The Rick Morgenstern Show
Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 7 p.m.

Singer, Entertainer, Pianist, Impressionist

Banjo Jack -
Jack and Jeanette Jeppson
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 7 p.m.

Banjo Jack and the String-Alongs, also known as Jack and Jeanette Jeppson.  Jeanette started teaching guitar at age 16 and Jack was her first student. Two years later they married.

Jack played the Nevada circuit. He toured with Clayton Moore (The Lone Ranger) throughout Nevada and California.

Jack and Jeanette performed background music for Hank Thompson, when he appeared in Utah.  Together they perform all kinds of music including Dixieland, ragtime, bluegrass and country sprinkled with humor. Their enthusiasm is contagious and they will have the audience performing with them. They have performed extensively in Utah, throughout the Western States and in Texas. They have been featured at the National Fiddle Contest at Weizer, Idaho many times. They have competed at Death Valley, California where Jack has taken first place each year.

Yodeler...Singer...Song Writer...Entertainer

Introducing a truly great entertainer who recorded his first yodel song in the early 70's following a year of training under the renowned opera instructor, Dr. Jean Wardian, Head of the Gonzaga University Music Department in Spokane, Washington. 

His first release after signing with MGM records was "She Taught Me How To Yodel".   This song reached the "Top Ten" world wide within a month.  This release was followed with "Yodel Sweet Molly", "Cattle Call" and "Cannonball Yodel" all three making the charts. In 1976 "Going Home" a song he wrote, went "Top Ten" in Canada and had the biggest reaction ever for a Country song in that country.  He was "Top Pick" in Billboard Magazine, and considered a virtuoso in yodeling; "The Best" by the Gavin Report.

Rod has made many TV appearances and was on WSM's Ralph Emery Show, as well as Paul Harvey's "The Rest Of The Story".  He was on the MGM Show in Nashville, and toured the Southeastern States with Grandpa Jones, Stringbean and others from the Grand Ole Opery.  Other stars he worked with include Tammy Wynette, Marty Robbins, Bill Anderson, Mel Tillis, George Jones, Lefty Frizzel, Jerry Lee Lewis and many more.

Rod and Nancy own the Fireside Lodge, a B&B, Restaurant, RV Park and Recording Studio in Spirit Lake, Idaho.  During the summer months while in Idaho, the Fireside Lodge becomes the music center of the Northwest, with visitors and participants attending from miles around.

The Fireballs - Two Great Shows!!
 Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Hailing from Raton, New Mexico in the late 50's,
the Fireballs were New Mexico's first Rock & Roll
recording band to become internationally known.

The group was christened the FIREBALLS® after their standing ovation performance of "Great Balls of Fire" at the Raton High School PTA talent contest in New Mexico, USA...January 1958. By the year's end they had auditioned for the late Norman Petty at his already internationally famous recording studio at 1313 W. 7th Street, Clovis, New Mexico, where it stands today - a monumental contribution to the birth of early Southwest style Rock & Roll.  

Fireballs recordings and songs are heard in the soundtracks of the following films: Forrest Gump, Mermaids, Congo, Dogfight, From Dusk Till Dawn, Box Of Moonlight, The Real Blonde, with others being negotiated for upcoming films.

Kerry Christensen, Alpine and Western Yodeler - 
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 7 p.m.

Kerry Christensen is not your typical yodeler.  His concerts and events this year will take him to as many as 23 US states and two or three countries internationally.  Kerry spent two years in the country of Austria right out of high school.  There he became interested in the alpine yodeling art.  After mastering this difficult medium he was asked in l983 to move his six member family to Orlando, Florida and use his yodeling skills at Walt Disney World's Epcot Center.  He performed there for almost seven years until 1990. 

Today Kerry performs all kinds of corporate, festival, and community concert events.  He recently lent his unique classical yodeling talent to a full-length Disney animated feature called "Home on the Range."   

Kerry is perhaps the only full time yodeler in the world that specializes in all styles of yodeling.  He can be strictly alpine, or he can put on his Stetson hat and do an all-cowboy yodeling show.  However, many of Kerry's fans say that their favorite show is when Kerry mixes up the styles.  You will hear cowboy, alpine, cajun, Latin, Jewish, Hawaiian, jazz, classical, and his always popular humorous yodeling renditions.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 7 p.m.
Exquisite harmonies, top-notch musicianship, and on-stage fun add spice to lively
western tunes, country standards, cowboy poetry, western swing favorites, and originals when Call of the West entertain you. Besides their lead and harmony vocals, they both possess formidable instrumental skills - Jerome is the 2006 Merle Travis National Thumbpicking Champion, Jeanne was nominated for the 2006 and 2007 Western Music Association Instrumentalist of the Year, and Call of the West is nominated for 2007 Western Music Association Traditional Duo/Group of the Year.  They have performed together since 1989, and will play a variety of instruments, including guitars, mandolin, upright bass, steel guitar, concertina, and harmonica. Jerome and Jeanne regularly appear at western music festivals, country and folk music events, community get-togethers, schools, libraries, RV resorts and rallies across the U.S. and abroad. They have been featured on RFD-TV’s “Best of America by Horseback”, and “Midwest Country Theater”. 

Igor's Jazz Cowboys -
Friday, February 5, 2010 at 7 p.m.

Igor's Jazz Cowboys