‘Epic’ Season Finale with Charlie Musselwhite and Willy Vlautin at the Powerhouse!
Going Out with a Yalobushwhacker Big Band!
Powerhouse Arts Center in Oxford, MS. November 21, 2024 at 6 pm
Thursday, Nov. 21 at 6 pm at The Powerhouse Arts Center.
Season Finale! Last live show until Feb. 2025! Big Brass!
FREE Admission!
Come early; bring your pals!
Doors: 5:30 pm – Refreshments
Show: 6 pm
The Powerhouse is located 413 S 14th St, Oxford, MS 38655 (Phone: 662-236-6429)
Guests:
Author: Willy Vlautin – The Horse – Ex-rock and roller teeters on the brink of madness until…
Music: Charlie Musselwhite – Mississippi Son – Grammy-nominated blues harmonica legend stops by for a rare visit!
Music: Epic Funk Brass Band – Get funky – Rocking their brass off!
Hosts: Jim Dees with Paul Tate and the Yalobushwhacker Big Band featuring the Thacker Horns with vocalist Mary Frances Massey!
Airtimes:
Thursday, Nov. 21– 6 pm (CT) WUMS 92.1 University of Mississippi
Thursday, Nov. 28 – 8 am (CT) WYXR 91.7 FM Memphis, TN.
Saturday, Nov. 30 – 3 pm (ET) WUTC 88.1 FM Chattanooga, TN
7 pm (CT) Mississippi Public Broadcasting
9 pm (CT) Alabama Public Radio
Sunday, Dec. 1
3 pm (ET) WUOT | 91.9 FM, Knoxville
2 pm (MT) KNCE 93.5 | Taos, New Mexico
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Featuring
Author
Willy Vlautin
Willy Vlautin’s new novel is the big-hearted, The Horse
“Willy Vlautin writes about people overlooked by society and overlooked by literature. In The Horse, he tells the story of a tenderhearted man who has a steady talent and a crushing addiction. It is both a work of extraordinary compassion and a really great novel.” — Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake
After a life as a touring musician, Ward lives on an isolated mining claim in the high desert of central Nevada fifty miles from the nearest town.
A grizzled man in his sixties, he survives on canned soup, instant coffee, and memories of his ex-wife, friends and family.
Hampered by insomnia, bouts of anxiety, and a chronic lethargy that keeps him from moving back to town, Al finds himself teetering on the edge of madness and running out of reasons to go on—until a horse arrives on his doorstep: nameless, blind, and utterly helpless.
A poignant meditation on addiction, heartbreak, and the reality of life on the road in smalltime bands, The Horse is a beautiful, haunting tale.
Willy Vlautin is the author of the novels The Motel Life, Northline, Lean on Pete, The Free, Don’t Skip Out on Me, and The Night Always Comes. He is the founding member of the bands Richmond Fontaine and The Delines.
Music
Charlie Musselwhite
On his Alligator Records release, Mississippi Son, Charlie Musselwhite plays his famous harmonica but also features his rarely heard guitar work.
Musselwhite has been featured on recordings by Tom Waits, Eddie Vedder, Ben Harper, John Lee Hooker, Bonnie Raitt, The Blind Boys of Alabama, INXS, Cyndi Lauper, and his 2020 collaboration with Elvin Bishop, 100 Years of Blues.
He is an inductee into the Blues Foundation’s Blues Hall of Fame (2010) and has been nominated for twelve Grammy Awards (winning one) and has won numerous Living Blues and Blues Music Awards.
Epic Funk Brass Band
Epic Funk Brass Band is a high-energy New Orleans style second-line brass band hailing from Jackson, MS.
Their latest singles are Twisted Healing and Box Truck.
Together since 2016, the group draws inspiration from Rebirth Brass Band, Hot 8 Brass Band, and New Breed Brass Band and has developed a sound that blends traditional brass band music with a contemporary funk twist.
