Music Festivals and Events

We’ll use this section to let you know about live music events where we'll be performing.   Support and attendance by folks like you who enjoy and appreciate live music performances will help us to ensure that it lives on forever.  Come share the music with us!

WHERE WE'LL BE PERFORMING NEXT:

4th Friday, Every Month, 2:30PM; The Kensington, Hastings, NE

3rd Friday, Every Month, 2:30PM; Tiffany Square, Grand Island, NE.

November 18, 2011, 2:30PM; Tiffany Square, Grand Island, Nebraska.

November 11, 2011, 2:30PM; The Kensington, Hastings, NE.
   Note: This is a change from the normal schedule to allow
   us to spend Thanksgiving with my parents in Wichita.
   Thanks, Rhonda!! 


A SAMPLE OF OUR PAST PERFORMANCES:

November 4 & 5, 2011; Malvern, IA Jam; Public is Welcome!
    Friday, 5:30PM Potluck Dinner; 7:00PM Jam;
    Saturday, 9:00AM; Full-day music festival/jam

October 28, 2011, 2:30PM; The Kensington, Hastings, Nebraska.

October 21, 2011, 2:30PM; Tiffany Square, Grand Island, Nebraska.

October 8, 2011, 7:00PM; High School Gym, McCool Junction, NE. An "American Bandstand" style 50's & 60's Rock and Roll Dance. Fifties fashion parade and a fifties dance demonstration kicked this event off, followed by classic rock and roll by our friends "Flashback", and of course, "The Casuals" (The Mellow D's and Friends)!!!
My lead player from our band "The Casuals" in 1963 is coming all the way in from Chicago to help us with this benefit. How cool is that, "The Casuals", live on stage again! This event was an absolute BLAST!

September 25, 2011, 10:00AM; Special Performance, Great Plains Community Church, Goehner, NE

September 23, 2011, 2:30PM; The Kensington, Hastings, Nebraska.

September 16, 2011, 2:30PM; Tiffany Square, Grand Island, Nebraska.

September 11, 2011, 12:30PM; Special Patriotic event, Cottonwood Estates, Grand Island, Nebraska.

September 5, 2011, Special performances with our friends from the Nebraska Songwriters Associationi International;  1:00PM & 5:00PM; Nebraska State Fair, Grand Island, Nebraska.

September 2, 2011; Concert for the residents of Hearthstone, and assisted living facility in York, Nebraska. 

August 24-29, 2011; Six days of a great country music festival in Avoca, Iowa!  A dynamite festival with at least four stages providing continuous live country music.  There are dances in the evenings on Friday and Saturday.  There are plenty of campsites, shade, vendors and great folks who love country music!

August 18, 2011, 11:30AM; Midwest Covenant, Stromsburg, NE

August 15, 2011, 2:30pm; Hearthstone, York, NE

July 31, 2011, 7:00PM; Gospel Concert, New Heights Assembly of God Church, York, Nebraska.

Country Concert, Senior Center, Aurora, Nebraska.

Special Appearances, Great Plains Community Church, Goehner, NE. (Recurring Event)

Special Patriotic Concert, Independence Day 2011, Tiffany Square, Grand Island, NE. 

"Time Well Spent With Music Friends", Pleasantdale, NE

"Evening Under the Stars" event, Hearthstone.

Performed a live "Golden Oldies Rock 'n Roll" on a moving parade float during the Yorkfest parade.
That was a HOOT! And our float won FIRST PRIZE!

Meridian Gardens Retirement Community, Columbus, NE. (Recurring event)

Merrick Manor, Central City, Ne. (Recurring Event)

Live from the Iron Horse Station in McCool Junction, part of the annual Mustang Roudup community celebration.

Nebraska State Fair, Grand Island, Nebraska.

Gospel concert at the Berean Church in Grand Island, NE.  Open to the public, free will offering only!

Live radio broadcast from 1370 KAWL-AM in York, Nebraska.  Broadcast internationally via Live webcam!  We performed some of our favorites, a cute novelty tune called "Bib Overalls", and we'll premier some brand-new originals that will be released on our next album!

Annual Easter services at the Great Plains Community Church in Goehner, Nebraska.  You're always welcome to come worship with us!

Town Hall, McCool Junction, NE.  Annual "Wires & Wood" Jam for country music musicians and entertainers.  This is a jam session to show our appreciation for those who strive to keep live music perfomances alive!  Not open to the general public.

We were invited to perform and be interviewed on the ABC Network's "Good Life" program.  The hostesses were not only beautiful, but exceptionally witty and pleasant.  What a great time we had!  Our live performance of one of my original songs was also very well-received.  WHAT FUN!

Special Valentine's Day Show, Ansley, NE. 

Gospel Special, DeLand Nazarene Church, DeLand, FL. 
At this one, I introduced my new song, "Great Plains Community Church"!

The Arbors, Lincoln, NE

Promotional Tour of Key West, FL.

"Big Music Event" (as described by Charley Groth) Sarasota, FL.

Gospel Special, DeLand Nazarene Church, DeLand, FL.

Fall Festival, McCool Junction High School Auditorium.

September 19, 2009; 3:00PM and 7:00PM; Midwest Country Music Theater in Sandstone, Minnesota; Narvel Felts was the headliner for these shows.  These are the Same Midwest Country Shows that are broadcast nationally on RFD-TV!  They have one of the finest house bands I've seen.  (If you don't get RFD-TV, you really need to contact your TV provider and ask them to sign on.  RFD-TV provides so many of the great old country music programs we all love with the REAL superstars of country music; Porter, Lefty, Conway, Loretta, Patsy, etc.)

Concert, Henderson Care, Henderson, NE.

Special Appearance, Annual Mustang Roundup, McCool Junction, NE.

Country Music Jamboree, Avoca, IA.  We were headliners at this terrific festival!  Thanks, Cliff & Joye Carr, and all of your supporters and volunteers!

Invitational Jam; 3:00PM, McCool Junction, NE.

Memorial Care, Aurora, NE (Recurring Event)

Private Concert; Arcadia, NE.

Chuckwagon Dinner Classic Country Gospel Music Show; Double D Ranch, Ashland, NE.

Promotional Event, McCool Junction, NE.

Ne State Custodial Convention, Grand Island, NE.

Cohagen family Picnic, McCool Junction, NE.

First Nazarene Church Christmas Concert, Lincoln, NE,

Eagle NE.  Annual meeting and critique session for the Nashville Songwriter's Association International.  Good group of folks, and some great original music!

Village Green, downtown McCool Junction, NE.  The "Nashville Songwriters Association International" chapter from Lincoln was our featured guests as part of our community's annual "Mustang Roundup" celebration.  At 6:00 PM, we hosted a local talent show upstairs at the town hall, a "just for fun" event.