miss molly simms

This week Diana Moxon revisits chats with three singer songwriters who were on the show last year. From August, St Louis' Paige Alyssa (https://www.paigealyssamusic.com/) chats about their blend of jazz-new jack swing-R&B and the influence of Sonic the Hedgehog on their music; from September, social justice singer songwriter Crys Matthews (https://www.crysmatthews.com/) talks about the importance of empathy and compassion when inviting listeners into a story; and from October "not your typical singer songwriter" guitarist Miss Molly Simms (http://missmollysimms.com/) who made her singing debut on an airplane at age 6. Opening and closing music with thanks to guitarist Yasmin Williams (www.yasminwilliamsmusic.com)

Each month the Missouri Arts Council features four artists on its website from a variety of arts genres, and on this week's show Diana Moxon checks in with the October artists: award-winning author Greg Stout from Cape Girardeau who wrote 22 books on US railroad history and then won a national award for his first work of detective fiction; St Louis-based singer songwriter, Miss Molly Simms, who made her public singing debut at the age of six in an unusual place; artist Nick Gadbois from Kansas City whose multiple bodies of work includes painting in cement and recreating some of the psychedelic surreal colors he discovered through the 1960's counter culture; and Columbia-based painter Cristina Núñez whose work is a balance of color, shape and rhythm. You can see - and hear - the works of this week's guests on their websites: https://www.gregorystoutauthor.com/; http://missmollysimms.com/; http://www.nickgadboisart.com/; https://www.cristinanunezartstudio.com/. Thanks, as always, to guitarist Yasmin Williams (http://www.yasminwilliamsmusic.com/) for the show's opening and closing music entitled, 'Restless Heart'. (Pictured artwork by Nick Gadbois 'Area 51')