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IRIS Collective begins their second season on September 15th. This season includes orchestral concerts with guests Midori and Awadagin Pratt, a new small-business series, and more venues. Darel Snodgrass talks with IRIS Collective Executive Director Rebecca Arendt about the season and about the continuing evolution of this new form of the performing arts organization.

Dixon - The Dixon Gallery and Gardens presents American Perspectives: Stories from American Folk Art Museum Collection, opening Sunday, July 30 and running through Sunday, October 8. Darel Snodgrass talks with Martha R. Robinson Curator Julie Pierotti about this important exhibition of American vernacular art from the colonial era through today.

Kacky Walton talks with with Sandy Kozik and Steve Cossitt from Friends of George's Theatre Company. Sandy is directing the 12th season opener, "The Drag Boat", and Steve, whose drag persona is Allysun Wunderland, is reprising her role as classic Truck Stop character Mary Kay.

Kacky Walton interviews with Courtney Oliver, Director of Special Events at Playhouse on the Square, and guitarist and singer Brad Birkedahl.

Kacky Walton interviews with Sally Hughes Smith, a landscape artist whose exhibit "Adrenaline Rush" is on view until October 1st at The Dixon Gallery and Gardens. She's originally from Memphis, and comes from an artistic family. This is her 45th one-woman show.

Kacky Walton talks with Anne Marie Hall, the director of Theatre Memphis' upcoming production of "Sister Act" and the show's star, Mariah Michelle Stokes, who plays the role of Delores. The show opens Friday, August 18 and runs through Sunday, September 10.

Kacky Walton interviews Ann Bateman, Executive Director of The Memphis Cotton Museum, about the "Diversity in the Delta" lecture series, "The Comparative Immigration Experience of the Jewish and Latino Communities".

Kacky Walton discusses the American premiere of the psychological thriller “The Wasp,” with director and Quark Theatre’s co-founder Tony Isbell, as well as, actresses Mary Hollis Inboden and Meghan Lisi Lewis.

The music series continues at St. John's Episcopal Church with a service of Compline on Sunday September 24th at 7:30 pm. Darel Snodgrass talks with St. John's organist-choirmaster Vernon Snyder about the music for this service and the choir's recent tour of Ireland.

The Concerts International Chamber Music season begins October 3 at Harris Hall with the Escher String Quartet, playing 3 of the big quartets in the repertoire. Darel Snodgrass talks with Escher Quartet cellist Brook Speltz about the Mendelssohn #1, Janacek "Intimate Letters," and Schubert "Death and the Maiden."