Happy Spring!

Roaring in like lionesses! Powerhouse - Free Admission! Public invited!

Powerhouse Arts Center in Oxford, MS March 20, 2025 at 6 pm

Thursday, March 20 – 6 pm! Powerhouse Arts CenterHappy Spring (as of 4 am)! Roaring in like a pair of lionesses with a great read and cool tunes!

The Powerhouse Arts Center is located at 413 South 14th St, Oxford MS 38655 – Phone: (662) 236-6429

Doors: 5:30 – Refreshments – Show: 6 pm

FREE Admission! Public invited!

Guests:

Author: TBA 

Music: Claire Holley Every Hour – Collection of hymns, sacred songs and a Beach Boys cover

Music: Bear Ryan – Dynamic left-handed cigar box guitarist

Hosts: Jim Dees with Paul Tate and the Yalobushwhackers

Airtimes:

Thursday, March 20 – 6 pm (CT) WUMS 92.1 University of Mississippi

Thursday, March 27 – 8 am (CT) WYXR 91.7 FM Memphis, TN.

Saturday, March 29 – 3 pm (ET) WUTC 88.1 FM Chattanooga, TN

7 pm (CT) Mississippi Public Broadcasting

9 pm (CT) Alabama Public Radio

Sunday, March 30

3 pm (ET) WUOT | 91.9 FM, Knoxville

2 pm (MT) KNCE 93.5 | Taos, New Mexico

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Featuring

Author - TBA

Music

Claire Holley

Claire Holley’s album, Every Hour, is an inspired collection of hymns and sacred songs, plus a Beach Boys cover and one original. Her 2020 album, Songs from The Tempest, sets Shakespeare to song.

A native of Mississippi, Holley is a recipient of a Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Contemporary Music Composition.

She has released seven full length records and two EPs. Her music has been featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition as well as in film and television. Her previous CD was Time in the Middle. Holley lives in Los Angeles.

“Claire Holley has a firm grip on the musical vocabulary and storytelling obsession of the South. And like any great Southern Character, she’s as complicated as the recipe for sour mash whiskey.” –PASTE Magazine

Bear Ryan

Bear Ryan, of Clarksdale, MS, claims she’s an “accidental musician.”

“I am a musician and song writer who plays gritty country-blues with a story-telling bent. However, I did not sing or perform in front of anyone until I was 35 years old,” she told a recent interviewer.

Ryan has made up for lost time in becoming a very dynamic performer – “swamp country” she calls it – as a left-handed guitarist who plays home-made cigar box guitars.

Ryan is currently working on a new album which is scheduled to include a song-in-progress she recently previewed, “Mississippi Mornings.”