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April 26-28, 2024

Word of South

Okey Dokey

Mixing warm, pastoral indie rock, touches of psychedelia, and the buoyant sounds of early-’60s pop, Okey Dokey was formed by established members of the Nashville music scene in the mid-2010s. They made their full-length debut with Love It, Mean It in 2017. Vocalist and visual artist Aaron Martin and guitarist Johny Fisher met when they […]

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Lis and Lon Williamson

Lon and Elisabeth Williamson, musical and life partners for over 40 years, are well known around the Sunshine State for their artistry as a duo, blending eloquent harmonies with accomplished musicianship. Add to that their dynamic repertoire of original, old-time, jazz, swing, and bluegrass tunes and you’ll have a show that you’re not likely to […]

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CD Davidson-Hiers

CD Davidson-Hiers is a native Floridian who grew up on a 40-acre horse farm in North Florida and serves as Vice President of the Sunshine State Biodiversity Group. Her nonfiction has appeared in the Nation, The Bitter Southerner, Flamingo Magazine, WFSU Radio and others. She worked previously as a local reporter for the Tallahassee Democrat, […]

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Frank Lindamood

Frank Lindamood has been playing Old Time American Music for over fifty years. His love for music was passed down from his father, a native of the mountains of West Virginia. His weapons of choice are the banjo,, harmonica and resonator guitar. He sings with great volume and little subtlety. Frank’s influences, besides his father, […]

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Ali Sperling

Ali Sperling is an assistant professor of English at Florida State University, where she teaches and conducts research on science and speculative fictions, queer and feminist theory, and the environmental humanities. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and has written extensively on modernist and contemporary literature. Her work has appeared in the Bloomsbury Handbook […]

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Katie Martin

Katie Martin is a multimedia artist and songwriter based out of Alabama, with a unique blend of blues, folk, and soul that is immediately compelling.  She began working with Grammy Award winning producer Larry Mitchell in 2012, and has since released three albums with him: “Purpose” (2015), “Hope” (2018), and “Faith” (2022).   Mixing hand drawings, […]

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Ben Folds

Widely regarded as one of the major music influencers of our generation, Ben Folds has created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes pop albums, multiple solo albums and numerous collaborative records. His last album was a blend of pop songs and his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra that soared to #1 on both […]

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J.T. Brown

Born and raised on the outskirts of Tampa, Florida, J.T. Brown’s southern influence can be felt throughout his catalog, and in his live performances. With a ‘true connoisseur of music’ for a father, his early influences spanned all genres and styles, but lazy Sunday afternoons were spent diving into the deep cuts of singer-songwriters, from […]

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Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer has been profiled by the New York Times, Audubon Magazine, and the Guardian, in large part for his environmentalism and his exploration of the nonhuman world in his fiction. His NYT-bestselling Southern Reach trilogy has been translated into over 35 languages. The first novel, Annihilation, won the Nebula Award and Shirley Jackson Award, and was made into […]

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Eric J. Lyman

Eric J. Lyman is a Rome-based journalist and writer who started his career in Tallahassee, where he graduated from FSU and worked at The Flambeau. In the many years since then, his work has been published by hundreds of publications ranging from Fortune Magazine, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal to The Hollywood Reporter […]

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