Join KET for this special event that celebrates Southern storytelling and features a performance by acclaimed singer-songwriter S.G. Goodman!

Celebrate Southern Storytellers, a free KET event, takes place Thursday, July 20, beginning at 7 pm at The Burl in Lexington. To register, visit KET.org/Events.

The event features a performance by and interview with Kentucky singer-songwriter S.G. Goodman as well as video interviews with several prominent Kentuckians talking about how stories influence their work, including:

• Jon Cherry, a Louisville-based Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine and Getty Images.
• Dr. A. Gwynn Henderson, education director at the Kentucky Archaeological Survey
• Silas House, best-selling writer who was named Kentucky’s Poet Laureate in 2023
• Chef Lawrence Weeks, executive chef at North of Bourbon in Louisville, which celebrates Deep Southern cuisine

The event is being held in conjunction with the new multiplatform PBS series, Southern Storytellers, which features several of the South’s writers, musicians and more discussing how the place in which they grew up informs their songs, poems, films and plays.

Parking is available in The Burl’s parking lot and also along Thompson Road.

And be sure to tune-in to KET for Southern Storytellers, which premieres on July 18 at 9/8 pm on KET and features interviews with novelists Jesmyn Ward, Angie Thomas and David Joy; country music artist Lyle Lovett; poet Jericho Brown; actor Billy Bob Thornton; songwriters Brittany Howard, Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires and Adia Victoria.

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