Here’s where you’ll find, beginning in November 2009, all the posters, photos and memorabilia, both rare and familiar and a vast archive of audio recordings and film footage. All of it will be right here at the Big House Museum, and just like the music and the band it birthed, all of it is meant to be experienced. Not just read about. Not even just listened to. Experienced.
You’ll be able to sit on the front porch where Duane Allman and Berry Oakley whiled away all those hot Southern afternoons, making music, making friends and making history. You can walk up the steps to that porch and almost hear the footsteps of Jaimoe or Butch Trucks or Chuck Leavell walking up beside you. Those bells you hear in the distance on a Sunday morning? They’ll ring forever in Dickey Betts’ “Blue Sky.” You’ll find out what it was about the place that made it magic, that made it special, that made it home—so much so that when Gregg Allman wrote, “Please Call Home,” this is the home he was writing about. This is where the journey began and the Big House Foundation is now making this one little stretch of Vineville Avenue in Macon, Georgia the road that goes on forever.
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The Allman Brothers Band Tickets
Anyone interested in making a contribution to the Big House Foundation in exchange for premium Allman Brothers Band tickets can contact E.J. Devokaitis. He is heading up this year's ticket fundraiser drive, and can be reached by email or by phone at 478-741-5551.
UPCOMING EVENTS
The Big House Foundation presents a special benefit screening of "Please Call Home - The Big House Years" - This Friday, June 26th, at Cine, 234 West Hancock Avenue, Athens, GA. There will be a catered reception beginning at 6:30PM which will also include a silent auction of Allman Brothers Band memorabilia. The movie begins at 8:00 PM, and will be followed by a Q & A with the film's director Kirk West (The Allman Brothers Band Tour Mystic), Producers Beth and Elliott Dunwody, and special guests John Lyndon and Willie Perkins.
Admission is $25 for the general public, and $20 with Athfest wristband (includes Reception and screening)....
There will be an additional show time at 10:00 PM that same night (6/26), and admission will be $10 for the showing only.
Sponsored by The Big House Foundation, John Lyndon, Athena Benefit Group, and Mellow Mushroom.
Sarasota Film Society is pleased to announce a special premiere screening of the documentary, Please Call Home: The Big House Years in association with the Big House Foundation and the 19th Annual Sarasota Bluesfest.
The screening will be held at Burns Court Cinemas on Friday, July 31st, at 6:30 p.m. The event will include a VIP reception, the film premiere, and a Q&A. For Tickets go to http://www.filmsociety.org/pleasecallhome.cfm
*Additional Screenings are planned for Chicago, Dallas, and Augusta, GA. Please check back for the dates and venues.
This full-length feature documentary, produced by Bright Blue Sky Productions and The Big House Foundation
chronicles three years from 1970 to 1973 when the Allman
Brothers Band lived in the "Big House" in Macon,
Georgia. This was a time that saw triumph and tragedy as
the band went from playing for free concerts to selling
out stadiums across the country, but also lost two of
its brothers, seminal slide guitarist Duane Allman and
bassist Berry Oakley. These were the years that the
group became the road warriors who broke down color
barriers as the first integrated rock band to come out
of the South. It's the story of the rise to prominence
of this great American institution who this year are
celebrating their 40th Anniversary by once again taking
the stage at New York's City famed Beacon Theatre for 15
sold-out shows this March.
Produced as a
fundraiser for the Big House Foundation, Please Call
Home was directed by long-time Allman Brothers Band
Historian, Archivist and Tour Magician, Kirk West, who
with his wife Kirsten, purchased the Big House in 1993
and lived in it for 15 years before moving out to begin
the process of turning the house into a museum to honor
the Southern rock legends, the Allman Brothers Band.
All proceeds from this screening will benefit
the Big House Foundation, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit
organization established to create an Allman Brothers
Band Museum at the Big House. Work is progressing at the
Big House and the museum will be open by the end of
2009. Copies of the film will be available to purchase
at the screening. Further information is available at www.pleasecallhomethemovie.com
The “Please Call Home” documentary can now be pre-ordered. Order Now
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