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April 23-25, 2027
One of the most admired, genre-bending artists to breakthrough in the last decade, June’s music blends southern sounds, African rhythms and ambient atmospherics into something altogether futuristic and new. Her 2017 release The Order of Time appeared on numerous ‘best of’ lists and received near universal acclaim from a broad array of international media including: […]
Wendy Rawlings is the author of Come Back Irish, winner of the 2000 Sandstone Prize for short fiction, and The Agnostics, winner of the Michigan Literary Award. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the Kenyon Review and many other publications. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships […]
Whatley & Co. is a family band consisting of a father, three sons, and some other folks along the way. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, the band has been playing great Americana music for years, with their most recent album titled “Grandstand”. They’ve opened for Jamey Johnson in venues across the country […]
Will Kimbrough, Corky Hughes, and Grayson Capps converge to create a wonderful blend of original music, drawing from their repertoire as individual songwriters and also performing songs they have written together, bringing meaning and life to their lyrics through a variety of string instruments and vocals. They have a large repertoire of wonderful songwriting put […]
Rick Wilson is a longtime Republican strategist, infamous negative ad-maker, and commentator. Since 2015, he’s been a leading conservative critic of Donald Trump. Rick’s work has been published in The Washington Post, Politico, The Hill, The London Spectator, Rolling Stone, The New York Daily News, USA Today, and others, and his book Everything Trump Touches […]
Royce Lovett is a Motown Records recording artist who has toured internationally. In 2019 he was a contestant NBC’s “The Voice,” progressing to the “Knockout Round,” and is a TEDx speaker. He lives in Tallahassee. […]
Stephen Hodges plays acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin, octave mandolin, tenor banjo, and upright and electric bass in a variety of styles, including Old-Time, Celtic, Swing, Jazz, Bossa Nova, and Pop. He has played and recorded with numerous bands and musicians including Aisha Ivey, Meabh’s Mavericks, Old Tallahassee, Sligo Line, Tanager, Blue Velvet, and the […]
Susan Rebecca White is the author of four novels: Bound South, A Soft Place to Land, A Place at the Table, and We Are All Good People Here, all published by Simon & Schuster. Her essays and nonfiction have been featured in The Huffington Post, Tin House, Salon, The Bitter Southerner, and Atlanta magazine. A […]
Fresh out of high school, T. Hardy Morris caught his first show at the historic Georgia Theater in Athens. “A lot of southern artists who might not feel quite right in their hometowns migrate to Athens. Drawn here by the sound of a weird Southern heart, I guess,” Morris said. “I knew I had to […]
Songwriter, Mike Rychlik has been singing, writing, and performing in the north Florida panhandle for almost fifty years. During this time he has written and co-written several hundred songs. Since 1972 every band he has played with has performed a majority of original material. A songwriter with eclectic influences, Mike writes jazzy blues tunes, funky […]