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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