{"id":123805,"date":"2022-10-19T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=123805"},"modified":"2022-10-18T17:57:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T22:57:21","slug":"thacker-mountain-radio-hour-celebrates-25th-anniversary-on-thursday-october-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/thacker-mountain-radio-hour-celebrates-25th-anniversary-on-thursday-october-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Thacker Mountain Radio Hour Celebrates 25th Anniversary on Thursday, October 20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour <\/strong>celebrates its 25th anniversary on Thursday, October 20 at 6 pm at The Powerhouse Arts Center<\/strong>. Admission is free and the public is invited. Guests for the show will include the 2022\u201323 Grisham-Writer-in-Residence, Deesha Philyaw<\/strong>, Oxford synth-pop duo And the Echo<\/strong>, and the Southern Komfort Brass Band<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The program will be hosted by Jim Dees<\/strong> and an expanded Yalobushwhacker Big Band<\/strong> featuring the Thacker Horns<\/strong> and guest vocalist Mary Frances Massey<\/strong>. Dees promises a \u201cbig brass blowout.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLike any good party we\u2019ll have great music and maybe a surprise or two,\u201d he hints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An after party with food and refreshments featuring the Southern Komfort Brass Band will follow the radio show at 7 pm. The Powerhouse is located at 413 S. 14th Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philyaw is the author of the short story collection The Secret Lives of Church Ladies<\/em><\/strong> (West Virginia University Press, 2020), which won the 2021 PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction. It was also a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the Echo are an electronica-pop duo made up of longtime Oxford favorites, Morgan Pennington<\/strong> and Winn McElroy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Southern Komfort Brass Band are from Jackson, Mississippi, and bring high energy\u2014and a half-dozen horns, plus drums\u2014to their funky take on blues, jazz, R&B, and gospel as well as Komfort originals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour was founded on October 15, 1997 by former Oxford musicians Caroline Herring<\/strong> and Bryan Ledfor<\/strong>d, and Square Books<\/strong> co-owner Richard Howorth<\/strong>, who also named the show.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guests on the inaugural show were author John Bentley Mays<\/strong> and musician Tony Furtado<\/strong>. Early shows featured an author reading and music by a visiting band as well as songs by the house band, a format that continues today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The show now broadcasts some 30 shows a year, 12 in the spring and 12 in the fall as well as half-dozen road shows in various cities across the Southeast United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The show can be heard Thursdays at 6 pm on WUMS (92.1 FM) \u2013 University of Mississippi<\/strong>. It can also be heard every Saturday at 7 pm on Mississippi Public Broadcasting<\/strong> and 9 pm on Alabama Public Radio<\/strong>; 3 pm (ET) on WUTC \u2013 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga<\/strong> and Fridays at 6 am on WYXR \u2013 Memphis Public Radio<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2005, Thacker Mountain Radio Hour received the Mississippi Governor\u2019s Award for Broadcast Excellence. In 2017, the show was awarded a \u201cCitation of Merit\u201d from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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