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SUMMARY:Friday Night: Paul Wall
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column icons_position=”left”][vc_column_text css=””] \nFRIDAY NIGHT: PAUL WALL\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space alter_height=”none” hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][vc_empty_space alter_height=”none” hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row gap=”30″][vc_column width=”1/4″ icons_position=”left”][vc_column_text css=””] \nMUSIC PROFILE\nHometown: Houston\, Texas \nGenre: Southern hip-hop / chopped and screwed \nKnown for: Grills\, syrup-slow flows\, and putting H-Town on the music map \nBreakthrough Album: The People’s Champ\, which hit number one on the Billboard 200 \nSignature Song: “Sittin’ Sidewayz\,” the slab riding anthem that defined his sound \nNotable Collaborations: Nelly’s “Grillz” and Kanye West’s “Drive Slow” \nBusiness Ventures: Longtime jewelry partnership with Johnny Dang[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space alter_height=”none” hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″ icons_position=”left”][vc_column_text css=””]There is a version of Texas that lives entirely in the drawl of a chopped and screwed hook\, and Paul Wall has spent two decades as one of its chief architects. The Houston rapper built his name inside Michael “5000” Watts’ Swishahouse operation\, talking his way from promotions work into the booth itself. He studied mass communications at the University of Houston while his mixtapes were already circulating through the city’s underground. Paired with Chamillionaire in the duo Color Changin’ Click\, he found the sound that would define an era of Southern rap: unhurried\, syrupy\, and utterly confident. \nThat confidence paid off in 2005. The People’s Champ hit number one on the Billboard 200\, anchored by the slab riding anthem “Sittin’ Sidewayz.” Wall’s voice soon turned up everywhere\, a guest verse here\, a hook there. He left his mark on Nelly’s “Grillz” and Kanye West’s “Drive Slow\,” records that carried the Houston sound far past city limits. Along the way\, his partnership with jeweler Johnny Dang cemented him as much a fixture of hip hop jewelry culture as of the charts. \nWhat separates Wall from the pack of his era is longevity\, and a live show built for community rather than spectacle. Onstage he turns bass into celebration\, working big hooks and slow grooves until the crowd is shouting every line back at him\, transforming any room into a piece of H Town. This year alone has found him everywhere: a hometown night at Meow Wolf Houston alongside Lil’ Keke\, a guest turn with Lizzo\, Koe Wetzel\, and Forrest Frank at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo\, and a genuinely unexpected pairing with a live orchestra for a YMCA of San Angelo benefit called Chopped and Orchestrated. That run lands him back home October 2\, when he headlines the Come and Take It Celebration in Gonzales. \nIt is a fitting booking. Gonzales built its identity on defiance\, on a small town that refused to hand over what was theirs. Paul Wall built his career on the same stubborn regional pride\, refusing to let Houston’s sound get flattened into anyone else’s version of hip hop. The two belong on the same bill.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://come6875.live-website.com/event/free-live-music-paul-wall/
LOCATION:Main Come & Take It Celebration Stage\, Independence Square\, Gonzales\, 78629
CATEGORIES:Events,Free Live Music,Friday,Friday Events
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SUMMARY:Saturday: Mariachi Los Gavilanes
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LOCATION:Beer Tent\, Independence Square\, Gonzales\, TX\, 78629\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Free Live Music,Saturday Events
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SUMMARY:Saturday: Reagan Hicks
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column icons_position=”left”][vc_column_text css=””] \nSATURDAY: REAGAN HICKS\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space alter_height=”none” hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″ icons_position=”left”]        View this post on Instagram            [vc_empty_space alter_height=”none” hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″ icons_position=”left”]        View this post on Instagram            [vc_empty_space alter_height=”none” hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″ icons_position=”left”][vc_column_text css=””] \nMUSIC PROFILE\nHometown: Flatonia\, Texas \nRaised In: Hallettsville\, Texas \nNow Based In: San Marcos\, Texas \nGenre: Texas country \nKnown For: Homegrown songwriting with real grit\, built on genuine hometown connection rather than radio polish \nSound: A blend of guitar\, drums\, and bass\, shifting between intimate solo sets and full band energy depending on the night \nSetlist: Original material rooted in south central Texas storytelling\, alongside covers pulling from mainstream country and Texas country traditions \nCurrently Building: A following across the Hallettsville to San Marcos to Gonzales corridor[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″ icons_position=”left”][vc_column_text css=””] \nSome artists are built for arenas. Reagan Hicks is built for a Saturday night on the square\, and that is precisely the point. Hailing from Flatonia and raised in nearby Hallettsville\, now calling San Marcos home\, Hicks belongs to a specific strain of Texas songwriting\, the kind that gets passed down through small towns rather than manufactured in Nashville boardrooms. This is a rising voice out of the South Texas circuit\, and the sound reflects exactly where it came from. \nThe music itself refuses easy categorization. Guitar\, drums\, and bass shift shape depending on the room\, some nights a stripped down solo set\, other nights