A tribute concert to Arkansas Music Legend Levon Helm is being held tomorrow night at The Forum in Downtown Jonesboro. Member Station KASU is hosting the concert, which is being performed by the Lockhouse Orchestra of Batesville, and special guests Gary Gazaway and Charlie Chalmers. One very special guest will be in attendance tomorrow night. A childhood friend of Levon Helm, who was mentioned in the song "The Weight" by The Band, will be in attendance tomorrow night. KASU's Mike Doyle has this report.
Johnathan Reaves is the faculty advisor and editor-in-chief for Delta Digital News Service and the former News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.