OHR Presents: Wendy Colonna & Robert Louis Cole

Louisiana singer-songwriter Wendy Colonna performs live at the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, Arkansas. Also, interviews with Wendy, a performance from Robert Louis Cole, Brooks Blevins profiles folk song collector Oscar Gilbert, and Mark Jones' "Vault" segment features Fate Morrison. Wendy Colonna hails from Louisiana and now makes her home in Austin, Texas. Wendy has a style that combines many influences, most notably; blues and soul but most decidedly, real. Robert Louis Cole lets it all go on stage. He’s a no holds barred singer and musically on edge, which is good. A Denver native, one can’t help but hear the strong influence musicians like Tom Waits and bluesman Robert Johnson have had on him. Brooks Blevins provides a native’s view of the people, music, and colorful events that shape the Ozark region. The author and historian presents a profile of Oscar Gilbert, husband of famed folk singer Ollie Gilbert, and an original Ozark folk musicologist. Mark Jones' “From the Vault” segment features a recording from the Ozark Folk Center State Park archives of legendary Ozark fiddler Fate Morrison playing a traditional fiddle dance tune. *Full show available for streaming on 2/16/16