Thursday, March 20 – 6 pm! Powerhouse Arts Center– Happy 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
Archived here: Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Podcast, iHeart Radio
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, 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.”