For photos, click here It was a very ill Kevin Fowler who played Gilley’s inside Durant’s Choctaw Casino Saturday night (1.24.15), but it was an incredible show that he gave his overflow crowd of enthusiastic fans. At the earlier meet-n-greet, Fowler explained that he would be leaning more heavily than usual on his band, and he knew they […]
Click on the link below for all the photos Round Two of this year’s Rusty Wier singer/songwriter challenge closed up Sunday (Jan. 23) with the final eight of 24 musicians vying to make it into Round 3, the semi-finals. Those participating Sunday were Mike Schikora, Ty Young, Nick Flint, Matt Grisby, David Byboth, Josh Halverson, […]
Tuesday, Jan. 13, brought classic superstars B.J. Thomas and Johnny Lee to the Palace Theatre stage (in Grapevine, Texas) for another day of shooting upcoming episodes of RFD-TV’s The Penny Gilley Show. It also brought back the Rocky Gribble & The Texas All-Star Band, plus several others of incredible talent. Mikki Daniel, Abbey Cone, and Joe O’Conner. Those […]
A special exhibit honoring country music icon Ray Price and titled “For The Good Times” will be unveiled on Saturday, Feb. 28 at the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame in Carthage, Texas. The new display will feature over 60 of the star’s personal items and represents Ray’s many career accomplishments and his lifelong commitment to his craft. Following a […]
The Penny Gilley Show, which airs on RFD TV, filmed 18 upcoming 30-minute segments over three days in mid-January at the Palace Theater in downtown Grapevine. Scene In Town was there for the first two days, and allowed to photograph four classic music artists: Charley Pride, Mickey Gilley, B.J. Thomas, and Johnny Lee; plus numerous other national, regional, […]
Press release — Photos by Mary Jane Farmer Thunder on the Mountain is thrilled to announce additional artists for the 2015 festival. Joining the all-star lineup are American country duo Big & Rich and country megastar Sara Evans. Additional acts include Roger Creager, Whiskey Myers, Kristen Kelly, Sundy Best, Zane Williams and Matt Stell, as well as previously announced Zac Brown Band, Carrie Underwood, The Band Perry and many more. Thunder on […]
Short review and photos by Mary Jane Farmer. For more photos, click on the link below The foursome that is JB and The Moonshine Band creates more sounds than most other 5- or 6-piece bands, and those sounds come out in a tightly-blended mix of vocals and instrumentation, on-stage energy, and down-to-earth attitude. This band […]
Click on the green link below for lots of photos They all want to win, and they all want everyone else to win. That’s basically the feeling going on every Sunday as the Rusty Wier singer/songwriter challenge moves along in its second round. And that’s the real challenge among the artists — mutual support and […]
I wrote this for the newspaper with which I worked for 14 years, in Sherman. Wrote it in September 2004. It could have been written yesterday, as the feelings I wrote then were exactly what I felt on my recent weekend at Kerrville Folk Festival. The color of the day was tie-dye; people stood […]
Lesson learned from Rod Kennedy: The book cover doesn’t tell all the story. In the early 1980s, I witnessed a classical music concert specifically for children. Producer Rod Kennedy, who loved and taught me to love all sorts of music, put together a plethora of music acts to show children that “Serious Music Can Be […]
Like I said earlier, it was a boyfriend who turned me on to the Kerrville Festivals. He was in the New Folk contest in 1975, didn’t win, but fell in love with the festivals. He and I broke up between then and 1976 Festival Time. We were still talking, but when I told him I […]
4. Surprise honor brings more memories
On a recent visit to Quiet Valley Ranch, I got to stay in my old cabin, which is now called and used for the green room. It was like old home week, even with the changes and improvements in the 10×20 foot building. One day, I went in to clean a bit in the new […]
3. Friends of Bill W at Kerrville
That first festival came around after I had seven months of sobriety under my belt. In those seven months between October 1980 and May 1981, I had become very used to getting in-town help from my 12-step friends, nightly and sometimes during the day as well. The prospect of going 5 or 6 days without […]
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