For photos, click on the links below Shiner Rising Star Round 2 got off to a good start with two great bands vying to move on into the finals. Sponsoring station KHYI officials asked Buffalo Ruckus to compete again, after the Brianna Fletcher band decided not to continue in the competition. Also competing Thursday night […]
For more photos, click on the links below. It was shorter than most weeks of this year’s Shiner Rising Star, Thursday night’s Week 8 contest at Love & War in Texas, Grapevine; but the music was just as sweet as every other night. (Nov. 25, 2014) It was also the third time this year that […]
Click on links at the end of this short review for photos of each band. Three bands brought fans and made new ones when they played in the Shiner Rising Star competition at The Rustic Thursday, (Sept. 18, 2014). It was Round 1, Week 7 of the yearly Shiner Rising Star contest, sponsored by radio […]
Technical difficulties (yeah, really) prevented this reporter from reporting on what was said and done at this week (Sept. 11) Shiner Rising Star. However, it was done well, by both bands (the third band, led by Jud Block, had to cancel out at the last minute), The LDJ Band and the Derek Anthony Band. Juding this […]
Now on the downhill side of Round 1, a fifth band, Cole Risner Band, has learned it will be advancing into Round 2 of the 2014 Shiner Rising Star contest. Cole and his band, Chris Norwood on lead guitar, Mark Oswalt on bass, and Cory Phifer on drums, met head to head with Buffalo Ruckus […]
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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