♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh, ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh, ooh ♪ ♪ Tell me where is the road ♪ ♪ I can call my own ♪ ♪ That I left ♪ ♪ That I lost ♪ ♪ So long ago ♪ ♪ All these years ♪ ♪ I have wandered ♪ ♪ Oh, when will I know ♪ ♪ There's a way ♪ ♪ There's a road ♪ ♪ That will lead ♪ ♪ Me home ♪ ♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh, ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh, ooh ♪ ♪ Rise up, follow me ♪ ♪ Come away ♪ ♪ Is the call ♪ ♪ With the love ♪ ♪ In your heart ♪ ♪ As the only song ♪ ♪ There is no such beauty ♪ ♪ As where you belong ♪ ♪ Rise up, follow me ♪ ♪ I will lead you home ♪ ♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh, ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh, ooh ♪ ♪ O beautiful for spacious skies ♪ ♪ For amber waves of grain ♪ (audience applauds) ♪ For purple mountain majesties ♪ ♪ Above the fruited plain ♪ ♪ America, America ♪ ♪ God shed his grace on thee ♪ ♪ And crown thy good with brotherhood ♪ ♪ From sea to shining sea ♪ ♪ And crown thy good with brotherhood ♪ ♪ From sea to ♪ ♪ Shining ♪ ♪ Sea ♪ ♪ America ♪ ♪ America ♪ (audience applauds) (audience cheers) (audience continues cheering) - Hey, everybody, my name's, my name is Jason Carter.

I'm the chair of the, (audience cheers) it's a good, good crowd.

I'm the chair of the Carter Center Board of Trustees, and I want to welcome you to my grandfather's 100th birthday party.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Huge thanks to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus.

Let's give them another round of applause.

(audience applauds) We were just talking backstage that everyone in here is making history because this is the first time ever that people have come together to celebrate the 100th birthday of an American president.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) And we have a very cool party for a very cool guy, and we have an amazing lineup of musicians to help us celebrate, and it's gonna be fantastic.

Jimmy Carter, or Pawpaw, as I call him, (audience laughs) has always loved a reason to celebrate with good friends and good music.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) My grandparents founded the Carter Center more than 40 years ago to help fulfill their vision of waging peace, fighting disease, and building hope around the globe.

And during their time at the Carter Center and in their lives, they visited together more than 100 countries, and they worked side by side with thousands of people in those communities.

To give an example, in Uganda, the Carter Center is working with a huge network of community volunteers to end river blindness, and when one of those communities found out about my grandfather's upcoming birthday, they sent our first bit of little musical love.

So check this out.

(audience applauds) - [Group] Happy birthday from Uganda to President Carter!

♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ ♪ Happy birthday, dear Carter ♪ ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ (group cheers) (audience cheers) (slow rock music) (slow rock music continues) (slow rock music continues) ♪ One man come in the name of love ♪ ♪ One man come and go ♪ ♪ One man come he to justify ♪ ♪ One man to overthrow ♪ ♪ In the name of love ♪ ♪ What more in the name of love ♪ ♪ In the name of love ♪ ♪ What more in the name of love ♪ ♪ One man caught on a barbed wire fence ♪ ♪ One man he resist ♪ ♪ One man washed up on an empty beach ♪ ♪ One man betrayed with a kiss ♪ ♪ In the name of love ♪ ♪ What more in the name of love ♪ ♪ In the name of love ♪ ♪ What more in the name of love ♪ (slow rock music continues) (slow rock music continues) (slow rock music continues) (slow rock music continues) ♪ Ah, ah, ah ♪ ♪ Ah, ah, ah ♪ ♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah ♪ ♪ Early morning, April 4th ♪ ♪ Shot rings out in the Memphis sky ♪ ♪ Free at last, they took your life ♪ ♪ But they cannot take your pride ♪ ♪ In the name of love ♪ ♪ What more in the name of love ♪ ♪ In the name of love ♪ ♪ What more in the name of love ♪ ♪ In the name of love ♪ ♪ What more in the name of love ♪ ♪ In the name of love ♪ ♪ What more in the name of love ♪ ♪ No, no, no, no ♪ ♪ No, no, no ♪ ♪ No, no, no ♪ ♪ No, no, no ♪ ♪ No, no, no ♪ ♪ No, no, no ♪ ♪ No, no, no ♪ ♪ No, no, no ♪ - Come on.

(slow rock music continues) (slow rock music continues) (audience cheers) (audience applauds) Thank you, Atlanta, we love you.

- Good evening, Atlanta.

We are so honored to be here to celebrate Jimmy Carter.

My whole childhood, my dad and uncle worked on President Carter's momentous Alaskan Lands Bill.

I don't think at the time I actually knew Jimmy Carter had been president.

All I understood was that in my house, Jimmy Carter was an environmental god.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) - But Jimmy Carter is not just an environmental hero.

He's also a home brewing hero, and during his term, (audience laughs) he signed the bill that made home brewing legal on the federal level, which paved the way (audience cheers) for the craft brew industry.

So let's raise a glass and let's toast this amazing, multifaceted man tonight.

(audience cheers) Happy birthday- - Happy birthday, President Carter!

- President Carter!

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) - Happy birthday, President Carter.

- Happy birthday, President Carter.

- We love you.

- From Indigo Girls.

(slow guitar music) ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ ♪ Happy birthday President Carter, dear President Carter ♪ ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ (audience applauds) (upbeat music) - All right, now, we all can celebrate together.

I'm taking it back old school as we celebrate President Carter.

If you came here to celebrate President Carter, make some noise, Atlanta!

