Coastal Bend Music

TICKETS FOR THE GARY MORRIS CONCERT, THE ROCKPORT SONGWRITER FESTIVAL and the NOEL McKAY SONGWRITER RETREAT ON SALE NOW!

GARY MORRIS-IN CONCERT

Special solo performance September 30, 2022

Legendary Texas Recording Artist/Singer/Songwriter Gary Morris in a solo acoustic performance in the Tent at Charlotte Plummer on September 30, 2022. Some of Gary's hit records include "Velvet Chains", "Why, Lady, Why?", "The WInd Beneath My Wings", "The Love She Found in Me" and many others.

Special VIP tickets are available with closeup seating and an after party/meet and greet with Gary in the upstairs bar at Charlotte's and discounted rooms will be available across the street at The Inn at Fulton Harbor. This is a rare opportunity to see Gary in South Texas. Visit www.garymorris.com for more about Gary.

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1st ANNUAL ROCKPORT SONGWRITER FESTIVAL

ROCKPORT/FULTON Texas

The 1st Annual Rockport Songwriter Festival will be held in the hometown of Guy Clark on November 5&6, 2022. The intimate two day festival will be held at the Charlotte Plummer's Complex in Fulton, Texas and will feature 4 shows (two each day) on the main tent stage, additional smaller performances in Charlotte's along with multiple screenings of the Guy Clark documentary "Without Getting Killed or Caught" in the Inn at Fulton Harbor across the street.

Featured performers include Terri Hendrix/Lloyd Maines and Butch Hancock (Saturday Afternoon), Noel McKay and Susan Gibson (Saturday Evening), Bob Livingston and Shake Russell (Sunday Afternoon) and Shawn Camp and Verlon Thompson (Sunday Evening). There will also be some performances on the small stage inside Charlotte's to be announced.

Weekend ticket packages include a VIP ticket with upfront seating, after show meet and greets upstairs at Charlotte's and a private Sunday morning breakfast screening of the documentary. Standard weekend passes will be available and individual show tickets will be available at a later date. Discounted room rates will be available at The Inn at Fulton Harbor across the street.

Noel McKay will also be doing a live-in, immersive songwriter camp the week prior to the festival at the Coastal Bend Music studios in Rockport. The 8 participants will spend the week onsite at the studio learning and writing with Noel, with songs recorded at the end of the week and a showcase at the festival. Email john@coastalbendmusic.com for more info.

Festival Schedule:

SATURDAY

10:00AM Documentary Screening #1

1:00PM Documentary Screening #2

1:00PM Noel McKay Song Camp Showcase Upstairs @ Charlotte's

4:00PM Main Stage: Terri Hendrix/Lloyd Maines and Butch Hancock

7:30 PM Main Stage: Noel McKay and Susan Gibson

SUNDAY

10:00AM VIP Breakfast Documentary Screening

1:00PM Documentary Screening #3

1:00PM Small Show Upstairs @ Charlotte's

4:00PM Main Stage: Shake Russell and Bob Livingston

7:30PM Main Stage: Shawn Camp and Verlon Thompson

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NOEL McKAY SONGWRITING RETREAT

Rockport/fulton Texas october 30-November 6 2022

Join singer/songwriter Noel McKay in an intimate songwriter workshop/retreat in Rockport, TX, the home of Guy Clark, on October 30^th through November 6^th, 2022. The retreat will be held in the residential recording studios of Coastal Bend Music, which sits right across from Aransas Bay. The studio sleeps 8, and has all amenities (full kitchen, laundry, high speed internet, heated pool, etc.) along with its state of the art recording gear.

The retreat will let you eat, breathe and sleep songwriting with Noel while he guides you through the art of the craft and collaborates writing songs with the group. All songs written will be recorded in the studio at the end of the week.

Accommodations are semi summer camp style. Bedroom one has two queen beds and a bath, bedroom 2 has a double and a single bed and a shared bath, and the “Prevost Suite” is a detached bunkhouse that sleeps 4 and has a small bath. The kitchen will be stocked for breakfast and lunches, and dinner will be cooked either onsite for you or catered in by some of our favorite chefs.

The retreats winds up on the weekend of the 1^st Annual Rockport Songwriter Festival down the street, and includes VIP passes for that weekend, and we will have a small showcase there with the songs written by our work shoppers. The festival features Shawn Camp and Verlon Thompson, Noel McKay, Bob Livingston, Terri Hendrix/Lloyd Maines, Butch Hancock, Shake Russell and more. There will be multiple showings of the Guy Clark documentary “Without Getting Killed or Caught” as well.

The retreat is limited to 8 people, and includes all accommodations (8 nights), meals, recordings of the songs and passes to the songwriter festival. If you would like to fly in (via Corpus Christi) we can pick you up and get you back to the airport.

The price of the week is $500/per person for the bunkhouse and $550/per person for the double rooms.

Contact john@coastbendmusic.com for registration and payment options

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Rockport Kind of Guy

A Tribute to Guy Clark in Art and Music

It's here! A stunning tribute to Guy Clark featuring 16 new recordings of Guy's songs along with a companion book of paintings inspired by the songs by noted South Texas artist Steve Russell. All proceeds go to the building fund for the Rockport Center for the Arts that was destroyed in Hurricane Harvey. Artists include Lyle Lovett, Ray Benson, Willis Alan Ramsey, Verlon Thompson, Shawn Camp and others. Available exclusively at www.guyclarkfestival.com. A must for any Guy Clark fan.

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Hickory Wind Tribute (Single)

Fifty years ago the Byrds set out on an ambitious path to deeper explore the country music they had flirted
with on previous records with “Sweetheart of the Rodeo”. In addition to introducing Gram Parsons to a larger
audience, it was the first country rock record to be recorded by an established rock act. In addition to the
legions of established fans, the record continues to open the eyes of new generations to country music.
Recorded in March of 1968 in Nashville, TN and April of the same year in Los Angeles, the original record
utilized the amazing steel guitar talents of Lloyd Green (Nashville) and Jay Dee Maness (LA), both established
session musicians. The freshness of their playing added not only a authenticity to the sessions, but opened
the eyes of a whole new audience to the sound of the pedal steel guitar.
50 years later, the original steel guitarists reunited to make a stunning instrumental tribute to this groundbreaking record “Journey to the Beginning”. Recorded at the legendary Cinderella Sound in Nashville, the
record captures the original spirit of “Sweetheart”, while adding the refinement
and seasoning of 50 years of reflection on the project. The record closes
with a rousing vocal version of “You Ain’t Going Nowhere” with
Jim Lauderdale, Herb Pedersen, Richie Furay and Jeff Hanna.
Please join us on this “Journey to the Beginning”.

No Depression debuts "You Ain't Going Nowhere" single--click logo to listen!

Lloyd Green was honored with the "Founder of the Sound" award at the 2018 Ameripolitan Awards in Memphis on February 13th