The Old Town Theatre Texas Music Series
2018-2019 Season
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The Texas Music Series at Old Town Theatre celebrates some of the finest music and musicians Texas has to offer. Huntsville has always played a vital role in the growth and history of the Lone Star State, and here at Old Town Theatre, we are committed to supporting Texas artists and offering them a warm Texas welcome to the home of General Sam Houston.
The Texas Music Series at Old Town Theatre is funded in part by a grant from the Huntsville Arts Commission.
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Michael Martin Murphy
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December 20, 2018
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Michael Martin Murphey's new album, High Stakes, is the seventh in his canon of tributes to the American Cowboy and the American West. In celebration, his 25th Anniversary Cowboy Christmas Tour brings his message to the public this year. Murphey’s return to his Texas-cowboy roots comes at a time when we are facing the rapid deterioration of our crowded world's most precious resources: Land and Water.
"This generation of the human family is witnessing the emergence of their home as a desert planet", Murphey, a passionate lifelong rancher-poet, recently said. "Two-thirds of the Earth's land surface is grassland plain. Eighty percent of its soil is dying. This is due to a lack of grazing animals — cattle, sheep, buffalo, deer, elk, goats, even free-range chickens and pigs. We need vastly more split-hooved grazing animals that turn up the soil — managed by the world's stockmen and stockwomen — to replicate the rotational-grazing habits of wild herds to restore grasslands for the creatures and life-forms that thrive there."
Trammel S. Crow, Jr., founder of Earth Day Texas 2016, asked Murphey to become the Official Ambassador for the event.
With Murphey Western Institute, they created the Grazing Land Restoration Initiative.
“Michael is more than an award-winning country western singer-songwriter,” said Crow. “He is also an avid steward of the culture and landscape of the American West. We have a mutual interest in protecting the environment for future generations.”
Come join us on December 20 at 7 p.m., as Murphey shares Texas history and experience with his audience in a unique and meaningful way. Tickets are on sale now and are discounted for early sales.
"This generation of the human family is witnessing the emergence of their home as a desert planet", Murphey, a passionate lifelong rancher-poet, recently said. "Two-thirds of the Earth's land surface is grassland plain. Eighty percent of its soil is dying. This is due to a lack of grazing animals — cattle, sheep, buffalo, deer, elk, goats, even free-range chickens and pigs. We need vastly more split-hooved grazing animals that turn up the soil — managed by the world's stockmen and stockwomen — to replicate the rotational-grazing habits of wild herds to restore grasslands for the creatures and life-forms that thrive there."
Trammel S. Crow, Jr., founder of Earth Day Texas 2016, asked Murphey to become the Official Ambassador for the event.
With Murphey Western Institute, they created the Grazing Land Restoration Initiative.
“Michael is more than an award-winning country western singer-songwriter,” said Crow. “He is also an avid steward of the culture and landscape of the American West. We have a mutual interest in protecting the environment for future generations.”
Come join us on December 20 at 7 p.m., as Murphey shares Texas history and experience with his audience in a unique and meaningful way. Tickets are on sale now and are discounted for early sales.
Shake Russell
Coming Soon! Date TBA
For more than three decades, Texas singer-songwriter Shake Russell has been entertaining audiences throughout the region with his unique, Americana style of folk-rock. Weaving sophisticated harmonies through his songs and drawing from various genres, Russell has created a style of folk-rock that is uniquely his own.
His repertoire consists of a blend of love songs, ballads, and waltzes, skillfully balanced with lively rockabilly tunes and soulful rhythm and blues pieces. His lyrics are imbued with beautiful imagery, catchy phrases, and inventive similes and metaphors. But it is the rich, melodious voice of Shake Russell that breathes life and spirit into the lyrics.
Dates for Shake Russell's visit will be posted soon! Keep watching this space!
His repertoire consists of a blend of love songs, ballads, and waltzes, skillfully balanced with lively rockabilly tunes and soulful rhythm and blues pieces. His lyrics are imbued with beautiful imagery, catchy phrases, and inventive similes and metaphors. But it is the rich, melodious voice of Shake Russell that breathes life and spirit into the lyrics.
Dates for Shake Russell's visit will be posted soon! Keep watching this space!
Beyond the Pale
May 2019
Part of the Gen. Sam Houston
Folk Festival Weekend
True to their name, Beyond The Pale delivers a wild musical ride outside the boundaries of convention. Delighting audiences for more than 15 years, the band is grounded in the traditional roots music of America, Ireland and Northern Europe with imaginative ventures across musical borders. Where else can you experience fiery reels, haunting ballads, outrageously humorous songs and music from around the world including Mexican polkas and Texas swing?
These band members have developed their unique sound by blending a wide range of instruments including fiddle, flute, accordion, guitar, hammered dulcimer, tin whistle, saxophone, harmonica, concertina, clarinet, mandolin bodhran, percussion, and of course the voices of band members.
Beyond the Pale is more than a band. This is a musical experience, grounded in historic roots and drawing from the deepest well of musical creativity, with cultural themes and iconic sounds that are centuries old.
Beyond the Pale will be in Huntsville for one night only, during the Gen. Sam Houston Fold Festival. Watch this space for times and tickets!
These band members have developed their unique sound by blending a wide range of instruments including fiddle, flute, accordion, guitar, hammered dulcimer, tin whistle, saxophone, harmonica, concertina, clarinet, mandolin bodhran, percussion, and of course the voices of band members.
Beyond the Pale is more than a band. This is a musical experience, grounded in historic roots and drawing from the deepest well of musical creativity, with cultural themes and iconic sounds that are centuries old.
Beyond the Pale will be in Huntsville for one night only, during the Gen. Sam Houston Fold Festival. Watch this space for times and tickets!
