Charlottesville: Novelist and musician team up for book reading, acoustic set

New Dominion Bookshop in Charlottesville will host an event with novelist Alli Dyer and musician Guion Pratt on Friday at 7 p.m.

Dyer will be reading from her debut novel, Strange Folk, and Guion Pratt will be performing an acoustic set of his music.

Dyer grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwest Virginia where her family has lived for generations. For the last decade, she has worked in entertainment and book publishing and now lives in Los Angeles. Strange Folk is her first novel.

Pratt is a songwriter, poet and translator. He is the recipient of an Anne Williams Burrus/Academy of American Poets Prize in Poetry and holds an MFA from the University of Virginia, where he was a Poe/Faulkner Fellow. In 2015, Pratt released a collection of songs called Locust Avenue under the band name Nettles. He has since released a trilogy of instrumental ambient records and intends to one day soon release a perpetually almost-finished album of new songs.

This in-person event is co-sponsored by WriterHouse and will be free to attend and open to the public.

New Dominion Bookshop is located at 404 E Main St. on the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville.