Tom Parker is said to have chosen the 'perfect' song to play as he passed away with his loved ones by his side.
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Willie Nelson’s sister and original bandmate has died.
Nelson’s family shared the news that his sister Bobbie, who was also a pianist and singer, passed away “peacefully and surrounded by family” on Thursday morning at the age of 91.
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“Her elegance, grace, beauty and talent made this world a better place. She was the first member of Willie’s band, as his pianist and singer. Our hearts are broken and she will be deeply missed. But we are so lucky to have had her in our lives. Please keep her family in your thoughts and give them the privacy they need at this time,” the Nelson family said in a statement via Billboard.
Bonnie was the first member of Nelson’s band Willie Nelson and Family, and toured and recorded with her brother for over 50 years.
The siblings’ album Hill Country Christmas topped the Top Country Albums chart in 1997.
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Bonnie was also featuring on Nelson’s 2021 album The Willie Nelson Family, which featured a collection of gospel-inspired songs.
They also collaborated on the 2020 memoir Me and Sister Bobbie: True Tales of The Family Band, as well as the 2021 children’s book Sister, Brother, Family: An American Childhood in Music.
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Chris Willman Music WriterFor years, the Stagecoach Festival in Indio has had a side stage, dubbed the Palomino tent, that is a virtual festival-within-a-festival, focusing on alternative country, Americana and heritage country acts, “cred” artists that tend to draw a largely different audience than the larger one that stays at the mainstream main stage all day. This summer, Goldenvoice is branching off that approach into a one-day gathering of its own — the Palomino Festival — set to go down for the first time July 9 in Pasadena.Kacey Musgraves, Willie Nelson & Family and Jason Isbell are newly announced as the headliners for the inaugural event, which will take place at Brookside at the Rose Bowl, a park adjacent to the storied stadium that Goldenvoice has used for a number of other genre-specific festivals in the last decade.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Even country music legend Willie Nelson found it hard to vote absentee in the March 1 primary under new Texas election laws, his wife said. Nelson and his wife made two attempts before they succeeded in obtaining absentee ballots from Travis County elections officials, wife Annie D’Angelo-Nelson told the Austin American-Statesman.
election laws, his wife said.Nelson and his wife made two attempts before they succeeded in obtaining absentee ballots from Travis County elections officials, wife Annie D’Angelo-Nelson told the Austin American-Statesman.She said their first applications were rejected because of inconsistent identification information provided on the forms. She said they’re concerned for those wanting absentee ballots but aren't as tech-savvy as her and her musician-husband.Texas threw out mail votes at an abnormally high rate during the nation’s first primary of 2022, rejecting nearly 23,000 ballots outright under tougher voting rules that are part of a broad campaign by Republicans to reshape American elections, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.Roughly 13% of mail ballots returned in the March 1 primary were discarded and uncounted across 187 counties in Texas.
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Willie Nelson's older sister and longtime bandmate has died. Bobbie Nelson passed away on the morning of Thursday, March 10, «peacefully and surrounded by family,» according to a statement from the Nelson family that Willie posted to Instagram. She was 91.«Her elegance, grace, beauty and talent made this world a better place,» the statement reads.
Willie Nelson's sister and bandmate, Bobbie Nelson, has died. She was 91. Bobbie, who was a pianist, singer and a member of the band Willie Nelson and Family, passed away Thursday morning, "peacefully and surrounded by family." "Her elegance, grace, beauty and talent made this world a better place.