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[Audio] A Preview of Tuesday's Roots 7 Concert at MSU

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On Sounds Good, Tracy Ross and Ted Franklin Belue preview the Roots 7 concert happening November 15th at 7:30 p.m. in Lovett Auditorium.

 

Murray State University’s Department of History hosts their seventh ROOTS concert featuring Derek Hoke performing a fusion of country, blues, and swing.

 

He needs to be better known, I think he will be known. The people in Nashville that make a lot of the business decisions hold him in very high regard,” Belue said. “He’s just a real road warrior out there playing all the time and honing his chops, kind of a throw back to the old days when you really just had to get a U-Haul trailer and a PA and just start playing. And that’s what he does.”

 

The Kenny and Amanda Smith Band will perform bluegrass. Kenny has won the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Guitarist of the Year Award three times and his wife Amanda has won IBMA’s Female Vocalist of the year twice, Belue says.

 

Admission is free with a suggested donation of canned goods for Needline. 

Tracy started working for WKMS in 1994 while attending Murray State University. After receiving his Bachelors and Masters degrees from MSU he was hired as Operations/Web/Sports Director in 2000. Tracy hosted All Things Considered from 2004-2012 and has served as host/producer of several music shows including Cafe Jazz, and Jazz Horizons. In 2001, Tracy revived Beyond The Edge, a legacy alternative music program that had been on hiatus for several years. Tracy was named Program Director in 2011 and created the midday music and conversation program Sounds Good in 2012 which he hosts Monday-Thursday. Tracy lives in Murray with his wife, son and daughter.
A proud native of Murray, Kentucky, Allison grew up roaming the forests of western Kentucky and visiting national parks across the country. She graduated in 2014 from Murray State University where she studied Environmental Sustainability, Television Production, and Spanish. She loves meeting new people, questioning everything, and dancing through the sun and the rain. She hopes to make a positive impact in this world several endeavors at a time.
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