(audience cheers) We gonna bring this back, come on, come on.

Once again, it's D-Nice.

This is what I love.

We love music, President Carter loves music.

Let's vibe, everybody, come on.

(upbeat music continues) Here we go.

♪ My own beliefs are in my song ♪ - Hey, come on.

♪ The butcher, the banker, the drummer and me ♪ - I need you all to sing along tonight.

♪ Makes no difference ♪ - We're gonna sing along together.

Sing along now, say what?

♪ I ♪ - [D-Nice] Come on.

♪ Am every day people ♪ - [D-Nice] Boy, I hear you, I hear you.

You sounded so good, come on, hey, hey.

♪ There is a blue one ♪ ♪ Who can't accept the green one ♪ - [D-Nice] Let's dance now.

♪ For living with a fat one ♪ ♪ And trying to be a skinny one ♪ - [D-Nice] Hey, come on.

♪ Different strokes for different folks ♪ ♪ And so on and so on ♪ - [D-Nice] 'Cause I've got a vibe right now, everybody.

Hey, come on.

♪ Oh, sha, sha ♪ - [D-Nice] Let's dance.

♪ We've got to live together ♪ ♪ I am no better and neither are you ♪ - [D-Nice] Come on.

♪ We are the same, whatever we do ♪ ♪ You love me, you hate me, and know me, and then ♪ - We gotta find out.

♪ You can't figure out the bag I'm in ♪ - Come on!

♪ I ♪ ♪ Am every day people ♪ - Once again, it's D-Nice.

(audience cheers) Ah, don't make me tear up right now as we celebrate President Carter.

Happy 100th, thank you for having me here, everyone.

Blessed to see you all.

(audience cheers) - Hi, President Carter, this is Bonnie Raitt.

I'm out here on the road, and I just want to be among the many sending our love and congratulations on your 100th birthday.

What an incredible life you've lived, and I just want to thank you on behalf of everyone for your work for justice and peace and ethics, and your incredible presidency.

Thank you, thank you for a life so beautifully lived.

Happy birthday.

(audience applauds) - Good evening, I'm Reverend Dr. Bernice A.

King, chief executive officer of the King Center here in Atlanta.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) The King Center and the Carter Center are linked by a beautiful walking and biking path, but they are connected by much more than that.

Both my father, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and President Jimmy Carter (audience applauds) were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

(audience applauds) That deserves an applause, right here in Atlanta, and both of our organizations have carried out the values of peace and justice, helping to transform Atlanta into a world-renowned hub of human rights advocacy and action.

(audience applauds) (audience cheers) Yes.

President Carter, your enduring legacy as a friend to the King family and a champion of justice has touched our hearts deeply.

From honoring my father with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 to securing the sustainability of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Park through your visionary expansion of the National Park Service, (audience applauds) your commitment to the values we hold dear has been unwavering.

(audience applauds) Your presidency stood out for your efforts to dismantle racial discrimination.

You worked with my mother in 1977 to establish a commission focused on increasing the number of Black federal judges, leading to 37 of your 258 judicial appointments being African American.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) You, President Carter, also appointed more women and people of color to the federal judiciary than all previous presidents combined.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Yes, we, the King family, are forever grateful for your contributions and friendship.

Your life's work continues to illuminate the path towards justice and equality for all.

This concert is a testament to your enduring impact on our world.

(audience applauds) Please join me in welcoming the incomparable Lalah Hathaway.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience continues cheering) - Good evening.

What an occasion to be here celebrating 100 years of life and legacy, and I'm so happy to be one of the artists to grace this stage tonight, playing with these amazing musicians.

(audience applauds) Please give a warm welcome to the Rickey Minor Band.

(slow music) (slow music continues) ♪ No complaints and no regrets ♪ ♪ I still believe ♪ ♪ In chasing dreams ♪ ♪ And placing bets ♪ ♪ And I have learned ♪ ♪ That all you give is all you get ♪ ♪ So give it all you've got ♪ (slow music continues) ♪ I had my share ♪ ♪ I drank my fill ♪ ♪ And even though I'm satisfied ♪ ♪ I hunger still ♪ ♪ To know what's down another road ♪ ♪ Beyond the hill ♪ ♪ And do it all again ♪ ♪ So here's to life ♪ ♪ To every joy it brings ♪ ♪ Here's to life ♪ ♪ To dreamers and their dreams ♪ (slow music continues) ♪ For there's no yes in yesterday ♪ ♪ Who knows what tomorrow brings ♪ ♪ Or takes away ♪ ♪ As long as I'm still in the game ♪ ♪ I want to play ♪ ♪ For laughs, for life, for love ♪ (audience cheers) ♪ So here's to life ♪ (slow music continues) ♪ The dreamers and their dreams ♪ ♪ Here's to life ♪ ♪ The dreamers and their dreams ♪ ♪ May all your storms be weathered ♪ ♪ And all that's good get better ♪ ♪ Here's to life ♪ ♪ Here's to love ♪ ♪ Here's to ♪ ♪ You ♪ (audience cheers) (audience applauds) (slow music continues) ♪ You ♪ (slow music continues) (audience cheers) (audience applauds) - Happy 100th birthday, Mr. President.

The nation and the world celebrate you with deep gratitude, admiration, and affection.

You are a confirmation that one heart with courage is a majority.

Thank you, sir, and God bless you on your birthday.

(audience applauds) - All right, well, the party keeps going.

Please welcome Renée Zellweger.

(audience cheers) - Hey, Atlanta, I'm so happy to be here with y'all to celebrate our hero's centennial birthday.

