CONWAY — The Valley Voice (oftentimes known as “Tom on the Town”) is an easy column to write this week, given that the valley has come back to life with lots of things going on, headlined by the return of Arts Jubilee Thursdays at Cranmore, which this week featured the acoustic Celtic pop rock of valley favorites Ceili Rain and Dennis & Davey at the base of Cranmore’s North Slope under a full moon.
Man, after the past pandemic year of isolation did we all need a big dose of that musical conviviality and community spirit or what?
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