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East Side Storytellin’ 120 – When Michael McRay and Emma Dilemma shed light and love on hard time and hard days

Thank YOU, thank YOU, thank YOU. Hello Again! Welcome to another wonderful collaboration between East Side Story and The Post. Let me be the first to officially, whole-heartedly welcome you to the 120th epic edition of East Side Storytellin’! Like the 119, I repeat … 119, previous shows East Side Story has put together, we […]

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East Side Storytellin’ 76: The stormy night when Kate Parrish and Sarah Carter combined Blue Valentines and Sewanee and made happiness

Thank YOU, thank YOU, thank YOU. Hello Again! Welcome to another wonderful collaboration between East Side Story and The Post. Let me be the first to officially, whole-heartedly welcome you to the 76th epic edition of East Side Storytellin’! Like the 75, I repeat … 75, previous shows East Side Story has put together, we all decided […]

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East Side Storytellin’ 70: A celebration of holiday proportions and much giving of thanks come early with Rita Bullwinkel and Dutch Whisky

Well, we did it! We successfully made it to lucky number 70 and counting. I’m not sure if anyone ever believed we would do it or doubted us, but I’m happy to say that we celebrated our 3rd anniversary of East Side Storytellin’ in the best of ways (together with talented Nashville artists, surrounded by […]

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East Side Storytellin’ 48: The 2 Year Anniversary Show that got us back to our creative roots with Oni Woods and Boom Forest (John Paul Roney)

Hello, hello, hello. First of all, before writing anything about the big show, I want to just write a sincere THANKS to everyone who showed up in person to help us celebrate a most deserving and all-around amazing night together with family, friends new and old, and … yeah, THANK YOU! I’ll also begin by […]

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East Side Storytellin’ 25: When we turned 1 year old and celebrated Vandy style

It was one year ago, on Tuesday, November 6th, on a cold, rainy election night when we started making this cool idea into a reality.  It seemed like and continues to seem like an obvious, perfect combination of inviting local authors to read from and describe their printed work, showcasing local musicians that perform and […]

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East Side Storytellin’ 9: Attack of the Red-Headed Music City Muses

On March 5th, 2013, I felt very fortunate and blessed.  The good people of Fat Bottom Brewing Co., after talking it over and listening to me a time or two explain what I intended to bring to their party with that of East Side Storytellin’, gave me the invitation to celebrate a new chapter in […]

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East Side Storytellin’ 8: When Sewanee left the mountain for the city

On February 19th, 2013, a very special gathering that had been in the making for a few months, possibly since last Summer before East Side Story was a reality, occurred at Rumours East and it was an absolute blast.  With the help of April Alvarez, Coordinator for the Sewanee School of Letters program, she managed […]

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East Side Storytellin’ 7 – Alice Randall and Jonathan Sexton … enough said.

WOW!  That’s about the only word I could come up with after leaving Rumours East on the night of Tuesday, February 5th, 2013, and experiencing the first-time meeting between Alice Randall and Jonathan Sexton.  If you weren’t lucky enough to be in the crowd sharing that wonderful evening with me, you are lucky to be […]

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East Side Storytellin’ 6 – Where fine wine and amazing women met

Yeah, I said it.  East Side Storytellin’ 6, aka the night of January 22, 2013 where Barbara Nowak and Julie Lee first met, was just that … where fine wine and amazing women met.  I knew from the first reply from Julie about a month and a half before the night happened when she excitedly […]

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East Side Storytellin’ 5 with Cary Graham and Jenny & Tyler … OH, what a night!

On Tuesday, January 8th, I truly experienced a night like no other.  At 6pm, I left East Side Story with new art prints made by Alex in tow in order to make my way over to Rumours East to get fully prepared. I knew that Tom would be there with equipment in hand, but I […]