$15 Advance
$20 Door

(Please note: Door tickets subject to availability.)

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MORE ABOUT OUR PERFORMERS

JOHN ARCHIBALD has been a journalist in the South for more than 35 years. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a voice of the deep South and what that place means to America.

SALAAM GREEN is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Birmingham, Alabama (2024–2025), a native of Greensboro, and founder of The Literary Healing Arts. A storyteller and healer, she is a Kellogg Foundation Racial Healing Facilitator and Alabama Humanities Foundation Road Scholar. With 16+ years of experience, she uses poetry to create healing spaces rooted in Southern history and resilience.

BOB CARLTON is an award-winning retired feature writer for Alabama Media Group (including AL.com, This is Alabama and It's a Southern Thing.) He writes about the people, places and, especially, the food that make Alabama a special place to live. Most recently, he is producing stories about Alabama food for Alabama Public Radio.

LEE BAINS is a songwriter and poet from Birmingham, Alabama, who has released four studio albums of what Rolling Stone calls “Southern gospel punk” since 2012. His most recent album, Old-Time Folks, released by Don Giovanni Records in 2022, explored stories of People’s movements in the Deep South to acclaim from the likes of Rolling Stone, The New York Times, NPR, and the Guardian. He has collaborated in live performance and on recordings with artists including Lonnie Holley, Moor Mother, Pussy Riot, and Algiers. After first having his poems published by The New Yorker in 2021, Lee will see his debut poetry collection, WORK LUNCH, published by Hub City Press in the fall of 2026. In addition to touring around the U.S. and Europe, Lee has lent his music to support striking coal miners, immigrants’ rights groups, abortion funds, and anti-racism organizations. He has performed and read at Emory University, the University of Mississippi, Tulane University, Auburn University, and The Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden). He lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works between tours as a handyman.

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