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For music that matters, you’ll hear the medicine in Northwest Georgia. This weekend, WoodSongs Dalton - an Americana concert series for a cause - returns on Saturday.

Beauford Delaney was born in Knoxville, soon after the turn of the last century. A Black modernist painter, he is remembered for his works during the Harlem Renaissance in New York City and after his move to Paris. Stephen Wicks of the Knoxville Museum of Art is curator of the Delaney exhibition now on display at Chattanooga's Hunter Museum of American Art.

For more than twenty years, the Children’s Nutrition Program of Haiti - a nonprofit based here in Chattanooga and the Tennessee Valley - has helped women and families to break the cycle of malnutrition in a remote, mountainous area of southern Haiti. But ever since the summer of last year, CNP’s work has been disrupted by shock after shock for the Caribbean nation.

Here in Chattanooga, the Three Sisters Festival of Bluegrass Music is tuning up for its crystal anniversary - crystal with a c, that is. The festival, free for the public, returns for its 15th year on Friday and Saturday at Ross’ Landing on the Tennessee River. I spoke with George Bright, son of Fletcher Bright - and George’s daughter, Eleanor.

The White Oak Connector Trail project links Stringer’s Ridge Park in Chattanooga with White Oak Park in Red Bank. In the past few years, the trail’s development led by the Trust for Public Land yielded the existence of an African-American cemetery, forgotten by many - unknown to many more.

In downtown Chattanooga this weekend, a jam for the Juneteenth holiday at the Bessie Smith Cultural Center. The holiday - which is Monday - commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans after the end of the Civil War. On Saturday, the Bessie will host its celebration.

Near the end of August, the City of Chattanooga under Mayor Tim Kelly’s administration released its first-ever Housing Action Plan. As the City Council weighs in on the plan, so are community groups such as the nonprofit CALEB.

What is gold worth in the realm of art? A new exhibition at the Hunter Museum of American Art here in Chattanooga raises that question. Angela Fraleigh is one of the artists whose works appear in the exhibition “Gilded."

Music in the moment is music for the moment. This Saturday, singer and cellist Ben Van Winkle - and his group of instrumentalists known as The Figment - will perform at the Walker Theatre in downtown Chattanooga, joined by musicians of the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera.

(Aired Thu 2/12/26) Three poets and a dancer will respond to the works in The Hunter Invitational V at the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga.