Whether you’re dancing the night away in true Texas fashion or enjoying an evening at a sit-down performance, don’t miss the opportunity to hear Bobby Flores and the Yellow Rose Band, the best country music band in the state! Spend your Thursday evening with Bobby Flores at Panola College on April 16, in the Q.M. Martin Auditorium at 7 pm.

Bobby Flores, 2003 Grammy Award winner, carries a six piece band that features three fiddles and professional studio musicians that are known as the best in their fields. He, along with the Yellow Rose Band, brings to you the best of Traditional Country and Western Swing music. Bobby is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, arranger, producer, composer, and first call session musician.

He has recorded and performed on stage with the legendary Ray Price. He toured with Mr. Price for five years as his First Fiddle/Violin, and led the string section he was carrying at that time. He has also shared the stage and recorded with Willie Nelson, Johnny Bush, Red Steagall, and Doug Sahm… just to name a few. Bobby is included on the TCA artist touring roster, as well as serving on the board for the Texas Commission on the Arts.

Bobby has been performing in Texas dance halls since he was nine years old. He has performed on Austin City Limits, the Grand Ole Opry, TNN Prime, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and numerous Willie Nelson 4^th of July picnics. He was featured on the “Stars Over Texas” show on CMT, along with Vince Gill and Dolly Parton. He is currently featured on the Midwest Country Opry and the Tru-Country Show, airing on RFD-TV channel, which has been receiving numerous rave reviews from country music lovers everywhere. Bobby has also had the honor of being an inductee into the “Texas Western Swing Hall of Fame,” the “Country Music Association of Texas Hall of Fame,” the “Western Swing Dance Society Hall of Fame,” the “Western Swing Guild Hall of Fame,” the “Cowtown Society of Western Swing (Living Hero Award),” and many others to date.

Bobby and his Yellow Rose Band perform frequently in Texas and beyond, including private parties, Texas honky-tonks, historic dancehalls, festivals, theaters, rodeos, and venues at the national level. They have performed at the Country Rendez-Vous Festival in Crapoone-Sur-Arzon, France, Stockholm, Sweden, and most recently at the Northern Nashville Caithness Country Music Festival in Halkirk-Caithness, Scotland.

Bobby has been featured on over 500 albums, CDs and singles, including performances on major labels. He has composed music for radio and television commercials airing throughout the US, Europe, and Australia. He is equally at home in the country, pop, rock, jazz, blues, Latin, and classical idioms. He enjoys composing and performing with string quartets. He also produces albums on a regular basis at his state of the art recording studio in San Antonio, Texas. Currently, Bobby has eight CD’s available and his music can be heard daily on Sirius/XM Willie’s Roadhouse, as well as many other great country stations all over the world.

Bobby’s instrumental specialties include electric and acoustic guitars, classical guitar, steel guitar, fiddle/violin, mandolin, dobro, banjo sexton, bass guitar, lead and background vocals. In addition to his shows and tours, Bobby also owns and directs an elite live-performance music academy, the Bulverde Academy of Music, also known as BAM! (www.bam8.com). Bobby spends much time in his BAM Recording Studio producing CD’s for artists in many genres.

Sponsored by the B.F. and Mary Payne Fund for the Preservation of Texas Culture, the program is free and no reservations are required. For additional information, please call 903-693-2000.