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My ears did a double take when David Church started singing. He not only looked like Hank Williams with his tall lean look and suits like the ones Williams wore, he sounded just like the old records my roommate and I used to play during college days.
For those who have never heard David Church do a Hank Williams tribute, it is a step back in time as he not only looks like Hank did, but has a twang to his voice that is similar to Williams’ voice. Though the concert at Aladdin Villas was his last concert for this season, fans of Hank Williams will not want to miss him when he returns next season. It will be a step back in time.
The show began with cowboy poetry reciter and emcee Rich Bellert telling some of his entertaining cowboy poems that had the audience rolling in their seats. Bellert brought in the laughs before he introduced Terri Lisa Church, David’s wife, who is also a singer.
Winter Texans enjoy the performances of the Senior Ambassadors, Magic Valley Men of A-Chord, Sweet Adelines and the Rio Grande Valley Band throughout the winter season. These four groups will now come together for one combined performance on March 1 at Trinity Worship Center.
Read more: Winter Texan Extravaganza Concert features four groups
Country music, bluegrass, folk, gospel and patriotic music will fill the air at the five-day Rio Grande Valley Music Fest to be held Feb. 14-19 at the Rio Grande Valley Livestock Showgrounds.
Read more: RGV Music Festival offers five stages for five days
Gordy & Debbie are Branson performers who swing through the Rio Grande Valley during the winter months putting on shows that are full of vitality.
Their performance at their recent benefit for Children’s Haven International, an orphanage in Reynosa, Mexico that is home to abused or neglected children, helped raise over $4,000 for the orphanage. In addition to performing free of charge at the benefit, they also donated 20 percent of their CD sales to the orphanage and 100 percent of the sales of any CD purchases at the dinner.
Gordy performs with a level of energy that must have driven his teachers wild in school trying to channel it as he leaps off stages and bounces around the room singing to guests in the audience. He turned his hat to the side to make him look goofy, as he danced around the audience singing an old song about a prank telephone caller, “It’s Me Margaret.”
Read more: Gordy & Debbie perform benefit for Children’s Haven
One of the most popular entertainers to come to the Rio Grande Valley is Sheldon Tucker, known simply as Tucker. A commanding figure, Tucker could easily be mistaken for Marshal Dillon walking down the street in his signature fringed jacket, cowboy boots and black Stetson hat. But with his voice, which is a rich combination of baritone and tenor, he is at home in Broadway musicals. He played the lead in “The King and I” with the “Rainbow Players.” And he worked with Carol Burnett in “Moon Over Buffalo.”
In the Feb. 2 issue of the Winter Texan Times the story about the University of Texas-Pan American Winter Texan Survey listed the online survey link incorrectly. The link to the survey where Winter Texans can complete the survey online should be http://utpa.edu/wintertexan. The link shown on the survey forms in last week’s paper is correct.
The Winter Texan Times partners with the University of Texas-Pan American to conduct the bi-annual survey of Winter Texans. Those who participate in the survey will be entered in a drawing for two $100 cash prizes. In addition, $1 will be donated to the RGV Food Bank for each completed questionnaire returned, up to $1,000.
Charro Days in Brownsville will be hosting its 75th annual celebration Feb. 19-26.
The first Charro Days celebration featured horse-drawn floats, marching bands from Mexico, soldiers from Fort Brown, which was still an active fort, and school children dressed as charros and chinas.
Elegant ball gowns, street parties, and fireworks launched with the traditional “Grito” were part of the original celebration and remain part of it today.
Matamoros has always be a key part of the celebration with the traditional “Hands Across the Bridge” celebration where the mayors of the two cities meet and shake hands to kick off the celebration.
Read more: 75th Annual Charro Days celebration is Feb. 19 -26
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