| This Saturday, Nichols Park will be echoing with music as the Crazy Snake Festival gets underway. Gates open at 5 p.m. then the entertainment starts at 6 with Jake Gill on stage. He will be followed at 7 by Curtis Grimes then the headliner, Charlie Robison performs at 8:30. General admission tickets are $20 if purchased in advance or $25 at the gate. Special VIP tickets are available giving those people special seating during the performances. They are $40 in advance or $50 at the gate. Tickets may be purchased at Kaleidoscope/US Cellular, Jiffy Mart and Henryetta Ford Ranch. They can also be purchased online at the concert promoter's website: http://levelland.preferredfan.com | |
| The headline performer, Charlie Robison, has been performing throughout Texas and Oklahoma. He grew up in Bandera, in the Texas Hill country. Even before he could walk, Charlie would spend Saturday nights with his parents at The Cabaret, the local C&W dancehall in downtown Bandera. in the late 1980s he and his brother started performing with the band Chaparral. Within a couple of years, he started writing songs then struck out on his own. In 1995, he released his first album, "Bandera." Later he signed with Sony Music's Lucky Dog label and released two more albums, one of which, "Step Right Up," hit the top 40 of the country album chart. |  Charlie Robison |
| The opening performer, Jake Gill, grew up in Kansas where he and his grandfather listened to country music on the radio. Gill's father was a music teacher that also had an influence on his love of music at an early age. Gill says it was hearing Garth Brooks that changed everything for him. He brought the honky tonk bar scene to a larger audience. That was something I had never seen before. He wasn't just a singer, he was and is a performer." He brings that raw energy and charisma to his brand new single, “Tailgate Tradition." He got a major boost when he won a songwriting contest that put him on the main state at Country Stampede as an opening act. |  Jake Gill |
| Another native of the Texas Hill Country is Curtis Grimes. He says he is a student of traditional country music and showcased that feeling when he was chosen to be on the Cee Lo Green team in season one of the NBC TV show, "The Voice." He was among the top 10 finalists on that show. In 2014 he recorded his first fully-produced studio album, "Our Side of the Fence." The title track on that album spent two weeks at the top of the Texas music charts. He has received the texas Regional Radio Music "New Male Vocalist of the Year" in 2014. |  Curtis Grimes |
