Kimmie Rhodes Live in the Rose Chapel
Doors 6pm, Show 7pm
BYOB/BYOF - some complimentary beverages and snacks available while they last, setups available.
Pickin' Party after the show in the Reception Salon
Singer/Songwriter • Culinarian • Storyteller • Ambassador • Speaker
"The soul of a poet and the voice of an angel.” – Rodney Crowell
The Austin Chronicle calls Kimmie Rhodes a “prolific figure in Texas Music.” The Austin-based singer-songwriter has released 16 solo albums; written and produced three musical plays; published a novella/cookbook and a memoir. She blends these unique skills and captivates audiences on stages around the world, and in intimate group settings. A native Texan born in Lubbock, she has cultivated the spirited mix of talent and determination that still fuels her success.
In her three-decade-plus career, the Austin-based singer-songwriter has released 16 solo albums; written and produced three musical plays; published a novella/cookbook and a memoir; and written many multi-platinum songs, recorded by such stellar artists as Willie Nelson, Wynonna Judd, Trisha Yearwood, Amy Grant, CeCe Winans, Joe Ely, Waylon Jennings, Peter Frampton, Mark Knopfler, Emmylou Harris and others.
Kimmie grew up in Lubbock, Texas and began her singing career at the age of six with her family gospel trio. She moved to Austin in 1979, where she met DJ at the legendary KOKE-FM and producer Joe Gracey, an instrumental figure in the Austin progressive country scene, who she eventually married. Joe was her constant companion, muse, bass player and general “partner in crime” until he died of cancer in November 2011.
Kimmie is an honorary ambassador for The Buddy Holly Educational Foundation. Based in England, the international foundation’s mission is to honor Buddy’s legacy as well as to fulfill Buddy and Maria Elena Holly’s dream of extending musical education including songwriting, production, arrangements, orchestration, and performance to new generations regardless of income, ethnicity or learning levels. “Kimmie is a highly respected and much loved artist/song-writer hailing from Buddy Holly’s birthplace, Lubbock, Texas. It gives me great pleasure that she has one of our unique guitars titled “Lonesome Tears” and has joined our close-knit family as an Ambassador of the Buddy Holly Educational Foundation.” Maria Elena Holly
Today, Kimmie is writing and making pre-production plans for a new album of all original songs to be recorded at her own Sunbird Studios for a spring 2023 release.
She continues to make her home in the Texas hill country outside of Austin and spends several months each year in her second home in the South of France, writing and performing – and making plans for “what happens next.”