Nearly Four Decades of Service to Protect the Arts Recognized With Dedication Ceremony at Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts

DETROIT, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ — After 37 years of service to one of
Detroit’s cultural jewels, Music Hall Center for the Performing Art’s “first
couple” will on February 27th be honored with the dedication of the “Tina and
Leland Bassett Lounge” at Music Hall. Tina and Leland Bassett have been
tireless supporters of the historic, art-deco arts venue, helping to build it
into a nationally recognized cultural center and jazz venue.

“Tina and Leland have made an indelible mark on Music Hall and on
Detroit,” said Music Hall President and Artistic Director Vince Paul. “I’m
thrilled that their unfailing dedication to preserving Music Hall and the arts
in Detroit is being recognized in this way.”

Tina and Leland Bassett have served in a variety of roles at Music Hall,
beginning as volunteers, then chairing Music Hall’s first strategic planning
task force in the 1980s. They now serve as trustees, Music Hall Advocates and
Founding General Co-Chairs of the Producers, Music Hall’s individual major
donor group. Leland K. Bassett has also served as Chairman of the Board and
is currently Vice-Chair.

The Tina and Leland Bassett Lounge is an elegant, art-deco designed room
that echoes Music Hall’s art gallery. It features a north view of the
entertainment district below and will be available as a venue for a variety of
events and meetings.

The dedication ceremony will take place before the opening performance of
Cirque Eloize’s surreal homage to the elements, “Nebbia” at 8:00 p.m.

Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts is a national treasure, having
the distinction of being the only surviving stage theatre originally built for
live performance in the region. Built in 1928 by Matilda Dodge Wilson, the
legendary automaker and lumber baron heiress and philanthropist, the historic
art-deco building provides a stage for live performances from top-billed
artists from around the globe, including living legends such as Aretha
Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Liza Minelli, Lionel Ritchie and Smokey Robinson.

The Jazz Cafe at Music Hall features some of the most prominent jazz
musicians in the nation and is being hailed by critics as the most important
jazz venue to be built in the nation in recent history.

For more information about Music Hall, visit www.musichall.org, or call
(313) 887-8500.

Tina Bassett: Tina Bassett co-founded and is President of Bassett &
Bassett, Incorporated, Communication Managers and Counselors, located in the
First National Building in Detroit. She is widely recognized for her
innovative and creative high-impact communication programs. With a strong
background in consumer marketing, advertising, promotions and public
relations, she served as the City of Detroit’s Director of Public Information
as an appointee of Mayor Coleman A. Young from 1974 to 1986. She formed
Bassett & Bassett, Incorporated with husband, Leland K. Bassett, in 1986.

Leland K. Bassett: Leland K. Bassett, Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of
Bassett & Bassett, Incorporated, pioneered the application of communication
psychology and strategic planning to public relations, corporate communication
and integrated strategic communication management for more than a quarter
century, establishing the nation’s first corporate strategic communication
management department in the mid 1970s. He also designed and taught the
nation’s first graduate strategic communication program at Michigan State
University in the College of Communication Arts & Sciences in the 1980s.

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SOURCE Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts