Grammy Award-winning musician and vocalist Bobby Flores brings his Yellow Rose Band to the Lea County Museum Pavilion in Lovington at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 12.
It will be a night of dancing under the stars with his western swing and classic country music.
All LCM programs are free. The Pavilion is located on the east side of the museum’s Commercial Hotel building and just across Central Street from the Lea County Courthouse and the county’s new judicial building.
If it rains or there are strong winds, the concert will be moved a half-block away to the LCM Town Hall, 114 E. Central, on the south side of the courthouse and across Central Street.
The Yellow Rose Band is composed of seven musicians, including three who play the fiddle.
Bobby and his band have performed across the US and Canada, as well as many venues in the British Isles and Europe.
This year the band has been nominated by the Texas Country Music Association as the Best Western Swing Band. Winners will be announced in November.
Bobby studied music and classical violin at Trinity University in his hometown of San Antonio. He studied jazz guitar under Jackie King and classical guitar under David Underwood.
He has been featured on over 400 albums, CDs, and singles.
Bobby composes music for radio and television, his work airing throughout the US, Europe, and Australia.
While he feels more at home with country, pop-rock, jazz, and blues, Latin and classical genres, he also enjoys composing for and performing with string quartets.
He grew up listening to his father play the accordion, and he started performing when he was seven years old, his mother and he featured in Texas area gospel circuits.
He formed his first band at age 13, and he toured with the best country artists of the day, including Marty Robbins, Johnny Rodriguez, Tanya Tucker, and Conway Twitty.
He then recorded four charting country singles and released his first LP album on the San Antonio based Joey Records.
Then in the 1980s, Bobby became the bandleader, fiddle player, and show opener for Johnny Bush and the Bandoleros.
In 1988, along with his brother Greg and sister Sandra, he formed the band Angel Fire and opened for many country music superstars, such as Garth Brooks and George Strait.
In 1997 he became the first violin/fiddle player for Ray Price, a legendary country star who influenced most of the country music stars, especially during the later years of his career. The following year he won a Grammy Award for string and brass arrangements and violin performances on Freddy Fender’s CD, La Musica de Baldemar Huerta.
In the next few years beginning in 2004 he won so many awards he needed a trailer to carry all the trophies. These awards included “Male Artist of the Year,” and “Fiddle Player of the Year” and “Album of the Year” and he was inducted into the Western Swing Hall of Fame in San Marcus.
His band today includes some of the best musicians and singers in the world.
His music can be heard on radio stations world-wide, including on XM Radio’s “Willie’s Roadhouse.”
Bobby owns, directs, and teaches at his live-performance music academy, the Bulverde Academy of Music, with instruction on many types of music.
For more information about the Bobby Flores concert at the Lea County Museum in Lovington, call 575-396-4805, email leacomuseum@leaco.net , or visit the LCM website.
Provided by LCM Press Release
