Barnes & Noble to Host Book Signing for Indianapolis Rhythm and Blues

GREENWOOD, Ind. - Feb. 18, 2019 - PRLog -- Barnes & Noble to Host Book Signing for Indianapolis Rhythm and Blues

Local author David Leander Williams will be available to sign copies of book

Indiana Avenue was traditionally the host to some of America's premier, world-renown entertainment icons in various genres. Along this winding, brightly lit thoroughfare were nightclubs, lounges, supper clubs, taverns, juke joints, and holes-in-the-wall that celebrated the best of the best in entertainment that America had to offer, from the 1920s on into the 1970s. On the bandstand at Denver Ferguson's Sunset Terrace Ballroom, the elegantly attired crooner Nat King Cole, in a sparkling blue silk suit, delivered his signature song "Mona Lisa." Nearby, B.B. King sang his 1973 down-home blues classic "To Know You is to Love You." At Tuffy Mitchell's Pink Poodle nightclub, "Moms" Mabley made the audience roar with laughter during her sidesplitting comedy routine. Indiana Avenue truly was the place to be for the best in entertainment.

About the Author:

David Leander Williams is an adjunct professor in Africana studies at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. He spent many years interviewing entertainers of all genres and neighborhood folk heroes in order to recapture the essence of the glitz and glamour of these decades of entertainment. The images contained herein represent decades of rummaging through the dusty bins of record shops, cluttered antique shops, or weekend yard sales.

Join the author for a signing:

Where:  Barnes & Noble

1251 US 31 North

Greenwood, IN 46142

When:  Saturday, March 2^nd, 2019 at 1:00 p.m.

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or online.

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