Bridges

Listen to my interview with KATE HAYGOOD from Hearing Bridges and learn more about their mission to unite the deaf, the hard of hearing and the hearing communities through education, services and support, empowering individuals to achieve their full potential. Learn about ways you can get involved in the many activities and fundraisers coming up this year.

This Saturday join them for their annual fundraiser

Signs of the Times: Get Kool with the Gang!    May 4, 2013. 

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47. Sevier Park Fest

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The beautiful green park that sits in the lovely 12South neighborhood is called Sevier Park. And they’re having the first ever Sevier Park Fest this Saturday, May 4. To bring together neighbors from the 12South and Belmont/Hillsboro areas, to promote local talent and businesses, and to raise money to enhance and support Sevier Park, the event invites neighbors and guests to this free event. From 11am to 7pm, vendors will set up and offer wares in Sevier Park, live music will play, restaurants will entice with delicious smells, kids will play, and the bearded will compete. It’s a fun day for everyone! And it’s free. Come out.

http://sevierparkfest.com/

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Nashville Shakespeare Festival

Listen to my interview with The Nashville Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director, Denice Hicks and learn about the mission they have to educate and entertain the Mid-South community through professional Shakespearean experiences.

“The Festival enriches and unifies our community with bold, innovative and relevant productions along with empowering, participatory educational programs, setting the community standard of excellence in productions and educational outreach of the works of Shakespeare.”

www.nashvilleshakes.org

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Tennessee State Museum

This free museum is for the people and is full of Tennessee History and currently hosting some treasures from the National Archive.


“The Discovering the Civil War exhibit, which will continue well beyond the Emancipation Proclamation’s viewing, is the culmination of 150 years of analysis, interpretation, and opinion on the Civil War through lesser-known stories and perspectives. Many items on display never have been publicly exhibited. Highlights include the original copy of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery along with South Carolina’s 1860 declaration of secession.”
www.tnmuseum.org

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Our Kids

Listen to my  interview with Sue Fort White, the Executive Director of Our Kids Center and Lisa Dupree one of the dedicated Social Workers.

Learn more about this wonderful non-profit and it’s mission to bring Help, Hope and Healing for children and their families struggling with sexual abuse in Davidson County and spreading throughout Tennessee. Read More

Tomorrow Catch her at Grimey’s at 3 and on the 12th at Belcourt

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Holly Williams, (yes, of that Williams family) first caught my ears while I was still in college and her song “Sometimes” (from her debut studio effort, The Ones We Never Knew) was in pretty heavy rotation on L100. “Sometimes” stuck out to me for being simultaneously sweet and sorta’ brave as Holly both wishes she were a little girl and ponders what powers for healing she might have if she were Jesus.

Something about her struck me as an Americana-kind-of-Tori Amos, working in similar themes and with a similar, somewhat shocking candor for her respective genre. She found a spot on my lovelorn mix CDs of the mid 00’s with the likes of Patty Griffin, Tift Merritt, and Beth Orton and I didn’t think too much more about her — aside for when “Sometimes” would show up in a shuffle of Itunes prompting…

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