'Definitely a memory that will be going up on the wall of fame.'
The Hollywood actor was in Ireland to MC at The Delta Blues Project, a collaborative event between US-based jazz and blues impresario David O’Rourke and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.
Held in O'Reilly Hall at the University College Dublin Festival, the goal of the project was to bring American jazz and blues to Irish audiences, with some of the biggest classics of the genres performed in new orchestrations by O'Rourke. Freeman was invited to MC the event given that he is the co-founder and co-owner of the Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Mississippi. The venue has been described as"the number one blues club in the world".In a statement about The Delta Blues Project, the actor said: “My love of music doesn’t start and end with the blues. I also love the symphony, the talent of amazing musicians and the immersive nature that grabs you and pulls you right in.
Freeman earned a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for the 2004 movie Million Dollar Baby. As well as this, he is also renowned for his roles in Bruce Almighty, The Dark Knight trilogy, Seven and The Shawshank Redemption, as well for narrating the documentary The March of the Penguins. And given the actor's presence in a Dublin pub, we encourage people to come up with their own Freeman drink-related puns.
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