Story by Mary Jane Farmer, courtesy photo Recently, the Sherman Main Street Program, through Overdrive Entertainment, announced its varied line-up for the 2018 Hot Summer Nights, which will run all of June and July, except for the Thursday nearest July 4, when the music and activities move over to become Lights On The Lake at […]
Friday Nights in Texas just took on new meaning, what with Denison’s Main Street announcing its 2018 Music on Main line-up this week. And it’s a good one, that includes local musicians opening for each touring act. The concerts are always free to the public, always at Heritage Park on Main Street, always start at […]
First printed in Paris News Story By Mary Jane Farmer; Photos by Joe Watson Happiness is listening to Merrol Ray. Merrol has been making people happy through his music for decades… well maybe not dozens of decades, but a couple or so anyway. Miles From Nowhere was Merrol’s band’s name when it took top honor […]
Story and photos by Mary Jane Farmer, first appeared in Paris Life Magazine, March 2018 issue Wynonna asks in one of her songs, “Is It Over Yet?”. The answer is a firm and definite ‘No, it is not over yet.’ Though her career and her life seemed to be on hold for a while, she’s […]
First printed in Paris News, 1.26.18; and in Buddy Magazine, March 2018 issue.Story and photos by Mary Jane Farmer Dustin Perkins is the consummate musician. Singer, songwriter, guitar picker, and working businessman in the industry. Perkins started playing music, encouraged by his parents, while still in high school, and soon found himself hosting the open […]
Mary Jane Farmer, Texas Nexus, August 2017 It’s a 3-column list I have worked up — “PACK UP” it’s called. It’s what I have to reference and cling to when getting ready to go to all the music festivals in my life. And there’s a bunch! Me and Hippie Van head out. She has clean […]
9 Stevie Ray Vaughan at Celebrate Austin Music
Because you asked… The Celebrate Austin Music Festival at Zilker Park, circa April 15, 1984, was filled with Austin-based touring acts with generous sprinklings of up-and-comers. A lot of that information is in Rod Kennedy’s book, Music of the Heart, written many years before his 4-14-14 death. It had been a long three-day event, and […]
This was first in Buddy Magazine, August 2016 issue. People ask me a lot — why am I in the music business? OK, I’ll share the secret – it was a guy who got me into all this. While teaching school in El Paso, I met another teacher, a musician, out there and that chance meeting and […]
(I’m sorry, but we got absolutely NO photos of these people.) Ake Pecha — I was told this means “Start fresh, my friend.” It was probably around 1982 when Kerrville Festival Producer Rod Kennedy took a trip to the southeast, where he met a group of travelers from the Scandinavian countries. This was the “International School […]
Three things to think about before quitting.
This took a lot of prayer and thanksgiving for me to write and publish. This was one changing quote in my life… From the movie “Mozart,” this statement by composer Salleri: “Why?… implant the desire (for music)… like a lust in my body? And then deny me the talent?” Early on, I could not figure out myself […]
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