Just Take Your Time and Statue film festival screenings

April is busting out with film festivals for us! Our music video for "Just Take Your Time" (dir. Ryan Shovey) and also our award winning Indie short film "Statue" are being screened at several film festivals.

"Just Take Your Time" will screen at Crossroads Film Fest in Jackson, MS on April 14 at 5pm; at Memphis International Film Fest on April 21st, and River Bend Film Fest in South Bend ID, April 14th at 9am; Tupelo Film Festival in Tupelo MS May 16-19 time TBA.

http://riverbendfilmfest.org/?page_id=1096

http://onlocationmemphis.org/2012/official-2012-selections-announced

http://www.crossroadsfilmfestival.com/

Please do me the honor and vote for fan favorite for our music video here:

http://onlocationmemphis.org/fanfav

"Statue" will screen at Johns Hopkins Film Festival April 6-8 TBA in Baltimore MD, and Treasure Coast Film Festival in Port St. Lucie, FL April 19-21 TBA.

http://www.tcifilmfest.com/

http://hopkinsfilmfest.com/home.php

Como's Celebration in the Panolian

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The procession up Main Street that kicked off Como's Hill Country Blues Celebration is pictured on the front page of today's (Feb. 7, 2012) Batesville paper, The Panolian! We Como citizens were celebrating the fact that many historic photos, recordings, and films of our local musicians - most of them made by musicologist Alan Lomax in 1959 and in the 1970's - were being placed in the Como Library. Thanks for the historic items, as well as for the Celebration, go to many folks and organizations, but especially to the Alan Lomax Collection, the Jessie Mae Hemphill Foundation, the Association for Cultural Equity, the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, Como Librarian Alice Pierotti, and singer Olga Wilhelmine. See the picture here below.

Como to Celebrate Hill Country Blues

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King Cakes by Sucre - Carnival Time Galactic - Ver. 1

Olga - Whatever You Want

Where Y'at Review

WHERE Y’AT? Nov. 2011

Olga Whatever You Want 219records
New Orleans-based blues singer Olga is back with an album that seems anything but the genre she usually sings. Teaming up with North Mississippi Allstars drummer Cody Dickinson, the duo has crafted a purely pop album that fits more with contemporary adult listening, teeming with smoothly produced guitar licks and melodic, slight bass.
Often compared to Bonnie Raitt in vocal stylings, the comparison proves even more apt with Whatever You Want, as the album is eerily reminiscent of Raitt’s early ‘90s work. Though not necessarily musically revolutionary, as far as a commercially successful album goes, Olga and Dickinson are solid gold in their partnership, with songs like the title track and “Better in Some Way” creating a sweet soundscape of layered harmonies and driving drums. Those wanting a truly bluesy Olga may have to wait but Whatever You Want makes for some easy listening in the meantime.—April Siese


http://npaper-wehaa.com/whereyat/2011/11/?g=print#?article=1421831&page=27

Review Fix Exclusive: Olga Wilhemine Interview: Broken Heart Inspired

Review Fix Exclusive: Olga Wilhemine Interview: Broken Heart Inspired




Album titled "Whatever You Want" found here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/whatever-you-want/id435847868

We Wish You A Merry Christmas! Live at 9, Memphis TN

 

WREG Live at 9, Memphis Dec.8th

 

Redtailed Daredevil

My new redtailed hawk experience happened last evening after a trip to the bank. I was at a stop light in the lower graden district when all of a sudden swooping by and turning the corner to the street I was on, was a redtailed hawk which had a large bird in it’s grip. I believe it was a pigeon! They landed in the street and this hawk looked like he was about to kill it when a truck turned the corner and they both flew off. The hawk however stayed behind and landed on a telephone wire.

I anxiously waited for the light to turn green so that I could pull up and get out of the car to see this daring hawk up close. The light changed and I pulled up and got out of the car. I approacehed the hawk and he seemed to wait for me. He looked me over and I spoke to him. I praised him for his beauty and guts to take on a large bird like that, one that was almost his size! Then I said, “you are a young one aren’t you?” He was not as large as other full grown hawks I have seen and at that he fluffed his chest and showed me his baby feathers underneath. It was at this time that I had the feeling the hawk was a “he”.

We looked at each other a while longer and then I thanked him. I turned to walk back to the car and at this he decided to lift off and swoop down in front of me, flying right past then up into an oak tree, presumably to wait for another pigeon!

We Wish You A Merry Christmas!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Christmas in Como Concert

The Birds of Sorrow

"That the birds of worry and care fly above your head, this you cannot change. But that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent." – Chinese proverb

This is the basis and inspiration behind the lyric and song Birds of Sorrow on my new album.

Blues babe delivers pop-laced heartbreak - ColoradoBIZ Magazine

Blues babe delivers pop-laced heartbreak - ColoradoBIZ Magazine

Opportunity

Opportunity welcomes the daring,embraces the bold,rewards the determined, befriends the well-prepared. Guru Brenda

Olga Wilhelmine Munding Exclusive Interview!

Olga Wilhelmine Munding Exclusive Interview!

paperblog connection and permission

"I confirm the subscription of this blog to the Paperblog service under the username laolga"

A Soulful Southern Transplant...

GREAT 4 page article in Mississippi Legend's Magazine, published in Meridian MS September 2011.

Olga: New Album With NMA’s Cody Dickinson on JamBase

Olga: New Album With NMA’s Cody Dickinson on JamBase