Traveling musician to appear at free event at Sherman library 

As part of a free event to be held at  Sherman Public Library's Community Room, 421 N. Travis, at 2 p.m. on Saturday, a traveling musician will sing a selection of Depression era songs from the likes of Woody Guthrie, Jimmie Rodgers, Huddie Ledbetter and the Carter Family.


<p>Singer John Lee Boyer "offers a unique experience of sight and sound by recreating the role of an itinerant worker/musician traveling around the country during the Great Depression Days of the 1930s," said a TPS press release.
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<p>Lee sings and plays the guitar and harmonica. "Lee tells the story of a young man being uprooted and displaced from the effects of the dust bowls and economic hard times ... a story of the adventures and the difficulties of leaving home, hopping freight trains, hobo jungles, refugee camps and the hope of finding a better life," the press release stated.
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<p>Lee serves at the executive director of Song Garden Live Music, a nonprofit organization that provides therapeutic music to elderly, disabled, sick and terminally ill individuals and their families in North Texas and Southern Oklahoma areas.
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<p>Saturday's program will begin at 2 p.m. with "A Return to the Dust Bowl" and continue at 3 p.m. with "A Round-Robin of the Spoken Word."
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