HOXIE — Western Plains Arts Association has teamed up with High Plains Public Radio to present The RandyBoys, Friday, Oct. 20, at Hoxie High School auditorium. The two hour show begins at 7:30 p.m. Admission is by WPAA season ticket or a suggested donation at the door of $15 adults and $5 students. Young children ages 6 and under accompanied with an adult are free.
This show is made possible by northwest Kansas area foundations, businesses and individuals, and High Plains Public Radio, serving western Kansas, eastern Colorado, and the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas.
From the Panhandle High Plains and East Texas Tall Pines, the RandyBoys brings to its audiences original folk and Americana music with a sense of place. Two award-winning songwriters join forces creating expertly crafted songs with heart and mind, delivered with soul, grit and honesty.
Randy Palmer of Amarillo, Texas and Randy Brown of Mineola, Texas met a couple years ago. Their first co-written work was titled High Plains. Palmer’s down home, family focused songwriting blends perfectly with Brown’s philosophical and poetic approach.
Palmer has performed folk and country for 50 years, focusing on songwriting, guitar and solo and band projects. He received a degree in radio, television and film from Baylor University and is a member of the Texas Folk Music Alliance and the Folk Alliance. He has won numerous songwriting awards and officers workshops for professional song writers. He has produced three albums.
Brown is an award-winning singer, songwriter, storyteller and a self-proclaimed “performing philosopher” bent on deciphering the intersection of spirit, faith and science with a sense of wonder. His whimsical lyrics delve into off-beat tops as quantum mechanics, talking to extraterrestrials and testosterone poisoning. Brown, who accompanies himself on guitar and mandolin, describes his music as “Charles Darwin meets Guy Clark and Van Morrison at an MIT barbecue in honor of Albert Einstein’s birthday.” Chew on that image for awhile.
The Friday night Hoxie show is just one of 18 shows booked on the High Plains Public Radio Music Ambassador Tour. If you cannot make it to the Oct. 20 program, several other area concerts are set for a community center, business or private “livingroom concert” near you.
The Oct. 20 event is the only one, however, that is co-sponsored by WPAA, with major support from the Dane Hansen Foundation, Logan, Kansas. For complete information and exact times and locations of all regional RandyBoys shows visit randyboysmusic.com.
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