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Contact: Kathleen Hudson
Director,
Texas Heritage Music Foundation
Tel: (830) 792-7409
Email:
kat@maverickbbs.com |
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For
Immediate Release
August 14, 2008 |
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Texas Music Coffeehouse Series Celebrates Hispanic
Heritage Month with Rosie Flores on September 3 at Schreiner University |
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KERRVILLE, Texas –
The
Texas Music Coffeehouse Series will celebrate
Hispanic Heritage Month on Wednesday, Sept. 3 in the Floyd and
Kathleen Cailloux Campus Activity Center Lion’s Den with alternative country
sensation and rockabilly siren
Rosie Flores. The Coffeehouse will begin with an open mic session at
7 p.m. and Flores will follow at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free.
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Austin-based Flores is a San Antonio native and has been
a major player in the alternative country music scene
since the mid-1980s. Beginning with her critically
acclaimed 1987 debut “Rosie Flores.” She has gone on to
record a string of highly regarded albums featuring her
stunning guitar playing and original material. Major
media outlets have praised Flores’ work, including
Entertainment Weekly, which stated; "Flores never
forgets that she's a poet and a rocker with a pure
country heart." People, No Depression, Details and The
New York Times have also given Flores glowing reviews
over the years, and Rosie's unique guitar playing style
has been featured in numerous magazines, including
Musician, Guitar Player, and Guitar World. |
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In 2006, Flores was
chosen to narrate the radio documentary
Whole Lotta Shakin’, a 10-part series that
chronicled the history of rockabilly music. The series,
produced by Kerrville’s Texas Heritage Music Foundation,
received the prestigious 2007 George Foster
Peabody Award for excellence in electronic media.
Upcoming Coffeehouse Series performers are Carolyn
Wonderland on October 1 and Walt Wilkins
on November 5.
Texas Heritage Music Foundation, Schreiner
University
Student Activities and the
Center for Innovative Learning sponsor the music
series.
THMF will also be presenting the 12th annual Texas
Heritage Living History Day on Friday, Sept. 26 at the
Robbins-Lewis Pavilion on Schreiner University campus
from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission will be free. For more
information, contact THMF at (830) 792-1945 or visit
www.texasheritagemusic.org. |
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