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Kent Finlay - President
Kent Finlay was born and raised right in the middle of Texas in the farm and ranch country of McCulloch County. The family's farm was always a busy place with plenty of work to do to keep everyone busy. Kent developed a passion for music early in life, and learned to play the family piano, and later guitar -- and started writing songs, as well, driving the farm tractor down those long West Texas rows plowing cotton. He graduated from Lohn High School in 1956, and entered college where he earned both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees at Texas State University in San Marcos, and taught English a few years (in San Antonio and then, back in San Marcos). (READ MORE)
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John Gilliam - Secretary
John Gilliam is “Missoula Slim,” a songwriter-singer from San Marcos, Texas. John got his moniker from Kent Finlay, "the Godfather of Texas songwriters," at Cheatham Street Warehouse in 2004. Missoula has been writing and performing for the last 20 years, mostly in and around Montana, Washington and Texas. He has recently surfaced at such distinguished venues as the Saxon Pub and Threadgill's in Austin, Cheatham Street Warehouse in San Marcos, and Riley's Tavern in Hunter. (READ MORE) |
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Sage Allen - Treasurer
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Mike Abild - Vice President
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Joe Nick Patowski - Director
Joe Nick Patowski is in his fourth decade writing about Texas and Texans. He has authored and co-authored biographies on Selena and Stevie Ray Vaughan, both published by Little, Brown and Company and the coffeetable books Texas Mountains, Texas Coast, and Big Bend National Park all published by the University of Texas Press. He spent 18 years as a staff writer for Texas Monthly and more recently has written for the Texas Observer, National Geographic, No Depression, People magazine, Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine, Field & Stream, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Big Bend Sentinel, Southwest Spirit, American Way, theAustin Chronicle, Harp, and TimeOut New York, and other publications. (READ MORE) |
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Bill McNeal - Director
Bill McNeal is a singer/songwriter who lives in a rural area of Central Texas, south of Austin. He has performed his original compositions recently as the front man for the eclectic band, Slaves of Utopia. His songs are lyricly intense and range between heartrending tales of lost love and humorous tongue-in-cheek satires. (READ MORE)
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Gary Hickinbotham - Director
Gary began recording audio in his early teens. At that time recording was done directly to vinyl records or lacquer masters and to the emerging medium of magnetic tape. Gary got his first high-quality stereo tape recorder at the age of 14, inspired after a visit to the Columbia Records recording studio located in Washington, DC.. At the urging of Dr. Jeanette Wells, director of choral arts at his high school in Washington, DC, he recorded choral and orchestral performances for the school using his equipment since the school recorders were monophonic. Gary was in the music "home room" and sang in the choir and chamber choir. He also occasionally (because he was enrolled in choral arts) played percussion in the orchestra directed by Dr. Nicholas Pappas. He was also able to sing with the Washington Choral Arts Society with the National Symphony in Constitution Hall as part of the Hallelujah Chorus. At that time his high school music program was held in such regard that Benjamin Britten composed a motet for the choir. (READ MORE) |
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Bill Cunningham - Director |
Cheatham Street Music Foundation Board of Advisors
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| Marcia Ball(Singer, Songwriter, Recording Artist) |
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| Terry Booth(Founder, Texas Heritage Songwriters Associtation) |
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| Tom Copeland (Former Director, Texas Film Comission; Faculty, Texas State University) |
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| Mike Daily (Musician, George Straight's Ace in the Hole Band) |
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| Jenni Finlay (Singer/Songwriter, Musician, Record Promoter) |
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| Tom Foote (Tour Manager, George Straight's Ace in the Hole Band) |
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| Terry Hale (Musician, George Straight's Ace in the Hole Band) |
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| Seth Harrison (Songwriter) |
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| Gary Lovelady (Singer/Songwriter) |
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| John Arthur Martinez (Singer/Songwriter, Recording Artist) |
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| Melissa Millecam (Public Information Officer, City of San Marcos, Texas) |
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| Casey Monahan (Director, Texas Music Office - Office of the Govenor) |
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| Kara Remme (Patron of the Arts; Advocate for Musicians and Songwriters) |
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| Randy Rogers (Singer/Songwriter, Recording Artist) |
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| Todd Snider (Singer/Songwriter, Recording Artist) |
| Walt Wilkins (Singer/Songwriter, Recording Artist, Producer) |
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