(audience applauds) 100 years of kindness and social responsibility and faith and devotion and inspiring stories, and at the heart of all of it, love.

Tonight, (audience cheers) I'm gonna talk about the story of Jimmy Carter's truest and greatest love, a love that endured more than three quarters of a century.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) It's the real life love story of a beautiful small-town girl and a handsome farm boy who found each other and never let go.

When Rosalynn Smith was born in Plains, Georgia, a three-year-old neighbor boy named Jimmy was brought over to see the new baby.

It's a whole new spin on meet cute.

(laughs) (audience laughs) As the years went by, Rosalynn became best friends with Jimmy's younger sister, and Jimmy went off to attend the Naval Academy.

A teenage Rosalynn saw a picture of him in uniform and immediately developed an understandable, unshakeable crush.

During a visit home on a break from his studies at Annapolis, the dashing young man saw pretty Rosalynn outside a church and asked her to go to a movie with him.

(audience laughs) The next morning at breakfast, Jimmy told his mother, "Mama, that's the girl I'm gonna marry."

And when the time came for him to pop the question, Rosalynn said, "No."

(audience laughs) She promised her daddy that she was gonna finish school first, and she did, and Jimmy asked again, and we know what she said.

(audience applauds) They were married on July 7th, 1946, and lived happily ever after for the next 77 years.

In that time, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter went everywhere and did everything together, bringing love and compassion with them all over the world.

And during Rosalynn's final days, Jimmy asked that their beds be arranged foot to foot so that he could see her and talk to her.

Of course, he was with her last November to see her on her way.

He was 99 and she was 96, two kids still madly in love.

The Rosalynn and Jimmy story, a love story for the ages, and a remarkable 100 years.

Happy birthday, Mr. President.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Y'all please join me in welcoming an old friend of Jimmy's whose music is a member of The Allman Brothers Band, was instrumental in helping turn Governor Carter into the 39th president of the United States.

Let's hear it for Chuck Leavell.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience continues cheering) - Good evening, fine people.

(audience cheers) Thank you so much for being here to help celebrate the 100th birthday of one of the finest human beings to ever walk this planet.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) I am so pleased and proud to have my good friend Duane Betts here with me tonight.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (upbeat rock music) (audience cheers) (upbeat rock music continues) ♪ Walk along the river, sweet lullaby ♪ ♪ It just keeps on flowing ♪ ♪ It don't worry 'bout where it's going ♪ (upbeat rock music continues) ♪ Don't fly, mister blue bird ♪ ♪ I'm just walking down the road ♪ ♪ Early morning sunshine ♪ ♪ Tell me all I need to know ♪ (upbeat rock music continues) ♪ Yeah, you're my blue sky ♪ ♪ You're my sunny day ♪ ♪ Lord, you know it makes me high ♪ ♪ When you turn your love my way ♪ ♪ Turn your love my way ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪ (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) ♪ Good old Sunday morning ♪ ♪ Bells are ringing everywhere ♪ ♪ Going to Carolina ♪ ♪ It won't be long ♪ ♪ And I'll be there ♪ Hey!

(upbeat rock music continues) ♪ Yeah, you're my blue sky ♪ ♪ You're my sunny day ♪ ♪ Lord, you know it makes me high ♪ ♪ When you turn your love my way ♪ ♪ Turn your love my way ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪ (audience cheers) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (audience cheers) (audience applauds) - [Chuck] Thank you!

- All right, joining the party, welcome my friends Tanya and Michael, otherwise known as The War and Treaty.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience cheers) (slow music) ♪ Hey, pretty moon ♪ ♪ So bright and fair ♪ ♪ How do you hang ♪ ♪ In the air up there ♪ ♪ Looks like you hang ♪ ♪ Free from all cares ♪ ♪ Mm, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪ ♪ Silver circle ♪ (audience cheers) ♪ Light and round ♪ ♪ In the dark ♪ ♪ Look at the peace you've found ♪ ♪ It looks like you hang ♪ ♪ Free ♪ ♪ From all cares ♪ ♪ Yeah, free, yeah ♪ ♪ How do you shine ♪ ♪ While the darkest hours ♪ ♪ Burns under your luminous eye ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ Teach me how ♪ ♪ You'd better teach me, baby ♪ ♪ Shine the way ♪ ♪ Shine a way ♪ ♪ You do, you do ♪ ♪ No matter, no matter ♪ ♪ How gray the sky, yeah, oh ♪ ♪ Hey, pretty moon ♪ (audience cheers) ♪ Bright and fair ♪ ♪ How do you hang, how do you hang ♪ ♪ In the air, oh, up there ♪ ♪ Looks like you hang ♪ ♪ Free, yeah ♪ ♪ From all cares ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, whoa, oh, oh ♪ ♪ You find a way ♪ ♪ To stay up high, you find a way to stay up high ♪ ♪ While all the stars ♪ ♪ Fall by your side, while your stars ♪ ♪ Fall by your side ♪ ♪ Even the sun sometimes fails to show ♪ ♪ You always ♪ ♪ Keep your glow, hey, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ Hey, pretty moon ♪ ♪ Bright and fair ♪ ♪ How do you hang, how do you hang ♪ ♪ In the air up there, oh, yeah ♪ ♪ Looks like you hang ♪ - Take it, Mama.

♪ Free ♪ ♪ From ♪ ♪ All ♪ ♪ Care ♪ (audience cheers) ♪ Oh, looks like you hang ♪ (audience continues cheering) - Happy birthday, President Carter.

(audience continues cheering) Before we formed The War and Treaty, I served our country in the United States Army.

