The Border Radio Show Ticket

The Border Radio Show: Big Jukebox in the Sky!

Ticket Information

V.I.P. : $100 (a front-center orchestra seat or opera box)
includes Artists' Reception at the Stephen F. Austin Intercontinental Hotel (10:15pm-midnight)
For V.I.P. tickets call Texas Folklife Resources at 512-441-9255 or buy online.

General: $18 - $35
Groups (10+): $15 - $30
For General and Group tickets call 1-866-443-8849 or visit www.gettix.net

TFR Members: $12 - $30
Become a Member today and get discounts on Texas Folk Masters Series!
For Member tickets contact Paramount Box Office at 512-472-5470 ( ext. 1 ) or in person 713 Congress, 12-5:30, M-Sat.

Paramount Theatre
713 Congress Avenue, Austin, Texas
Saturday, September 17, 2005
8:00 P.M.

Join us for a trip along the Rio Grande of the Mind, as TFR launches The Border Radio Show. Timothy Curry and Gene Fowler* will host an unforgettable evening of live music and stories. The show weaves together vignettes from the annals of border radio, live performances with extraordinary Texas musicians, and stories from Texas authors. Austin's own Rick Trevino kicks off the series, with special guests like Dallas "Nevada Slim" Turner, one of border radio's original pitchmen and singers, a certain kinky singer and gubernatorial candidate, and lots of great Texas music from "Mariachi Los Coyotes" of La Joya ISD on the Texas border to blues diva, Miss Lavelle White and that rockin' Patricia Vonne!

The Big Jukebox in the Sky introduces you to some outrageous characters and pays tribute to beloved musicians who made their careers on border radio. The show roams through our borderland heritage, from the Carter family, Rosa Dominguez and Lydia Mendoza to Bob Wills, Cowboy Slim Rinehart and some of the bluesiest gospel to be heard this side of the Mississippi. The Border Radio Show will be broadcast and distributed to Texas public radio stations by flagship station, KSTX, Texas Public Radio, San Antonio.

The live show is being produced and directed for TFR by Sidney Brammer, with music direction by Mike Maddux, written by Bill Crawford and Gene Fowler*, and prepared for broadcast by the award-winning Radio Artist and Producer, Ginger Miles. So, come make radio history with TFR and The Border Radio Research Institute!

* Bill Crawford and Gene Fowler are authors of Border Radio -- Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves.

"Turn Your Radio On!"

The Border Radio Show is made possible with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Humanities Texas, The City of Austin through the auspices of the Cultural Contracts Division, and major underwriting from Texas Public Radio, KSTX San Antonio, Stephen F. Austin Intercontinental Hotel, Hilton Austin, KUT/Austin and support from local businesses including Ginny's Printing, Guero's, Threadgill's, Chez Zee and Nuevo Leon restaurants, as well as the members and board of Texas Folklife Resources.