Category: Local News
Extensive catalogue found at Bryce Harmon, Author at The Murfreesboro Pulse.
Contributing F&P Authors found in Category, “Local Writing.”
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Amber Lelli: local artist/MTSU grad/understudy of Alan LeQuire, the guy who did the Athena statue in the Parthenon. The gallery she works out of is having a big thing in June honoring the anniversary of the making of Athena. I think her being a Blue Raider might be of interest. Let me know what you think and if it can get into the paper. Also, if you need me to send it to a different spot let me know.
By William Womack Let’s assume the question was posed, “Where does someone start if they want to learn more about the local Middle Tennessee art scene? The answer is quite simple: Mt. Juliet sculptor, printmaker, and marquetry artist, Amber Lelli, is a graduate of Murfreesboro’s Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), who has lived and honed…
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The Murfreesboro-local, Punk/Metal scene (Pt. 1)
newspaper edition found at The Murfreesboro-Local, Punk/Metal Scene (Pt. 1): The Folk & Proper Newspaper version, online – Folk & Proper News [this] Coverage of the Murfreesboro, TN-area Punk and Metal scene of the Twenty-Twenties began trying to fix the sub-genric description, “glitch rock,” or “glitch punk,” to area “post-hardcore/glitch-metal/math-punk group,” Circuit Circuit’s debut, Circuit…
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Jack White Show Tickets, Tomorrow/Jack White Record Release, 7/19/24/Swamp Dogg’s West Virgina to 125th St.
Nashville, Tenn. – Area songwriter/guitarist, entrepreneur, Jack White, released copies of his latest album, NO NAME , Friday, July 19, out of Third Man Records, and only found at White’s three Third Man Records brick-and-mortar locations located in Nashville, Detroit, and London. The white vinyl pressed, 33 rpm record with only a deep blue-stamped, “NO NAME”…
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![Lillie Mae and Family’s Festival Eyes Release @ The [OG] Basement, November 17, 2023.](https://folkandproper.news/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IMG_9942-rotated.jpg)
Lillie Mae and Family’s Festival Eyes Release @ The [OG] Basement, November 17, 2023.
Walking into Nashville’s The Basement, November 17, last year, as an ambient mix of traffic and outdoor PA systems chaperone into the second generation-historic, sister-addition to the 8th Ave… “[Lillie Mae]’s at the OG Basement,” said a Basement East crew member setting up the empty venue for the next event. “Yeah, we’ve already had a…
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5 Spot Hot Dad Bod Rock
“When I look over and I see Nate crushing the bass, and Tony killing it, and Alex doing the things he does, and Ben hittin’ the rhythms, it’s so therapeutic. It’s therapy that’d be priceless to try to even pay for it all. These guys keep it going, for sure,” Lee Ramsey said.
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Be Belcourt Member: Ethan Hawke, post-Wildcat q&a; Maya Hawke @ The Blue Room, 6/1; Molly Frances, The Basement, 5/22
Actor/Director Ethan Hawke (Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, First Reformed) visited Nashville’s Belcourt Theatre, May 8, 2024, to discuss his most recent movie and directorial debut, Wildcat, his 2023 biographical adaptation of the latter life and works of American, Southern Gothic author, Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964), with a discussion/question and answer forum, in tow. Hawke…
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Hatch Show Print, January 18, 2024; Haley Gallery’s Winter; Emmylou’s Live at the Ryman
Nashville, Tenn. – Downtown Nashville’s “Smithsonian of country music,” The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, opened in ‘67 on Nashville’s Music Row (“the neighborhood attracted music industry firms after WSM announcer David Cobb referred to Nashville as ‘Music City, USA,’ during a broadcast in 1950″), becoming accredited by the American Alliance of Museums…
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A Prairie Home Companion celebrates 50 Years @ Ryman Auditorium (in Hymn & Harmony, again), Jan 11, 2024; Mead’s musical; Keillor drops F-bomb on stage
Nashville, Tenn. – Early 70’s, Opry’s final-Ryman-days-inspired, radio, variety program, A Prairie Home Companion, performed at mutual, area-mother church, Ryman Auditorium, January 11, 2024, to not only turn host, Garrison Keillor’s newly found opportunities to lead full Ryman Auditorium audiences in hymn, patriotic, and secular harmonies, back into tradition, but to celebrate America’s staple-wholesome, A…
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Be Belcourt Member: Jack White’s Joan Baez/Susan O’Connor Interview, Oct. 20; …WPLN-sponsored, “Kids of Rutherford County” discussion, Nov. 29.
To “a sold-out show of mostly Belcourt members and their guests,” Nashville non-profit film center, the Belcourt Theatre, ran the Joan Baez biopic, I Am a Noise (released Feb. 17, 2023; directed by Karen O’Connor, Miri Navasky, and Maeve O’Boyle) from October 20 through November 9. The opening night included an appearance by internationally acclaimed…
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Growth in “Pedal Taverns”: Saxophonist Don Aliquo’s Hidden Nashville Jazz Collective in The Gulch
Nashville, Tenn. – Shouldered against a stonewall-elevated, neighborhood service spur off-shooting the main Chattanooga Subdivision at 8th Ave. S. and Gleaves St. (the Chattanooga Subdivision is the major CSX Train line that runs through Murfreesboro, directly connecting Chattanooga and Nashville), Rudy’s Jazz Room has been hiding MTSU Jazz Faculty/tenured area saxophonist, Don Aliquo, Jr. in…
