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Grammy award winners John Legend, Alison Krauss, and the Zac Brown Band will be among the headlining acts of this May's Hangout Beach, Music and Arts Festival.
Gulf Coast resident are offered discounted tickets to the three-day festival, scheduled for May 14-16. Tickets will be available at The Hangout in Gulf Shores, Surf Style stores in Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, Serda's Coffee in Mobile and Blues Angel Music in Pensacola. A limited number of three-day passes will cost $115. National ticket sales will begin Feb. 15 with three-day passes for $159. For more information, please go to:
http://www.hangoutmusicfest.com/
Singer-songwriter John Legend, who served as a presenter on the 52nd annual Grammy Awards on Sunday (January 31st), says he was happy to be part of the multi-network telethon Hope For Haiti Now. He explained what it was like to perform on the January 22nd all-star event: "Hope For Haiti Now I thought was a beautiful night and really well put together and I was very proud to be a part of it. And I thought the song that I did was very fitting for the sow and I felt very good about the preformance and what we were able to do that night. So it was an honor to be part of that."
Legend added that George Clooney and the producers specifically asked Legend to sing the Negro spiritual "(Sometimes I Feel Like A) Motherless Child" for the telethon. Legend said: "They did some research, they went on YouTube and found that song, 'cause I used to perform it years ago before I had a record deal. And I was surprised that they asked me to do that song because it wasn't out on one of my major albums, it was just on some earlier work that I did before I had a deal. And they found it and they said, 'We want you to do that song. And I was surprised but when they said it, it clicked, I was like 'Wow -- that would be perfect, actually.'"
The Hope For Haiti Now telecast raised some $57 million, while downloads of the collection of all performances raised the tally to more than $70 million and the CD debuted at Number One on the Billboard 200.
Legend is keeping busy preparing for his own CD follow-up to 2008's Evolver, which will be a live acoustic set with The Roots.
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Comcast will be offering a first look at John Legend's Evolver Tour Concert. Starting on February 1st, Comcast will premiere the concert, along with additional musical programming, through On Demand in HD and on Fancast XFINITY TV.
Comcast's music strategy is part of Project Infinity, its commitment to innovation and the delivery of more quality content on TV, including more HD. The concert feature's Legend's hit songs Green Light, Ordinary People, Good Morning and Lets Get Lifted. Viewers can view the artists' insights in a special interview and select individual songs from his performance.
Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) (
www.comcast.com) is one of the nation's leading providers of entertainment, information and communication products and services. With 23.8 million cable customers, 15.7 million high-speed Internet customers, and 7.4 million Comcast Digital Voice customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development, management and operation of cable systems and in the delivery of programming content.

Singer John Legend was a great fan of the performances at the Grammy Awards.
The R & B crooner said he absolutely loved Grammy winner Beyonce's performance and enjoyed duet by Sir Elton John and Lady GaGa.
He also said he thinks singer Pink, whose performance spinning atop the audience garnered a standing ovation, is "kind of underrated" as an artist and he found her performance great.
Legend, who said he'll be performing at the White House in February in honor of Black History Month,
put the kibosh on a rumor out there that he will be appearing in a movie about the late, legendary soul singer Marvin Gaye. Ditto for any talk that he is participating in the remake of "We Are the World".
But while he's not connected with either of those projects, Legend said he had a great time playing with The Roots during a pre-Grammy party and is now he working on an album with the group.
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John Legend and Carlos Santana present the Album Of The Year award onstage during the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards held at Staples Center on January 31, 2010 in Los Angeles, California.

John Legend selected a Prada grey shantung two-button suit, white shirt, black skinny leather tie, grey mesh knit and black lace-up shoes.
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