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MUSIC & ART

The Country Christmas Ball

You Are Invited!!

December 16, 2023

oin us for some of the best toe- known artists: Bob Wills’ Texas
tapping, boot-scootin’ fun this Playboys, Leroy Van Dyke, Lynn Good friends, De and Taylor Rudd
Jholiday season. Dance all night, Anderson, and Hank Thompson.
dance a little longer, or just sit and visit
with neighbors and friends. Music from Veteran Lubbock musician, Kelly
Wendell Sollis and The Sidekicks Hastey, is a two-time Country
All Star Band will liven up the Floyd Music Association award winner.
County Friends’ Unity Center between His song of the year, “That’s
Floydada and Lockney (990 FM 786 What I Like about Texas,” won in
Lockney). It will be a great night of 2020 and his band, Cadillac Jack,
Western Swing, Big Band, Classical won in 2021.
Country, Cajun, and Christmas
favorites. Enjoy a catered meal at 6:00 On the accordion, Ginny Mac,
pm and auctions, drawings, vendors, from Fort Worth, will astound the Lucy Dean Record, 99 year old keyboard
and a complimentary specialty coffee audience with her magical voice player from Lockney, Texas.
bar. and charisma. She’s performed
at the Grand Ole Opry and the for 12 years as bandleader and bass
Wendell Sollis, bandleader, is a veteran MGM in Vegas. Recently, she traveled player for Roy Clark. Hank Thompson
banjo player who has performed with extensively with Asleep at The Wheel. and Waylon Jennings recorded top 20
The Texas Playboys, Texas Sand, and songs composed by Rodney.
now leads the Sidekicks. 99-yr.-old Lucy Dean Record,
everyone’s favorite keyboard player, is Chad Maines, from Dickens, has been
Two-time Hall of Fame winner, Steve listed in several Halls of Fame and was playing drums since age 13, beginning
“Hambone” Ham of the Bob Wills’ awarded Instrumentalist of the Year at with his dad of the Maines Brothers
Texas Playboys and the Tulsa Playboys the Will Rogers Awards in 2014. Band. He has played at the Cowboy
will be featured on the trombone. Symposium in Ruidoso, the Cactus
Mackynsie McKedy from Weatherford,
Trumpeter, Mike Bennett, performs and Oklahoma, started playing the fiddle Theater in Lubbock, and the annual Bob
Will’s Day in Turkey.
records with the Texas Playboys and the and singing at age five. She was named
Tulsa Playboys. In 2012, he was inducted 2018 female vocalist and instrumentalist ***
into the Southwest Western Swing of the year in Oklahoma.
Society Hall of Fame. Emcee: Cathy Jewell is GM of KSSL
Brady Rasco, a local fiddler and 107.3 and 94.1 FM Radio. Cathy is the
Forty-year veteran musician and two- firefighter in Lubbock, has played 2019 Female Vocalist of the Year in
time Hall of Fame inductee, Bob Baker, since age eight and has played with the the Academy of Western Artists Pure
is sure to impress on the steel guitar. Sidekicks, Will Banister, and local bands Country and 2020 CMA of Texas Artist
for over ten years.
Ronnie Dale Shultz, lead guitarist, has of the Year. She won CMA of Texas Duet
of the Year with Lonnie Spiker.
played all over the globe with well- Rodney Lay, on bass, was on HeeHaw

PORTIONS OF THE PROCEEDS BENEFIT THE LOCKNEY AND FLOYDADA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTS.
Tickets & Information: Dustee Sollis 806-983-6228, D&J Gin Lockney OR Payne’s Pharmacy, Floydada
Individual—$55, Table for 8—$500. Meal included (6:00pm)
Check out our Facebook page: Wendell Sollis and the Sidekicks All Star Band

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