This rodeo weekend its George Strait at Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo with special guest Ashley McBryde.
Some might say the beauty of George Strait is you know what you're going to get - straight ahead country music. But the real beauty of George Strait is his innate ability to collide comfortable & worn with 
fresh & exciting every time he straps on his guitar and steps up to the microphone.
George Strait is the undeniable “King of Country Music.” His music career spans more than 30 years; includes 60 No. 1 singles, more than any other artist in any genre; and boasts 33 platinum or multi-platinum-selling albums, more than any country artist and third across all genres behind only The Beatles and Elvis Presley. Strait is the only act in history to have a Top 10 hit every year for over three decades and has sold more than 70 million albums and earned more than 60 major entertainment industry awards.
Strait, whose name has become synonymous with “real country” since his 1981 debut, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2006. He has since released five more albums, including the GRAMMY Award-winning Troubadour and his latest chart-topping release, Cold Beer Conversation.
Recently Lyle Lovett spoke to Independent Digital News & Media's Martin Chilton a British tabloid about his music and other items.
Lovett was in the British Isles this past weekend for the Country to Country festival in London.
“I feel like my songs are just snapshots of the little things that I see,” the 61-year-old says. “They are not of a conceptual scope. My songs are about the accumulated, small moments in the course of a day that turn into your life. Those baby steps we take each day that end up being the long journey. The big issues are important, too, but it’s the moment-to-moment that really interests me. I see people just trying to survive as individuals in a world where you can take the wrong step at any point and it can all fall apart.”
Lovett talked up how entertainer Ray Charles was a great influencers on his music, “He is just one of the most important singers and musicians in the history of music,” says Lovett. “Ray Charles is such an influence on everything. He really personifies soul music. In his wonderful expression, you hear a direct connection to the gospel roots of that kind of music.”
Emanuel Ax and Principal Keyboard Scott Holshouser are featured in The Carnival of the Animals, and each concert showcases a different lineup of dazzling solo performances by orchestra 
musicians.
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Andrés Fest Weekend 2
March 26 & 27
Symphony principals William VerMeulen and Dave Kirk perform new works by Bruce Broughton and Wynton Marsalis, and the orchestra shares favorites of Ravel and Gershwin.
It was in the creative mind of Lin-Manuel Miranda that lead to the creation of Hamilton.
With book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel 
Miranda, direction by Thomas Kail, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler and musical direction and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire, Hamilton is based on Ron Chernow’s biography of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.
Hamilton is the story of America’s Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, an immigrant from the West Indies who became George Washington’s right-hand man during the Revolutionary War and was the new nation’s first Treasury Secretary. Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, blues, rap, R&B, and Broadway, Hamilton is the story of America then, as told by America now.
