Minton Sparks, the lyrical Nashville poet, to perform as part of the Queen Anne’s County Centre of the Arts Coffee House 206 Concert Series, at the Chesapeake College’s Todd Performing Arts Center on Friday, May 11, 2018, at 7pm.
Fusing music, poetry, and her intoxicating gift for storytelling, Minton Sparks paints word pictures of the rural South, putting you square in the middle of the world of the people and places she knows like the back of her hand. Sparks appears with a guitar accompanist, John Jackson, who provides the sultry underpinning for her vignettes’ cadence.
A Tennessee native, former social worker, divinity school dropout, first-ever Spoken Word Award recipient at the Conference on Southern Literature, a founder of the Nashville Writing and Performance Institute, Minton established herself as Nashville’s first non-singing country singer. She has collaborated with the legendary Waylon Jennings, and shared the stage with country and folk heavyweights like Rodney Crowell, John Prine, Nanci Griffith, and the Punch Brothers.
The Center for the Arts is selling tickets to Minton Sparks, and have provided ticket selling opportunities to other local non-profits as a fundraising opportunity for their organization. “We thought this would be a fun way to involve the community and expand the audience reach for this fantastic performer,” said Rick Strittmater, Executive Director, of the Centre for the Arts.
Tickets are $20 for more info: https://www.queenannescountyarts.com or call the Queen Anne’s County Centre for the Arts at 410-758-2520 to buy tickets or inquire about group rates.
For on Minton Sparks please visit her website, www.mintonsparks.com.
