Thursday, Nov. 13 – 6 pm – Powerhouse Arts Center, Oxford, MS Location: 413 S 14th, Oxford, MS
FREE Admission! Come early, bring a pal, snag a beverage and a seat!
Doors: 5:30 pm – Frosty Refreshments – Show: 6 pm
Author: Lily King – Heart the Lover – October 2025 #IndieNextList top pick – “Overflows with brilliance and heart.” –Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow
Music: Sug Daniels – Soul/rock ukelele – New album: I Believe in You
Music: Ordinary Elephant – International Folk Music Artists of the Year!
Hosts: Jim Dees with Paul Tate and the Yalobushwhacker Big Band featuring the Thacker Horns with guest vocalist Mary Frances Massey!
Airtimes:
Thursday, Nov. 13 – 6 pm (CT) WUMS 92.1 University of Mississippi
Wednesday, Nov. 19 – 10 pm (ET) WUTC 88.1 FM Chattanooga, TN
Thursday – Nov. 20 – 8 am (CT) WYXR 91.7 FM Memphis, TN.
Saturday, Nov. 22 – 3 pm (ET) WUTC 88.1 FM Chattanooga, TN
7 pm (CT) Mississippi Public Broadcasting
9 pm (CT) Alabama Public Radio
Sunday, Nov. 23
3 pm (ET) WUOT | 91.9 FM, Knoxville
2 pm (MT) KNCE 93.5 | Taos, New Mexico
Archived here: Thacker Mountain Radio Hour / WYXR 91.7 FM Memphis, TN.
Lily King is author of the novel, Heart the Lover (Grove Press), the #IndieNextList top pick for October 2025.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers comes this intimate novel of desire, friendship, and the lasting impact of first love.
In the fall of her senior year of college, our narrator meets Sam and Yash. She soon finds herself at the center of a charged and intricate triangle. As graduation comes and goes, choices made will alter these three lives forever.
Decades later when those shattering events seem comfortably behind her, a surprise visit and unexpected news brings the past crashing into the present.
“Overflows with brilliance and heart.” –Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow
Lily King is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels, including Euphoria, Writers & Lovers, and Heart the Lover, as well as the story collection Five Tuesdays in Winter. Her work has won numerous prizes and awards, including the Kirkus Prize, the New England Book Award for Fiction, the Maine Book Award for Fiction, and a Whiting Award.
Her books have been translated into twenty-eight languages. She lives in Portland, Maine.
Ordinary Elephant has been nominated for Folk Alliance Artist of the Year 2026! (Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame).
The 2026 International Folk Music Awards will be presented on the first night of Folk Alliance International (FAI)’s 38th annual conference, set for Jan. 21-25 in New Orleans.
https://www.billboard.com/…/international-folk-music…/
Ordinary Elephant (Husband and wife, Crystal and Pete Damore) has won widespread critical acclaim and worldwide listeners.
Their 2024 album Ordinary Elephant was nominated for the Album of the Year by the International Folk Music Awards (IFMA).
The pair took home the IFMA’s Artist of the Year award in 2017 and again in 2019 on the strength of their album, Honest.
“… the writing and harmonies are rather stunning.” – Saving Country Music
Sug Daniels is a Delaware-born, Philadelphia based, ukulele player, singer-songwriter, storyteller, and producer who combines elements of folk, rock, and soul.
Her debut studio album, I Believe in You, was released in September.
She has toured solo, with a full band (fiya!) and as part of the Black Opry and has collaborated with globe-trotting folkie Shane Palko.
Her singles include Brand New Day, Leave a Light On and Black and Gifted.
