Sponsored by the Well Red Coyote Bookstore
Rosie Flores & the Austin Trio
with special guest Ruby James
Friday, September 17th 7:30 PM
$18 advance, $23 Priority Seating in first 3 rows, $22 door
Two Austin Legends
Open Old Town Center for the Arts 3rd Year
Austin legend, Rosie Flores started making music as a teenager and is still going strong with the release of her critically acclaimed album “Girl of the Century.” During an impressive career Rosie has played country, rockabilly, honky-tonk and the blues with a distinctive voice and fiery guitar playing that has placed her among the most elite ‘Americana’ artists. Rosie makes her Verde Valley debut with the mesmerizing and sultry Ruby James and the Austin Trio at the Old Town Center for the Arts on Friday, September 17th 7:30 PM. The Well Red Coyote Bookstore is sponsoring this concert with owner and local blues great Joe Neri, on hand to introduce the show.
Rosie Flores has released 12 albums and was the first Latina country artist to place on the Billboard country charts. She has appeared on Austin City Limits, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and has played the fabled South by Southwest festival about every year since it started back in 1988. Her talent and popularity inspired the Austin City Council to declare August 31st - “Rosie Flores Day.”
Ruby James who moved from L.A. to Austin a few years ago is a headliner in her own right, and recently released ‘Happy Now’ as a follow up to her debut album ‘Desert Rose’ in 2008. Her song “Everything Good Goes Away” was featured on the soundtrack for the film The Women, co-produced by Mick Jagger and starring actress Meg Ryan. She has shared the stage with the likes of Jackson Browne, Patty Griffin, Victoria Williams and Jim Lauderdale. And has recorded with Austin’s finest, including Will & Charlie Sexton.
“Having Rosie and Ruby open our season is just a stroke of good luck,” commented OTCA co-director William Eaton. “Both artists are good friends and happen to be touring through Arizona at the same time. This will be a great evening of music.”
Since the mid-1980's Rosie Flores has been a national figure on the alternative country music scene. Born in San Antonio Texas, Flores grew up listening to regional radio stations and watching Dick Clark’s American Bandstand. At age 12 she moved to California and was exposed to a whole new music scene including surf, blues and Southern California country rock.
Rosie Flores
Cutting her performing teeth with garage bands in San Diego at the age of 16, she formed an all female group. By 1985, Flores was well known and widely respected on the Southern California Music circuit. In 1987 she officially debuted as a solo artist when Warner Brothers/ Reprise released “Rosie Flores” produced by Pete Anderson (Dwight Yoakum’s guitarist and producer). Rosie received glowing reviews.
Rosie moved back to Texas, and immediately became an integral part of the local music scene, appearing with Texas heroes Joe and Butch Hancock, Freddy Fender, The Texas Tornadoes, Marshall Crenshaw and Joe Ely. When she caught the ear of Pam Tillis, she was asked to join Wanda Jackson and Iris Dement as a featured guest on the TNN special “Live at the Ryman”. Rosie’s major influences are as wide as her talents, and she finds inspiration for her voice, guitar playing and songwriting. Jeff Beck and Albert Lee were her influences for guitar, Merle Haggard and Bob Dylan for songwriting, and it’s a toss up between Ella Fitzgerald and Tammy Wynette for singing.
Flores has received rave reviews from People Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, LA Times and a whole host of Guitar/Music Magazines. Critical raves from prestigious publications such as the Los Angeles Times and Guitar Player magazine, an LA Weekly Music Award for Best Rockabilly Swing Artist, a 2007 cover story in the Austin Chronicle, and the proclamation of Rosie Flores Day in August 2006 by Austin Mayor Will Wynn was topped off by an induction into the Austin Music Hall of Fame in 2007. She was recently voted as one of the "Top 75 Greatest Female Guitarists of All Time" by Venuszine Rosie can always be counted on to deliver a set brimming with originality, and lives up to the many awards and accolades she has received. She has even won a Peabody award!
Get your tickets early. Don’t miss this chance to see Rosie Flores, Ruby James and the Austin Trio in person at the Old Town Center for the Arts, Friday September 17th at 7:30 PM.
Rosie Flores
Ruby James
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