Place: Shelby County High School;  101 Washington St.;  Columbiana, AL 35051

from the Big Read Brochure…..”By combining music from the Ken Burns’ film MARK TWAIN with humorous and fascinating tales, Horton will paint a picture of what life might have been like on the Mississippi during Tom Sawyer’s time.  This is a free event.

This event will begin at 6:30 p.m. and will conclude at approximately 8:oo p.m.  I am very excited to have the opportunity to play some of the tunes I played for Ken’s film, plus other period songs that the young Sam Clemens would have heard while growing up on the Mighty Mississippi.  The steamboat was a big part of the river culture of the 19th century and is a fascinating part of our country’s history and developement –  I will be telling some of the steamboating stories I learned while performing on the Delta Queen Steamboat Company’s vessels over the last seventeen years.