Tag: Music

Raúl Munguia likens his job to that of a magician. When the spotlight is hot, a paying audience is in their seats and his wand is primed and ready, it’s time for a show. “It’s the job of the conductor to manage the magic on stage,” said Munguia, the...

Down-Home Dinner Theater Chicken-N-Pickin’ serves up food and fun with family at the forefront Spend one afternoon at Chicken-N-Pickin’ outside of Walnut, and you’ll experience a lot of knee-slapping, toe-tapping, dancing, finger-licking and comments like: “That’s the best fried chicken I’ve had in ages.” Folks just can’t get enough...

Welcome to Neewollah Annual celebration back in a big way this Halloween Reverse the word “Halloween”; what do you get? Much more than a jumble of letters, as Independence natives well know. In fact, Neewollah is a 100-year-old nine-day festival in Independence, billed as the state’s largest annual celebration....

Bowlus Birthday The Bowlus Fine Arts Center is celebrating 50 years in Iola Decades ago, banker Thomas H. Bowlus left most of his estate to one bold vision: the construction of a world-class fine arts and cultural center in his small hometown of Iola. Today, as the Bowlus Fine...

Makin’ Music Larry Brockway’s Hall of Fame Studio is a hit in Neodesha Rodney Lay likes to say that Larry Brockway has big ears.  Just not in the way you’re thinking. “He can just hear what sounds right,” says Lay, of “Hee Haw” and Rodney & the Blazers fame....

Sister Act With their timeless music and effortless melodies, the Vogts Sisters are capturing SEK’s attention Russ Head has heard it all before. He’s been in the music business almost his whole life, after all – as an audio engineer, a musician and even an instructor of recording arts....