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April 24-26, 2026

Word of South

The Wild Ponies

The Wild Ponies

Doug and Telisha Williams, partners in love and music, have spent the last 20 years building their careers as the Nashville-based, country-folk band Wild Ponies. They’ve released five albums, hosted the long-running Wild Ponies Happy Hour radio show on WSM, led nine annual distillery tour Trail Rides for fans and friends, and garnered devoted musical […]

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P-Funk

Danny Bedrosian featuring George Clinton and members of P-Funk Daniel Bedrosian has been the keyboardist for George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic for the past twenty-one years, making him the longest tenured keyboard player in the band’s history. He has been the band’s music director for several years as well. This has led Bedrosian to devise a […]

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Preston Lauterbach

Preston Lauterbach is author of the American music classic The Chitlin’ Circuit (2011) as well as two secret histories of Black culture, Beale Street Dynasty (2015) and Bluff City (2019). Preston has co-authored three memoirs with significant figures in Black music, including Brother Robert (2020) with the stepsister of bluesman Robert Johnson, Timekeeper (2021) with […]

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