Listen to Says You! Recorded Live in Birmingham!

| May 19, 2016 

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Listen Friday at 6:30 p.m to Says You! live from Birmingham!

Featuring Birmingham’s own Reed Lochamy, these two performances were recorded Saturday, May 7, at UAB’s Alys Stephens Center in the Jemison Concert Hall before a sell-out crowd.

  • The first Birmingham show airs Friday, May 20 from 6:30 – 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, May 22 from 1-2 p.m.
  • The second Birmingham show is  Friday, May 27 from 6:30 – 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, May 29  from 1-2 p.m.

Other Says You!” regulars appearing on these shows include:

Paula Lyons– Consumer reporter for Good Morning America, The Ladies Home Journal, and WBZ-TV in Boston.

Arnold Reisman– Television performer and documentarian, recently honored for his PBS Special The Powder and the Glory.

Francine Achbar– Peabody Award winning documentarian and Director of Boston’s New Center for Arts and Culture.

Carolyn Faye Fox– Food columnist and critic for the Improper Bostonian.

Fletcher Wiley- Former head of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, national political advisor and counsel.

Murray Horwitz- Former Peabody Award winner, Head of the American Film Institute in Washington, DC, writer, creative consultant to the Mark Twain Prize at the Kennedy Center, actor, author and Tony Award winning librettist.

 

 

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