Sunday, October 26, at 3 pm – The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, the Oxford-based music and literature program heard weekly on public radio, is bringing its show to Columbus, MS on Sunday, October 26, at 3 pm.
Admission is free and the public is invited.
Where: Outdoor stage – Tennessee Williams House Museum and Welcome Center – 300 Main Street
“House of a Playwright, City of Stages”
Lawn chairs and picnic blankets encouraged! Food trucks on site!
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Guests: The W Jazz Combo, alternative/experimental band Hartle Road and author Michael Farris Smith (Lay Your Armor Down)
Hosts: Jim Dees with house band, Paul Tate and the Yalobushwhackers
Presented by the Mississippi Hills Heritage Area Alliance and the America250 Mississippi campaign. This Columbus, MS show will kick off a series of Thacker Mountain Radio Hour road shows honoring Mississippi’s creative history.
NOTE: No live broadcast. Show will be recorded for air later in the fall.
Michael Farris Smith’s latest novel is Lay Your Armor Down, “an atmospheric and spare Southern gothic of two unsavory men on a mysterious criminal odyssey and their encounter with a mystical young girl.” (Publisher’s Weekly)
Smith is an award-winning writer whose novels have appeared on “Best of the Year” lists from Esquire, NPR, Southern Living, Garden & Gun, Oprah Magazine, Book Riot, and numerous other outlets.
Interesting note: Prior to publishing novels, Smith was an Associate Professor of English at the Mississippi University for Women (now known as the W) in Columbus, Mississippi.
Before teaching at the W, Smith lived abroad in France and Switzerland.
He now lives in Oxford, Mississippi with his wife and daughters.
The W Jazz Combo is a versatile group of faculty and students from The W’s Department of Music.
Their performances feature a variety of styles, including classic swing, manouche jazz, and tango fusion, reflecting the group’s diverse musical influences.
Through their work both on campus and in the community, the W Jazz Combo fosters appreciation for jazz and its ever-evolving expression.
Hartle Road features siblings, Toby and Max Hartleroad. Together with cousin, Myles Jordan and childhood friend Tyler Carter, they formed the group in rural Columbus, Mississippi.
Their sound is imaginative and even “alternative” but rooted in Lowndes County, not far from the childhood home of Tennessee Williams (just down US Route 45 from White Station, birthplace of Howlin’ Wolf).
