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WORDSTAGE ON WNCW: JESS WILLIS - SUNDAY DINNER DENTURES

It’s WORDSTAGE, celebrating the fascinating world of storytelling featuring the very best storytellers, ballad singers and spoken word artists.

Jess Willis, a native of South Carolina who first fell in love with stories because of their ability to transport a country girl to just about anywhere in the world she wanted to go. She is Assistant Technical Director in the Theatre Program at Francis Marion University. She often says, “However much paint and sawdust I may have in my hair and clothes I carry the soil of the country under my nails and stories in my heart."

Sunday Dinner Dentures is one of Jess’s many original true life tales.

Aired 4/3/21 & 4/4/21

Johnny has been part of the WNCW family for over 30 years. He is a professional storyteller and musician whose work is rooted in the traditions of old-time music and folk culture. John has received numerous honors, including First Place Banjo at the Mountain Dance Folk Festival and being a two-time Harmonica Champion at the Fiddler’s Grove Old Time Music Festival. It is a true honor for him to host the very popular This Old Porch on WNCW.