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THE OLD QUARTER AND ARTS DOWNTOWN PARTNER WITH THE GRAND 1894 OPERA HOUSE TO PRESENT AN EVENING WITH TERRY ALLEN AND JO HARVEY ALLEN W/ THE PANHANDLE MYSTERY BAND

AN EVENING OF SONGS AND STORIES THAT WILL GRAB YOUR HEART, EASE YOUR MIND AND RAISE THE HAIR ON THE BACK OF YOUR NECK. ALL AT THE SAME TIME!

Terry Allen is a songwriter, visual and recording artist, and playwright. He’s
released more than a dozen studio albums since his 1975 debut, Juarez,
and his wide-ranging artwork resides in collections around the world,
including the Met, MoMA, and LACMA. He has received numerous awards
including Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, induction into West Texas
Walk of Fame, received first annual Townes Van Zandt Austin Music Award
for Songwriting and is a 2025 Texas Medal of Arts Honoree. He was raised
in Lubbock, Texas, and attended Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles,
CA. Since 1989 he has resided in Santa Fe, NM & Austin, TX with his wife
and collaborator, the performer and poet Jo Harvey Allen.
 

Jo Harvey Allen, actress, playwright, poet, and pioneer of women in radio, is best known for numerous film roles and critically acclaimed one-woman shows; called "A Storyteller in the Best Texas Tradition" by the LA Weekly and "has elicited comparisons with Flannery O'Connor" according to the New York Times. Jo Harvey, an inductee in the West Texas Walk of Fame, co-hosted with Governor Ann Richards the first Texas Funny Women’s Conference. Her co-starring classics include Fried Green Tomatoes and David Byrne’s True Stories. She was nominated best lead actress in International Filmmaker’s Festival of World Cinema, Berlin for The Other Kind, and appeared with Terry Allen in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon