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Thacker Mountain Radio returns to Delta Music Institute

By February 19, 2010General

  

Mississippi native Carolyn Haines will be the featured author for Thacker Mountain – Delta Edition on March 6 at the DMI.

 

 

The acclaimed Thacker Mountain Radio show is returning to the Delta for a live broadcast on Saturday, March 6 at 3 p.m. from Delta Music Institute’s (DMI) Studio A in the historic Whitfield building on the Delta State University campus.

 

Thacker Mountain Radio, in its 11th year, is a live, unrehearsed broadcast that features author readings and a wide array of musical performances. The free show is normally recorded and broadcast weekly from Off Square Books in Oxford, but will relocate for this special show in Studio A at the Delta Music Institute as part of the DMI Anniversary Celebration.

 

The show was originated by two southern studies graduate students and has hosted a wide range of talent over the last decade, including musician Elvis Costello and emerging authors Sue Monk Kidd and Rick Bragg. The show has received numerous awards, with one of the most prestigious being the Mississippi Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.

 

Guest author for this special DMI taping of Thacker Mountain will be 2010 Harper Lee Award winner Carolyn Haines. Haines is a native of Lucedale. Her “Bones” mystery series revolves around the character Sarah Booth Delaney, and is set in the Mississippi Delta.

 

Thacker Mountain’s house band, the Yalobushwhackers, features the Delta’s own Duff Dorrough. Joining the band that day will be former Tangents keyboard player and Delta native Jim “Fish” Michie. They will be backing soon to be announced special musical guests on the show as well as playing featured performances of their own.

 

Thacker Mountain is hosted by Jim Dees and is broadcast live on Rebel Radio 92.1 FM and then rebroadcast statewide on Mississippi Public Broadcasting at 7 p.m. on Saturdays.

 

The Delta Music Institute began with a generous donation by Fred Carl of the Viking Range Corporation in 2003. The focus of the DMI is to provide students with a broad and thorough education in the technological, business, and creative areas of the music industry.

 

The public is encouraged to come be a part of this entertaining broadcast on March 6 at 3 p.m. as part of the DMI Anniversary Celebration. For more information on the event, please call (662) 846-4579 or visit dmi.deltastate.edu.