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Nashville Celtic Rock Band Coming to the Alley

Nashville Celtic Rock Band Coming to the Alley

Nashville Celtic rock band Molly Ramone will come to West Tennessee on Thursday, May 17, when singer/songwriter Mark Harriman and Joe Khoury will perform at Arts in the Alley in downtown Henderson. Beginning at 6 p.m., the event will be hosted by the Henderson Arts Commission in the alley off Main Street beside Frix-Jennings Clinic.

Originally from Leiceister, England, Harriman came to America in 1995 when he signed to Gravelsauce Records. Since then he has established himself as an integral part of the Nashville music scene. Khoury plays lead guitar and mandolin and sings backing vocals. He is a prominent session player and music producer in Nashville.

Regularly featured at both the Opryland Hotel and on Music Row, Molly Ramone has a delightful way of encouraging audiences to join the excitement by clapping or singing along to both traditional Irish ballads and newer Celtic rock music.

Artist needs help bringing sculpture garden to inner-city

(WMC-TV) - A Memphis metalsmith needs help raising money for a Secret Sculpture Garden in the Speedway Terrace neighborhood.

Thomasin Durgin, formerly an adjunct professor at Memphis College of Art, an assistant curator at the Brooks and a social worker, is helping reinvigorate a Memphis neighborhood by creating an art garden.

“While I initiated the project I am not working alone - the 50' x 150' lot is slowly being filled with stone pathways, benches, flowers and sculpture made by local artists and neighborhood children,” Durgin writes on her Kickstarter page.

Kickstarter is a site that lets the public fund creative projects with individual contributions.

United Way hasbusy week meeting with elected officials

United Way of the Mid-South’s strategic plan facilitator had a very busy start this week.

Tim Deuitch, Senior Consultant with Strategic Enhancement Group, Inc. is helping our United Way through the process of examining our current work and learning what needs to be done to be even more effective in the future. Strategic Enhancement Group, Inc. has experience working with nonprofits (including several similarly sized United Way chapters) and for-profit organizations engaged in planning and adjusting to better meet changes in the business environment... Read More

Music festival raises money for garden

Music festival raises money for garden

(WMC-TV) – The organizers of a local music festival are donating a portion of their proceeds in order to help ensure more Memphians have access to fresh produce.

The Brister Street Music Festival, which took place in late April at the Levitt Shell, is donating more than $3,000 to GrowMemphis on Thursday.

Middle school has two decades of successful giving

Middle school has two decades of successful giving

(WMC-TV) – Bellevue Middle School is a super school when it comes to collecting food for the needy.

Bellevue has collected more food than any other school in the Mid-South for 20 consecutive years.

Orange Mound couple partners with Memphis business to help community

Rev. Reginald J. and Mrs. Mary Tucker have hearts of gold and are getting positive results in the Orange Mound community.

They work with underprivileged youth in the neighborhood and help them to be successful.

Shelby Systems of Memphis has been partnering with the Tucker's for the past 2 years.

Through their partnership, they've been able to build a new computer lab for them.

The lab was competed last month.

You can watch more by clicking the video. 

Pink tractor to be auctioned off at Relay for Life event in Lauderdale County

Pink tractor to be auctioned off at Relay for Life event in Lauderdale County

This Relay for Life tractor will be one of the items auctioned off during this years Relay for Life in Lauderdale County.  

A Relay for Life team restored this tractor for the sole purpose of auctioning off on May 11th on the Ripley, TN square at the relay event.

It has gotten a enormous response and pictures are taken daily and has made several appearances and has been written up in several local newspapers.

The main goal is to reach out to as many potential bidders to maximize the amount of charity to go toward cancer research.

You can view the total restoration at youngtractors.com.  This is a 100% donation.