{"id":118590,"date":"2022-03-23T15:26:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T20:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=118590"},"modified":"2022-03-23T15:26:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T20:26:26","slug":"oxford-film-festival-and-the-local-voice-present-songwriters-in-the-round-featuring-schaefer-llana-keith-moore-randy-weeks-rosamond-and-jamie-posey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-film-festival-and-the-local-voice-present-songwriters-in-the-round-featuring-schaefer-llana-keith-moore-randy-weeks-rosamond-and-jamie-posey\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Film Festival and The Local Voice present “Songwriters in the Round” featuring Schaefer Llana, Keith Moore, Randy Weeks, Rosamond and Jamie Posey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Special concert is free and open to the public <\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Oxford Film Festival<\/strong> and The Local Voice<\/strong> present “Songwriters in the Round<\/strong>” on Saturday, March 26, 2022<\/strong> at 5 pm<\/strong>. The special concert will take place at the Malco Commons Amphitheatre<\/strong> and is free and open to the public. This year’s show will feature local songwriters Schaefer Llana<\/strong>, Keith Moore<\/strong>, Randy<\/strong> Weeks<\/strong>, and Rosamond<\/strong> & Jamie<\/strong> Posey<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The relaxed format of Songwriters in the Round allows the musicians to take turns playing songs and telling stories about the songs. If inspiration strikes, they may even accompany each other in the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of the participants in this year’s Songwriters in the Round will also be playing short sets in front of select film screenings at the Oxford Film Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Schaefer Llana<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou looked like an angel with the streetlight halo around you\/But I know better,\u201d sings twenty-one-year old Schaefer Llana<\/strong> on the song \u201cAngel,\u201d a standout track from her debut album 49 Ceiling Tiles. <\/em>As with all of Schaefer\u2019s songs, the lyrics show a wisdom that belies her age. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in St. Joseph, Missouri<\/strong>, at age ten Schaefer Llana moved to the tiny town of Batesville, Mississippi<\/strong>, after her parents divorced. She grew up singing in school plays and at church, the home stereo split equally between her mother\u2019s love of pop and her older sister\u2019s emo and punk music. Schaefer began writing songs on the piano in eighth grade, switching to the guitar her senior year in high school. She moved to Cleveland, Mississippi<\/strong> for college, where she cut her teeth in the fertile DIY house show scene. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was playing a lot of shows around town solo, and I started realizing it wasn\u2019t enough,\u201d says Schaefer. \u201cI needed it to be bigger, because it didn\u2019t feel like \u2018me\u2019 yet.\u201d In order to realize her vision, Schaefer recruited a band from her local scene. This allowed her to highlight the extremes in her songwriting, enabling her to move deftly from an acoustic whisper to a full-band holler in a moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first demo for 49 Ceiling Tiles<\/em> was recorded for her friend Starlin Browning<\/strong>\u2019s college production class. The results were so good they decided to make a whole record together, holing up with fellow musicians at Dial Back Sound<\/strong> in Water Valley<\/strong>, Mississippi, exemplifying the house show ethos of \u201cplaying music with your friends, for your friends.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the yearning, conflicted \u201cChildlike\u201d to the easy escape of \u201cDew,\u201d49 Ceiling Tiles<\/em> is at turns wounded and vulnerable, fierce and loud. The songs wrestle with faith and heartbreak, mental illness and self-harm. But through every song there\u2019s an undercurrent of hope, a belief that things can and will get better, and a refusal to stop trying. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m always fearful and doubtful, but there\u2019s a piece of me that has to hope for something\u201d says Schaefer. \u201cGrowing up and constantly having your world rocked and your heart broken by family and by people who you think are your family, you always have to believe that something better is coming. For me, that better thing has always been music.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s this belief that gives Schaefer\u2019s music such power. Her songs revel in the strength of vulnerability and the raw urgency of honest emotion. There\u2019s a ferocious hope to this music, an intimacy that comes from playing music with the people closest to you, and the shared knowledge that from all the pain and struggle something beautiful can emerge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always known that I wanted to play music,\u201d says Schaefer, \u201ceven though it seemed unrealistic. Most of me didn\u2019t believe that these things would ever happen. But here we are.\u201d She laughs. \u201cI guess the part of me that did believe was enough.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schaefer Llana Sets at the Oxford Film Festival<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Friday \u2013 Music Docs at 7:30 pm
Saturday \u2013 Fest Forward at 2:00 pm
Saturday \u2013 Songwriters in the Round at 5 pm
Sunday \u2013 Lover, Beloved<\/em> at 12:30 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rosamond & Jamie Posey<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Rocket 88<\/strong> has been a staple of the Oxford<\/strong> music scene for 17 years delivering a diverse sound of influences ranging from Gospel<\/strong> to North Mississippi Hill Country Blues<\/strong>, Honky Tonk<\/strong>, old time Country<\/strong>, Rock ‘n’ roll<\/strong>, and even Folk<\/strong>. Fronted by husband and wife duo, Rosamond<\/strong> and Jamie Posey<\/strong>, Rocket 88 has a unique sound that is steeped in home roots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosamond & Jamie Posey Sets at the Oxford Film Festival<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Saturday \u2013 That Thing That Sound<\/em> 3:30 pm
Saturday \u2013 The Falconer<\/em> 4:00 pm
Saturday \u2013 Songwriters in the Round at 5 pm
Saturday \u2013 Mississippi Music Videos 7:30 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Keith Moore<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Keith Moore<\/strong> grew up in Meridian, Mississippi. He formed his first band, Blue Haze<\/strong>, when he was 14. He wrote for Fame Music<\/strong> in Muscle Shoals<\/strong>, Alabama<\/strong>, and BMG<\/strong> in Nashville<\/strong>. His band, The Wineskins<\/strong>, include Jeff Gordon<\/strong> and Greg Johnson<\/strong>. They\u2019ve released two albums: Rattle My Faith<\/em>, and Shut Me Up Sundance<\/em>. Keith is releasing two new solo projects this spring and summer. The Nothing Tree, Songs About Nothing<\/em>, and Keith & The Mystery Band, Bare Feet<\/em>. He lives in Oxford <\/strong>with his wife Renee<\/strong>\u2019, who joins him on the new albums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keith Moore Sets at the Oxford Film Festival<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Friday \u2013 Cat Daddies<\/em> at 4:30 pm
Friday \u2013 Dealing with Dad<\/em> at 6:00 pm
Friday \u2013 Ole Miss Shorts at 5:30 pm
Saturday \u2013 Songwriters in the Round at 5 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Randy Weeks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Randy Weeks <\/strong>has lived in Mississippi<\/strong> all his life, and in Oxford<\/strong> for the past eleven years. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor by trade, and a musician and actor by heart. He had his first starring role as Santa Claus<\/strong>\u2019 son, Willie Claus<\/strong>, in a second-grade school musical. Since then he has played a number of roles onstage, most notably as Jesus<\/strong> in both Godspell<\/em> and Jesus Christ Superstar<\/em>. He played the role of a Miami<\/strong> judge in the film Texas Heart<\/strong>. <\/em>Randy has been a columnist for the Clarion Ledger<\/em> and now writes a column for Oxford\u2019s The Local Voice<\/em> called \u201cThe View from The Balcony.\u201d While he\u2019s written songs for decades, it\u2019s only in the past few years that he\u2019s performed them for others. He makes no claim of virtuosity with the guitar but believes strongly enough in the songs he writes to share them with anyone who will listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Randy Weeks’ Sets at the Oxford Film Festival<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Friday \u2013 LGBTQIA+ Shorts at 5:00 pm
Saturday \u2013 Mississippi Messiah<\/em> at 12:00 pm
Saturday \u2013 Heart of the Gun<\/em> at 1:00 pm
Saturday \u2013 Songwriters in the Round at 5 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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