Katie Key with Phillip Thomas

   

 

KENT FINLAY’S 29TH BDAY PARTY

Big night at the Cheatham Street Warehouse!  Kent Finlay's Annual 29th Birthday Concert featuring some of Kent's favorite songwriters including Walt Wilkins, John Arthur Martinez, Kyle Park, Brady Black, Adam Carroll, the Trishas, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and many others Monday February 8!  It starts at 6:00 pm and will go till the cows come home.  Minimum donation of $10 benefits the non-profit Cheatham Street Music Foundation.  Come early.  The Trishas come on at 7:00 and Ray Wylie comes on next.   Get out and help celebrate while listening to some great music!

 

NEW BABY!

Congratulations Fred Andrews (Honeybrowne) and Anne Hudson on the birth of their new baby, Freddie IV!  He was born on Friday, February 5 at 2:18 pm weighing 8 lbs 3 oz, 21 inch!  I hear he looks just like older brother Hud with black hair.

 

AARON’S STARTING IT OFF RIGHT

Aaron Watson’s 2010 is off to a great start having already won two awards, provided aid to two different charities, earned a number 1 single for “The Road” and been honored with a day to call his own.

 

 Aaron took home two Gruene With Envy Awards on January 13:  Songwriter Of The Year and Live Album Of The Year for Deep In The Heart Of Texas:  Aaron Watson LIVE.  The Gruene With Envy Awards, currently in their 10th year, are the largest fan voted awards in Texas.   Aaron was the only other multi-award winner this year along with The Eli Young Band.  

 

That same week, Aaron was among the artists visiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN and had a chance to learn about the program and meet some very special children.  Aaron hopes to make this an annual trip saying, “I have helped a lot of local stations in the past with their St Jude’s telethons but actually going there, meeting the people involved, seeing the hospital and being a part of the whole event really made an impact on me and I want to be involved with this charity every year.”

 

Aaron wrapped up the week performing his first annual “Honky Tonkin’ For The Hungry” at Billy Bob’s in Fort Worth, TX and helped raise over $10,000 for Fort Worth’s initiative “Directions Home” and Union Gospel Mission homeless shelter of Fort Worth.  These organizations help to provide necessities for the city’s homeless.

 

With help from the Fort Worth mayor’s office and Pam and Billy Minick,  proprietors of Billy Bob’s, Aaron performed for over 3,000 people, the largest attendance for Aaron ever at Billy Bob’s, during which Mayor Mike Moncrief of Fort Worth proclaimed January 16 “Aaron Watson Day.”  The show was attended by Aaron’s friends and authors of NY Times best selling book Same Kind Of Different As Me, Ron Hall and Denver Moore.  The book is currently being adapted to film.

 

BART’S SURGERY

Bart Crow is having neck surgery this month and asks that any artists out there who can help his band with some gigs during Bart’s down time would be MOST appreciated!  “My guys could really use some pick-up work, studio or live shows.  Guitar, bass, drums, keys, sound engineer, & tour manager are all in need of work.  I’m just trying to help them keep their heads above water...we will officially be off Feb 11-25th, Lord willing, but they will be available for work from Feb 7-25 if anyone needs anything!  Contact Bart through his web site: www.bartcrowband.com.

 

SAD NEWS FOR AUSTIN MUSIC SCENE

The University of Texas has decided to shut the Cactus Café down!  This is sad news for not only the school, but the many artists in our scene who have performed there and of course it’s bad for all of us fans. 

 

Texas officials say they will shut down operation of the campus landmark in August.

 

The Cactus Café opened in 1979. It has seen some of the top local, regional and national acts perform there. It helped start the careers of people such as Lyle Lovett and Nanci Griffith. Robert Earl Keen, Allison Krauss, the Dixie Chicks, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Townes Van Zandt, and Guy Clark are just some of the performers who have appeared there.  But starting this summer they will have to go elsewhere to play.

 

JASON EADY BUZZ

Jason Eady recently sat down for a one-on-one interview with The 9513 to share some interesting insight on his latest release, When The Money's All Gone.  Eady explains "This time we made an effort to get back to that groove-based Southern gospel blues-influenced material. On my last couple of albums, I’ve played around with a lot of different styles. It was the producer, Kevin Welch, who wanted to take us back to our roots with what we used to do. This one was more based in that swampy feel. There were exceptions, though. There are a couple songs towards the end of the album that are more of the songwriter, folk, lyrical-based songs. I don’t think I’ll ever make one kind of record because I don’t listen to music that way. Even when I’m listening to my iPod, it might go from hip hop to bluegrass back to something fast. I get bored any other wa y. So the last thing I would do is make a record that was the same all the way through. But I think a blues-based Southern gospel influence is really the overall theme of this record." CLICK HERE for the full story.

 

A COOL GIG

Jason Allen was honored when asked to be a judge for the 2010 Miss Fiesta San Antontio Scholarship Pageant taking place at Empire Theatre on February 11th and 13th!

The Miss Fiesta San Antonio Scholarship Pageant is a non-profit organization developed to award educational scholarships to finalists of the pageant as well as to promote and preserve the goodwill of the citizens of San Antonio through Miss Fiesta's participation in Fiesta San Antonio and other official events.  Check out their website for more information www.missfiesta.org.  I’m sure it’ll be real tough for Jason to HAVE to do this gig!  Ha ha!

 

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