(audience cheers) Shout-out to 16 Infantry, 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division.

Yes.

(audience cheers) You could say that my time in the Army as a war veteran was the defining experience of my life, so I feel exceptionally grateful to be here tonight honoring our forever president, President Jimmy Carter.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Who also began his life of service in the Armed Forces.

(audience applauds) (audience cheers) - Service is undoubtedly a driving force in Jimmy Carter's life and story, and he knows the power of music to heal and unify.

So, from the bottom of our hearts, President Carter, happy birthday!

- Happy birthday!

(laughs) (audience cheers) (audience applauds) - Now, please welcome our dear friend, Carlene Carter.

- Come on, Carlene!

(audience applauds) - Thank y'all.

Thank you, Tanya and Michael, woo-hoo, y'all.

(audience applauds) I am so delighted to be here to celebrate this incredible milestone because I so admire President Carter.

If there's one thing we can learn from the legacy of Jimmy Carter, it's that we don't have to share blood to be family.

(audience applauds) (audience cheers) And in that spirit, I want to welcome my friend to help me perform this song made famous by my Carter family, which is y'all's Carter family, too.

He's the son of Allman Brothers' great Dickey Betts, (audience cheers) (audience applauds) who had used his music and platform to help elect elect President Carter.

So put your hands together for Duane Betts.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) - Thank you, Carlene.

- You're welcome, sweetie.

And I also want to shout out to my company of angels back here who's gonna be singing with us.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) We hope that y'all will join us on this one.

(slow guitar music) (slow guitar music continues) (slow guitar music continues) ♪ Well, I was standing ♪ ♪ By my window ♪ ♪ On one cold ♪ ♪ And cloudy day ♪ ♪ When I saw that hearse come rolling ♪ ♪ For to carry my mother away ♪ ♪ Will the circle be unbroken ♪ ♪ By and by, Lord, by and by ♪ ♪ There's a better ♪ ♪ Home awaiting ♪ ♪ In the sky, Lord, in the sky ♪ - [Carlene] Come on, Duane.

♪ Well, I told the undertaker ♪ ♪ Undertaker, please drive slow ♪ ♪ For the lady you are carrying ♪ ♪ Lord, I hate to see her go ♪ - [Carlene] Want to sing?

♪ Will the circle be unbroken ♪ ♪ By and by, Lord, by and by ♪ ♪ There's a better home awaiting ♪ ♪ In the sky, Lord, in the sky ♪ - Come on, now, Chuck.

(upbeat music) (upbeat music continues) (upbeat music continues) (Carlene hums) ♪ Well, I followed close behind her ♪ ♪ Tried to hold up and be brave ♪ ♪ But I could not ♪ ♪ Hide my sorrow ♪ ♪ When they laid her in that grave ♪ ♪ Will the circle ♪ - [Carlene] Y'all sing!

♪ Be unbroken ♪ ♪ By and by, Lord, by and by ♪ ♪ There's a better home awaiting ♪ ♪ In the sky, Lord, in the sky ♪ - Come on, now, bring it together.

♪ Will the circle be unbroken ♪ (Carlene claps) ♪ By and by, Lord, by and by ♪ (audience members clapping) (Carlene cheers) ♪ There's a better home awaiting ♪ ♪ In the sky, Lord, in the sky ♪ (upbeat music continues) ♪ In the sky, Lord, in the ♪ ♪ Sky ♪ - Thank you, God bless y'all.

(audience cheers) Happy birthday, Jimmy Carter!

(cheers) (audience cheers) (audience applauds) Thank you, Duane and Chucky Chuck.

(audience continues cheering) Y'all have fun.

- Hello, Braves fans.

(audience cheers) I'm Dale Murphy and this is Terry Pendleton and we're proud- (audience cheers) Thank you.

(laughs) And we're proud to have played for the Braves organization, and we're both excited that we could be here for Jimmy Carter's big birthday bash tonight.

- So what are a couple of baseball players doing hanging out with this incredible musician at a birthday concert?

Well, besides being the rock and roll president, Jimmy Carter may also be the biggest Braves fan on the planet.

(audience cheers) He and Mrs. Carter could often be seen taking in a game at Turner Field.

- And we have the Kiss Cam footage to prove it.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) As governor, Jimmy Carter was there at Fulton County Stadium when Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's home run record in 1974.

(audience cheers) It was a special moment in baseball history, in Atlanta's history, and America's history.

They remained good friends forever after that.

Hank even sat on the Carter Center Board of Councilors.

(audience applauds) We recognize another MVP when we see one, so we've brought tonight's MVP a custom Braves jersey that was created to commemorate this incredible milestone and his lifelong support of this team.

We're hoping he can wear it while he watches his favorite team from his home in Plains.

(audience cheers) - So, (audience applauds) let's bring out Jimmy's grandson, Josh Carter, with his wife, Sarah Jane, and Jimmy's great-grandson Charlie and Jonathan, to make sure it gets to Pawpaw.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience continues cheering) - Thank you, Josh and family.

And finally, we don't want the rest of you to feel left out.

We brought Braves hats for everyone.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) - Consider them your party favors.

Many happy returns to President Carter.

Now, please help us welcome the incredible Angélique Kidjo.

- Kidjo.

(laughs) (audience cheers) (audience applauds) - [Terry] Thank you.

- [Dale] Thanks, guys.

- [Sarah] Thank you.

- I had the good fortune to perform when President Carter received his Nobel Peace Prize, and as a champion for human rights and for actively working to achieve peace, he was certainly deserving of that honor.

