CMAofTexas - The Beginning

This year's Awards Show is going to be a first on many fronts! For starters, we will be celebrating the OFFICIAL MUSIC OF TEXAS - WESTERN SWING

with a lineup of 2023 Award Recipients to include new talent performing this treasured music.

On Tuesday evening, 10/18, a reception at the theatre will include a viewing of the award winning movie,

"The Birth and History of Western Swing"

from Executive Producer Mike Markwardt. A showcase performance by Steve Markwardt with his band will also be included.

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The Beginning

The Country Music Association of Texas held its awards show at the Broken Spoke in 1975 to honor B.J. Thomas, Gene Watson and Red Steagall. Thomas crossed genres into pop, country, and gospel; his biggest hits include "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head." "Another Done Somebody Wrong Song," and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry." The seventy-two-year-old Gene Watson wrote two dozen top-ten hits after releasing his first single, "Love in the Hot Afternoon," in 1975. Songwriter, recording artist, television personality, and movie actor Red Steagall wrote more than two hundred songs that he and others recorded, including "Here We Go Again," "Party Dolls," and "Wine."

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