What Blues is to eastern Arkansas, Western Swing is to Western Arkansas. The unique American music style will be the star of a multifaceted public kickoff event for the upcoming Fort Smith International Film Festival with a special evening featuring the Arkansas premier of the documentary, “The Birth and History of Western Swing” followed by a dance featuring Western Swing RULES this evening beginning 5pm at the Fort Smith Museum of History. Pete speaks with Caroline Speir, Executive Director of FSMH, about tonight's event.
Historian Jared Phillips traces the origins of the Prairie Grove Clothesline Fair, the Cane Hill Harvest Festival plus the War Eagle Craft Fair, all born of a postwar push to keep Ozark crafts alive.
Fort Worth's Cory Cross plays Jumpsuit Jamey's Big Honky Tonk Dance in Fayetteville this weekend. He talks about writing "Quittin'" plus the new album he'll release one single at a time.
Michael Tilley on a Fort Smith board recess that skipped procedure, the city's 44 Flock cameras, a Butterfield Stagecoach monument planned for Garrison Avenue plus softer hospitality tax revenue.