Jerry Irwin's County Line

Saturday May 23rd
3:00PM - 4:00PM

“Seasoned” 6 piece country music group, specializing in the traditional country sounds from the 60’s to the 90’s, yet versatile enough to include some old time rock & roll, a little southern rock, and even an old standard tune or two.

Group consists of; Jerry Irwin – Lead singer & rhythm guitar, Rexine Farley & Bev Owens - female vocalists and bass guitar, John Farley – Lead electric guitar, Bob Cleveland – Drums, and Dave Behelfer – Pedal steel guitar.

Amarillo Skies Reunion Playing 50's 60's

Saturday May 23rd
4:35PM - 5:40PM

Amarillo Skies played thru 1997 until 2004 and played a variety of Music including 50’s and 60’ Rocking Roll along with Classic County for Weddings and Parties. The band broke up as many bands do after they run the course of time.

The members remained friends and decided to do a reunion tour for 2009 doing what they loved the most that been classic rocking-roll featuring 50’ and 60’s.

The four members include, Denny Buck – Bass Guitar and Vocals, Walt Bennett Drummer and Vocals, Al Weaver Lead Guitar and Vocals, Bill Smith Rhythm Guitar and Vocals. The band will take you back in time with 50’s and 60’s rocking roll with four part harmony that will make your hair literally stand up! Songs from Do-Op era, Elvis, Beach boys, and many classic songs that will make you want to sing and dance along.
The band will also be playing in Waterloo at the St. Mary’s Festival Friday night.

Alter Ego

Saturday May 23rd
6:00PM - 7:15PM

Alter Ego's specialty is putting on a great show. They play a variety of styles of Music with everything from the 50's up through today, with a special place in their hearts for the Disco, Funk, and R and B of the 70's, as well as the Aqua-Net Inspired 80's!!!

Soul Traders

Sunday May 24th
2:45PM -3:55PM

	Ralph Coleman - bass & vocals Bill Harsma - guitar & vocals Ross Moe – drums Chris Sawyer - sax & vocals Jim Sorendo - trumpet & vocals

Local saxophonist chris sawyer (the kingpins, the ron spencer band) and bassist ralph coleman (the tarzan bros., the shakedown blues band) had known and respected one another for years and, although they had jammed and played pick-up gigs with other bands several times, they had never played together as members of the same band. But in early 2008, the opportunity for sawyer and coleman to form a band presented itself, the ìstars moved into alignment,î and, along with their friends, drummer ross moe (the kingpins, the ron spencer band) and guitarist bill harsma (the tarzan bros.), they formed the soul traders. Ìwe knew we wanted to play together with bill and ross,î says sawyer. Ìbut we didn't have any definite idea at first about what type of material we wanted to perform. When we discussed the details, we found we all shared a love of soul music and, more particularly, memphis style soul and r&b, like the old stax and volt stuff. We got together and threw out some tunes to try, and it just came together right away and we went with it.î the band was completed when a mutual friend introduced them to trumpet player jim sorendo (private eye). Sawyer says ìthings clicked immediately the first time jim and i got together to work out horn parts for the tunes. He's a great player and even more important, a great guy. He fit right in with the rest of the band.î ìwhat's different and interesting about the soul traders is that you don't usually see a band of our size doing this type of material,î says coleman. Ìmost soul bands are larger, often with a bigger horn section, two guitars, keyboards, and sometimes backup vocalists. We weren't sure if we could keep the band a five-piece and make it work, but it does. We're just careful about arranging the music to fit our instrumentation.î ìthe relatively small size of the band is more practical, too,î coleman continues. Ìthere aren't as many clubs anymore that feature live music, that have stage room for a big band. With a five piece lineup, we can play in smaller venues and keep it economical for everyone.î harsma, sawyer and coleman all perform lead vocals, and sorendo sings backup. Ìour material is a mix between the fairly well-known stuff, like ìsoul man,î and other material that perhaps isn't as well known,î says sawyer. Ìwe also change it up with more recent material that's stylistically similar to the classic stax tunes. All of it is great dance music, and it's musically interesting for the band members. We're just having a blast with this!

Jeff Everdyke....Henry Viniski.....Jeff Martin....Mark "Vito" DeVito.....Reggie White

Playing music by: Shameless Henry, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd, The Allman Brothers, Santana, Joe Walsh, Joe Jackson, The Hollies, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Stevie Wonder, Grand Funk Railroad, and many more!