Jeanette Williams Band to Perform at KASU’s Bluegrass Monday
June 16, 2015
JONESBORO – The Jeanette Williams Band will perform a concert of bluegrass music,
Monday, June 22, at 7 p.m. at the Collins Theatre, 120 West Emerson Street, in downtown
Paragould, Arkansas. The concert is part of the Bluegrass Monday concert series presented
by KASU 91.9 FM. KASU will literally “pass the hat” to collect money to pay the musicians.
The suggested donation is $5 per person.Jeanette Williams is a three-time winner of
the Female Vocalist of the Year award given by the Society for the Preservation of
Bluegrass Music in America; she has been nominated for seven other awards from that
same organization. She has also received awards for her songwriting at the International
Acoustic Music Awards and the MerleFest music festival.
Born in North Carolina and raised in Virginia, Williams began singing at a young age.
Her professional career began when she was in her early 20s, singing country music.
In 1989, she switched from country to bluegrass, joining the band Clearwater. Williams
released her debut solo CD in 1994, and she has been a fixture on the bluegrass music
scene ever since.
Williams is known for her rich, beautiful, uniquely expressive voice. She and her
band perform traditional bluegrass music, but classic country music, the blues, roots
music, and rock and roll also influence them. The band appears at bluegrass venues
and festivals in the United States and abroad.
In addition to the concert, Terry’s Café, 201 South Pruett Street in Paragould, opens
on Bluegrass Monday nights to welcome bluegrass music fans. The café serves a catfish
buffet meal beginning at 4:30 p.m. on the evenings of Bluegrass Monday concerts. Concessions
will also be available at the Collins Theatre.
Bluegrass Monday concerts are held on the fourth Monday night of each month. These
concerts are presented with support from Bibb Chiropractic, the Posey Peddler, Holiday
Inn Express and Suites of Paragould, the Northeast Arkansas Bluegrass Association
and KASU.
KASU, 91.9 FM, is the 100,000-watt public broadcasting service of Arkansas State University
in Jonesboro. For more information, contact KASU program director Marty Scarbrough
at mscarbro@astate.edu or (870) 972-2367. Bluegrass Monday is also on Facebook. (Search “Bluegrass Monday.”)
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