Eddie Vedder, Brothers Osborne, Many Extra To Honor Actor Leslie Jordan
Eddie Vedder, Brothers Osborne, Maren Morris, and Lukas Nelson are among the many spectacular line-up who will honor Leslie Jordan in a fundraiser on the Grand Ole Opry on February 19. Reportin’ For Obligation: A Tribute To Leslie Jordan will commemorate the late actor, comic, author and singer, who died final October on the age of 67.
Tickets go on sale on Friday (13), with pre-sales starting tomorrow. All proceeds will to to a trigger that Jordan himself supported, EB Analysis Partnership, the most important international group devoted to funding analysis to deal with and remedy Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB).
The joyful occasion will comprise intimate performances and tales that includes insights from Jordan’s life and occasions. He was greatest recognized to many for the Emmy-winning function of Beverley Leslie within the hit TV sequence Will & Grace, but in addition grew to become vastly standard on social media in the course of the pandemic, amassing 5.8 million followers on Instagram.
A lot liked on display screen and stage
Jordan’s different components included a number of characters within the American Horror Story franchise, and most just lately within the Fox sitcom Name Me Kat. He featured in such sequence as The Cool Youngsters and Hearts Afire, and performed many roles on stage and in movies, together with in 2021’s The US vs. Billie Vacation, his last film function. His autobiography How Y’all Doing? Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Nicely Lived was revealed in 2021.
Different contributors to Reportin’ For Obligation will incude Brittney Spencer, Billy Strings, Jake Wesley Rogers, Ashley McBryde, Fancy Hagood, Jelly Roll, Danny Myrick, and Travis Howard. There might be particular appearances from such associates as Jim Parsons, Anthony Mason, Mayim Bialik, Cheyenne Jackson, Max Greenfield, Margaret Cho, Robyn Schall, and Leanne Morgan, amongst others. The home band for the occasion will characteristic the musicians from Jordan’s first and solely album, 2021’s Firm’s Comin’, three of whom are ACM Instrumentalist of the 12 months winners.
