t make it to the concert? Send all your friends – along with your donation, of course – to join us instead!

Park Bar will have bar service (cash bar) upstairs and food will be available for purchase, too.

Musical Guests:

Ricci de Forest is a hair stylist and beauty educator who is preserving an original Madam CJ Walker Beauty Shoppe. He later learned that WERD – the country’s first black-owned radio station – operated in the same building on Auburn Avenue. So he also preserves and promotes the history and legacy of WERD radio – including running a weekly all vintage, all vinyl internet stream.

Randy Owens has been inducted into the Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame, has won several songwriting and performing awards, and founded up the Cartersville Songwriters Exchange. Whether performing in a small club or large amphitheater, cover songs or originals, he loves making music.

“Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck is an internationally known gospel and bluesman continuing the traditions of the early blues pioneers while adding his own Mudcat edge, resulting in one of Atlanta’s greatest treasures. He regularly performs his Bayou-baked chicken-party revues at Atlanta’s premier blues club, Northside Tavern.” – Atlanta History Center

Wasted Potential Brass Band is what fun sounds like! Powered by tuba goodness, this brass band got their start playing on the streets and features a second line street beat, southern horn section, blues vocals and sousaphone as bass.