Thursday, Sept. 10 – Season Premiere! Live show/TV taping! Powerhouse Arts Center 413 South 14th St. Oxford, MS
FREE Admission! New season! We’re moving on up…
Oxford blues collective, Blue Velvet…
North Carolina songwriter Laurelyn Dossett
Hosted by Jim Dees and our house band, Paul Tate and the Yalobushwhackers
Doors: 5:30 pm – Refreshments – Show: 6 pm – Book signing: 7 pm
** NOTE: This show will be filmed by Mississippi Public Broadcasting Television. (Air date TBA) **
Broadcast/online:
Thursday, Sept. 10 – 6 pm (CT) WUMS 92.1 FM University of Mississippi
Thursday, Sept. 17 – 8 am (CT) WYXR 91.7 FM Memphis, TN
Saturday, Sept. 19
5 pm (CT) Mississippi Public Broadcasting
9 pm (CT) Alabama Public Radio
Sunday, Sept. 20
2 pm (ET) WUTC 88.1 FM Chattanooga, TN
3 pm (ET) WUOT | 91.9 FM, Knoxville
2 pm (MT) KNCE 93.5 | Taos, New Mexico
6 pm (CT) Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Archived here (one month): Thacker Mountain Radio Hour / WYXR 91.7 FM Memphis, TN.
Timothy B. Tyson and Mary D. Williams are the co-authors of Mahalia Jackson, Moving On Up A Little Higher – The Story of An American Civil Rights Pioneer (Liveright).
The authors trace Jackson’s career from bitter poverty in New Orleans to global superstardom. Even after her meteoric success, Jackson maintained an unwavering devotion to Black freedom.
She sang at civil rights sites such as Birmingham and Selma and was present at the 1963 March on Washington where she prompted Dr. Martin Luther King to “Tell ’em about the dream.”
Timothy B. Tyson is senior research scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and the author of five books, including New York Times bestseller The Blood of Emmett Till.
Mary D. Williams is a gospel singer, civil rights historian, and former adjunct professor at Duke University. She has performed at the Kennedy Center and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and lives in Garner, North Carolina.
“The combined talents of Timothy B. Tyson and Mary D. Williams make this book a classic.” – William “Bill” Ferris, UNC – Chapel Hill
North Carolina songwriter Laurelyn Dossett has written and performed songs rooted in folk and Americana traditions, penning such classics as Levon Helm’s Anna Lee and the Carolina Chocolate Drops’ Leaving Eden.
Her latest album is How Many Moons and features a duet of Anna Lee with Rhiannon Giddens.
Her previous albums have garnered praise from The Wall Street Journal, American Songwriter, The Chicago Sun Times, USA Today, among others.
Dossett is also the author of The Gathering: A Winter’s Tale in Six Songs, a song cycle for voice, string band, orchestra and chorus for the holiday season.
Jazz/soul singer Effie Burt leads Blue Velvet, an Oxford, MS blues collective.
The band includes bottleneck-slide guitarist Wendy Jean Garrison, guitarist Andrea Staten, and percussionist Jennifer Mizenko.
The group’s 16-year-old bassist, Reese Robinson, immediately caught Burt’s attention.
“I saw her playing at North Baptist Church, eyes closed, completely locked in,” Burt told Oxford’s Local Voice.
“Afterward, I just had to ask her what else she could do. She came to rehearsal, and that was it—we knew she had to be part of this.”
“That blend of experience and youthful energy is central to Blue Velvet’s identity.” (Davis Coen Local Voice)
