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These guys and their gal will add a little Cajun heat to an evening of music at Crossroads in Winnsboro!

The fun starts at 7:30 pm and you're welcome to bring a bottle of wine to enjoy during the performance.

Have you heard that you can order your tickets online? Just click on the green link and you're there!

$15 advanced general admission/$20 for reserved seating

Crossroads
performances in the
Winnsboro Center for the Arts
200 Market St.
Winnsboro, TX

Music fans - this is going to be a great evening of celebration and first-class music performances by Adler & Hearne.  Joining them onstage at the Winnsboro Center for the Arts, 200 Market St., will be both Kate and Warren Hearne, the musical offspring on Lindy Hearne.

Here's all the information you need. . .

 

 

Official hours for the Winnsboro Fine Art Market will be 10 am - 5 pm on Saturday and 11 am - 4 pm on Sunday.

But the real fun starts the night before - Friday, November 2 - at the Patrons' Dinner, which will be held in The Carden Hall.

The menu is being prepared by popular local restaurants (notably Cibo's and Double C Steakhouse). The Patrons' Dinner is always festive, but will be even more so this year with the addition of an art auction and a few other surprises.

If you're a permanent resident, a weekend resident or simply would enjoy driving to Winnsboro for either the evening,, or the whole weekend, you'll enjoy yourself.

To get your tickets, visit Clara Ida Frances, Copperleaf Spa and Winnsboro Emporium. If you're out of town, simply call 1-888- 559-4333 to reserve your tickets and pick them up at the door.

Tickets are $50 per person and helps raise funds for projects supported by the Winnsboro Four Corners Foundation.

When you arrive at this year's Winnsboro Fine Art Market, be sure to look for our sponsors' banners or information tables.

 

Our presenting sponsor is The Leaves of Winnsboro, a luxury apartment complex within blocks of Main Street. 

Bank Texas is the sponsor for the Patrons' Dinner for artists and art lovers on Friday evening at Carden Hall.  Planning to attend the dinner?  Get your tickets now at Copperleaf Spa, Clara Ida Frances and the Winnsboro Emporium.  Tickets are $50 per person.

 
The fine folks at HeartsWay Hospice are sponsoring the volunteers who keep the event running smoothly.  For example, artists are provided at booth sitter so they can have lunch or just to take a break.

 

The Wood County Industrial Commission, a Wood County govt. entity, funded sponsorship of the 2012 event in promotions of the arts and advertising for tourism events and the hotel industry, with redistribution of hotel/occupancy tax revenue.

Keyring Gallery is supporting the event in a variety of ways, quietly and discreetly as a General Sponsor.

Other sponsors include:

Thee Hubbell House
Carden Hall
Copperleaf Spa
Double C Steakhouse
Art & Espresso

Our sponsors make it possible for the Winnsboro Four Corners Foundation to provide an exceptional event for local residents and out-of-town visitors alike.

Be sure to come if you love art.

Sat., Nov. 3, 10 am - 5 pm

Sun., Nov. 4, 11 am - 4 pm

Admission and parking are free.

Details HERE

Visit winnsboroart.com for additional photos and information.

The Winnsboro Fine Art Market will be open to the public
FREE on Saturday, Nov. 3 and Sun. Nov. 4. Details here

VISIT WWW.WINNSBOROART.COM

Introducing this year's artists. . . representing a range of artistic expression.

 
Albert Capizzo                      Anne Tindell                 Barbara Beals

 
Becky Pickett                      Beverly Bishop                        Brenda Stuart


          Brittney Young              Christopher               Cindy Fuqua
                                                      Henderson

 
  Courtney Gille                       Deborah Carlson             Gary Anderson
                                                      Wight

  
Georgia Gibson          Hershell Spradley            Jackie Allen  


John Hill                                Jonna Barr                     Julie Herrick

       
Kathleen Long                     Lacy Weyler              Lee & Sherry Hay

    
Linda Shreeve                      Linda Silas                      Lindsay Field


      Liv Colbert             Lory Pineiro                            Mark Mallia

   
Mark Walden                Martin Pothier                    Randall Ricketts

      Roger England            Ronald Colbert                Steve Brewster

 
            Sylvia Shoemake      Tammy Pruitt   Terri McAshan

 
     Thomas Stovall             Ted Armulowicz          Marsha Aziz

       
DJ Newman                     Susan Synan            Joe Synan


      John Tracy II                      Jim Tunell


      Meredith Wenzel

Winnsboro Fine Art Market
PO Box 585
Winnsboro, TX 75494
1-888-559-4333
www.winnsboroart.com

Photo credit: Lefty Brandon

The Winnsboro Center for the Arts (WCA) will present their annual “Trails Country Treasure Award” to Winnsboro residents Lynn Adler and Lindy Hearne at a reception to be held at the WCA on September 23, 2012 at 2:00 pm. 

