What's New at TMC?
Happy Birthday Rod Kennedy!
The Center for Texas Music History Presents: Rod Kennedy's 80th Birthday Tribute ! The TMC was created as a way to showcase songwriters. We learned this lesson from Rod. He has been promoting Texas artists since the 1950"s. Thanks Rod for all you have done for Texas music,...July Update
Howdy Y’all, TMC is gaining ground with a total of 27 stations airing episodes as we release them. WBCC-TV PBS. The University of Central Florida has been our best supporter giving TMC three slots a week in Orlando, Florida. WBCC is home to the largest college campus in...
Ruthie Foster Nominated for GRAMMY Award!
As a fellow student at McLennan Community college in 1987, Ruthie captured our hearts with song, voice, and her down home personality. "We all just fell in love with her and knew that if any of us had a shot at THE BIG TIME, it was her! - C. Ermoian,...
Season 7 premiers on PBS on March 6
The “Texas Music Café”® TV program , (TMC) launches on PBS on Saturday March 6th on KAMU College Station, TX. The TMC will broadcast alongside Austin City Limits and Soundstage during the Saturday evening “Music Block” during KAMU’s 2009 Pledge Drive. TMC is made available FREE OF CHARGE to all...PBS SERIES TEXAS MUSIC CAFÉ® GEARS UP FOR SEASON EIGHT TAPING
WACO, TEXAS (January 12, 2009) - The Texas Music Café, a live music program that has been aired both nationally and abroad on PBS since 1997, is launching it's eighth season of taping live concert series for 11 consecutive Saturday nights at Hog Creek Ice House in Waco, Texas, beginning...
The Very Talented Jill Blaha is The Texas Music Cafe's New Live Show Host
The Texas Music Cafe is proud to introduce Jill Blaha. The Texas Music Cafe live show host. She is a graduate of Abbot High School and is currently attending McLennan Community College's Commercial Music Dept. with a full vocal scholarship. Jill is an extremely talented and bright young girl who is bound...
"Happy New Year 2010" "News Update" from Chris Ermoian, Exec. Producer
Before moving forward with new shows in 2010, we look back at 12 years of music television production across Texas . As always, we continue with our original mission: To boldly go where commercial radio and television fear to tread, providing exposure for emerging artists, archiving all styles...What A Night At Hog Creek
What a night for the first taping of Texas Music Cafe's 8th Season. (Added 1-18-2009) We all had a blast at our new venue, the Hog Creek Ice House in Waco, Texas. On the menu was Waco's own "Pride And Joy" and the flavor was a very spicy...
Paul Concillio II passed away November 1st, 2009.
Paul Concillio II (center) passed away November 1st, 2009. He was father of Paul Concillio III (Video Director/TMC) and a friend and mentor to The Texas Music Cafe®. Paul was an audio genius who gladly shared his vast knowledge of microphones and recording technique with our staff of budding audio...
Special Thanks to Kent Finlay:
Special Thanks to Kent Finlay: Season 7 tapings (Monte Montgomery, Joel Guzman and Joe Ely, Band of Heathens, Billy Joe Shaver, Randy Rogers Band, and more) would not have been a reality without the help of Kent Finlay and The Cheatham Street Warehouse. Kent ’s reputation for helping songwriters...
Texas Music Cafe wins Bronze 2009 Telly Award for Cheatham Street .
A Pre release version of January's PBS release of Texas Music Cafe's > "Class of 87" documentary was submitted to the 2009 Telly Awards and > received a bronze award. The 60 min. program is one program in a 13 part > series of "Texas Music Cafe". This is TMC's...
Help from Friends:
Help from Friends: In 2008, Chris Ermoian and Gary Hartman, Director of the Center for Texas Music History at Texas State University-San Marcos, agreed to begin collaborating on the Texas Music Café series. While the Texas Music Café will continue to feature live musical performances, the Center for Texas...
TMC on location - The MusicFest Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Texas Music Cafe ON-LOCATION: We are very pleased to be working with Dickson Productions to film two episodes of the Texas Music Café at The MusicFest in beautiful Steamboat Springs, Colorado, in January 2009. Currently we are scheduled to film one performance by Robert Earl Keen and another...
New Diggs for Season 8:
On opening day in 1997, the City of Waco inspected TMC’s new recording facility expecting to find a full commercial kitchen and greasy fryer vats… instead they found Waco’s only 10,000 square foot TV recording facility. Today, the food, beer, and music facility becomes a reality as we launch season...