Hicks plays Grammy Museum gig

Hicks plays Grammy Museum gig

Local young musician rubs elbows at special Beatles-themed engagement

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Cameron Hicks, 13, of West Memphis, recently played at the newlyopened Grammy Museum located in Cleveland, Mississippi.

As part of an Artists and Authors Symposium, Hicks was invited to perform live music during a Lunch-N-Learn with author Lanea Stagg, author of three Rock and Rollthemed cookbooks (Recipe Records) and two children's books. Other featured speakers at the symposium were John Lennon expert Jude Southerland Kessler (author of the nine-volume “John Lennon Series”); Ivor Davis, the only journalist who accompanied the Beatles during the entirety of their 1964 U.S.

tour (as well as being the only journalist present when the Beatles met Elvis Presley at Graceland in 1965); and Freda Kelly, secretary for Beatles manager Brian Epstein until his death and president of the Official Beatles Fan Club from 1962 to 1973. Hicks, son of Dwayne and Andrea Hicks, also performed on stage for the First Annual “Grammy Jam,” a reenactment of the Beatles' performance on the first live, international, satellite broadcast, “Our World.”

Opened in early March, the Grammy Museum in Cleveland, is the only satellite branch of the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles.

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