April 4, 2009 - The 4th Annual Alvin Music Festival 

The Alvin Music Festival was created in 2005 with the cooperation of the Alvin Evening Lions Club and it's president Louis Garza, III and Ricky Lee Productions and it's president Ricky L. Duran. In the meantime, we are working hard to get local music recognized. So add us and let us share with you some great music!

Want to help plan for the next big show and other great events? Become a member of the Alvin Evening Lions Club or Alvin Leo Club.

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11th Annual Village Bluegrass Festival Sep 5th-6th 2009
 
There will be a lot of pickin' & peddlin' during the Village Bluegrass Festival featuring two full days of down-home Bluegrass music by many of Texas’ most popular bands. There'll be bushel baskets full of mouth-watering country-style foods from link sausage to smoked turkey legs, and lots of sweet festival munchies and rides for the kids, too. Shop for country crafts, local honey and jams, handmade quilts, barn wood furniture and birdhouses, candles, dolls and other homespun items available from many of the hundreds of permanent "peddlers" throughout the market at Traders Village.

The largest, most visited open-air market on the Texas Gulf Coast, Traders Village is at 7979 North Eldridge Road near Highway 290, just minutes northwest of downtown Houston. Call 281-890-5500 for more information.

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The McKay Brothers, fifth generation Texans, grew up in the hills of Bandera County. Music became an inescapable part of their early lives. Hollin recalls “we used to sit on the banks of the Nueces river with our uncle playing songs ranging from the Beatles to George Jones. Our uncle’s feelings about music shaped a lot of what we write about.“

While still in in their teens both brothers started playing professionally. Noel’s first experience began in the honky-tonks and dance halls around Bandera. Hollin, at age16, joined his brother, playing such colorful places as San Antonio biker bars and rustic dives. Since then the McKay Brothers have shared the stage with the likes of Willie Nelson, Guy Clark, Charlie Robison and Robert Earl Keen.

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Larry Joe Taylor's new cd Summer Days is preceded by Port A to Port B, Heart of the Matter, First Row, Third Coast, Coastal & Western, Terlingua Sky and This One’s for You…all of which incorporate elements of country, reggae, blues, rock & roll and an occasional twist of 50’s doo-wapp.  Never surrendering completely to any genre, Taylor’s appeal is widespread throughout the US and Europe.

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Rusty Wier has always been the consummate entertainer.  He will engage you, charm you, make you think, and make you cry; but the “money-back guarantee” is … he will make you smile.

Rusty was born in Corpus Christi, but has called Austin, Texas home for many years.  At the age of three, while riding his imaginary horse in the aisles to the strains of an impromptu “William Tell Overture” from the piano player and laughter from the patrons of his dad’s restaurant in downtown Austin, Rusty discovered an ability to make people smile.  Growing up in a world of restaurants, nightclubs and hotels, he learned that no one was a stranger and the world was a stage - and for a $5.00 ticket he could dish out $50.00 worth of entertainment.

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Micheal Laferty started writing and performing his own music as a teenager in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. In 1975 he began working full time as a road musician in the cocktail lounges and hotel chains up and down the West Coast. As the front man, bass guitarist, and resident songwriter, his tunes were always in the standard repertoire of every band with which he worked. Micheal's reputation as a songwriter and vocalist caught people's attention, and by 1976 several Pacific Northwest bands were covering his tunes.

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The Dust Devils Built around the award-winning, mature songwriting of Kevin Higgins, and representing Texas with their original southern-rockin', genre-bendin' “Farm-to-Market Rock'n'Roll” style of music, The Dust Devils once again state their independence from hype and trends. With the 2007 release of their third album, Change in the Weather, (Little Train Records), the Dust Devils combine diversity with raw talent, allowing them to move about freely on the musical landscape. Add to that the visual and musical  advantage of a male and female fronting the band, and you have a winning combination all the way around.

By 2003, the (previously-named) Cosmic Dust Devils had been kicking around Texas for a few years, with a handful of accolades and a self-titled CD under their belts.  The miles and low wages eventually took their toll, leaving the two original founders of the band, (Kevin Higgins and Barbara Malteze), no alternative but to disband the group and come up with a new plan. That plan included a new name...and Nashville.

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John Arthur Martinez bio: I'm one of the few in the world who can proudly say I make a living doing what I love the most. In my case, creating, performing and recording music are what I love the most. I accomplish this amazing feat with a cast of amazing fellow musicians surrounding the Austin, Texas music scene, including Chris Reeves on Tele and Spanish guitars, Ron Knuth on fiddle, mandolin and accordion, B.B. Morse on his upright bass (fondly named Matilda), Lynn Daniel, who platoons on upright and electric basses with B.B., Kevin Hall, one of the finest drummers in the world, Joe Guzman, a fine Latino/country/R and B drummer who now lives in the Seattle, Washington area and his accordion slinging brother Joel Guzman, who since his Grammies plays less and less with me, but nonetheless warrants mention here.

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Mike Blakely bio: Recently, when a major publisher began looking for a novelist to team up with international entertainment icon, Willie Nelson, they came straight to Mike Blakely.  Blakely and Nelson are currently working on their co-written western novel, designed to adapt to the big screen, with Willie himself playing the lead role.  The book is scheduled for release by 2008.

Meanwhile, native Texan Mike Blakely continues to leave his creative footprints across the landscapes of Texas, the U.S., and the world, as the author of 15 books and a performing songwriter with six CDs to his credit.  Most of Mike’s books are historical novels set in the American West, and released by major New York City publishing houses.  His CDs, showcasing his songwriting and musical abilities, have all been released on Mike’s own record label, Swing Rider Records.

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Jon Wolfe bio: The best introduction to Jon Wolfe is the basic yet not so simple fact that he’s a country singer and songwriter. Country music, as it was, is and always should be, with boots firmly standing on the bedrock of tradition and an eye focused on taking it into the future. And that, as any fan of true country knows, is no simple proposition.

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The Doug Moreland Show Bio: Doug Moreland is a west Texas fiddler, songwriter, and entertainer (and chainsaw artist!).  He currently reside near Austin Texas, and travel throughout the state and abroad performing my own songs with an original, swingin', country & western band. He simply calls it The Doug Moreland Show. 

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Rio Grande Valley Livestock Showgrounds in Mercedes, Texas February 18 -22, 2009. For information contact:

George Rogers, President  george.rogers@rgvmf.com
I.W. Henson, Vice President IWHenson@rgvmf.com
Anna Jenkins, Treasurer treasurer@rgvmf.com or anna.jenkins@rgvmf.com
Edy McKenzie, Secretary secretary@rgvmf.com or edy.mckenzie@rgvmf.com

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