TAMPA, Fla. – Morgan Freeman is on his way back to Pinellas County. Not to star in another movie about Winter the dolphin – although he told the Tampa Bay Times that he enjoyed his time here filming the 2011 movie “Dolphin Tale” and its 2014 sequel.
One of Freeman’s favorite things inspired his upcoming trip to Florida: the blues.
The actor, producer and occasional “voice of God” is coming to St. Petersburg Thursday for “Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic Blues Experience,” a night of Mississippi Delta Blues at the Mahaffey Theater. The Florida Orchestra will team up with musicians from Clarksdale, Mississippi-based Ground Zero Blues Club, which Freeman co-founded in 2001. Freeman himself will narrate the show and trace the history of the genre…