He and I have a shared love for Africa and advocacy on the continent.

Most people probably don't know this, but he was the first sitting United States president to visit Sub-Saharan Africa.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) And he made more than 20 trips to Africa after he left office.

I have to refer to President Carter as a hero because he has taken what most would view as a vulnerability and turned it into a superpower.

That superpower is caring for the human condition, and the two of us have this in common.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) We are from two completely different parts of the world, but we are kindred spirits, and I am so grateful for the work he has done to make this world better for all of us.

So tonight, we honor him once again, and by doing so, we honor that spirit within each of us.

That is a way to continue his legacy, and it is my good fortune to perform for him again to celebrate his 100th birthday.

Happy birthday, Mr. President Carter.

(audience applauds) And to do it the African way, I would like all of you to join us in the next song that we're gonna sing to celebrate our shared humanity, one thing that he spent so much time trying to preserve.

(slow music) So we're gonna sing this.

(Angélique singing in foreign language) ♪ Africa ♪ (Angélique singing in foreign language) ♪ Africa ♪ Atlanta, you now.

(audience singing in foreign language) ♪ Africa ♪ (audience singing in foreign language) ♪ Africa ♪ (upbeat music) (upbeat music continues) (Angélique singing in foreign language) (Angélique continues singing in foreign language) Let's go!

(group singing in foreign language) Come on.

(group singing in foreign language) (group continues singing in foreign language) (group continues singing in foreign language) (upbeat music continues) (audience cheers) (Angélique singing in foreign language) (Angélique continues singing in foreign language) Let's go!

(group singing in foreign language) (group continues singing in foreign language) (group continues singing in foreign language) (group continues singing in foreign language) (audience cheers) (audience applauds) - So stay up, more dancing to come.

(upbeat music) (upbeat music continues) (Angélique singing in foreign language) (group singing in foreign language) (group continues singing in foreign language) (group continues singing in foreign language) (group continues singing in foreign language) (group continues singing in foreign language) (group continues singing in foreign language) ♪ Let's do it, let's do it ♪ (Angélique singing in foreign language) ♪ Come on, now, let's dance, let's dance ♪ ♪ Dance, dance, dance ♪ (Angélique singing in foreign language) Shake your body, turn your body.

♪ Come and dance, dance, dance, dance, dance ♪ ♪ Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, dance ♪ (group singing in foreign language) (group continues singing in foreign language) (Angélique chanting in foreign language) (Angélique continues chanting in foreign language) (upbeat music) (audience cheers) (audience cheers) (upbeat music continues) (upbeat music continues) (audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience continues cheering) - Thank you so much!

Now, it is my pleasure to bringing to the stage the one and only Bebe Winans.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) - It is my honor to join all the voices in saying happy birthday to an incredible man who has shown the heart of God to people all over the world, and I am here to share this (audience cheers) stage with the extraordinary Spelman College Glee Club.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (slow piano music) ♪ Hold my soul now, sing loud ♪ ♪ At your feet I humbly bow ♪ ♪ Peace impervious, deem to me ♪ ♪ All I am, give all to thee ♪ ♪ Storms enrage life's battle strong ♪ ♪ Solace found in loving God ♪ ♪ Tend thy near my faintest plea ♪ ♪ All I am, give all to thee ♪ ♪ All to thee ♪ ♪ All to thee ♪ ♪ Abundant likeness, desire for me ♪ ♪ All to thee ♪ ♪ All to thee ♪ ♪ My heart renders all to thee ♪ ♪ Enduring hope so Heaven near ♪ ♪ Still soft voice calms raging fear ♪ ♪ Ever faithful ♪ ♪ Thine mercies ♪ ♪ All I am, give all to thee ♪ ♪ Soon in rapture ♪ ♪ Face to face ♪ ♪ Love imbued my debt to pay ♪ ♪ In your presence ever be ♪ ♪ All I am is 'cause of thee ♪ ♪ All to thee ♪ ♪ All to thee ♪ ♪ Abundant likeness, desire for me ♪ ♪ All to thee ♪ ♪ All to thee ♪ ♪ My heart renders all to thee ♪ ♪ All to thee ♪ ♪ All to thee ♪ ♪ Abundant likeness, desire for me ♪ ♪ All to thee ♪ ♪ All to thee ♪ ♪ My heart renders ♪ ♪ All to thee ♪ - [Bebe] Yes.

♪ My heart renders ♪ ♪ All ♪ ♪ To thee ♪ (audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience continues cheering) - What an absolutely amazing night.

Hello, everyone, I'm Monica Pearson.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) I have been a part of Atlanta's journalism scene since Jimmy Carter was running for president.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) I covered the Carter Center's grand opening in 1986, and then flew over to Norway in 2002, of course to cover his Nobel Peace Prize ceremony.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) His lifelong commitment to human rights stems from his unshakable belief that all people are created equal.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) He decided at an early age to do something about the injustices that he saw in the world around him, trying to right those wrongs, first as a state senator, then as governor, and then as president, and finally through the Carter Center.

Citizen Carter taught Sunday School for four decades at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains.

(audience applauds) Citizen Carter helped pioneer the field of election observation, (audience applauds) personally leading 39 of the Carter Center's 124 election missions and helping to ensure that millions of people in fledging or backsliding democracies could make their votes and their voices heard.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Citizen Carter, along with his great love and fellow citizen, Rosalynn Carter, spent a week every year building homes with Habitat for Humanity.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Never showboating, always working.

The Carters brought awareness to under the radar diseases, making dozens of trips to Africa and Latin America to educate governments and every day citizens about how to eliminate these scourges.

