Archive for the 'Texas Heart Beat' Category

Dinner Belle – Picnic Ideas

It is the second issue of the Heart Beat of the Texas Hill Country magazine and time to look toward springtime recipes. I am curious to know if anyone tried any of the recipes in the Winter 2013 magazine: the chicken barley chili, quick and easy fruit salad or Julie’s polish sausage. You can let […]

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Behind the BS: 10,000 Hours of My Life

I know this is Texas. I know folks around here hold the game of football in the highest regard. But I’m going to bring to light some things that I think not just a few people should consider, because Texas people are supposed to be some of the most independent-minded people on the planet. Now, […]

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Volunteerism – Alive and Well in Bandera

We tend to complain a lot in Texas about many things. It’s just our way of blowing off steam. We treat it as our right of heritage. After all, Texas wouldn’t have become independent of Mexico if folks had been satisfied with the status quo. We are an opinionated people and most don’t mind telling […]

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Mo’ Entertainment

When Mel Tillis took the stage at the Cailloux Theater in January, it was not only the first time the country music superstar performed in the Hill Country, it also was the debut concert of the 2014 TEXMO Star Concert Series. And Bob Nichols believes it was the beginning of a beautiful relationship.  TEXMO is […]

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Yin and Yang

Patricia Vonne came to the Texas Heritage Music Foundation coffeehouse on the campus of Schreiner University years ago, visited my English class, and left promising me castanets from her next trip to Spain. The castanets came in the mail — and she will be back up in my classroom at Schreiner March 5 and playing […]

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The Business of the Biz, Part 1

Defining Your Goals, Product and Image Every year thousands of new independent artists release new music to the world and the major label releases number in the hundreds. Needless to say there is a lot of competition out there for fans, listeners and media outlets. You are going to have to mix it up with […]

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Protected: Heat Beat Crew

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Volunteerism Alive and Well in Bandera

We tend to complain a lot in Texas about many things. It’s just our way of blowing off steam. We treat it as our right of heritage. After all, Texas wouldn’t have become independent of Mexico if folks had been satisfied with the status quo. We are an opinionated people and most don’t mind telling […]

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$1,000,000

I imagine most of us have thought how very nice it would be to find a hidden treasure or a sack of money with no strings attached. When I was a kid on vacation, I used to search the beach at Padre Island for gold and Spanish coins that might have washed up from some […]

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Women In Texas Music Spring 2014

Patricia Vonne came to the Texas Heritage Music Foundation coffeehouse on the campus of Schreiner University years ago, visited my English class, and left promising me castanets from her next trip to Spain. The castanets came in the mail — and she will be back up in my classroom at Schreiner March 5 and playing […]

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