Celebrate Southern Storytellers
Thursday July 20, 2023 @ 7:00pm EDT
Join KET for this special event that celebrates Southern storytelling and features a performance by acclaimed singer-songwriter S.G. Goodman!
Valerie June | Southern Sounds
An authentic voice with bohemian flair, Valerie June emerges from Western Tennessee, daring to mix Appalachian folk music with ethereal storytelling. Come along to Tennessee’s Tina Turner Museum where an exhibit was recently installed in Valerie’s honor, and hear an impromptu performance on her family farm, as she talks history, inspiration, and the importance of glitter and big hair.
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Southern Storytellers
Celebrate Southern identity through the eyes of contemporary creators of literature, music, film, and television, including authors Jesmyn Ward, Michael Twitty, Angie Thomas, and David Joy; poets Jericho Brown and Natasha Trethewey; songwriters Jason Isbell, Lyle Lovett, Tarriona “Tank” Ball, Adia Victoria, Amanda Shires, Thao Nguyen, and Justin Moore; songwriter/screenwriter/actor Billy Bob Thornton; songwriter/actress Mary Steenburgen; and screenwriters Qui Nguyen and Michael Waldron in three one-hour-long episodes.
- Episode 1: Five noted creators of literature, music and film reveal deep ties to the American South.
- Episode 2: Six of the South’s native creators take us home to the places that define their work.
- Episode 3: Southern creators take us home to the places that define them.
Celebrating Our Southern Storytellers
Through the lenses of very different professions, these four wonderful storytellers add to Kentucky’s great storytelling tradition.
Southern Sounds
In addition to the three-part broadcast series, Southern Storytellers includes a six-part series of 10-minute episodes on PBS Digital Studios – Southern Sounds – that explores the powerful role of place in the lyrics of Southern songwriters.
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