Atlanta Daily World

NEW YORK (SNS)—Many Negro artists will be prominently featured in the forthcoming American Music Festival which will be given for the benefit of the Dorothy Parker Spanish Children's Relief Fund Wednesday evening, May 8, at the Mecca Temple, 133 West 55 Street.

The program to be presented at the festival is lively and varied and runs the gamut of all phases of musical fare. There will be four separate sections, including concert, folk, theater and dance, and popular or swing music, in all of which Negro artists will participate, as well as three recent winners of Guggenheim Fellowship for musical composition.

In addition to Miss Parker, who is chairman of the committee, colleagues crying with her include Olin Downes, noted music critic for the New York Times; Richard Watts, Jr., drama critic for the New York Herald Tribune, Herman Shumlin, prominent Broadway producer and others.

Among the notable Negro figures in the cultural and musical world, who have consented to appear on the program are the following: Teddy Wilson and his swing quartet, the Boogie Woogie pianists, celebrated Harlem house musicians from the Cafe Society, Juanita Hall and her choir in a presentation of "Su ala and the Elders" written by John La Touche, who wrote the lyrics for the Ballad for Americans, Jelly Roll Morton, originator of jazzdom and swing, maker of the archives for the U. S. Congressional Library on the history of American music; Laura Duncan, Leadbelly, and the Al Moss octette, singing a new number by Alex North, based on Langston Hughes' famous poem, Mother...

Among the participants are: Eliot Paul, Harold Rome, Earl Robinson, Morton Gould, Phil Loeb, Paul Creston and Cecil Leeson.