August 21st, 2010 Saturday Ocean Springs: Special Coast Show! Attention to all Thacker fans that can't make it to a Thursday Thacker in Oxford! We are traveling down to the Ocean Springs, MS, on Saturday August 21st the Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Center for the Arts and Education. FREE as always and open to the public. Show starts at 6pm, doors open at 5pm. Author: Tom Piazza Piazza is an award-winning writer who was recently added to the staff of the HBO series, Treme. His latest novel is City Of Refuge, which is the tale of two New Orleans families who survive Hurricane Katrina. His short-story collection Blues And Trouble, won the James Michener Award for fiction. Piazza is also an accomplished jazz pianist. Related link: Click here for Tom Piazza website. Musical Guest: Caroline Herring Canton-native Caroline Herring’s newest CD is Golden Apples of the Sun. National Public Radio called it, “her most intimate and mature work to date, mixing timelessly personal story songs with Gothic tales of the modern South.” Of particular interest to Ocean Springs residents will be the album’s opening track, ‘Tales of the Islander,’ which is about Walter Anderson. “Walter Anderson is a Mississippi artist I’ve always loved,” Herring says. “He was so thirsty for life. I built the song around this little cottage he lived in that no one was allowed to go into.” Related link: Caroline Herring Website. Musical Guest: Homemade Jamz The Homemade Jamz Blues Band consists of three young siblings, Ryan Perry, 17 (guitar) and brother, Kyle, 15 (bass) and sister, Taya, 11 (drums). Largely self-taught and often performing on homemade instruments, the trio is routinely the youngest band to appear at festivals and blues competitions. In 2007, the band finished second among 93 competitors in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis and hasn’t looked back since. Their CDs include I Got Blues For You and their latest, Pay Me No Mind. Related link: Homemade Jamz.