Showcase season finale Aug. 5
Howdy Grant & the Outlaws of Jewett will be the warm-up act for this Thursday's final Showcase 2010 Summer Concert Series on Aug. 5. The preconcert classic country music program begins at 6:45 p.m. before the 8 p.m. main performance of oldies/variety music by Roz and Lynn of Dillonvale. The mother-daughter duo, Roz Zitzal and Lynn Yanda, have entertained at festivals, weddings, gospel events, parties, and numerous other celebrations in the Ohio Valley.
Starting at 6:45 p.m. there will be an art exhibit by the Grimes family of Barnesville. Included are W. J. Grimes, coordinator of Community Arts Exhibit Tours; son, John, Meadowbrook High School art teacher; grandson, Shane Grimes, OUE senior, majoring in specialized studies with a minor in art and grandsons, Kody and Katlin, sophomore art students at Barnesville High School.
Ginny's Softball Team will serve at the food stand from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Prizes for the evening will be gift certificates, courtesy of Karen's Quilt & Craft Connection. Those coming to the musical program should bring lawn chairs. In case of rain, events will be moved indoors to the Grange Hall on Shamrock Drive. Donations are appreciated and parking is free.
Howdy Grant started playing music with his uncle's guitar at the age of eleven. He has been a favorite fixture in the tri-state area for the past three decades, at clubs, festivals, Jamboree in the Hills, Ponderosa Park, as well as a regular at the Victoria Vaudeville Theater in Wheeling for 12 years. At one time he lived in Texas for 15 years and played at Gillie's Night Club and Whiskey Junction and other venues. Howdy has recorded many albums, cassettes, CDs, and hosts a "Shin-dig" every year in late June at the family farm.
The Outlaws are wife, Verla, who plays keyboard, and bass player, Frances Winland. At the age of four, her father taught Verla to play the ukulele. She also sat on her grandmother's lap at the organ, but never learned to sight-read notes. She started playing piano in churches at thirteen and being an elementary school teacher, she accompanied school musicals and functions, and was keyboardist with the house band at Victoria Theater.
Frances, who has been a musician in the tri-state area for 30 to 40 years, started playing bass along with the radio. She now winters in Michigan with family and summers in Steubenville with friends. Howdy & the Outlaws play at many "jams" two and three nights a week besides clubs, fairs, etc.
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