Category: Artist Feature
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 Second Drummer Drowned: MJ Lenderman, 9/19/24 – 10/6/24 – 2/7/25, The Hard Quartet @ Brooklyn Bowl, 3/21/2025
Bricktown, Fort Worth – “Asheville country”-rock, quintet-to-septet, MJ Lenderman & The Wind, reassembled in a promotional tour for singer, songwriter, guitarist, MJ Lenderman’s 5th studio album, Manning Fireworks, released out of Anti- Records and Epitaph Records, September 6, 2024. As MJ Lenderman & The Wind’s Manning Fireworks tour has been increasingly “sold out” at mjlenderman.com…
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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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William Womack’s, “The Hotel”/WNXP, Bobby Nashville Rooftop Concerts/Great Barrier Reef Live(s)!
As he drove hurriedly down the street, he couldn’t help but notice the sun was shining. It was supposed to be a cloudy day; there was even a small chance of rain. He liked the rain. Rain, darkness, and clouds; these all fit his personality. The sadness that permeated his life was still very much…
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Under the Jefferson St. Bridge: Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways at the Brooklyn Bowl, Marches 26th, 27th
Songwriter/Musician, Bob Dylan, made an appearance at Nashville, neon-laned bowling alley/music venue, Brooklyn Bowl Nashville, March 26-27, 2024, to promote his latest album, Rough and Rowdy Ways, just a stone’s throw down the hill from the Nashville-Metro courthouse. Rough and Rowdy Ways was released out of Columbia Records, June 19, 2020. As segmental as the rest to Dylan’s unofficially,…
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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…
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The Peculiarity of Amigo the Devil’s Commemorations
Nashville, Tenn. – Austin, TX-to-Nashville, TN’s dark Neofolk singer/songwriter transplant, Amigo the Devil, has live shows that have become group heydays for area and national folks, alike, where fans can dabble in (and some, seemingly discover to laugh with) the dichotomy of life’s mortal coil, as well as find companionship in modern vulnerabilities, but as…
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IV’s Score & Some Strange: A TN REVIEW
Murfreesboro, Tenn. – Seemingly, with the oversight of a guardian angel, Nashville, TN dark country songwriter/musician, Coleman Williams (IV), -and, as accompanied by a just-as-locally sourced, grunge-metal backing band, The Strange Band- started work in Oct., 2020 with a concept that not only publicly exposed a local Murfreesboro liquor store clerk as a fourth heir…
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Murfreesboro’s Twin Oak Recordings Showcase: Lizette Kehrer, “White Rabbit”
Murfreesboro, TN – Nashville-area producer/musician, Jason Dietz, of Murfreesboro, TN production company, Twin Oak Recordings, has recently put together a showcase track featuring vocalist Lizette Kehrer in a fuzz-heavy, 90’s femme-rock cover of Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit,” pieced together by the Twin Oak production team/assistant producers, guitarist, David Talley; drummer, Taylor Powell; and Dietz, himself,…
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Is It Haunted? (true story)
When we moved into this house, it was already 71 years old. Having been built in 1903, it’s now over 100 and we are its longest occupants. People have a fascination with old houses, and when it passes the century mark, it becomes an object of speculation. “Is it haunted?” they ask. “If it is,”…
