Thacker’s back! Oxford’s “Original Literary and Musical Showcase” kicks off its 27th year Thursday, Sept. 5 at 6 pm, at Oxford’s Powerhouse Arts Center.
Admission is free and the public is invited.
Guests for the Sept. 5 show will include science fiction novelist Tobi Ogundiran with Memphis songwriter Mark Edgar Stuart and blues rocker Peggy Sue Hemphill Lesueur aka Lady Trucker.
The show is hosted by Jim Dees with Paul Tate and the Yalobushwhacker Big Band featuring the Thacker Horns and guest vocalist, Mary Frances Massey.
Doors open at 5:30 pm. Refreshments will be for sale and showtime is 6 pm.
The Powerhouse Arts Center is located at 413 S. 14th St in Oxford, across the street from Newk’s.
The show will be broadcast live (and every Thursday in Oxford until Thanksgiving) on WUMS, 92.1 FM (online at http://myrebelradio.com/).
In Mississippi, the show can also be heard on air and online every Saturday night at 7 pm on Mississippi Public Broadcasting (MPB).
The show is also available on public and community radio stations in Memphis, Chattanooga and Knoxville as well as on the stations of Alabama Public Radio.
The show’s newest affiliate is KNCE (93.5 FM) True Taos Radio in Taos, New Mexico.
Additionally, the program can be accessed on most major platforms including Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Podcast, iHeart Radio, among others.
In other exciting news, this fall the show is also announcing a new Executive Director, Lucy Gaines of Oxford.
A Jackson, MS native, Gaines is a former Assistant Director at the Oxford Film Festival and the Oxford Conference for the Book.
A brief champagne and cake reception for Gaines will be held following the Sept. 5 show at the Powerhouse.
Highlights of the upcoming fall season include two-time National Book Award winner, Jesmyn Ward, recorded on August 24 in Ocean Springs, MS. This show, complete with an interview with Ward, will air on Saturday, Sept. 7 and Sunday, Sept. 8.
Live shows in Oxford this fall will include:
Blues Hall of Famer Charlie Musselwhite (Nov. 21):
Dispatches From Pluto author Richard Grant (with an all new, Dispatches from Arizona) (Sept. 12);
thriller writer (and Mississippi native) Katherine Wood (Sept. 19).
Other highlights include a Sarahfest show at Off Square Books featuring bestselling author, M.L. Rio, violinist Alice Hasen, and
CMT Next Women of Country music/soul singer Julie Williams (Oct. 10).
Also:
The A’Capella Choir from Rust College at the Lyric (Oct. 17);
Delta pianist/vocalist Eden Brent (Oct. 24);
a rare Halloween show (Oct. 31 – more than the usual spooks and freaks!) and
up and coming Memphis blues guitarist, Ping Rose (Nov. 14).
Of special note are two Thacker-related events: a special fundraiser on Saturday, Oct. 19 at the Wonderbird Gin Distillery in Taylor, MS and a membership party at Southside Art Gallery on the Oxford Square on Friday, Dec. 6.
The Powerhouse Arts Center in Oxford, will be the venue for the entire fall season of 12 shows except for Oct. 10 (Off Square Books) and Oct. 17 (The Lyric Theatre).
More information on guests, other fall dates, and just how much fun this season is going to be, are available at the show’s website: https://thackermountain.org/.
Join the fun! See you on Thursdays!
If you can’t attend but would like to support the show, click here.
Thanks, y’all!
As Duff would say, “It gon be good!”