Maynard returns to headline Country Show

Janice Maynard returns to Gonzales Thursday, Oct. 4 to again headline the monthly Gonzales Country Music Show as the event makes its debut at the Crystal Theatre.

Show time is 7 p.m. and tickets are available at the Gonzales Chamber of Commerce office in the Old Jail Museum.

Maynard was the featured guest during the show’s debut last April, and will be joined by her brother-in-law, Steve Maynard, as well as Priscilla Speed and Prairie Lea’s Nikki Vincent.

Also on the October show will be local favorites John Chenault and Ken Hosler. The back up band features twin fiddles, guitarists Wendell & Winston O’Neal, and Robert Remschel on steel.

Janice Maynard is a traditional country singer straight from the heart of Texas. She’s been likened to some of the greatest classic country singers of all time, yet with a voice and style that’s all her own. Born into a musical family, then later marrying into one, has made singing country music a way of life for her. She started singing publicly in church, then began doing studio work; cutting demos and background vocals.

Janice’s debut album, "There’s A Better Way" is full blown Texas country at it’s finest. It was produced by brother-in-law, Steve Maynard, along with every song on the album also being written by him. It is unmistakably traditional country with some songs having a little bluegrass flare to them. "It’s the music that I really love," she says, "and I want to be one of the ones that helps keep it alive!"

Janice has recently teamed up with multi-talented, Bobby Flores to work on her second CD which will be coming out on Yellow Rose Records later this year.

Steve Maynard grew up in Leander, a small town outside of Austin. Playing honky-tonks as a teenager, Steve had landed a record deal with Polygram in Nashville by the age of 23. He later signed a deal with Sony.

Steve and his wife had started a family and he had all but given up on the music business until an old friend, and his former producer Steve Hennig, talked him into getting back in the studio to record new music. With a new found energy and passion for producing, writing, and recording music, Steve’s latest project, "One More Day To Live" displays some of his best self-written traditional country songs.

You may recently have seen him as one of the male lead singers on the San Antonio Rose Live Show, a classic country music tribute to the greats. He also has started his own publishing company called Rio Bravo Music and is currently seeking a career as a songwriter as well as being an artist.