FREE Admission.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Health protocols will be observed including spaced seating and masks when needed.\u00a0Lawn chairs and picnics welcome.<\/strong>\u00a0Bring family and friends and join us! They\u2019re asking our audience to please space their seating and keep the health of everyone in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5:30 pm \u2013 Half-Hour Happy Hour: Signature cocktail<\/strong>\u00a0by\u00a0Party Waiting\u2019 To Happen<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Cathead Distillery<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Author: Jianqing Zheng<\/strong> reads from A Way Of Looking<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Music: Bluesman Kenny Brown<\/strong> and alt-country rocker Cary Hudson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hosts: Jim Dees<\/strong> and our house band, the Yalobushwhackers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Air times:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Thursday, Oct. 7 \u2013 6:00 pm (CT) WUMS \u2013 University of Mississippi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Saturday, Oct 16 \u2013 7pm (CT) Mississippi Public Broadcasting<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 9pm (CT) Alabama Public Radio<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 3 pm (ET) University of Tennessee at Chattanooga<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Thursdays<\/strong> 6 pm (CT) WUMS \u2013 University of Mississippi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Fridays<\/strong> 9 am (CT) WYXR Memphis Community Radio<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Kenny Brown played with the late bluesman R.L. Burnside for nearly 30 years following his apprenticeship with his neighbor, Joe Callicott, in Nesbit, MS. Brown has since forged a successful solo career, taking his north Mississippi hill country blues sound all over the world. His albums include Stingray<\/em>, Meet Ya in the Bottom<\/em>, and Goin\u2019 Back to Mississippi<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In fall 2021, Brown appeared on Delta Kream<\/em>, a bestselling album by The Black Keys and toured the South with the band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Each June, Brown plays host to two dozen blues acts at the annual North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic<\/a>. The veteran musician was recently honored by the Hill Country Blues Hall of Fame with the unveiling of his sculpted hands playing a guitar by noted Como, MS sculptor Sharon McConnell-Dickerson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cary Hudson is a singer-songwriter, former Oxford resident and front man for the beloved rock band, Blue Mountain. His solo albums include his latest, Hobolochitto<\/a>, Town and Country<\/em> (Daddy Rabbit Records) and Christmas in Mississippi<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He was chosen as one of the Top Ten Alternative Country Guitar Players by Gibson<\/em> magazine and continues to tour and write songs in a career spanning 30 years. Hudson lives in New Orleans and hopes to someday, \u201cwhistle like Professor Longhair.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jianqing (John) Zheng is an author and editor. His book, A Way of Looking<\/em> (Silverfish Review Press, 2021), won the Gerald Cable Book Prize. His forthcoming collection is The Dog Ears of Reeducation<\/em>, a collection of poems reimagining his experience during the Cultural Revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cZheng\u2019s form\u2014half prose, half verse\u2014is the sort of thing that might easily go wrong, but he uses it to give two succinct views of each moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA Way of Looking<\/em> is a heartfelt account of exile and homecoming. 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