FC Country Music
Club Opry hosts first of the year Opry show
LA GRANGE — The Fayette County Country Music Club will host their monthly opry show Monday, Jan. 19, at the Knights of Columbus Hall in La Grange. The show starts at 7 p.m. and the doors will open at 5:30 p.m. Admission is $8.
Entertainers this month ar Dan Whitaker, Ella Broussard and Robert Herridge, and Gene Hackemack.
Whitaker is a songwriter from Chicago who now lives in Elgin. His country music is blues, jazz and folk, a free-wheeling style that takes you on an insightful journey through life’s joys and heartaches. Onstage, he either plays solo with his acoustic guitar and trusty harmonicas or performs as bandleader with his top-notch four-piece honky-tonk band.
Broussard, deeply rooted in music—and Texas, was born to fiddle. This teenager brings Country, Cajun, Western Swing, German and Czech music to audiences around our great state and beyond.
Herridge saw his first guitar at eight years old and knew he wanted to play. He has a number one hit song with his version of Cajun Fiddle. He also arranged and performed Cotton Eyed Joe for the movie Urban Cowboy. Today, he is a retired accountant and insurance agency owner and can be found playing fiddle, bass, keyboards, banjo, harmonica, accordion, guitar, and mandolin in a variety of musical genres ranging from German, Czech, Polka, Country. From September through early November, he is on the Oktoberfest circuit all over the United States with the German band, Das Ist Lustig. Robert immediately begins work from early November through the end of December at Santa’s Wonderland in College Station.
Hackemack was born in Burton, a fifth-generation Texan, but had to learn En- glish in first grade. Vietnam Veteran, also served two years with Imperial Iranian Army Aviation Search & Rescue, built and owned “Hackemack's Hofbräuhaus” near New Ulm with late wife Barbara – had live Polka Music weekends. Hackemack singing partner Jason Keepers received a plaque from NASA in July 1995 for “1st Polka in Space” for waking up the Space Shuttle Crew with the “Beer Barrel Polka.”
Hackemack resides in the country between Brenham and Burton. He is a member of the polka band, Alli & The Texas Polka Dots.
