{"id":19962,"date":"2024-04-23T15:33:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T19:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/?post_type=wfsu-news&#038;p=19962"},"modified":"2024-05-21T14:41:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T18:41:41","slug":"word-of-south-festival-brings-literary-and-musical-riches-to-tallahassee-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"wfsu-news","link":"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wfsu-news\/word-of-south-festival-brings-literary-and-musical-riches-to-tallahassee-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of South Festival brings literary and musical riches to Tallahassee this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-19962-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/cpa.ds.npr.org\/s390\/audio\/2024\/04\/wordofsouth042324ss.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cpa.ds.npr.org\/s390\/audio\/2024\/04\/wordofsouth042324ss.mp3\">https:\/\/cpa.ds.npr.org\/s390\/audio\/2024\/04\/wordofsouth042324ss.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>This weekend is Word of South, Tallahassee\u2019s acclaimed literary and music festival. It\u2019s now in its tenth year. We hear about the weekend\u2019s line-up of acts from its founder, novelist Mark Mustian.<\/p>\n<p>Most Tallahasseans know Mustian as a former city commissioner. But he\u2019s also published a couple of novels, and the last one garnered invitations to speak at literary festivals. He\u2019d never been to one, and he was impressed. But rather than create the Tallahassee version of another city\u2019s event, Mustian wanted to do something different.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enh\" data-align-center>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"OneColumnContainer\">\n<div class=\"OneColumnContainer-row\">\n<div class=\"OneColumnContainer-column\">\n<div class=\"PromoXS-content\">\n      <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cSo, we hit on the idea of doing books and music, and there\u2019s really nothing like it in the country,&#8221; he says. &#8220;I mean, if you Google book-and-music festival, you don\u2019t really find anything. And so, we\u2019re a very unique animal, we\u2019ve gotten a lot of notoriety because of it, it\u2019s been very successful, it\u2019s grown every year, and I\u2019m very proud of what we\u2019ve done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Flaming Lips will perform at the Adderley Amphitheater on Friday, Rising Appalachia will perform there Saturday, and the Blind Boys of Alabama will perform at the Salvation South Stage on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ticketed show Friday night is the group The Flaming Lips, which a lot of people are super-excited about,&#8221; says Mustian. &#8220;Apparently, they are playing in its entirety their Yoshimi album that is a classic. So, that should be fun, and then the rest of the weekend is free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A wide array of artists will perform on the ten stages throughout Saturday and Sunday. Mustian says Danny Bedrosian, George Clinton\u2019s keyboardist, has written an anthology of P-Funk, and that Clinton and some other members of the band will play songs and talk about the band\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>www.wordofsouthfestival.com <\/p>\n<div class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2024 WFSU<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19963,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[],"tags":[1137,1135],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Word of South Festival brings literary and musical riches to Tallahassee this weekend - WFSU Local Routes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wfsu-news\/word-of-south-festival-brings-literary-and-musical-riches-to-tallahassee-this-weekend\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Word of South Festival brings literary and musical riches to Tallahassee this weekend - 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