Join us, Sunday Sept. 25 at 7 pm, for a special performance of the Thacker Mountain Radio Hour live from Rowan Oak, the antebellum home of William Faulkner. FREE admission. Guests: Mississippi-native poet R. Flowers Rivera, Memphis singer Marcella Simien and singer/songwriter Maggie Koerner.
Hosts: Jim Dees and our house band, The Yalobushwhackers. (NOTE: No live broadcast).
Food sales by Canoodle. Drink sales by The Lyric Bar and Yalobusha Brewery.
This show is made possible by Sarahfest, Sarah Isom’s Center’s week long celebration of alternative culture. For a full schedule of events, please visit:
http://sarahisomcenter.org/
Also, special thanks to Rowan Oak and the University Museum for the use of their beautiful space.
R. Flowers Rivera is the recipient of the 2016 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters poetry award for her second collection, Heathen (Lotus Press). Her debut collection of poetry, Troubling Accents (Xavier Review Press, July 2013), was selected by the Texas Association of Authors as its 2014 Poetry Book of the Year. A Mississippi native, Rivera teaches creative writing and poetry at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Marcella Simien grew up in Lafayette, Louisiana and onstage with her father, two-time Grammy winner Terrance Simien. In 2009 she moved to Memphis to attend the Memphis College of Art and formed her band Marcella and her Lovers. The band uses Memphis and Muscle Shoals sounds infused with the fingerprint of Simien’s Creole ancestors. Their latest release is the EP, The Bronze Age.
Maggie Koerner, a Shreveport-born songwriter, spent the majority of 2013 and 2014 as the lead singer and front-woman for legendary New Orleans’ funk-band Galactic. “Hey Na Na,” performed by Galactic, is a song Maggie co-wrote with The Revivalists’ lead singer David Shaw and is currently the theme song for Top Chef: New Orleans. Her previous CDs include, Neutral Ground (2013) and Quarter Life (2011). She is currently writing and recording her third album.
