Award-winning poet and essayist Gary Holthaus and internationally acclaimed musician Lauren Pelon team up to offer a unique new program called The Story of Music, Stories from Home. Tuesday, Sept. 18, at 7:30 p.m. at Riverland Community College Austin Campus in the Frank W. Bridges Theatre.

Pelon plays a variety of ancient and modern instruments ranging from lute, lyre, and concertina, to recorders, gemshorn, electric wind controller and pedalboard.  Holthaus reads from his poems and essays. Both the music and the readings offer unique perceptions of the natural world, and celebrate our sense of place, community, and home.