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Archive for February, 2010
My Great Escape – Freddy Powers
“All I Want To Do Is Sing My Song” from the “My Great Escape” Album by Freddy Powers.
Singer/Songwriter/producer/musician born in Duncan, Oklahoma and raised in Seminole, Texas. Freddy holds many BMI and CMA Awards, including CMA’s Triple Play Award, Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame and Texas Guitar Association Lifetime Achievement Award. Freddy’s songs have been recorded by such legendary artists as Merle Haggard. George Jones, Willie Nelson, the late great Ray Charles, The Wilburn Brothers, Janie Fricke, Rattlesnake Annie, along with new comers John Cody, Pauline Reese, Big and Rich and so many more.
Though born in Oklahoma Freddy is a true “Texan” all the way with several famous Texas songs including the title track for James Michener’s move “Texas”. Other “Texas Themed” songs include “Texas and Oklahoma”, “My San Antonio Rose”, and most recently “Texas All The Way” and “One Less Honky Tonk In Texas” Texas Music Chart topper recorded by Pauline Reese.
Freddy lives in Austin, Texas, where he continues to contribute to the Texas music scene, his fellow musicians. His latest song recorded by Scotty Joss “Back Playing Honky Tonk Again” says it all for Freddy. For more information on Freddy’s 50 plus year career, check out his website:
Diagnosed with Parkinson Disease in 2004, Freddy vows to help in research and aide in the needs of other central Texas Parkinson patients.
Special Guest Shake Russell SXSW Pickin’ Party 2009
Freddy, Black-eyed-pea and Cabbage Pickin’ Party 2010
Discography:
“I Always Get Lucky With You
“Epic, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Kenney Chesney, Mark Knophler
Country Jazz Singer Album, Freddy Powers
“Friend in California”
Epic, Merle Haggard
Country Jazz Singer Album, Freddy Powers
“This Time I Really Do”
Epic, Merle Haggard
Country Jazz Singer Album, Freddy Powers
“TEXAS”
Epic, Merle Haggard
“Okie From Muskogee Is Comin’ Home”
Epic, Merle Haggard
“This Song Is For You”
Epic, Merle Haggard
“Let’s Chase Each Other Around The Room Tonight”
Epic, Merle Haggard
“A Place To Fall Apart”
Epic, Merle Haggard
“Little Hotel Room”
Epic, Merle Haggard
Columbia, Ray Charles
Country Jazz Singer Album, Freddy Powers
“All I Want To Do Is Sing My Songs”
Epic, Merle Haggard
“Natural High”
Epic, Merle Haggard
Country Jazz Singer Album, Freddy Powers
“You Don’t Love Me Anymore”
Epic, Merle Haggard
Country Jazz Singer Album, Freddy Powers
“Ridin’ High”
Epic, Merle Haggard
Columbia, Janie Frickie
Country Jazz Singer Album, Freddy Powers
“Man From Another Time”
Epic, Merle Haggard
“Still Missing You”
Unforgettable Merle Haggard
Capital, Merle Haggard
“1929″
Epic, Merle Haggard
“More Than This Old Heart Can Take”
Epic, Merle Haggard
“High On Love”
Columbia, Jane Fricke
“Amber Waves Of Grain”
Epic, Merle Haggard
“Wouldn’t That Be Something”
Epic, Merle Haggard, Freddy Powers
“Somewhere Down the Line”
Epic, Merle Haggard
“Shotgun And The Pistol”
Epic, Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson
“Silver Eagle”
Epic, Merle Haggard
George Jones
“Lonely Night”
Sony, Merle Haggard
“It’s Cold In California Tonight”
Epic, Merle Haggard
Leona Williams
“My San Antonio Rose”
Country Jazz Singer
In Orbit
“Don’t Care Anymore”
Country Jazz Singer
In Orbit
“Texas And Oklahoma”
Stop the Truck
Ray Benson
Country Jazz Singer
In Orbit
“Blue Jungle”
Curb, Merle Haggard
“Bar In Bakersfield”
Curb, Merle Haggard
“Ol Country Singer”
Hag/Smith,
Freddy Powers And Merle Haggard
“Filthy Rich”
Warner Bro.
Big and Rich
“Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn”
Hag/Smith, Freddy Powers
and Merle Haggard
“One Less Honky Tonk”
Paradora Records, Pauline Reese
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
“The Truth About You”
Johnny Bush
Pauline Reese
Rogers and Hammerhead
“The Legend of Django”
Rogers and Hammerhead
“I Don’t Want To Say Goodbye”
Patty David
Rogers and Hammerhead
“The Romantic Waltz”
Rogers and Hammerhead
“Me and the Drummer”
Merle Haggard
Willie Nelson
Doug Supernaw
Rogers and Hammerhead
“If I Needed You”
Rattlesnake Annie
Scott Joss
Rogers and Hammerhead
“Someone Should Have Told Him”
Rogers and Hammerhead
“No Dancing”
Pauline Reese
Rogers and Hammerhead
“Texas All the Way”
Rogers and Hammerhead
“Angel of My Dreams”
Rogers and Hammerhead
“Springtime and the Fall”
Rogers and Hammerhead
“Hard Time Letting Go”
Rose Maddox
Rogers and Hammerhead
“Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn”
Freddy Powers, Merle Haggard
Rogers and Hammerhead
“On the Road to My Heart”
Merle Haggard
Brent Allen
“So Little to Say”
Rogers and Hammerhead
“Water”
Texas Girls Choir
Santa Why Can’t Everyday Be Christmas
Texas Girls Choir
“Happy Birthday to the Lord”
Texas Girls Choir
The Glass Menagerie
| Feb |
| 26 |
| 7:00 pm |
TexARTS
February 26th-March 14th 2010
Written by Tennessee Williams and performed as part of TexARTS’ professional Off-Broadway Series.
