MOTOWN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PLANNING BIG IN DETROIT

The Motown Alumni Association planning Music Festival and the Motown Walk Of Fame in Detroit in 2004

MOTOWN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
PLANNING BIG IN DETROIT

Detroit MI (PRWEB) September 15, 2003(MAA News) -The Motown Alumni Association, Inc. is planning a huge campaign to keep the Motown theme alive in the city of Detroit. The MAA planning committee is organizing the Motown Walk Of Fame. On the committee and CO-producer is attorney Gregory Reed, the lawyer of civil rights activist Rosa Parks, and legal council of the David Ruffin estate.

Organizers indicated that there will be a minimum of 50 bronze plated plaques embodied into the cement sidewalks of Woodward Avenue in the vicinity of the legendary Fox Theater in the city of Detroit. The Fox Theater is historic in that, all of the Motown artist entertained at the famed theater during the hay-days of Motown's reign in the 60's and 70's.

"We still have a few hurdles to cross" said Billy Wilson CEO of the MAA Inc. organization, "we still have to go the city council to get approval, and organize our sponsors to decide who will sponsor what ... but we are determined to make this happen ... we want Detroit to be the Disney World of Motown music."

The Motown Walk Of Fame is scheduled to be in place around the middle of April, during the month of the company's 45th anniversary.

At about the same time, April 22, 23, & 24 of 2004 the MAA is also planning a Motown Alumni Association Music Festival (MAAMF), and is expecting to celebrate the 45th anniversary with over 100 alumnus of the famed company attending the event.

The festival is expected to take place at Ford Field (the new Lion's football stadium) in Detroit. The stadium holds 65,000 spectators, and the MAA is expecting to fill the venue on all three nights.

Though the 23rd & 24th are the nights of the actual festival, the date of the 22nd will involves the first annual Paul Williams Music Conference. Williams was a member of the famed singing group Temptations, and was found dead with a gun shot wound to the head near Motown records in the late 60's.

The convention is being presented by Williams' younger brother Joe Williams, who lives in the city of Detroit, "this is a life long dream ..." said the younger Williams.

The Motown Alumni Association garners an estimated 10,000 membership base worldwide, and over 20 branches nationally and internationally.

Go to Motownalumni.com to find out more.
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