Even without a vaccine or a pill, the Carter Center has virtually eradicated Guinea worm.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) And it has distributed more than a billion doses of medication to treat other neglected tropical diseases.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Well, President Carter, now you're turning 100 years old and you're still surprising and inspiring us.

Your faith, your moral sensibility, and tireless pursuit of peace, justice, and dignity serve as a model we all should emulate.

You once said, "I'd like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights."

Have no doubt, Mr. Carter, you will be.

(audience applauds) Thank you, and happy birthday.

(audience cheers) (upbeat music) - Our commitment to human rights must be absolute.

The struggle for human rights overrides all differences of color or nation or language.

The Carter Center was founded when we first left the White House.

We decided that we wanted to continue our work promoting peace and human rights.

♪ Do it 'cause you want to ♪ - [Rosalynn] I worked with all different organizations when Jimmy was president.

♪ Got roots down to the core ♪ - So I thought it would be a good idea to get everybody together.

- We never anticipated that this would happen.

♪ Saw your sun is burning ♪ ♪ Reaching across this plane ♪ - We will eradicate Guinea worm.

We will eliminate trachoma.

We will control other diseases.

That is what our commitment is to continue the legacy of President and Mrs. Carter.

(slow guitar music) - [Rosalynn] We had a President's Commission on Mental Health when we were in the White House, and now I have a really good program at the Carter Center.

♪ Let (indistinct) get taken ♪ (group chattering) - We want to vote.

We want to (indistinct).

(group cheers) ♪ You're brave and never hide, hide ♪ (slow guitar music continues) - You can call on us, we'll be here.

(slow guitar music continues) - [Jason] My grandfather's legacy is a legacy of human rights.

(slow guitar music continues) And what human rights means is we have to create space for people who are getting together to do the work, and protect the others that can't be here.

- [Jimmy] We can choose to alleviate suffering.

We can choose to work together for peace.

We can make these changes and we must.

♪ Saw your sun is burning, burning ♪ ♪ Reaching across this plane ♪ (slow guitar music continues) - Happy 100th birthday, President Carter.

I gotta say, one of the best nights of my life was honoring you with the Mattie JT Stepanek Award at We Are Family Foundation's gala.

You were incredible, your heart was amazing.

You were just dynamic, you lit up the room.

Once again, (kisses) happy birthday and peace.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) - Once upon a time, during the Carter administration, we had a president who set an example, who was a role model for the true values (audience applauds) that strive to make this world a better place.

He was a force of good and he was way ahead of his time, and our country, our world would be a much better place and in much better shape if he'd been able to finish the stuff he started while there.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Nonetheless, he did go on to do so many amazing things.

So happy 100th birthday, President Carter.

You and Rosalynn have truly made the world a better place.

(audience cheers) So please help us welcome our dear friend Chuck Leavell to join us for this one.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) We're gonna, (slow guitar music) we're gonna take you down to Macon, Georgia in 1974, the great Wet Willie.

Y'all sing with us on this if you would.

(audience applauds) (slow rock music) (slow rock music continues) ♪ Well, you say you've got the blues ♪ ♪ You've got holes in both of your shoes ♪ ♪ Alone and confused ♪ ♪ You got to keep on smiling ♪ ♪ Just keep on smiling ♪ ♪ Yeah, you're about to go insane ♪ ♪ Your woman's playing games ♪ ♪ Keep saying you're to blame ♪ ♪ Gotta keep on smiling ♪ ♪ Just keep on smiling ♪ ♪ Keep on smiling through the rain ♪ ♪ Laughing at the pain ♪ ♪ Flowing with the changes ♪ ♪ 'Til the sun comes out again ♪ ♪ Singing in a honky-tonk cafe ♪ ♪ But nobody's hearing what you play ♪ ♪ They're too busy drinking anyway ♪ ♪ You gotta keep on smiling ♪ ♪ Just keep on smiling ♪ ♪ Say you found a piece of land ♪ ♪ You're gonna change from city boy to country man ♪ ♪ Try to build your life with your hands ♪ ♪ And keep on smiling, keep on smiling ♪ ♪ Keep on smiling through the rain ♪ ♪ Laughing at the pain ♪ ♪ Rolling with the changes ♪ ♪ 'Til the sun comes out again ♪ (slow rock music continues) (slow rock music continues) (slow rock music continues) (slow rock music continues) ♪ You're just hanging out at a local bar ♪ ♪ And you're wondering who the hell you are ♪ ♪ Are you a farmer, are you a star ♪ ♪ Smiling through the rain ♪ ♪ Laughing at the pain ♪ ♪ Flow on through the changes ♪ ♪ Keep on singing this refrain ♪ ♪ Keep on smiling through the rain ♪ ♪ Laughing at the pain ♪ ♪ Just rolling through the changes ♪ ♪ 'Til the sun comes out again ♪ Help me.

♪ Keep on smiling, smiling ♪ ♪ Smiling, smiling ♪ ♪ Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing ♪ ♪ Keep on rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ (slow rock music continues) (slow rock music continues) (slow rock music continues) (slow rock music continues) (audience cheers) (audience applauds) - Thank you!

Happy birthday, President Carter!

(audience continues cheering) (audience applauds) (audience cheers) - Hi, everybody, we're the B-52s, and we are so honored to be on this stage paying homage to, I voted for him twice, paying homage- - Me too.

- To such a great man.

- Now, Atlanta, y'all, who's ready to take a trip to the "Love Shack"?

