Thursday, March 6 – 6 pm The Powerhouse Arts Center – The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour returns to the Powerhouse for our first show of March and it’s gonna be a big one!
We’ll feature a Mississippi novel, coming-of-age story, along with Grammy winner Alvin Youngblood Hart, Kudzu King-favorite, Tate Moore, and – the Yalobushwhacker Big Band!
The Powerhouse Arts Center is located at 413 S 14th Street, across the street from Newk’s and Harrison’s 1810.
FREE Admission! Public invited! Come early and bring some pals!
Doors: 5:30 pm – Frosty refreshments – Show: 6 pm
Guests:
Author: Chad Holley – Shield the Joyous – Set in 1980s rural Mississippi; finalist for Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction
Music: Alvin Youngblood Hart – Grammy winning blues/roots powerhouse
Music: Tate Moore and the Voyagers – Piano grooves from the wilds of North Mississippi
Hosts: Jim Dees with Paul Tate and the Yalobushwhacker Big Band featuring the Thacker Horns and vocalist Mary Frances Massey!
Airtimes:
Thursday, March 6 – 6 pm (CT) WUMS 92.1 University of Mississippi
Thursday, March 13 – 8 am (CT) WYXR 91.7 FM Memphis, TN.
Saturday, March 15 – 3 pm (ET) WUTC 88.1 FM Chattanooga, TN
7 pm (CT) Mississippi Public Broadcasting
9 pm (CT) Alabama Public Radio
Sunday, March 16
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
Chad Holley is author of the novel, Shield the Joyous (Bull City Books). The story follows Michael Haley, a whip-smart seventh grader growing up in rural Mississippi in the early 1980s. Michael’s neighborhood buddies provide laughs and action and Mr. Cletus, the town recluse, provides the mystery – and danger?
Michael Haley stands in the tradition of beloved young American narrators, from Huck Finn through Holden Caulfield to Scout Finch. Imagine a cheeky blend of Charles Portis and Stranger Things filtered through St. Augustine and Zhuangzi.
Holley’s fiction and essays have appeared in, among other publications, Shenandoah, Greensboro Review, storySouth, and Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Mystery Stories.
Holley teaches law and lives in Los Angeles with singer-songwriter Claire Holley and their two teenage sons.
After two decades on the road, Alvin Youngblood Hart continues to delight audiences worldwide, whether as a solo performer or with the eternally rockin’ Alvin Youngblood Hart’s Muscle Theory.
His albums include Big Mama’s Door, Territory, Start with the Soul, Down in the Alley and Motivational Speaker.
Hart received a Grammy nomination for Best Traditional Blues Album for his album, Down in The Alley.
He shared a Grammy win for Best Traditional Folk Album in 2005 with artists who contributed performances to Beautiful Dreamer – The Songs of Stephen Foster.
Hart recently wrapped a run of dates with Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers as well as European solo dates.
The guitarist/pianist/vocalist and longtime front man of country rockers, the Kudzu Kings, debuts his latest project, Tate Moore and the Voyagers.
Following their Thacker appearance, the group will perform a full show on Friday, March 7 at Proud Larry’s at 9 pm.