A Raisin In The Sun
| Feb |
| 25 |
| 7:00 pm |
The City Theatre Company
February 25th-28th
Called “a milestone in the American theatre,” this intensely affecting drama chronicles how a financial windfall touches the lives of an African-American family living in Chicago in the late 50s. A simple desire for a home of their own becomes the touchstone of their integrity. Their story is built on sacrifice, heartbreak, trust, love and the heroic struggle to hold their world together. Don’t miss this vital and hopeful portrait of one family’s search for the American dream.
Mary Stuart
| Feb |
| 11 |
| 5:00 pm |
Austin Shakespeare @ The Long Ctr.
February 11-February 28, 2010
In Schiller’s great Romantic play, Mary Stuart, the passionate and beautiful Queen of Scotland, struggles to gain freedom from her rival cousin, Elizabeth, the powerful Queen of England. Each works through the same man as lover and protector, but it is only through their own actions that one transforms to gain authentic nobility. Peter Oswald’s new, suspenseful adaptation draws striking parallels to contemporary society.
Buried Child
| Feb |
| 4 |
| 7:00 pm |
City Theater
February 4th- 21st, 2010
Something has been unearthed…Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize winning quintessential drama that digs deep into family dysfunction and the deterioration of the American dream. In the corn fields of Illinois, a squalid farm home is occupied by a family filled with suffering born of deep-seated unhappiness and violence. When a stranger returns, his persistent search for understanding and truth unearths a deep, dark, secret.
Arrythmia
| Feb |
| 5 |
| 7:00 pm |
Vortex Rep. and UpRise! Productions
February 5-February 20, 2010
This urban odyssey utilizes elements of hip-hop, contemporary movement, and lyrical slam- style poetry in this challenging, musical, political, breathtaking experience for all audiences.
Sister Moses: The Story of Harriet Tubman
| Feb |
| 5 |
| 7:00 pm |
Shoreline Center
February 5th, 2010.
Austin dancers will share the stage with Desert Dance Theatre in the dance drama, “Sister Moses: The Story of Harriet Tubman.” Experience this true story brought to life through movement, African drums, melodious string sounds and traditional spirituals sung by an ensemble of singers featuring the Huston-Tillotson University Concert Choir, under the direction of Dr. Gloria Quinlan.
NUNSENSE!
| Jan |
| 8 |
| 10:00 am |
Georgetown Palace Theater
January 8-February 7, 2010
Featuring our 2007 Cast of NUNSENSE!
The sequel to the international hit musical NUNSENSE takes place approximately six weeks after the first “benefit performance.” (It could easily be subtitled “the rest of the story.”) The same five nuns are back on stage at Mt. Saint Helen’s School for what is billed as a “Thank You Program” for their supporters. Since their first time out was such a success, they have decided that they should stick to their successful variety show formula. This time they are forced to work around the set dressing of “The Mikado”!
Misalliance
| Feb |
| 21 |
| 10:00 am |
Austin Playhouse
January 22-February 21, 2010
Austin Playhouse proudly presents Shaw’s delightful comedy: Misalliance. Misalliance is a fast-paced, witty comedy that highlights the great characters, sparkling dialogue, and energetic humor for which Shaw is justly renowned. A whirlwind of characters from different social classes and professions including an underwear magnate, an ambassador, a polish acrobat, and a socialist clerk, careen off each other during the course of one afternoon at an English country estate.
The Star
| Jan |
| 30 |
| 7:00 pm |
Austin Lyric Opera @ The Long Center
January 30-February 7, 2010
Like the star for which the piece is named, Emmanuel Chabrier’s The Star is a musical sparkler of an operetta. Its light, diverting tunes and witty, bantering dialogue represent the very essence of “opéra bouffe,” a mid-19th-century genre created by Offenbach that was meant to entertain. The humor of the spoken text and the musical numbers is both broad and sharply sly. The use of parody and satire – especially in the numbers that poke fun at class mores and manners alternates with outrageous slapstick. You might say that The Star is a Gallic counterpart to those delightful operettas being played during the same era on the other side of the English Channel, penned by a duo named Gilbert and Sullivan. But its finely-spun melodies and sensual, lighter-than-air orchestration place it in a class well above similar comic works.