(audience cheers) (upbeat music) ♪ If you see a faded sign at the side of the road ♪ ♪ That says 15 miles to the Love Shack ♪ ♪ Love Shack, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ I'm heading down the Atlanta highway ♪ ♪ Looking for the love getaway ♪ ♪ Headed for the love getaway ♪ ♪ I got me a car, it's as big as a whale, love getaway ♪ ♪ And we're heading on down to the Love Shack, love getaway ♪ ♪ I got me a Chrysler, it seats about 20, love getaway ♪ ♪ So hurry up and bring your jukebox money ♪ ♪ The love shack is a little old place ♪ ♪ Where we can get together ♪ ♪ Love Shack, baby ♪ ♪ A Love Shack, baby ♪ ♪ Love Shack, baby, Love Shack ♪ ♪ Love Shack, baby, Love Shack ♪ - Oh, yeah, baby, that's where it's at.

♪ Sign says "Stay away, fools" ♪ ♪ 'Cause love rules at the Love Shack ♪ ♪ Well, it's set way back in the middle of a field ♪ ♪ Just a funky old shack and I gotta get back ♪ ♪ Glitter on the mattress ♪ ♪ Glitter in the highway, yeah ♪ ♪ Glitter on the front porch ♪ ♪ Glitter in the highway, yeah ♪ ♪ The Love Shack is a little old place ♪ ♪ Where we can get together ♪ ♪ Love Shack, baby ♪ ♪ Love Shack, baby ♪ ♪ Love Shack, that's where it's at ♪ ♪ Love Shack, that's where it's at ♪ ♪ Hugging and a-kissing ♪ ♪ Dancing and a-loving ♪ ♪ Wearing next to nothing ♪ ♪ 'Cause it's hot as an oven ♪ ♪ The whole shack shimmies ♪ ♪ When everybody's moving ♪ ♪ Around and around and around and around ♪ ♪ Everybody's moving, everybody's grooving, baby ♪ ♪ Folks lining up outside just to get down ♪ ♪ Everybody's moving, everybody's grooving, baby ♪ ♪ Funky little shack ♪ ♪ Funky little shack ♪ (upbeat music continues) ♪ Hop in my Chrysler ♪ ♪ It's as big as a whale and it's about to set sail ♪ ♪ I got me a car, it seats about 20 ♪ ♪ So come on and bring your jukebox money ♪ ♪ The Love Shack is a little old place ♪ ♪ Where we can get together ♪ ♪ Love Shack, baby ♪ ♪ The Love Shack, baby ♪ ♪ Love Shack, baby, Love Shack ♪ ♪ Love Shack, baby, Love Shack ♪ - That's where it's at.

(upbeat music continues) (audience cheers) ♪ Bang, bang, bang on the door, baby ♪ - Knock a little louder, sugar.

♪ Bang, bang, bang on the door, baby ♪ - I can't hear you.

♪ Bang, bang ♪ - On the door, baby.

♪ Bang, bang ♪ - On the door.

♪ Bang, bang ♪ - On the door, sugar.

♪ Bang, bang ♪ - Your what?

- [Group] Tin roof, rusted.

♪ Love Shack, baby, Love Shack ♪ ♪ Love Shack, baby, Love Shack ♪ - Baby, that's where it's at.

Yeah.

♪ Love Shack, baby, Love Shack ♪ - Peace and vibe is where it's at.

♪ Love Shack, baby, Love Shack ♪ - Hugging and a-kissing and dancing and a-loving at the Love Shack.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Thank you.

Thank you.

- Okay, Atlanta, put your hands together for the soulful and wonderful India Arie.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience continues cheering) - Thank you.

Thank you so much.

(slow music) ♪ Billions live their lives ♪ ♪ That Muhammad, Krishna, or the Buddha are the way ♪ ♪ And billions believe it's right ♪ ♪ To say "in the name of Jesus" when we pray ♪ ♪ But we are a humankind of seven billion ♪ ♪ So many different races and religions ♪ ♪ And it all comes down to one ♪ ♪ Some say God's a him ♪ ♪ And still many believe that he is a her ♪ ♪ Does God live in our hearts ♪ ♪ Or is it somewhere out there in the universe ♪ ♪ We are a humankind of seven billion ♪ ♪ So many different races and religions ♪ ♪ And it all comes down to one, yes ♪ ♪ How far will we have to go before we learn the lesson ♪ ♪ Gandhi was a Hindu, Martin Luther King a Christian ♪ ♪ Regardless of religion, they knew love was the mission ♪ ♪ And it all comes down to one ♪ ♪ Is there no God at all ♪ ♪ Or a pantheon of gods up in the sky ♪ ♪ We can heal our broken hearts ♪ ♪ If we can give up the desire to be right ♪ ♪ 'Cause we are a humankind of seven billion ♪ ♪ So many different races and religions ♪ ♪ And it all comes down to one ♪ ♪ Ooh, ooh ♪ ♪ Whether you are red, brown, yellow, Black, or white ♪ ♪ A man with a husband, or a woman with a wife ♪ ♪ We can debate until the end of time ♪ ♪ Who's wrong and who is right ♪ ♪ But we can see ourselves as one ♪ ♪ 'Cause it all comes down to love ♪ ♪ We are a humankind of seven billion ♪ ♪ So many different races and religions ♪ ♪ And it all comes down to one ♪ ♪ And it all comes down to love ♪ (audience cheers) (audience applauds) And now from soul music to country rock, please welcome the incredible Eric Church.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience continues cheering) - This is an incredible honor for me when I got the call to be able to participate in President Carter's 100th birthday.

I jumped at it.

