Let’s hope they stay together for an encore.
Morgan Freeman rang in 2025 by performing a duet of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” with none other than Green himself.
The duo sang the 1972 R&B classic at Freeman’s Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Mississippi, on New Year’s Eve.
The club posted a video of the performance on Instagram, captioning the clip, “Morgan Freeman & Al Green LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!”
Green, 78, commented on the post with a party popper emoji.
Freeman, 87, also shared about the evening on social, posting two photos from the evening on X (formerly known as Twitter).
“We ushered in the New Year with Al Green and Kingfish at Ground Zero last night,” the star wrote. “Happy New Year, everyone!”
CNN reporter Omar Jimenez was at the Oscar winner’s blues bar and caught the unexpected performance.
“Morgan Freeman got on stage to make his ‘dream come true.’ He said it was to sing with Al Green,” Jimenez captioned a clip of Freeman and Green’s duet.
Jimenez also interviewed Freeman live on CNN during the New Year’s Eve broadcast.
Asked about the club’s origins, Freeman explained that he decided to create the bar after visiting Clarksdale and finding there were not many blues venues in town.
“We don’t really have em. Didn’t exist,” Freeman recalls the mayor of Clarksdale telling him.
“So the decision was made right then — you got to to have a blues club. We got to do something,” he said. “There was a little club called Crossroads, but [there was] no guarantee that it would be up and running on Friday night or something. So we built this.”
With the help of co-owners Eric Meier, Howard Stovall and the late Bill Luckett, Freeman opened Ground Zero Blues Club in 2001 “to celebrate the area’s rich blues heritage and to provide a venue in which it can continue,” according to the venue’s website.
Clarksdale is believed to be where blues music began.
Freeman recently paid tribute to another famous jazz-lover, his friend Clint Eastwood. The “Lioness” star presented Eastwood, 94, with an award named in the “Juror #2” director’s honor at the 2024 Monterey Jazz Festival in California in September.
“It was a great pleasure presenting my friend, Clint Eastwood, with the inaugural Clint Eastwood Award for Cultural Leadership at the @MontereyJazzFestival last weekend,” he captioned a photo of him and Eastwood on Instagram.
“Clint is a true musician: pianist, composer and a jazz aficionado!” he added. “We had a wonderful time listening to the incredible music of Kyle Eastwood and Mavis Staples!”