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September 17, 2002 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESunday, September 29 will mark the debut of the Literacy & Learning Concert Series at Schreiner University's Dietert Auditorium as one of America's premier folk artists, Terri Hendrix, will take the stage in support of her latest critically received and independently released CD, The Ring. Since her first release in the fall of 1996, Two Dollar Shoes, Hendrix has combined musical smarts and business savvy to forge one of the industry's most impressive independent careers, steadfastly managing her career and running her own label, Wilory Records. A major attraction at the nation's premier folk festivals, Newport and Kerrville included, she has been honored consistently with songwriting and performing awards in Austin and San Antonio; she has been chronicled in top-tier publications like Billboard, Texas Monthly, the Washington Post and the Boston Globe; and she has multi-instrumentalist and prolific record producer Lloyd Maines as her musical and business partner at Wilory Records. Gracing the cover of this year's Kerrville Folk Festival brochure, Hendrix was selected to close a coveted Saturday night set at the Festival (an honor reserved only for industry favorites) and has had her work prominently featured on many compilation albums. Her 2001 Live at Mountain Stage performance is airing on PBS television affiliates and "Little Jack Slade", a song she co-wrote, is on the current Dixie Chicks album. Although Hendrix is enjoying the fruits of her success these days, it was really just a few years ago that she traversed Texas with little more than a guitar, an amp, and a willingness to share her music and spirit with a small but growing and appreciative audience. However, despite her heightening visibility in the music industry and the demands that come with it, she still makes an effort to share her time and talents with worthwhile causes like Families & Literacy and the Texas Heritage Music Foundation. The Literacy & Learning Concert Series will be an annual event that will focus on the importance of literacy and education in the Hill Country. This year's concert with Terri Hendrix and Lloyd Maines will benefit both Families & Literacy and THMF's Wayne Kennemer Scholarship Fund. Tickets are $15 each and are available at the offices of Families & Literacy in the Winwood Plaza, THMF office, 5K Laser Products, Kerr Business Services, Wolfmueller's Books and Records, Mi Ranchito restaurants, and the Java Pump. In conjunction with the benefit concert, THMF will also be presenting the first annual Texas Heritage Seminar on Saturday, September 28 at Schreiner University. Papers and presentations will be given by: Nolan Porterfield, award-winning author of Jimmie Rodgers: The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler; Jack Edmondson, author of The Alamo Story: From Early History to Current Conflicts, and Gary Hartman, Director of The Center for Texas Music History at Southwest Texas State University. The seminar will be moderated by author and Schreiner University professor of English, Dr. Kathleen Hudson. Free to the public, this seminar will focus on the importance of music and storytelling in education and how, in every society, music serves as an important form of cultural expression through which different groups communicate social, political, and economic concerns. The Texas Heritage Seminar will begin at 10 a.m. and will end around Noon. For more information on the benefit concert featuring Terri Hendrix and Lloyd Maines, and on the Texas Heritage Seminar, visit the website www.texasheritagemusic.org. For more information, visit the THMF website, www.texasheritagemusic.org.
Contact: Tim Wilton or Kathleen Hudson
(830) 367-3750 e-mail:
kat@maverickbbs.com |
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