The Great River! Thacker Mountain Radio

The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, the long-running public radio showcase for music and literature, is coming to Greenwood, MS. The show will record an episode at the Museum of the Mississippi Delta on Thursday, May 29 at 6 pm.

Admission is free and the public is invited. Doors at 5:30 pm.

Performers on the one-hour show will include Boyce Upholt, author of The Great River – The Making & the Unmaking of the Mississippi. Musical guests will include roots rocker (and Leflore Countian) Anne Freeman and blues dynamo Nikki Hill.

Hosts are Jim Dees with house band, Paul Tate and the Yalobushwhackers.

The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, now in its 27th year on Mississippi Public Broadcasting, will not broadcast live but will record the May 29th Greenwood program for air later this summer.

Upholt will join the audience to sign copies of The Great River on site after the show.

In 2005, Thacker Mountain Radio Hour received the Mississippi Governor’s Arts Award for Broadcast Excellence. In 2017, the show was awarded a “Citation of Merit” from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters.

On October 20, 2022, The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour celebrated 25 years on the air.

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