a full band pushing the energy toward something rowdier. What stays constant is the songwriting\, original material steeped in south central Texas storytelling\, filled out with covers that draw equally from mainstream country radio and the deeper\, dustier tradition of Texas country that radio never quite touched. \nDo not mistake any of this for polished and safe. Hicks trades in real grit\, the kind that comes from actually living in the towns being sung about rather than visiting them for a music video shoot. It shows in the stage presence too\, less stadium gloss\, more genuine hometown connection\, the sense of an artist who could just as easily be playing a backyard as a festival. That approach has quietly built a following stretching across the Hallettsville\, San Marcos\, and Gonzales corridor\, the kind of regional momentum that tends to precede something bigger. \nCatch Hicks on the Main Stage\, with the best vantage point down on Independence Square. The vibe runs closer to small town Texas Saturday night than festival spectacle\, easy energy\, familiar faces\, a set built for people who came to listen rather than just pass through. This is exactly the kind of act these festivals exist to introduce. The crowd may not know the name yet. They will by the last song. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://come6875.live-website.com/event/reagan-hicks/
LOCATION:Main Come & Take It Celebration Stage\, Independence Square\, Gonzales\, 78629
CATEGORIES:Events,Free Live Music,Saturday Events
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SUMMARY:Saturday: Jase Martin and the Standing Peppers
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″ icons_position=”left”][vc_single_image image=”3518″ img_size=”600×600″ alignment=”center” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″ icons_position=”left”]Jase Martin & Standing PeppersSaturday\, October 4\n4:30 PM\nMain Stage \nView Artist Website ➝[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column icons_position=”left”][vc_empty_space height=”40px” alter_height=”none” hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][vc_column_text css=””]Grammy-nominated guitarist and producer Jase Martin brings genre-blending brilliance to the Come and Take It stage with his band Standing Peppers. Known for a high-octane fusion of country\, Tejano\, and classic rock\, this group transforms familiar songs into full-blown Texas party anthems. \n🎶 Music & Live Show Style \nEvery Standing Peppers show is a rollercoaster of styles\, powered by: \n\n🎸 Virtuosic guitar solos from Martin’s signature collection of electric and acoustic setups\n🎤 Multi-genre covers that flip from classic rock to Tejano dance hits to country ballads—seamlessly\n🔥 Dynamic band interplay with spotlight moments for each musician and playful audience banter\n🕺 High crowd engagement—expect call-and-response choruses and dancers in the aisles\n\nThis is the band that’ll have your uncle two-stepping\, your cousin singing Bon Jovi\, and your grandma clapping to the beat—all before the next act hits the stage. \n📍 Plan Your Visit \n\nShow starts at 4:30 PM on the Main Stage (corner of St. George and St. Joseph Streets)\nArrive early to claim your spot—afternoon sets get packed fast!\nBring chairs\, fans\, and sunscreen—shade is limited at this time of day\nFood & drink vendors will be open with cool drinks and snacks nearby\n\nDon’t miss this electrifying set—it’s the perfect pre-game for a stacked Saturday night lineup.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space alter_height=”none” hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][vc_raw_html css=””]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[/vc_raw_html][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column icons_position=”left”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column icons_position=”left”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:Main Come & Take It Celebration Stage\, Independence Square\, Gonzales\, 78629
CATEGORIES:Events,Free Live Music,Saturday Events
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night: David Farias
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column icons_position=”left”][vc_column_text css=””] \nFREE LIVE MUSIC: DAVID FARIAS\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space alter_height=”none” hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][vc_empty_space alter_height=”none” hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row gap=”30″][vc_column width=”1/4″ icons_position=”left”][vc_column_text css=””] \nMUSIC PROFILE\nHometown: San Antonio\, Texas \nGenre: Tejano / Conjunto\n\nKnown For: Accordion playing child prodigy turned Grammy winning Tejano veteran\n\nBand Legacy: La Tropa F\, originally named Los Hermanos Farias\, won the Tejano Music Award for Best Album of the Year with Right On Track in 1993\n\nGrammy Recognition: Won a Grammy Award as part of Los Texmaniacs alongside Max Baca\n\nSolo Career: Signed a recording contract with VMB Music Group in March 2015\, debuting his first solo single “Cada Beso Que Me Das” that May\n\nRecent Work: Announced in 2022 that he was heading back into the studio for new music\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″ icons_position=”left”][vc_column_text css=””] \nDavid Farias: The Accordion Never Left His Hands\nSome musicians choose their instrument. David Farias grew up inside his. Raised in San Antonio as part of a family act\, he started playing accordion as a child alongside his brothers\, first as Los Hermanos Farias\, then under the name that would define Tejano music for a generation\, La Tropa F. The band’s sound\, built on the interplay of accordion and bajo sexto that defines conjunto music\, carried them to a Tejano Music Award for Best Album of the Year in 1993\, cementing Farias as part of one of the genre’s defining family dynasties. \nAfter decades with his brothers\, Farias