LA GRANGE — The Fay- ette County Country Music Club will host their monthly opry on
Monday, April 21 at the Knights of Columbus Hall in La Grange.
The show starts at 7 p.m. and the doors will open at 5:30 p.m. Admission is $8.
Entertainers this month are Bernard "Nap" Gabler, Briana Adams and Paul Schlesinger.
Gabler started singing as a freshman for school functions at Bishop Forest in Schulenburg. He has enjoyed sitting in with many local bands in the past, both in this area and in Victoria where he has been living since 1985. He has been part of a strictly ka - raoke group since 2002 and sings in the Victoria area churches, rest homes and country oprys.
Adams is not exactly a rebel, but with her musical mashup of Waylon, Skynyrd, and Janis Jo -
plin, you could be forgiven for thinking she is. In reality, Tex as singer/songwriter Adams is a sweet-natured Southern crooner who just wants to share her music
with the world.
Her songs are a honky tonk trip of classic dancehall and 70's outlaw country rolled into a tightknit package, all headlined by a big Texas voice and an unmis - takable style that's all her own. And if you catch a little twist of blues and rock'n' roll in the vo - cal, that's not by accident. Grow - ing up in a small Texas town like
Winchester, that's the way coun - try music is done! For the last 15 years, Adams has been touring all over Texas. She has opened for some Texas Country/Red Dirt greats along the way too! Includ - ing, The Bellamy Brothers, Ran -
dy Rogers Band, Jason Boland & The Stragglers, and Charlie Rob - ison. Just to name a few. Her su - perlative voice, vintage style, and quiet confidence even in the face of doubt will take her a long way.
Stay tuned for a lot more from this rising Texas artist, Adams.
Schlesinger is a fiddle player and vocalist from Taylor, who specializes in traditional Texas swing, country, and country-gos - pel music. He has been named one of the top five western swing male vocalists of the year by the Academy of Western Artists, one of the highest levels of rec - ognition for country and cowboy entertainers. His recording of "You Were Meant to Ruin My Dreams" was named the Western Swing Song of the Year by the Academy in 2017.
His most recent award rec - ognition occurred in July 2021 when he was inducted in the Western Swing Music Society of the Southwest Hall of Fame in Lawton, Okla. Schlesinger got his start in 1993 when he received his first fiddle lesson at age 23 from Perk Williams, the fiddler and vocalist for Jimmy Heap and the Melody Masters, a band from Taylor, who in 1954 had the first national hit recording of "Re - lease Me." He currently works as a solo artist or appears with sev-
eral different groups, including the Alibis of Austin; Bobby Dean
and the Timeless Country Band from China Springs; the Merles from Austin; Ed Kopecky and the Fun Time Czech Band from Taylor; and the 3C Cowboy Fel - lowship Band from Salado. He also performs twice a month at the Bastrop 1832 Farmer's Mar - ket with Tim Hill as the "Town and Country Boys.”
He continues to be active in the area and currently writes for
the Giddings Times & News . He and the Alibis were invited to
play on the opening night of last year's Fayette County Fair, where he also performed the National Anthem during the opening cer emonies.
All three of his CDs are available as digital downloads through services such as Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube.
