For this holiday weekend we listen again to music recorded inside Firmin-Garner Performance Studio during the first six months of 2014. We hear from:
Pearl Brick
Cletus Got Shot
Sweetwater Gypsies
Isayah Wofford
The Riverblenders
Xcluded
Sons of Otis Malone
Finvarra's Wren
Dick Johnson
Elephant Revival
And a weekend update of things to do from Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers.
Ozarks At Large
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Cotton is the “fabric of our lives,” so they say. But it’s also a major export crop in Arkansas. But how does it grow? Is it a perennial? Do the cotton flowers smell like fresh laundry? Jacqueline Froelich takes us to a local field and talks cotton with the state’s top expert.
“Cotton” by: Lightin' Hopkins
Houndstooth Clothing Company, a Fayetteville shirt-making company, is celebrating its 20th anniversary. More information is available at Houndstooth.com.
“In a Cotton Shirt” by: Jimmy Driftwood
It's not uncommon to see clothing being shot into the stands using a T-shirt cannon at various sporting events. Antoinette Grajeda and Kyle Kellams recently took a trip to Arvest Ballpark to test out the Northwest Arkansas Natural's T-shirt gun. More information about the Nats is available at NWANaturals.com.
Christina Thomas visits with a Northwest Arkansas woman who grows her own cotton and then weaves it into fabric. For more information: NWAHandweaversGuild.com.
