___two sisters,

___established contact with two sisters who are quite talented, i witnessed their performances at the Memorial Day Conmemorative Celebration at the end of last month, besides their natural beauty, what struck me most was their versatility as they both sing "de todos los estilos", i heard them sing rancheras, romantic, international, in English and Spanish to really thrill the crowd. Their names are Yessenia Galaviz, (what a name) and Ludivina Gomez and we shall make every effort to record and present their music to the Laredo audience as soon as possible. It should be quite a treat.

___special Tricia visit

___recorded Tricia Cortez, from the LMT who recently did a terrific performance as Selena at the LCC and we have the recording so as part of the show, we did a short (14 minute) interview with her, Norma handled the interview in her won special way and it was very poignant as they spoke of Selena and about Mothers and other girl things, now comes the fun part, the editing part cause Tricia is so photogenic and she did look so nice

___'nother one"

___we had another very excellent presentation by the artist Gustavo Esteban at the recording late last night, this dude can really belt them out con mucha "voz y sentimiento", he did five ranchero canciones for us in full Charro costume and Melissa did an incredible interview job and Norma was there with "su un momento Laredense" (a Laredo Moment), we even had a sound system in the House provided by the guest, this is show number 35, didn't even know i could count that high, did you ?, on another note, ran into Noe Esparza, known as la Pilinga in his youth who was the original lead voice on the Original Rondels recording of "Lo Mucho Que Te Quiero" alongside Sammy Ibarra, Humberto Donovan, Joe Lee Vera, and Roberto Alonzo, qepd back in those old golden days and he is still singing with his own group known as "The Dells", well, he wants to be on our show of course and he is a definite link to the Class reunion for the NHS, make that Nixon, class of 65, 66, and 67, more later as we set up and get in gear to record the fabulous as she is Known, Tricia Cortez who will undoubtly let us know how it felt to be Selena if only for a brief moment, should be interesting

___weakly schedule

___short weak is forecasted as we take it easy, "it is summertime,, and the living is easy", on Tuesday the 26, we have scheduled the long awaited presentation by ranchero singer Esteban Gustavo who will be interviewed by Melissa, Norma will assist and standby and we hope to get her to do several intro's to shows awaiting trimming notably the Martin Band Spring Concert and maybe the VMT Showcase, I will try real hard to get Debbie and Tricia together some morning this week to complete her "Selena" show, it shouldn't take long as they are both very able to conduct an excellent presentation, on the air this week, is the two parter Reunion of the MHS class of 1957, remember, this is the class that is going to Heaven, i wonder where the rest of us are headed, no rest for the wicked ???

___finally, finally, finally

___the Piano students video is finally completed as Debbie came through with her usual charm and efficiency and now it is on the shelf, we will wait to see how the programming works out and it will probably not "air" till maybe September, Surprise !, the video that Norma introduced on the Fiesta de Mariachi turned out very well also and i completed another which still needs work and refinement, still to be completed, a show comprising all the great acts from the VMT Talent Showcase and the Spring Concert from the Martin High School Band

___two at a time . . .

___completed the Oscar Luis Jimenez video and the video on the Nixon Concert Band starring ME and the two Nixon Band Brothers, tomorrow with a little luck i should complete three more shows, two on the Mariachi Fiesta and maybe finally the show on the VMT piano students, that should put us ahead about ten weeks ahead of schedule, (ten shows are in the can and on the shelf) and i am seriously considering one more and then taking the rest of the summer off, or maybe i can get started on the Laredomio second show to be called Sportstown, but it will be difficult since both LISD and UISD have no AD in charge, did they plan to do this together ?????????, we shall prevail !!!!!!!!

___small stuff, pero con elegance

___recorded a spectacular ranchero show last night at the PAC studio's as Mr. Oscar Luis Jimenez and his charming wife Monserrat honored us with their presence, although we had a bit of a problem with the sound on the playback, the PAC's technical staff, namely Luis Garza, soon troubleshot the problem and wired the sound system to get us the sound we desired, Mr. Jimenez's reportoire consisted of a bunch of the old standards,, "la llaves de mi alma, la media vuelta, and concluded with el Rey", quite a strong voice to add to his stage presence. Debbie handled the interview as to her usual standard and she commented that the singer was an easy person to interview granted that he expressed himself very eloquently. Melissa and Norma were there to add their support and each recorded a small signet for future shows, meanwhile, gotta attend to a small problem we had last night with an intruder who mmanaged to get into the building without any speciific invitation or authorization

___two Oscar Luis's

___made a couple of copies for Oscar Luis Elizondo from his past show and some studio footage that he wanted to keep for his records, and we were pleasantly surprised to hear from Oscar Luis Jimenez, a fine singer we had met during the Paul Rodriguez show several months ago, and we made quick arrangements to record him today in the Studio, he sings two types of Music,, ranchera's e internacional, so maybe we will do two shows on him and his music

___happy Papa's day

___on Thursday evening, i on;y completed one of the Nixon Band tapes due to the fact that i didn't have a blank tape, i done the "Honor Winds" show and the other one will just have to wait, got the names of the Piano players from Dr. Carroll and notified Norma Quintero to get the material ready for her daughter's special video, we will proceed

