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Swingin' Tex-Fest Heads To Town This Week

By: Julia Hurt and Alex Hayes
Updated: August 20, 2012
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Come this weekend six country bands will file into the Taylor County Expo Center along with their biggest big country fans for the first annual Swingin' Tex Fest.

Director of Ben Richey Boy's Ranch, Kerry Fortune, says, "It's gonna be a great weekend. It's an opportunity for folks that like to come out and dance and just listen to some good country music and wanna dance this is where you need to be."

"After attending the Snyder event we thought this is a great opportunity to bring an event to Abilene. Really we thought there is a lot of folks that are a little older that wanna go out and dance but they don't wanna go to the clubs they don't want to go to the bars but they love to go dance, we thought this would be a great way for us to give back to the community and to a lot of folks that support us," Fortune explains.

For a schedule of performers, see below.

1st Annual Swingin' Tex-Fest
August 24th - 25th
Taylor Couny Expo Center
With Ben Richey Boys Ranch
Find them on Facebook!
Twitter: @TaylorCoExpo

Friday, August 24th
12:00 (noon): Doors Open
1:00-2:15p.m.: Curtis Potter
2:30-3:45p.m.: Jody Nix
4:00-5:15p.m.: Bobby Flores
INTERMISSION- (Dinner available on-site from Ben Richey Boys Ranch for Donations)
6:30-7:45p.m.: Curtis Potter
8:00-9:15p.m.: Jody Nix
9:30-11:00p.m.: Bobby Flores

Saturday, August 25th
12:00 (noon): Doors Open
1:00-2:15p.m.: Kelly Spinks
2:30-3:45p.m.: Mark Powell
4:00-5:15p.m.: Mark Powell, Kelly Spinks, Curtis Potter and a Special Guest!
INTERMISSION- (Dinner available on-site from Ben Richey Boys
Ranch for Donations)
6:30-7:45p.m.: Kelly Spinks
8:00-9:15p.m.: Mark Powell
9:30-11:00p.m.: Junior Brown

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