THE Sweet Potato Queen Jill Conner Browne
THE Sweet Potato Queen Jill Conner Browne Featured at Tales from the South’s Tin Roof Project Wednesday, October 05, 2011
North Little Rock, AR. September 25, 2011—Multiple #1 New York Times® bestselling author and THE Sweet Potato Queen, Jill Conner Browne,will be the featured storyteller for a very special Tales from the South Tin Roof Project on Wednesday evening, October 05, 2011. The live taping of the radio series will be at Starving Artist Café in the Argenta Arts District, Downtown North Little Rock. Live music by The Salty Dogs. Doors open at 5pm, dinner is served 5pm-6:30pm and the show starts at 7pm.
This special show will be a departure from regular Tuesday night shows, and instead will be on Wednesday night for this one show. Tales from the South features “true stories told by the Southerners who lived them,” and the Tin Roof Project is a special monthly series showcasing well-known Southerners telling their own true stories.
Jill Conner Browne is “America’s #1 Humor Writer,” according to Nielsen BookScan, a retail book sales monitoring service. There are more than 3 million copies of THE Sweet Potato Queen’s books currently in print, and three of her eight books have been on the New York Times® bestseller list. She has won awards for the readings of the audio versions of her books, and has appeared on multiple television and radio shows and series. She has written for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is currently a monthly contributor to AY Magazine. A Broadway musical based on the Sweet Potato Queens® is being developed in partnership with musician and producer Kevin DeRemer, Grammy® award-winning singer/songwriter Melissa Manchester, and Oscar® nominee and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Sharon Vaughn. Writing the stage play is National Broadway Theater Award Winner and Best Play Tony® nominee Rupert Holmes.
“Boss Queen” Jill Conner Browne founded the Sweet Potato Queens®, now a global phenomenon with 6,200 chapter groups in 22 countries, based upon her philosophy and world-view as recounted through her rollicking, raucous and riotously funny essays. Women and smart men understand that the bawdy, sassy, down-to-earth humor is simply the vehicle by which the greater message is conveyed--that is, one of self-reliance and empowerment, inspiring all to do what makes their hearts sing.
Tickets are $5 for the show, plus the cost of dinner. Seating is very limited. Tickets can be purchased online at www.talesfromthesouth.com
"Tales from the South" is recorded on Tuesdays during “Dinner and a Show” at Starving Artist Café. The show airs locally on KUAR Thursdays at 7pm and is syndicated by World Radio Network, a satellite radio distribution service, available to more than 130 million listeners worldwide. Shows are also distributed nationwide to multiple public radio stations by PRX (Public Radio Exchange). Podcasts are available on ITunes, the NPR website, the KUAR website, the PRX website, and the “Tales from the South” website.
“Tales from the South” is presented by the Argenta Arts Foundation, with AY Magazine as the official media sponsor, publishing a story each month in the magazine. Additional support provided by the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, the North Little Rock Visitor’s Bureau, and The Oxford American Magazine. This show is sponsored by William F. Laman Public Library.
