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What a group of great entertainers we have
at the 2009 True Country Music Festival, held
October. 16th/17th/ at the True Country Music Ranch near Princeton, Minnesota!
there will be wonderful songs, fancy instrumentals,
cowboy poetry and crazy antics.
Bill & Mary Lou True, your festival host & hostess,
are long-time event producers as well as performers of
traditional country music. They'll share their
varied repertoire of country favorites, with such tunes
as "Jackson," "I'm a Robot," "Shutters & Boards," "I
Heard the Bluebird Sing" and many more will sure to
tickle your country music fancy. In 1970/1971 they
received the Minnesota Gazetta" award for BEST MALE &
FEMALE Singing DUO. Native
Minnesotans, they've performed around the USA and even
in Austria and Ireland. You'll be "welcome as the
flowers" at their True Country Music Festival!
Terr y
Smith, a singer/songwriter with several memorable
songs to his credit, comes to us from Nashville,
Tennessee. He's best known for his "Far-side Banks of
Jordan," recorded by such artists as Johnny Cash and
June Carter, The Statler Brothers, the Cox Family and
many, many more well known artists. We guarantee he'll
capture your heart with his soulful songs, all as
country as you can get. (www.terrysmith.us/songwriter.htm)
 Red Johnson, from Champlin, Minnesota, has been
performing and writing songs since the mid-1960s, when
his "There's a Grand Ol' Opry Show Playing Somewhere"
was released on Capitol Records. Red-headed Red is
a hit with anyone who enjoys heartfelt songs about love,
veterans, mom, and other such all-American subjects. (http://mkoc.com/RedJohnson/)
 Miss
Betty Rydell,’ is an introduction that has been
heard in clubs, fairs, conventions, theaters, churches,
radio and television throughout the United States,
Canada, Europe and Central America. Singing a variety
of songs and playing nine musical instruments, Betty has
performed with Barbara Mandrell, Charlie Pride, Conway
Twitty, Ernest Tubb, Tex Ritter, Carl Perkins, Marvin
Rainwater and LeRoy Van Dyke plus other name
performers. Betty has won the coveted Entertainer of
the Year Award presented by the Country Entertainers
Association of the Upper Midwest
J Angie
Senger
Singer/songwriter Angie Senger has been wowing audiences
since she began singing professionally at age 15. Senger made her way through night clubs, state and
county fairs, dinner clubs as well as hotel circuits.
Now embracing the country music genre, you can catch Senger with her band, Gold Rush, at an American Legion
or a VFW where they have a large following of people who
love to dance. An accomplished musician and songwriter,
you can hear several of her original songs, written in
the “Classic Country” style, on her four CDs. Appearing
frequently at the Midwest Country Music Theater in
Sandstone, MN, she has fronted for the likes of
Stonewall Jackson, Janie Fricke, Gene Watson and David Frizzell. She is featured regularly on Nashville’s
RFD-TV .
(www.angiesenger.com)
Vern Bishop
I started singing when I was a young boy and continued
during the time I served in the Army in 1966. One of my
greats thrills was singing a couple Hank Williams' song
on the stage of the Rhyman Auditorum for a tour group. I
have opened shows for Stonewall Jackson, Narvell felts,
Porter Wagner, Gene Wartson and more.
MCs for the True Country Music Festival include Rich Bellert
(in photo at right), a talented cowboy poet from
Excelsior, MN, who has performed at the Midwest Country
Theatre in Sandstone, MN, and at events across the
northern Midwest and in South Texas.
 Phyllis
Marie Hummel Singing Kitty Wells songs Recorded a CD.
Has performed with several bands Featured at the South
Dakota Country Music Hall Of Fame, and the True Country
Music Festival Has her own band called "Singing
Country". Phyllis has sang with Sherwin Linton, and also
at the South Dakota State Fair.
 Jim
Mason
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