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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The Award-winning Celtic Band Beyond the Pale
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"Home With the Armadillo"
Gary P. Nunn
June 1 at 7 p.m.
Tickets $25-$60
No additional online ticket fees!
Gary P. Nunn has been taking Texas country music to the world for some 40 years now, establishing himself as an icon of Lone Star music. A founding father of the progressive country movement out of Austin in the 1970s that changed the face of popular music, Nunn is also an independent music pioneer who continues to oversee his own record label and song publishing companies, manage his own career (with the help of his wife Ruth), and play most every weekend at top music venues throughout Texas and beyond. His composition “London Homesick Blues” — with its internationally known “I wanna go home with the Armadillo” chorus — is a signature Texas country song that was the theme for the PBS concert TV show “Austin City Limits” for nearly three decades. It’s no wonder that All Music Guide hails him as “a Texas music institution.”
While in Austin, he played with Willie Nelson, Michael Martin Murphey and Jerry Jeff Walker, at one point playing bass and working on albums with all three at the same time. His unflagging popularity in and around the Lone Star State has kept the houses full for 30 years, whenever and wherever he plays. And Nunn has also made numerous visits to Europe, where he’s considered a Texas musical legend. Along the way he has appeared on TV shows like “Austin City Limits,” the "Texas Music Scene" and “Nashville Now” as well as regular performances at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo an the San Antonio Livestock Show and Rodeo.
Old Town Theatre is proud to host this amazing musician, songwriter and ambassador of Texas music to Huntsville! Tickets for this show will go quickly, so get them while they last!
1-800-595-4849
($1 per ticket fee for phone orders)
No additional online ticket fees!
Gary P. Nunn has been taking Texas country music to the world for some 40 years now, establishing himself as an icon of Lone Star music. A founding father of the progressive country movement out of Austin in the 1970s that changed the face of popular music, Nunn is also an independent music pioneer who continues to oversee his own record label and song publishing companies, manage his own career (with the help of his wife Ruth), and play most every weekend at top music venues throughout Texas and beyond. His composition “London Homesick Blues” — with its internationally known “I wanna go home with the Armadillo” chorus — is a signature Texas country song that was the theme for the PBS concert TV show “Austin City Limits” for nearly three decades. It’s no wonder that All Music Guide hails him as “a Texas music institution.”
While in Austin, he played with Willie Nelson, Michael Martin Murphey and Jerry Jeff Walker, at one point playing bass and working on albums with all three at the same time. His unflagging popularity in and around the Lone Star State has kept the houses full for 30 years, whenever and wherever he plays. And Nunn has also made numerous visits to Europe, where he’s considered a Texas musical legend. Along the way he has appeared on TV shows like “Austin City Limits,” the "Texas Music Scene" and “Nashville Now” as well as regular performances at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo an the San Antonio Livestock Show and Rodeo.
Old Town Theatre is proud to host this amazing musician, songwriter and ambassador of Texas music to Huntsville! Tickets for this show will go quickly, so get them while they last!
1-800-595-4849
($1 per ticket fee for phone orders)
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A Cowboy Christmas 2019
Michael Martin Murphy
December 18, 2019
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Michael Martin Murphey's Cowboy Christmas Tour will return to Old Town Theatre this year. The 2018 show sold out, so don't wait to get your tickets for this amazing performance. Join our e-mail list and get a first chance at premium seats at discounted prices!
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 19, 2019, at 7 p.m., as Murph shares Texas history and experience with his audience in a unique and beautiful night of music. Tickets for our email customers will go on sale July 1, 2019.
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 19, 2019, at 7 p.m., as Murph shares Texas history and experience with his audience in a unique and beautiful night of music. Tickets for our email customers will go on sale July 1, 2019.
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Shake Russell
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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! |