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Back by popular demand, David Church will be appearing at Aladdin Villas in Mission on Friday, Feb. 17 at 7 p.m. This will be his fifth and final appearance for the 2012 season in the Rio Grande Valley, and he will be performing with a full band, including a lead, bass, steel guitar, and fiddle, with David on the rhythm guitar.
“David Church is a rare entertainment entity, in that he not only is an outstanding songwriter and performing artist in his own right, but he is also known throughout America to do the best tribute to Hank Williams Sr. that anyone has ever seen,” said Bruce J. Maier, of www.dammgoodtunes.com.
Melody Knighton returns to the stage at Victoria Palms Resort, in Donna, on Sunday, Feb.12. This time she is performing her award winning show, “I Love Lucy.”
Melody is the winner of the 2002 Cloney Award for “Best Impersonation of A Female Broadcast Media Legend” at the annual Celebrity Impersonators Convention.
Melody is truly a “dead ringer” for the beloved comedian. This professional actress, stand-up comic and comedy writer uses all her talents to create the beloved character of Lucille Ball. Art Poco from Florida joins Melody as Lucy’s beloved husband, Ricky.
Read more: Victoria Palms features Lucille Ball tribute show
From yodeling Indian love calls to Swiss, German, Cajun and even chicken yodels, Kerry Christensen puts on a yodeling show that is like no other. He is a former yodeler for Disney World at Epcot Center in Florida, and the yodeling voice of villain Alameda Slim in Disney’s animated movie “Home on the Range.” He can also be heard in the movie, “Without a Paddle”.
Christensen was raised on a potato farm in Grace, Idaho so he had to travel quite a distance to discover his passion of yodeling. Already a performer of western music, he traveled to Austria in 1976 to discover the folk music that would become his life’s work. He purchased recordings of the great yodeling masters, and returned home determined to master the ancient art of yodeling. He practiced 14 to 15 hours a day while driving a tractor around the potato fields. Yodeling carries for long distances and was used as a form of communication between hillside farms before telephones. He nearly drove his father crazy while he was learning to yodel. Eventually his father banished him to practicing in the garage.
Ralph Kuster will be performing two Valentine’s shows at the Border Theatre in Mission on Saturday, Feb. 11 and Monday, Feb.13. Both shows are at 2 p.m. and tickets are $7 at the door. Kuster has selected happy love songs for the Valentine’s show, rather than the sad ones where love does not work out.
Kuster will sing a collection of love songs such as “Kiss an Angel Good Morning” by Charlie Pride, “Singing in the Rain, by Gene Kelly. “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” by the Platters, “That’s Amore” by Dean Martin, “Moon River” by Andy Williams, Elvis’ ”I Can’t Help Falling In Love,” “Unchained Melody” by The Righteous Brothers, and “Spanish Angels” by Willie Nelson.
He will also sing “Cracklin’ Rosy” by Neil Diamond, “All the Way,” “Strangers in the Night” by Sinatra and many other old favorites during the two-hour show.
Read more: Ralph Kuster plans Valentine’s Show at Border Theatre
Music has a way of bringing back memories of days gone by. “Hippie dances” by James and Faye Marvell have Winter Texans traveling back in time to the days of the Hippie movement. Many guests come dressed as Hippies and reminisce about the “good old days.”
“The response to these dances has been great,” states James Marvell. “In the beginning, the Hippie movement was about the music and love and peace. It was a feel good movement. But somewhere drugs got into the mix and caused problems.”
“I think this shows my age when I say this,” laughed Marvell, “ but I was there in the 60s performing with the million selling group, Mercy, and their Billboard hit, “Love Can Make You Happy.”
Two of the Valley’s most popular and unique entertainers have teamed up for a series of shows in February. Darlene Hilde-Rolle in the role of “Auntie Kreamsaugen” is running for President.
“We need a woman in the White House,” states Rolle, speaking of her new show. Instead of her usual homespun garb, “Auntie Kreamsaugen” has a new sparkly dress for her campaign against “unfounded attacks, double talk and little white lies.”
Acting as her “accomplice” in this special show is Kerry Christensen, known for his skills in playing unusual musical instruments and yodeling. Kristensen plays the alphorn (that long horn seen in Ricola commercials) and the zither, which is said to be the hardest instrument in the world to play.
Read more: Auntie Kreamsaugen runs for President, Kerry Christensen is accomplice
Originally from Central Illinois, Jeff Gordon has been living in the Branson, Missouri area since 1995. Starting with gospel at the young age of 8 years, he found that music was in his blood. A stepfather taught him how to play several different instruments and even included him in a gospel band, giving him his first debut as an entertainer. As Jeff recalls he was scared to death; playing the drums wasn't so bad, but singing – well that leads to the rest of the story.
As he was growing up, his favorite artists were Marty Robbins, Elvis Presley and Tom Jones, but that didn't stop him from venturing into rock, country, the oldies, a little blues, jazz and, of course, gospel and patriotic music.
Jeff has a wide vocal range, which allows him to sing songs from many different types of artists. Conway Twitty, George Jones, Gene Watson, Marty Robbins, George Strait, Garth Brooks, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones, the Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison and even Louis Armstrong are just of few of the many artists that he does.
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