22nd Annual CWS June Event
SONG AND POETRY OF THE GREAT PLAINS
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
$60 per adult ticket and $10 per ticket for children 12 and younger
(Ticket cost includes meal and donation)
A limited number of tickets are available
Program Underwriters Needed at $500 (Table of 8) and Up!
Reply Card (1 page, 40 KB pdf)
The event will be held in the Augustana College Morrison Commons
Ordal Dining Room
6:30 p.m. Reception
7:00 p.m. Dinner
8:00 pm Program
Jami Lynn will perform songs from her new release, Sodbusters, and speak about the folk music tradition of the Great Plains. Patrick Hicks, Augustana Writer-in-Residence, will read from A Harvest of Words: Contemporary South Dakota Poetry.
Jami Lynn
Hailing from the upper Great Plains, folksinger Jami Lynn recently released her second album, Sodbusters, with fellow musician Josh Rieck. In the years since the 2008 release of her previous recording, Dreamer, under the name of Jami Lynn & the Aquila Band, the two musicians have stripped down their style and found inspiration in local folklore.
In the fall of 2009, Jami Lynn began research for her undergraduate thesis, "Early American Folk Music of the Upper Midwest" at the University of South Dakota. Long afternoons in museums and archives across the state turned up a unique collection of South Dakota folk songs and stories. While that body of research makes up a separate set of songs, a few tunes contained in her thesis are also included in Sodbusters.
Patrick Hicks
Patrick Hicks is Writer-in-Residence and Associate Professor of English at Augustana College and author five poetry collections, most recently Finding the Gossamer (2008) and This London (2010). Dr. Hicks is also the editor of the first anthology of contemporary South Dakota poetry, A Harvest of Words, published by the Center for Western Studies in 2010. This volume was published in honor of Augustana’s first Writer-in-Residence and founder of the Center for Western Studies, Herbert Krause.
Hicks’ work has appeared in scores of international journals and has been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize and short-listed for a variety of awards, and he recently won the Glimmer Train “Emerging Writer’s Fiction Award.” In addition to being a Visiting Fellow at Oxford, he is the recipient of a number of grants, including one from the Bush Foundation to support his first novel, which is about Auschwitz. He has lived abroad but has returned to his roots in Midwest America. When not writing, he enjoys watching thunderstorms roll across the prairie.
More information about Patrick Hicks.
Jami Lynn's website can be found here.
A Harvest of Words book information
Proceeds support the Center's operating budget and endowment funds.
For reservations or more information, please call (605) 274-4007.
