112th Kendall County Fair Catalog

OO Kendall County Fair Catalog Index OO
Kendall County Fair Association Information.................................. 1
Letter From The Fair President.......................................................... 2
Royalty..............................................................................................3-5
Dedication Page.................................................................................. 6
Homestead Heritage Exhibit Hall Scholarship Winners................... 8
Queen’s Court Scholarship Receipients............................................. 9
History of the Fair............................................................................. 10
Fair Facts............................................................................................ 11
Presidents.....................................................................................12-13
Past Queens/Past Little Misses....................................................14-15
Board of Directors............................................................................ 16
Senior Directors................................................................................ 17
Directors Picture............................................................................... 18
E-Board and Senior Directors Pictures............................................ 19
Happening at the 109th Kendall County Fair............................20-21
Admission Prices............................................................................... 22
Exhibition Hall History.................................................................... 23
Homestead Heritage Exhibit Hall Information............................... 24
General Information Rules and Regulations................................25-27
Division 1-Children’s Crafts............................................................. 28
Division 2-Taxidermy and Tanning................................................. 30
Division 3-Agriculture...................................................................... 32
Division 4-Gardening....................................................................... 34
Ball Award Announcements............................................................. 37
Division 5-Home Preservation Products......................................... 38
Division 6-Soft Spreads.................................................................... 41
Division 8-Baking and Candy.......................................................... 48
Division 9-Needle Handwork.......................................................... 53
Kendall County Soil & Water Conservation.................................... 54
Division 10-Sewing........................................................................... 55
Division 11-Quilting......................................................................... 57
Wright Amusements Carnival.......................................................... 59
Division 12-Crafts, Ceramics and Clay/Pottery.............................. 61
Division 13-Collections.................................................................... 65
Division 14-Relics............................................................................. 66
Division 15-Antiques........................................................................ 68
Apple Pie Contest.............................................................................. 71
Lester Meier Rodeo........................................................................... 73
Livestock Show Information............................................................76
Photography and Art Divisions Rules and Regulations.................. 79
Division 16-Amateur Photography.................................................. 80
Coloring Contest Winners................................................................ 81
Division 17-Adult Professional Art.................................................. 82
Division 18-Amateur Art.................................................................. 83
Division 19-Children’s Art & Photography..................................... 84
Division 20-Floral............................................................................. 86
Advertisers’ Index..............................................................................90
2017 Kendall County Fair Headliner Entertainers
Friday Night, September 1st
Billy Mata and The Texas Tradition
Billy started his recording career in the 1970’s singing Billboard
charted, Top 40 Country Music. However in the 1990’s
he declared his passion, what he calls “Real Country Music.”
Beginning with his 1998 (Third) album release, Keepin’ The
Tradition: A Tribute To My Heroes, Billy insisted on recording with his own stage band to properly perform
the music he truly prefers: Real Bob Wills Western Swing and Traditional Country. Billy celebrates
35 years of making music with The Texas Tradition, his own Texas Western Swing Hall Of Fame Band,
and winner of the 2016 Ameripolitan Western Swing Group of the year. The Texas Tradition is a handpicked
collection of professional musicians from a wide area of Texas who are gathered together by their
common interest in Western Swing and the opportunity to play with the best of the best. Three of Mata’s
musicians are now at or past their 20th year with the band. They play like family. Billy Mata and The
Texas Tradition aren’t just another “Human Jukebox” on the stage. When they play, its’ natural and fun.
Saturday Night, September 2nd
Rick Trevino
Rick Trevino, is a Grammy-Award winning Mexican American County
Music artist. Signed to Columbia Nashville in 1993,Trevino began his
career that year with the release of his debut single, “Just Enough Rope”,
the first mainstream country music single to feature separate English and
Spanish-language versions. The song was included on his debut album Dos Mundos;a self-titled album
followed a year later. Trevino has charted a total of fourteen singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs
charts, including three number one singles: Running Out Of Reason To Run, Learning As You Go and
She Can’t Say I Didn’t Cry. He also has recorded seven studio albums and his latest album Long Coyote
Gone was co-written and self produced in Austin, Texas is sure to be another chart climber.
Sunday Night, September 3rd
Bobby Flores & The Yellow Rose Band
Bobby Flores started his professional career in 1968 at the
age of seven years of age. He started by performing a local
functions and Texas area circuits in a gospel duo with his
Mother Mary Jane Flores. Two years later Bobby began working
nightclubs as a featured single artist with George Chambers & The Country Gentlemen, a wellknown
San Antonio area country band. The next ten years would set the precedence for Bobby’s career.
He formed his first band at the age of thirteen and started opening for national artists such as Marty
Robbins, Johnny Rodriguez, Tanya Tucker and Conway Twitty. By the middle 80’s, Bobby had become a
bandleader, show opener and fiddle player for Johnny Bush and opening for numerous country superstars
including George Strait and Garth Brooks. Bobby played violin/fiddle player for Ray Price through
2001. Playing with Ray Price inspired Bobby to record his debut DC, Just For The Record. Since then he
has release an additional six CD’s. Over the years Bobby has received numerous awards and continuously
gaining recognition as of Texas’ premier musicians and vocalists, both on stage and in the studio.
Bobby can be heard all across Texas playing county dances with his band, The Yellow Rose Band,”
featuring three fiddles and some of the best musicians in the world. Bobby owns, directs and teaches
at his live-performance music academy, the Bulverde Academy of Music. In addition, Bobby’s recording
and production talents have found a permanent home B.A.M. Recording Studios in San Antonio, which
Bobby owns.
89