The public is invited to attend the event, where the community will have the opportunity to thank Adler and Hearne for all that they have done to keep the arts alive in East Texas. 

Lynn and Lindy were instrumental in starting the Winnsboro Center for the Arts and were on the Board of Directors when it was called the Trails Country Center for the Arts.  

"We were so happy when TCCA started," Lynn says.  "It provided us a venue for our music and it is an important part of Winnsboro because it continues to encourage artists in all mediums and expressions."

For performing songwriters Lynn Adler and Lindy Hearne one of their fondest early memories of Winnsboro was being greeted by Robert and Shirley Watters in the homey atmosphere of the R.H. McCrary Hardware store on Main Street in the spring of 2001. They both remember noticing the sign above the soda fountain that read:  “Tourists treated same as home folks.”

“I remember sitting at the counter and visiting with this unassuming couple who turned out to be the owners – Robert and Shirley Watters,” Adler recalls. “Robert had left the corporate world in Dallas, and was sitting there in his overalls, content at being a business owner in a small town. Lindy and I were smitten with that whole idea of moving toward a simpler life, and in such a beautiful corner of the world.”

Not long afterward, Adler and Hearne relocated from Dallas and Fort Worth to Winnsboro and established what they call the “Spring Hollow Organic Song Farm” where songwriting, photography, music and other creativity abound.  

Once they were settled into their home in Winnsboro, Adler and Hearne penned a three-song musical composition entitled “The Crossroads Trilogy,” based on local historian Bill Jones’ prolific writings on the early days of Winnsboro – originally named Crossroads. The singing and songwriting partners often perform this trilogy for community and historical events that benefit various organizations. 

It was serendipitous that a few years after moving here, the place where the couple had first felt so welcomed would become the home of Crossroads Coffeehouse and Music Company, a live music venue that was instrumental in starting a boom of business in downtown Winnsboro.

They chose to name the business after the town’s original name as their homage to Winnsboro’s heritage. Crossroads prospered in that venerable old building for several years, featuring a stage that replicated the front porch of a Mississippi Delta farmhouse.

They attracted some of the best names in music, and Diddley Squat even made a live CD recording there. The setting was also used for community events, luncheons and dinners, birthday parties, family gatherings, and other special events. There's no doubt that Crossroads Music Company has done a lot for the city of Winnsboro by bringing superb talent to the stage and getting attention from Texas media.

Among the many awards and accolades the couple has earned include the 22nd Annual B.W. Stevenson Memorial Singer/Songwriter Competition award Lynn won in 2010.  Over the years she and Lindy Hearne have won numerous awards, being finalists at such prestigious songwriting festivals as the Wildflower Festival Performing Songwriter Showcase in Richardson, Texas, the Walnut Valley Festival NewSongs Showcase at Winfield, Kansas, and the Kerrville Folk Festival's NewFolk songwriting competition.

Their two latest CD releases, ”To The Heart” and “Adler & Hearne Live At Eddie’s Attic” have ranked in the Top 20 of the Folk radio charts in 2010 and 2012. Coming up for the duo: a reissue of the Crossroads Trilogy recording, and a new project in the works, scheduled for release this winter.

"To the Heart" was recorded at Nashville’s House of David Studio, by producer Rick Clark. “Over all the years of working in music,” says Clark, “I’ve never worked on a project that was as deeply soulful as this. There were times in the making of this album when it was obvious everyone involved was clearly touched, and there was a sense of something special clearly happening in the grooves.”

That is so true of all the music that comes out of the Spring Hollow Organic Song Farm just outside of Winnsboro where Adler & Hearne create their beautiful ballads. For more information, visit www.adlerandhearne.com .

 

Bobbye Koncak, an award-winning artist who works in watercolors and an East Texas treasure, will exhibit her paintings, silk scarves, and additional pieces at the Winnsboro Center for the Arts.  Many will be available for purchase, and just in time for Mother’s Day. 

The gorgeous colors of spring are beautifully displayed in the watercolor paintings that will be exhibited from Wednesday, May 9 through June 16.

May 9 - Opening Reception - 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

May 9- June 16 - Exhibit Open to the Public Wed.- Sat., 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Come join us and bring a little spring into your heart!

Winnsboro Center for the Arts
200 Market St.
Contact: 903-342-0680 or wca.artscenter@gmail.com
www.winnsborocenterforthearts.com

 

We are likely to see last minute additions of musical events, so keep an eye out for them. Check the Winnsboro Online Guide page on Facebook for performances that are booked at the last minute.

Winnsboro musicians are inclined to schedule a gig at the last minute (and I do mean LAST minute!). Occasionally there may be a change in performers due to schedules or illness.

Live music at these venues. . .

Double C Steakhouse
206 N. Market St.
Winnsboro, TX
903-342-3111
www.doublecsteakhouse.com

Art & Espresso
217 Market St.
Winnsboro, TX
903-342-3343
www.artandespresso.com

Crossroads
Performances at
Winnsboro Center for the Arts
200 Market St.
Winnsboro, TX
903-342-1854
www.crossroadsmusiccompany.com

Brewbaker's Pub
210 N Main Street
Winnsboro, TX
903-342-6119
www.brewbakerspub.com

Here's the current list of musical performances scheduled. . .

FRI., MAY 11
7 pm - 9 pm
Art & Espresso
Emmeline

FRI., MAY 11
Crossroads
2-Bit Palomino
"Vocal Group of the Year"
DETAILS

FRI., MAY 11
7:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Brewbaker's Pub
Stanley Johnson &
the Unknown Band

SAT., MAY 12
7:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Brewbaker's Pub
Amy & Friends

MON., MAY 14
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Berwbaker's Pub
Blue Monday

THURS., MAY 17
6:30 pm. . .
Brewbaker's Pub
Silver Strings

FRI., MAY 18
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Art & Espresso
Kimberly Torres

FRI., MAY 18
7:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Brewbaker's Pub
Chance Seabolt

SAT., MAY 18
8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Brewbaker's Pub
Karaoke
$5.00 cover

MON., MAY 21
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Brewbaker's Pub
Blue Monday

THURS., MAY 24
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Brewbaker's Pub
Gus Gustafson &
Alex Reyes

FRI., MAY 25
Art & Espresso
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Stanley Johnson

FRI., MAY 25
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Brewbaker's Pub
Ben Lowery &
West Hendrix

SAT., MAY 26
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Brewbaker's Pub
Karaoke
$5 cover

MON., MAY 28
Brewbaker's Pub
Blue Monday
6:30 pm - 10:30 pm

Randy Brodnax, a life-long potter and educator from Dallas, promises to entertain as he shares with participants in firing everything from functional dinnerware to large decorative vessels.

A Louisiana native who as retained much of the Cajun joie de vivre with which he was raised, Randy has spent a career building bridges among clay artists of all levels of experience. One of the nations best known Raku artists, Randy has been featured in Ceramics Monthly, as well as the book, Alternative Kiln and Firing Techniques.

SATURDAY, APRIL 28th
9:00 a.m. To 4:00 p.m.  

Randy's workshop will feature different decorative process, wheel throwing, unusual textures, and firing techniques, including Raku and alternative methods. Participants are invited to bring two to four small bisque pieces to fire. (Please call us for info on the proper clay, size diameter, and bisque firing temperature for the pieces you want to bring.)

RESERVE YOUR SPACE NOW!!!  LIMITED TO 20 PARTICIPANTS
Fee: $150 (50% deposit)

WORKSHOP WILL BE HELD at the KEYRING ART GALLERY
107 Locust Street in historic downtown WINNSBORO.
Snacks, Beverages, & Lunch will be provided.

Contact:

Brenda Roberts
Sayadream Studio         
106 E. Elm St            
Winnsboro, Texas
903-497-6136

"Saddle up" and bring your friends and family to the Keyring Gallery on Friday evening, April 20th, for a 6-9pm "A Salute to Texas Cowboy Culture" gallery opening.  

There will be a "chuck wagon" meal, fiddle music and, most importantly, an exhibition of cowboy/western art.  Also, peruse presentations of handmade western attire and equipment.  This "hoedown" evening is part of the "3rd Friday" Art Walk, and, yes, there is a real chuck wagon.

Also, during the Art Walk, there will be a showing, at the Winnsboro Center for the Arts (200 Market St), of a Salvador Dali video (free) from 6:30-7:30pm. The WCA's Dali Exhibition is open April 17-21 from 1-4:30pm and is free to the public.  

In addition, the April 20th Art Walk,  has other musical events that include:  Brewbaker's Pub (210 N Main) presenting the music of Debbie Brasket from 7:30-10:30pm ($5);  Art & Espresso (217 Market) is featuring "Peter & Kayla" from 7-9pm;  The Double C (206 N Market) has an Acoustic Show with Drew Kennedy from 8-10pm 9 (no cover).

Pull on your boots and scoot on down to the Keyring (107 Locust) for a great evening of "Cowboy Culture", then, continue on through the streets of downtown Winnsboro, sampling the music, shops and cultural fun.