He has also accompanied such notable performers as Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Andrea Bocelli, Randy Newman, Dudley Moore, Bobby Shew, the Village People and the Moody Blues.
Banks across the United States on Monday closed their doors for Columbus Day and here locally First Financial was not different. However instead of taking the day off their employees participated in the bank's seventh annual day of service.
The third-ranked Angelo State football team kept up it's winning ways on Saturday, defeating Eastern New Mexico 28-9 at LeGrand Stadium at 1st Community Credit Union field. With the win, the Rams improve to 6-0 overall and 4-0 in Lone Star Conference action.
Columbus Day was created by President Harrison in 1892 in response to the anti-Italian motivated lynching of 11 Italian Americans in New Orleans in 1891.
The Pollinator BioBlitz runs from Oct. 7-23, allowing students, citizen-scientists and outdoor enthusiasts of all ages to simply enjoy pollinators of all sorts, or even to take it a step further and help increase the amount of data collected during the peak of fall migration by becoming a citizen scientist.