Episode 64 || Making of a Music Festival

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

One perk of life in a small town: You can try something just to see if it works. And if it does? Then you've established a new town tradition, like Thomasville's Due South music festival, put on by the Center of the Arts. Annie and Chris chat with the Center's marketing director, Callie Sewell, about music festivals; the Athens, Ga., music scene; and whether Jane Eyre is overrated. BUY TICKETS for Due South here. Books mentioned: + Jane Eyre + The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls + No One Belongs Here More Than You + The Nest + The Empathy Exams Podcasts mentioned: + This American Life + Serial + The Moth + Mom and Dad Are Fighting + Gilmore Guys

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 64 of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books, small business, and life in the South.
0:08.7	I'm Chris Jensen, a PhD student at Florida State University, and a bookseller at the bookshelf.
0:13.5	And I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
0:19.5	This week we're chatting with Callie Sewell,
0:21.5	the marketing director for the Thomasville Center for the Arts. We'll be chatting about
0:25.3	due south, music festivals, and of course what we're reading right now. Hi, Callie. Hi. Welcome to my home.
0:32.5	Thanks for having me. It's adorable. We're so glad to have you here today because we have all
0:37.1	kinds of questions about
0:38.6	D-South and why a music festival in Thomasville. I hope I can answer them. All right, so why don't
0:46.5	we start by explaining to us what D-South is? Sure. So D-South is a celebration of art, food, and music, and it's in its fifth year
0:56.2	in Thomasville, and this year it's even bigger and better. It's expanded into two weekends. So we have
1:01.9	two awesome headlining bands, back-to-back weekends, one in downtown Thomasville and one in Tallinnbers
1:09.1	in Tallahassee, so right over the Georgia line.
1:12.6	How did it kind of begin?
1:14.7	It's in his fifth year now.
1:15.7	It seems like it's grown.
1:17.1	Yes, it's definitely grown, which is great.
1:20.1	It started out just sort of as like, how cool would it be if we brought a music festival to Thomasville?
1:27.1	You know, can Thomasville support a music festival?
1:29.4	Right. That's a big question.
1:31.1	And, you know, fast forward five years later, we can.
1:34.4	And to the point where it's successful and it's growing,
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