{"id":82787,"date":"2019-02-13T16:42:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T22:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=82787"},"modified":"2019-02-13T16:42:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T22:42:35","slug":"singersongwriter-beth-mckee-author-william-boyle-to-headline-thacker-mountain-radio-at-delta-state-universitys-delta-music-institute-on-march-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2019\/02\/singersongwriter-beth-mckee-author-william-boyle-to-headline-thacker-mountain-radio-at-delta-state-universitys-delta-music-institute-on-march-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer\/Songwriter Beth McKee, Author William Boyle to Headline  Thacker Mountain Radio at Delta State University\u2019s Delta Music Institute on March 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singer\/songwriter Beth McKee and writer William Boyle will headline the Thacker Mountain Radio Show at Delta State University\u2019s Delta Music Institute (DMI) on March 2 at 3 PM in Studio A on the Delta State campus. <!--more-->Thacker in the Delta, in its 11<sup>th<\/sup> year, is free and open to the public\u2014and serves as a fundraiser for DMI programming and the Duff Dorrough Memorial Scholarship fund; donations are accepted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deltastategiving.org\">www.deltastategiving.org<\/a> by entering Delta Music Institute in the search field.<\/p>\n<p>McKee grew up learning to play the blues in Jackson, Miss., and later relocated to Austin, Texas. She then moved to New Orleans to join Evangeline, a bayou-country band signed to Jimmy Buffett\u2019s Margaritaville label, before setting off on her own. Now based in Orlando, Fla., she is a solo act as well as the founder and coordinator of Swamp Sistas, an alliance of more than 2,700 creative Southern women.<\/p>\n<p>Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Boyle writes in the vein of crime\/noir fiction. His debut novel, <em>Gravesend<\/em>, was published in the Rivages\/Noir collection in France and nominated for the Grand Prix de Litt\u00e9rature Polici\u00e8re. Other works include a story collection, <em>Death Don\u2019t Have No Mercy,<\/em> and the novels <em>Tout est Bris\u00e9 (Everything Is Broken)<\/em> and <em>The Lonely Witness<\/em>. The novel <em>A Friend is a Gift You Give Yourself<\/em> will be released March 5. He lives in Oxford, Miss.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-82791\" src=\"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/Boyle-327x430.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/Boyle-327x430.jpg 327w, https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/Boyle-768x1010.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/Boyle-779x1024.jpg 779w, https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/Boyle-91x120.jpg 91w, https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/Boyle.jpg 1558w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>DMI \u201990s band B4Y2K and DMI Director Tricia Walker will also perform. The award-winning Thacker Mountain Radio is hosted by Jim Dees and features the show\u2019s house band, The Yalobushwhackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer\/songwriter Beth McKee and writer William Boyle will headline the Thacker Mountain Radio Show at Delta State University\u2019s Delta Music Institute (DMI) on March 2 at 3 PM in Studio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":82790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1912],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-delta-music-institute","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82787"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82793,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82787\/revisions\/82793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}