___down-home style music

___completed the editing job on the "Grupo Tekila" video show, used all six songs and the thing ran almost 26 minutes, i was not bad as MC but i did keep interupting the speaker, gotta be more patient and listen to the words, tonight maybe i can complete the two Nixon Band shows, maybe i can and that will fill up our programming until the beginning of August, maybe if we do complete those shows, we can take a couple of week off, next week we record a ranchera singer and maybe finish the two out of town Student Mariachi's shows, geeeeeeee, el piano show is also a possibility,

___three down, ___ to go

___completed three shows in the studio as Grupo Tekila made a late date and showed up to record their down-to-earth, home-style music, those guys are natural life-long musicians who have a certain flair, muy apasionada, and the more they play, the better and better they sound, de veras, also i managed to get the Esparza brothers, Roel and Alexander to come down and represent the Nixon Band and talk about their experiences with the band, Roel is a recent graduate who plans to continue his musical training and perhaps become a Music Teacher while Alex has two more years left at Nixon, biggest surprise was that none of my "hostesses" showed up and i had no one to conduct the interviews so guess who stepped in and took over, well, you are right, i did it myself and we shall see how it turns out, anyhow, son tres shows and i get to edit and cut out all the ugly scenes, will we have enough to have a show?, i certainly hope so

___weekend is gone

___editing completed on the Jose M. Pena show and the long, long anticipated Class of 57 reunion program, so much material that the show had to be extended to two hours and it will not run until the week of June 25 and the first week of July, tsk, tsk, that's life in the big city

___edit, edit and more editing

___editing is complete on the trio/joe medina show, good info and good music, meanwhile i have started work on the author Jose M. Pena show conducted by Norma and that should go quickly, the Monumental task will be the footage compiled over two days on the class of 57 reunion, those two days and the footage,, over an hours' worth compiled in the studio means we will have tons of material to evaluate, met last night with a Group called Grupo Tekila and their music is real down to earth, they said they will call and maybe make it to the studio by next Tuesday, also received many compliments on the Matachines video which aired yesterday, especially from the people of the Ladrillera, yesterday Norma and i spread the word to them to be sure to tune in and they did

___nuttin from nuttin, leaves sumthing

___unable to edit tonight, recorder simply would not cooperate, but i did managed to convert the author and reunion tapes from Beta format to Super VHS, also my biggest coup was managing to capture a recording of the Selena concert performed by Tricia Cortez at the LCC recently, of course she has an open invitation to come make an appearance on Hot Town !, that will explain it all

___crowded, but a nice one , , ,

___finished this evening the editing job on the Mariachi Tigeres del Sur/Frank Sosa interview and performance, that makes 23 tapes completed to date since we started this operation, and this morning we were a little crowded in the small studio as we had eight members of the steering committee in the small PAC studio from the Class that went to heaven, of course that means the MHS Class of 57, Debbie came in just in time and did her usual masterful job of conducting the interviews, not that the senior folks needed too much prodding and we had a lot of laughs in the studio as the committee members sang "acapella" the Martin Fight Song in unisom, well almost. Amongst the Guests were Maya Guerra, Sylvia Bird, Ramiro and Mine Barrera, Dora Gonzales Wolfe, Elodia Villarreal Jimenez, Humberto Jimenez and Norma who sat in as a panel member, but before that Norma handled the whole 30 minute show with author Jose M. Pena and his tales of Revilla, that is Guerrero Viejo for the uninformed, that makes two straight show that Norma has handled by herself in two weeks, wow

___early to rise, morning shoot

___tomorrow morning, bright and early, we will have a studio shoot to wrap up several shows already half recorded, first and foremost, we will play host to Jose M. Pena, renowned author who is on a promotional tour having written his book about his experiences throughout the world as he did his duty to represent his country, i believe it is called, no, i won't even attempt to ascertain the title, and then the steering committee del class of 57 will come in to give us a review of their recent three day reunion, maybe some of the piano students from VMT will wrap-up their show also half finished and finally, Martin High school Mariachi and Band have to wrap up some, several shows, this is how we work to put it al together

___busy,, busy . . .hug, hug

___spent the last two day recording the happy folks at the Martin high class of 1957, the class that went to Heaven is their motto, at their Reunion, those folks know how to party, first it was the sign-up at the front entrance of the hallowed halls of Martin, and then the garden party at the house de Maya Guerra, music of those old day con mucho to drink and a very tasty mexican buffet was served, then on Saturday, the party continued at the Laredo Country Club, que elegante !? where it was also a time de mucho hugs and kisses for the old classmates, as the folks were starting their meal, who should strolled in but Pancho Sosa and his Mariachi Band playing the Martin Fight Song, gee, everyone stood up and cheered, and then the "serenata" continued with several songs to the several groups gathered at the LCC. finally, the
dance band started and again the first song was the martin Fight Song, some of the couple actually got up to dance, the music continued and i am sure the folks will have muchos memories if not on video then on DVD, we weill make both as well as a Hot Town Segment to be broadcast