OXFORD – The community is urged to show their support Friday starting at 4:30 p.m., as there will be a benefit dinner and concert for the Wakefield family who lost their home in Tyner to fire. The Oxford Academy High School is sponsoring a fund raising spaghetti dinner and concert, with live band and light show, featuring the “Alt-Country” music of Panhandle.

Panhandle is: Nate Gross, lead vocals/guitar; Ben, Nate’s brother, bass; and Jeff Landry on drums. Nate, an Oxford alumni, left his hometown to seek the cultural music scene on both coasts from New York to San Francisco. The Alt-Country sound breathed new life into the young music writer, and now Panhandle has brought the new music back home.