{"id":5721,"date":"2026-05-05T15:23:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/?p=5721"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:23:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:23:05","slug":"rhett-miller-2026-kathwari-spring-seminars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/2026\/05\/05\/rhett-miller-2026-kathwari-spring-seminars\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhett Miller, 2026 Kathwari Spring Seminars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5726 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/05\/rhett-1-300x253.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/05\/rhett-1-300x253.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/05\/rhett-1-1024x864.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/05\/rhett-1-768x648.png 768w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/05\/rhett-1.png 1318w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>On April 24, Rhett Miller visited campus as part of the 2026 Kathwari Honors Spring Seminar series. An icon of Americana and contemporary songwriting, Miller has released 13 albums with Old97s and 10 solo albums, most recently <i>A lifetime of riding by night<\/i>. Miller is also the creator of the <i>Wheels Off<\/i> podcast, for which he has interviewed many of the greats of contemporary Americana music and other creatives about \u201cthe messy reality of creative life.\u201d In 2025, with Old97s, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Miller performed at the Veronica Hagman Concert Hall and held a Q&amp;A session. Earlier in the day, Miller also hosted a songwriting workshop for students. Overall, Miller\u2019s visit offered the entire WCSU community a chance to enjoy music and delve into the creative process.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><i>Photography by Gianna Castellano. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/westconn\/albums\/72177720333314339\/\">More photos here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5734\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/05\/55229170500_b33a980ba8_c-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"805\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/05\/55229170500_b33a980ba8_c-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/05\/55229170500_b33a980ba8_c-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/05\/55229170500_b33a980ba8_c.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5735\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/05\/55228919063_1068fd039f_c-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"805\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/05\/55228919063_1068fd039f_c-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/05\/55228919063_1068fd039f_c-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/05\/55228919063_1068fd039f_c.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5739\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/05\/IMG_2791-1-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"484\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/05\/IMG_2791-1-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/05\/IMG_2791-1-1024x847.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/05\/IMG_2791-1-768x635.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/05\/IMG_2791-1-1536x1270.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/05\/IMG_2791-1-2048x1694.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/> \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-5741\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/05\/IMG_2793-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/05\/IMG_2793-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/05\/IMG_2793-805x1024.jpg 805w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/05\/IMG_2793-768x977.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/05\/IMG_2793-1208x1536.jpg 1208w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/05\/IMG_2793-1610x2048.jpg 1610w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2026\/05\/IMG_2793-scaled.jpg 2013w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 24, Rhett Miller visited campus as part of the 2026 Kathwari Honors Spring Seminar series. An icon of Americana and contemporary songwriting, Miller has released 13 albums with Old97s and 10 solo albums, most recently A lifetime of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":435,"featured_media":5726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}