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I’d like to take thisopportunity opportunity like take this I’d like to take this opportunity toto your stayyou forto few days, weeks, invite you stick around, toextend extend invite stick around, However, there’s one person who to was invite you totoa stick around, to extend months... even The your stay stay for aame aindefinitely! few days, weeks, your for few days, your stay for few days, weeks, successful inorgetting to sing, andweeks, funmonths... keeps coming; we keep dancing, months... even indefinitely! The or indefinitely! months... oror even even indefinitely! The that’s Amby Tanner. Mr. Tanner was my The fun keeps coming; wekeep keep dancing, fun keeps coming; we dancing, dining, and at having all summer fun keeps coming; we keep dancing, choir teacher Lamarfun Junior High, dining, and having having fun all summer dining, and all summer dining, and having fun all summer long, we’d love to fun have you join which isand now Lamar Academy in McAllen. long, and we’d love to have you join long, and we’d love to have you long, and we’d love to have you join us. I have to admit, I had a tendency to chat join us. us. withus. my fellow classmates more than If much you feel must go,Tanner. I’d like to sing, to theyou chagrin of Mr. youto feel you must go,the I’dword liketo If you feel you must go, I’d like IfIfyou you feel you must go, I’d like toto invite help us spread Fast forward to my high-school years, invite youto help usspread spread theyou word invite you help us the word invite you toto help us spread the word about South Texas to everyone andabout I foundSouth myselfTexas in the to company of you about South Texas to everyone you everyone about South Texas to everyone you meet along the way andtime those you see Mr. Tanner once again, this with our meet along the way and those youto see meet along the way and those you see meet along the way and those you see Razz-Ma-Tazz performs at a Welcome Home RGV event at the McAllen Convention Center. Photo by Eryn Reddell Wingert. every day back home. Invite them church youth choir. While singing in the every day back home. Invite them back home. them every day back home. Invite them toto joinevery you day next season! WeInvite would loveto choir wasyou definitely not my strongest suit, love join you next season! Wemore would love next season! We would join you next season! We would love to join have them join us. The the Mr. Tanner recognized my other talent, to have them join us. The more the to have them join us. The more the to have them join us. The more the merrier! andmerrier! that’s rallying the troops to join me. merrier! merrier! (It This also didn’t hurt that Iwe hadwill a car,host and our September, This September, we will host our This September, we will our This September, we will host our he could make sure the rest of my choir second, not so annual (thankshost to the second, not soannual annual (thanks the second, so (thanks to second, not so annual (thanks totothe the friends would not show up to practice!) pandemic), Winter Texan Reunion pandemic), Winter Texan Texan Reunion pandemic), Winter Reunion pandemic), Winter Texan Reunion Mr. Tanner was passionate, not only Tour, so so we’d also like totoinvite you Tour, soHis we’d also invite you Tour, we’d also like invite you Tour, so we’d also like toto invite you about music. true giftour islike the ability Story by Eryn Reddell Wingert to to join us at one of stops. Stay to join us at one of our stops. Stay join us at one of our stops. Stay to join us at one of our stops. Stay to encourage othersannounce to step out our of their tuned as we travel tuned as we announce our travel travelazz-Ma-Tazz is well known among the Winter Texan Tanner and choreographer Debra Morton then took the show on tuned we our tuned as we announce our travel comfort zoneas and do announce what some might plans. Special toto Welcome Home RGV plans. plans. community. The two have a long-standing relationship plans. theHome road. After performing at a Christmas party, the group stopped Specialto Welcome Home RGV Special Welcome RGV Special tothat Welcome Home RGV call the impossible. There is no way to dates back to the ensemble choir’s inception 30 years ago. to eat at Luby’s Cafeteria on North 10th Street in McAllen. They measure the impact had throughout It has been a real pleasure toto serve tttin seems like only yesterday we has been real pleasure toserve serveAfter Nikki Rowe High School opened in McAllen It been aaahe real pleasure ItIthas has been real pleasure to serve 1990 sang a few carols, andwe afterwards, Tanner shares, “A lady came I t seems like only yesterday we I seems like only yesterday seems like only yesterday we his career, and I We have nowill doubt hethroughout can’t youyou this year. will work throughout you this year. We will work throughout this year. We work you this year. We will work throughout were celebrating the long-awaited the school’s choir received requests to perform at various up to me. Her name was Twyla Dubois, and she said, ‘My gosh! were celebrating the long-awaited were celebrating the long-awaited were celebrating the long-awaited go anywhere without seeing aon former thethe summer months onon all ofof our the summer months all our summer months all our the summer months on all ofof our events. However, it was too cumbersome of anreturn endeavor. These kids are great! Have you ever sung for any Winter Texans?’” of so many of our friends. return of so many of our friends. return of so many of our friends. return of so many of our friends. student-performer. His legend will live programming so next season will be programmingso sonext nextseason seasonwill willbe be“I always thought one day I wanted to form an ensemble programming programming so next season will be to Tanner, Now, here we are bidding you Now, here here we weAccording are bidding bidding you Dubois booked the group on the Now, are you even better than this one! Now, here we are bidding you on forever through thethis talents even better than this one!of our even better than one! even better than this one! choir, a show choir, so we could be mobile and go places,” spot to perform the farewell and safe travels. All of next week at Adobe Wells, a 55+ Valley youth. farewell and and safe safe travels. travels. All All very of farewell and safe travels. All of recalls former choir director Amby Tanner. So he did. community. Activity Safe travels, Y’all! • We’re justtravels, connecting the••dots. Safe travels, Y’all! • • us Welcome Home RGV lookdirectors from other communities Safe Y’all! Safe travels, Y’all! us at at Welcome Home RGV Welcome Home RGV look us at Home RGV look Three years later, Razz-Ma-Tazz was founded. Tanner were in the audience during that performance and forward your return. Plans are forwardto toyour your return. Plans return. Plans are forward to return. Plans are credits a former assistant, Marilyn Martin, with choosing the promptly booked the choir, as well. We’re just connecting the dots, We’rejust justconnecting connectingthe thedots, dots, We’re We’re just connecting the dots, name. As Tanner recalls, when he asked Martin what it meant, FAREWELL WINTER TEXAN SEASON FAREWELLWINTER WINTERTEXAN TEXANSEASON SEASON FAREWELL FAREWELL WINTER TEXAN SEASON CONTINUED ON PAGE >> CONTINUEDON ONPAGE PAGE4444>> CONTINUED ON PAGE >> she replied, “It means exciting and up-beat entertainment!” CONTINUED CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 >>
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