There may have never been an American president that we had that was more tied musically of what was going on in his generation than President Carter.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (slow rock music) (slow rock music continues) ♪ Well, I gotta run to keep from hiding ♪ ♪ And I'm bound to keep on riding ♪ ♪ And I got one more silver dollar ♪ ♪ But I'm not gonna let 'em catch me, no ♪ ♪ Not gonna let 'em catch the midnight rider ♪ ♪ I don't own the clothes I'm wearing ♪ ♪ And the road goes on forever ♪ ♪ And I've got one more silver dollar ♪ ♪ But I'm not gonna let 'em catch me, no ♪ ♪ Not gonna let 'em catch the midnight rider ♪ (slow rock music continues) ♪ And I've gone by the point of caring ♪ ♪ Some old bed I'll soon be sharing ♪ ♪ And I've got one more, one more silver dollar ♪ ♪ But I'm not gonna let 'em catch me, no ♪ ♪ Not gonna let 'em catch the midnight rider ♪ (slow rock music continues) ♪ Yeah, I'm not gonna let 'em catch me, no ♪ ♪ Not gonna let 'em catch the midnight rider ♪ (audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience continues cheering) - I want to say thanks again for this great event and being back in Georgia.

I haven't been here in a while, so thank you for having me.

Happy birthday to President Carter.

We are, I'm gonna leave you with this one right here.

(background noise drowns out speaker) (slow rock music) (audience cheers) ♪ Lord, I was born a ramblin' man ♪ ♪ I try to make a living and doing the best I can ♪ ♪ And when it's time for leaving, I hope you'll understand ♪ ♪ That I was born a ramblin' man ♪ ♪ Well, my father was a gambler down in Georgia ♪ ♪ And he wound up on the wrong end of a gun ♪ ♪ And I was born in the backseat of a Greyhound bus ♪ ♪ Rolling down Highway 41 ♪ ♪ Lord, I was born a ramblin' man ♪ ♪ I try to make a living and doing the best I can ♪ ♪ And when it's time for leaving, I hope you'll understand ♪ ♪ That I was born a ramblin' man ♪ - Ah, give it to me.

(slow rock music continues) (slow rock music continues) (slow rock music continues) ♪ Traveling on to New Orleans this morning ♪ ♪ Yeah, and leaving out of Nashville, Tennessee ♪ True story.

♪ Yeah, they're always having a good time ♪ ♪ Down on the bayou, Lord ♪ ♪ And them Delta women think the world of me ♪ ♪ Yeah, Lord, I was born a ramblin' man ♪ ♪ I try to make a living and doing the best I can ♪ ♪ And when it's time for leaving, I hope you'll understand ♪ ♪ That I was born a ramblin' man ♪ ♪ Yeah, Lord, I was born a ramblin' man ♪ ♪ Lord, I was born a ramblin' man ♪ ♪ Lord, I was born a ramblin' man ♪ ♪ Lord, I was born a ramblin' man ♪ (audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience continues cheering) - Thank you.

Please welcome back to the stage The War and Treaty, the Spelman College Glee Club, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus.

Thank you guys very much.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience continues applauding) (slow piano music) (audience cheers) (slow piano music continues) ♪ Mm, mm, mm ♪ ♪ Georgia ♪ (audience cheers) ♪ Georgia ♪ ♪ The whole day through ♪ ♪ Just an old sweet song ♪ ♪ Keeps Georgia on my mind ♪ ♪ I said Georgia ♪ ♪ Georgia ♪ ♪ A song, a song for you ♪ ♪ Comes as sweet and clear ♪ ♪ As moonlight through the pines ♪ (audience cheers) (audience applauds) ♪ Well, other arms reach out to me ♪ ♪ And other eyes smile so tenderly ♪ ♪ Still and peaceful dreams you know I see ♪ ♪ Well, I see the road ♪ ♪ It leads right back to you ♪ Oh, yeah.

♪ Georgia ♪ ♪ Yeah, Georgia ♪ ♪ No peace I find, sweeter song than you, Georgia ♪ ♪ Oh, Georgia, Georgia on my mind ♪ ♪ I can hear, you know what I'm saying, right ♪ ♪ Other arms reach out to me ♪ ♪ Other eyes smile tenderly ♪ ♪ Still in peaceful dreams I see ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ The road leads back to you ♪ ♪ Georgia, Georgia ♪ ♪ Ooh, Georgia ♪ ♪ No peace, no peace, no peace I find, yeah ♪ ♪ Just an old sweet song, oh, yeah ♪ ♪ Keeps Georgia on my mind, on my mind ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ I said just an old sweet song, ooh, yeah ♪ ♪ Georgia on my mind ♪ ♪ Oh, yeah, oh ♪ ♪ Hey, oh, yeah ♪ (audience cheers) (audience applauds) - Give it up for the band, everybody.

(audience continues cheering) (slow music) (audience continues cheering) (slow music continues) - Hey, thank you, everybody.

Thank you, everybody.

This couldn't have been better.

Y'all were great.

We just wanted to say thank you to all of you for coming.

This exceeded all of my expectations.

Everyone up here was absolutely wonderful.

Thank you so, so, so much.

(audience cheers) Thank you again to Delta, our presenting sponsor.

Thanks to all of you for coming, and on behalf of this whole Carter family, we can tell you that my grandfather's gonna love this when he sees it, and it's because all of you are there.

And if you want to participate in continuing this legacy, please donate to the Carter Center.

We appreciate it very much.

Rickey Minor in the back, thank you for putting the music together.

(audience cheers) Thanks to everybody else, good night.

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