The Motown Event (NPR)

Mission Estate Winery, Napier
13th Feb 2010, Tickets $105-$325

This year marks the 50th Anniversary of Motown - America's greatest record label and global music icon. To mark this momentous occasion, Producers SEL have reunited the legends of Motown music in a ONCE-OFF WORLD PREMIERE EVENT called THE MOTOWN EVENT - CELEBRATING THE HITS OF MOTOWN.

The Motown Sound went worldwide in the 60s and that sound still resonates today with nearly 200 #1 songs Worldwide! Everybody young and old remembers the Motown hits... My Girl, I Heard It Thru The
Grapevine, I Can't Help Myself, Heatwave, Stop in The Name of Love, What's Going On... just to name a few. The music of Motown connects generations - incredibly it is the music of today, yesterday and tomorrow!

Motown's hits continue to appear worldwide in TV and radio commercials, in hit television series (like Scrubs) and in major Hollywood big screen movies. Everybody remembers The Big Chill, Little Miss Sunshine, My Girl, You've Got Mail, Something's Gotta Give... which all built scripts around Motown hits. The Motown music continues to provide great inspiration to today's biggest pop and R'n'B stars, and gives hope to everybody around the globe.

THE MOTOWN EVENT - 13TH FEBRUARY 2010

The Motown Event is brought to you by SEL, the highly acclaimed Producers of The Main Event, Grease the Arena Spectacular, The Producers, and The Tony award®-winning production of Hairspray on Broadway.

This very special World Premiere event celebrates 50 years of the best-loved Motown hits.

This once-in-a-lifetime celebration of the outstanding Motown catalogue featuring a stunning lineup of both Motown artists and feature artists is being specially produced for this Australian and New Zealand tour. The show features 35 of the biggest selling songs of all time and the Artists will be backed by a world class 12-piece band to recreate the excitement and dynamic soul sound that was Motown!

All Artists will have their own feature part of the show and they will come together for the finale. The Motown Event promises to be an outstanding and unforgettable performance, not to be missed.

Like all SEL productions it will feature state of the art lighting, audio and big screen vision to ensure fans and concert goers alike have a truly memorable experience.

MOTOWN STARS PERFORMING

www.motown50.com
www.missionconcert.co.nz