‘Watermelon Wine’ brings multimedia show to Charles & Myrtle’s on Saturday
Frye Gaillard and Anne E. DeChant will bring their multimedia show, “Watermelon Wine: The Poetry of Americana Music,” to Charles & Myrtle’s Coffeehouse on Saturday, April 15, at 8 p.m. The coffeehouse is located at 105 McBrian Road.
In his award-winning book, “Watermelon Wine,” Gaillard maintains that great songwriters, like DeChant, explore the depths of the human heart “with all the subtlety and feeling of our finest novelists and poets.” Gaillard will present brief readings from his works, setting the literary context for DeChant’s all-acoustic rendition of her songs.
DeChant’s CD, “The Sun Coming In,” has charted in the Top 10 on multiple Roots Music Report charts including a No. 1 on the Alternative Folk Song Chart. DeChant opened for Melissa Etheridge at Cain Park in Cleveland, Ohio, last summer and also wrote, recorded and performed the theme song for the 2016 Transplant Games of Cleveland.
Gaillard, writer-in-residence at the University of South Alabama, is the recipient of the 2016 Eugene Current-Garcia Distinguished Scholar Award. He has written extensively on Southern race relations, politics and culture.
He is former editor at The Charlotte Observer, where he covered Charlotte’s landmark school desegregation controversy, the ill-fated ministry of televangelist Jim Bakker, the funeral of Elvis Presley and the presidency of Jimmy Carter.
Gaillard has written or edited more than 20 books. He lives on the Alabama Gulf Coast with his wife, Nancy, who teaches in the College of Education at the University of South Alabama.
There is a $10 suggested donation for admission to Charles & Myrtle’s.
To get tickets, call 423892-4960.