found a second creative home with Los Texmaniacs alongside Max Baca\, a partnership that earned him a Grammy Award and further secured his place among the genre’s most respected players. Then\, thirty six years into a career built on family\, he did something that surprised even him. He went solo. Signing with VMB Music Group in 2015\, Farias released “Cada Beso Que Me Das” as his first single\, stepping out from behind the family name for the first time in his life. He described the shift with characteristic humility\, noting the strange feeling of building a band without a single brother standing beside him. \nThat solo chapter has not slowed him down. Farias remains a constant presence on the Tejano and conjunto festival circuit\, sharing bills with genre icons like Flaco Jimenez and Jay Perez at events like the Tejano Conjunto Festival in San Antonio\, and by 2022 he was already talking about heading back into the studio for new material. Decades in\, the accordion still sits in his hands the same way it did when he was a kid learning alongside his brothers\, an instrument less played than lived. \nFor a Central Texas crowd\, Farias represents something rare\, an artist whose music is not an interpretation of the region’s heritage but a direct extension of it\, passed down through family\, refined over decades\, and still very much alive on stage. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://come6875.live-website.com/event/free-live-music-shiner-david-farias/
LOCATION:Main Come & Take It Celebration Stage\, Independence Square\, Gonzales\, 78629
CATEGORIES:Events,Free Live Music,Sunday Events
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SUMMARY:Sunday: Shiner Hobo Band
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column icons_position=”left”][vc_column_text css=””] \nFREE LIVE MUSIC: SHINER HOBO BAND\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space alter_height=”none” hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][vc_empty_space alter_height=”none” hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row gap=”30″][vc_column width=”1/4″ icons_position=”left”][vc_column_text css=””] \nMUSIC PROFILE\nHometown: Shiner\, Texas\n\nGenre: Polka / German-Czech brass / Texas dance hall \nKnown For: No sheet music\, no conductor\, no setlist\, just brass\, accordion\, and pure Texas charm \nFounded: In the years following World War I\, by returning veterans who missed the joy of making music \nMembers:Up to 30 active musicians from across Central and South Texas\, from Schulenburg to Port Lavaca \nLegendary Leadership: Emmett Busch\, who led the band to regional stardom by 1936 wielding a toilet plunger as his baton\, a tradition later carried on by Joe Panus after the band’s 1986 revival \nNotable Revival: Reborn in 1986 for the Texas Sesquicentennial\, complete with a speaker rigged school bus and a renewed spirit of heritage and humor\nOrganization: Operates today as a nonprofit[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″ icons_position=”left”][vc_column_text css=””] \nThe Shiner Hobo Band: A Century of Playing Without a Net\nThere is no sheet music. There is no conductor. There has never really been a setlist\, not in over a hundred years of existence. And somehow\, that absence of structure is exactly what has kept the Shiner Hobo Band alive for a century\, longer than most professional acts with actual management behind them. \nThe story starts after World War I\, when veterans came home to find the family bands and dance hall groups that once soundtracked their small towns had scattered during the war years. Rather than mourn what was lost\, a group of returning soldiers stitched something new together out of patched clothes\, borrowed instruments\, and the simple determination to make people laugh and dance again. That combination of chaos and charm became the blueprint. Mismatched overalls\, rowdy energy\, and a standing arrangement with the Spoetzl Brewery to supply a keg per show turned the Hobos into something closer to a traveling party than a traditional band. \nBy 1936\, under the direction of Emmett Busch\, who led the group while waving a toilet plunger in place of a baton\, the Hobos had become a genuine regional sensation. Crowds across Shiner\, Gonzales\, and the surrounding towns turned out for the brass and button accordion sound\, a combination that felt both foreign and completely at home in Central Texas. The band kept showing up through the 1950s for parades\, church picnics\, and civic events\, a fixture of small town life until longtime leader Curt Messer’s declining health slowly pulled the group out of the spotlight. \nThe silence did not last. In 1986\, the Hobos returned for the Texas Sesquicentennial\, rallying local musicians under Joe Panus\, who inherited both the leadership role and the plunger baton tradition along with it. A speaker rigged school bus and a fresh coat of paint gave the revival its own identity\, but the spirit underneath was unchanged\, humor first\, heritage always\, rules optional. \nToday the band carries up to thirty active members pulled from towns across Central and South Texas\, still operating as a nonprofit\, still sponsored by the brewery that backed them from the start. Every performance is played from memory\, no sheet music in sight\, which means no two Hobo sets ever sound quite the same. That unpredictability is the whole appeal. Somewhere between a polka breaking into a joke and a surprise solo nobody saw coming\, the band proves its own philosophy correct: the best music happens when you throw out the rules and play from the heart. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://come6875.live-website.com/event/shiner-hobo-band/
LOCATION:Beer Tent\, Independence Square\, Gonzales\, TX\, 78629\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Free Live Music,Sunday Events
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