TSGA Rick Alexander Non-Pedal Room Artists 2018

Stephen Cowell · Post by **Stephen Cowell** » 23 Jan 2018 6:35 am

Here's our (almost) final list of talent... Chuck Lettes and Gary Thorsen won't be able to attend. I'll do a separate thread with the schedule. Getting excited... see y'all there soon!

Billy Robinson
Carco Clave
Margie Mays
Ivan Reddington
Doug Jernigan
DMinor and Donna Bennett
Billy Easton
Murnel Babineaux with Joe Rogers and Richard Comeaux
Roger Edgington
Herb Steiner
Steve and Donna Palousek
Bob Blair and Olli Haavisto
Rose Sinclair
Mark Roeder
Chris Bauer

Looking forward to this year's Jamboree... come and join us upstairs if you're in Dallas, the show is free to attend. We do this every year in memory of Rick Alexander, a selfless avatar of the steel guitar and music in general.

Mark Roeder · Post by **Mark Roeder** » 23 Jan 2018 9:24 am

Time to start making your donations folks, to help keep this going

Bill McCloskey · Post by **Bill McCloskey** » 23 Jan 2018 10:31 am

Mark,

Can you say what the suggested donation is and where to send it.

Mark Roeder · Post by **Mark Roeder** » 23 Jan 2018 11:20 am

I think Stephen would have the best idea since he knows what the expenses are........double digits for sure and a triple would be really helpful

Michael Greer · Post by **Michael Greer** » 23 Jan 2018 12:25 pm

Stephen

Thanks for your hard work and dedication to the non pedal room ....it's a terrific show most deserving of our support.

Mike

Stephen Cowell · Post by **Stephen Cowell** » 23 Jan 2018 7:39 pm

Donations can be PayPal'd to me at scowell at sbcglobal dot net. Mark them as gifts to avoid the charges.

Looks like it's going to be a great show! Thanks to those that have already donated... very generous of you.

Stephen Cowell · Post by **Stephen Cowell** » 23 Jan 2018 7:47 pm

Bill McCloskey wrote:Mark,

Can you say what the suggested donation is and where to send it.

Bill, 20$ is what I suggest. Nobody should hurt themselves on this! If you don't do PP you can just give it to me at the show.

Mark Roeder · Post by **Mark Roeder** » 30 Jan 2018 9:09 am

BTW Some folks are donating on the Facebook thread

Stephen Cowell · Post by **Stephen Cowell** » 2 Feb 2018 7:42 pm

Richard Comeaux is joining Murnel and Joe... so we'll have the full Cajun Boys act, that will be nice.

Chuck Lettes had to cancel... sad about that. Hopefully he'll be able to make it next year.

We picked up Billy Easton... wonderful! I'd hoped he'd be able to make it, and he just confirmed.

Looking like a great show, folks... see you there.

Andy DePaule · Post by **Andy DePaule** » 3 Feb 2018 12:05 am

I'll be at the Jubilee for the first time this year so maybe I'm missing something.
What is the donation for?

Stephen Cowell · Post by **Stephen Cowell** » 3 Feb 2018 9:34 am

Andy DePaule wrote:I'll be at the Jubilee for the first time this year so maybe I'm missing something.
What is the donation for?

Andy, glad you're coming... thanks for asking... it covers my expenses. I pay for my own room, I pay the backup musicians (100$/man/day), I buy the musicians breakfast at the buffet, I drive a pickup truck full of equipment I own from Austin. I provide the light show, PA with mics/stands etc, video cameras, etc. Every year I try to get more equipment to enhance the show... most of it doesn't get used for the rest of the year, it's still boxed up now.

TSGA covers the room and provides rooms for the musicians... I don't think I could do this without their help. If anyone would rather make a donation straight to TSGA I'd be pleased as punch... if you could make it in the name of the Rick Alexander Non-Pedal Room that would be the icing on the cake.

There is no admission to the RANP... we don't check wrist-bands at the door, anyone can come in and watch. There have been attempts to monetize it somehow... these attempts always had problems. The current situation seems to work best... I find that the folks that have run this before usually donate more... and I have a newfound respect for their efforts in the past.

Here's an example video from Chuck Lettes' show last year... unless the artists requests it, I publish the full two-days-worth of video on my YT channel... which is not monetized.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmHov_Yl6Lg

Andy DePaule · Post by **Andy DePaule** » 3 Feb 2018 3:32 pm

Thanks Round Rock Stephen,
I figured it was for a good cause, but being new to this I had no idea what.
Will post a PP friends & Family donation right away.

Haven't been to a steel show like this since Scotty's in 1980. See ya there!
Best wishes,
Andy

ps. By the way, do they post a schedule of who will be playing where and about what time?

Mark Roeder · Post by **Mark Roeder** » 7 Feb 2018 1:51 pm

Book yer rooms before they fill up!

Andy DePaule · Post by **Andy DePaule** » 7 Feb 2018 5:17 pm

I was told they were full by two people already so I booked at the Quality Inn down the road a little way.
If there were still rooms left I wish I'd known.

Mark Roeder · Post by **Mark Roeder** » 8 Feb 2018 8:32 am

I hadn't checked, they have over flow at the Holiday Inn near by. At least they use too

Andy DePaule · Post by **Andy DePaule** » 8 Feb 2018 4:16 pm

I Checked again and there are no rooms at the hotel. The Quality Inn had rooms last week when I booked and looks on the map to be quite close. Maybe a 10 minute walk?
Last night there were still rooms there. The price was also not bad.
Good luck.

Mark Roeder · Post by **Mark Roeder** » 20 Feb 2018 1:36 pm

I'll have some Deluxe34 lap steel stands there too

HowardR · Post by **HowardR** » 26 Feb 2018 12:02 am

Stephen Cowell wrote:Richard Comeaux is joining Murnel and Joe... so we'll have the full Cajun Boys act, that will be nice.

That's a show right there......those guys kill it!.....

Steven Cummings · Post by **Steven Cummings** » 26 Feb 2018 5:35 pm

Is there a schedule yet as to who plays when?

Stefan Robertson · Post by **Stefan Robertson** » 27 Feb 2018 7:11 am

Mark Roeder wrote:I'll have some Deluxe34 lap steel stands there too

Your stands are truly amazing and I absolutely love them. Didn't know how I survived before.

Keep up the excellent work.

Mark Roeder · Post by **Mark Roeder** » 1 Mar 2018 1:10 pm

Thanks Stefan.....come on over to the TSGA one of these years

Stefan Robertson · Post by **Stefan Robertson** » 2 Mar 2018 1:36 am

Mark Roeder wrote:Thanks Stefan.....come on over to the TSGA one of these years

I'd absolutely love to. I'd love to jam with everyone. I'm getting better slowly but surely. So excited to definitely do that.

HowardR · Post by **HowardR** » 11 Mar 2018 7:37 pm

What a great show!!!!.....kudos to Stephen for keeping this going.....I flew out at the last minute after being absent for 3 years and I couldn't have been more impressed by the organization, the players, the room, the back up,......and the pizza!.....well done Stephen, well done.....

Stephen Cowell · Post by **Stephen Cowell** » 11 Mar 2018 9:12 pm

HowardR wrote:What a great show!!!!.....kudos to Stephen for keeping this going.....I flew out at the last minute after being absent for 3 years and I couldn't have been more impressed by the organization, the players, the room, the back up,......and the pizza!.....well done Stephen, well done.....

So good to see you there Howard... this was a very special trip for me, a lot of good feelings went around... a lot of hard work was ultimately paid off.

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TSGA Rick Alexander Non-Pedal Room Artists 2018

TSGA Rick Alexander Non-Pedal Room Artists 2018

Donation is for what?

Re: Donation is for what?

Thanks Stephen

I was told they were full?

Checked again.