The Ector Theatre

Bright Star (Saturday 4/29)
2023-04-29 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Chicago) | The Ector Theatre, 500 N Texas Ave, Odessa, TX, 79761, United States
An American Folktale Inspired By A True Story. The production is put on in conjunction between Basin Theatre Works, Odessa Arts, Odessa College Theater and Visual Performing Arts departments, Texans for the Arts, and the Texas Music Office. A presentation of Odessa College’s Music Masters Series.
Doors At 6:30 PM
Show Starts At 7:30 PM

Bright Star (Friday 4/28)
2023-04-28 19:30 - 22:00

Bright Star (Thursday 4/27)
2023-04-27 19:30 - 22:00

Milam's 80's Dance Explosion (4:00 PM)
2023-04-22 16:00 - 18:00
Milam Elementary presents “Milam’s 80’s Dance Explosion,” our annual spring dance recital. Come out and enjoy a wonderful afternoon of entertainment for all ages. Milam dancers, grades Pre-K through 5th will be performing tap, ballet and jazz dances that they have been actively working on since January.

Milam's 80's Dance Explosion (1:00 PM)
2023-04-22 13:00 - 15:00
Milam Elementary presents “Milam’s 80’s Dance Explosion”, our annual spring dance recital. Come out and enjoy a wonderful afternoon of entertainment for all ages. Milam dancers, grades Pre-K through 5th will be performing tap, ballet and jazz dances that they have been actively working on since January.

Ashley McBryde + Special Guest Alyssa Micaela
2023-04-16 19:30 - 22:30
CMA and ACM award winner Ashley McBryde cut her teeth playing country songs in rural biker bars – and it shows. Her 2018 major label debut Girl Going Nowhere (Warner Music Nashville) charmed The New York Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, Paste, The Washington Post and more, all en route to landing a GRAMMY nomination for Best Country Album. McBryde closed out 2019 with ACM New Female Artist, CMT Breakout Artist, a New Artist of the Year win at the 53rd Annual CMA Awards and two nominations for the 2020 GRAMMYs for Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance for “Girl Goin’ Nowhere.” Her follow-up Never Will was tagged by Rolling Stone as one of the most anticipated of the year alongside NPR, who also ranked her Top 10 RIAA Platinum-Certified single “One Night Standards” as one of the best songs of 2019. The album earned McBryde a 2021 GRAMMY nomination for Best Country Album, making Never Will the only album nominated for Country Album of the Year by the ACMs, CMAs and the Recording Academy in the same award season. Her critically acclaimed duet with Carly Pearce, “Never Wanted To Be That Girl,” went all the way to No. 1 and earned McBryde and Pearce the ACM and CMA award for Musical Event of the Year. McBryde was also honored with the 2022 CMA International Artist Achievement Award for the most significant creative growth, development and promotion of the country music industry outside of the United States. The Arkansas-native invites listeners to Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville, a collaborative new project featuring Brothers Osborne, Brandy Clark, Pillbox Patti, Caylee Hammack, Aaron Raitiere and more, earning McBryde her third consecutive GRAMMY nomination for Best Country Album, while her duet with Pearce received a nod for Best Country Duo/Group Performance, making her a six-time GRAMMY nominee. Upon its release on September 30, Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville garnered applause from The New York Times, NPR, Variety, Vulture, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Billboard and Stereogum, among many more. Tickets for the two-night special event Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville Live at Ryman Auditorium on February 15-16 are available now. McBryde will be inducted as a member of the Grand Ole Opry on December 10.

Ram Herrera
2023-04-08 20:00 - 23:00
Ramiro “Ram” Herrera is a smooth-voiced, award-winning Tejano singer and songwriter, who is not only a staple on the Texas music scene but is considered one of its legends. He has received a Tejano Music Award as Male Entertainer of the Year and a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Tejano Music Association. He began his professional career with David Lee Garza y Los Musicales in 1980 and appeared on the albums Cuatro Caminos (1981), Todavia No Me Muero (1982), and Especialmente Para Ti (1983). The following year, he left and started his own band, Ramiro Herrera y Montana, with whom he recorded two albums — Que Lindo Es el Amor and Rosas Para una Rosas. Impressive regional airplay and a compelling live show resulted in Herrera signing to Sony. His solo debut, Most Wanted Man, was not only his first in English, it went gold; it is a classic in the Tejano canon. His third solo album, 1989’s The Outlaw, followed suit and his band was renamed the Outlaws.
For the next 15 years, Herrera recorded almost annually and shared stages with a wide range of performers including Doug Sahm, Freddy Fender, and Selena — she opened for him at a rodeo in one of her early shows; video of the performance was captured and included in the documentary Corpus: A Home Movie for Selena by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Lourdes Portillo.

Bluebird Night
2023-03-25 19:30 - 22:30
Nashville comes to the Ector! From written page to concert stage, come and experience the tales of true Nashville songwriters and storytellers. This unique peek behind the curtain will reveal the true heart and soul of the music as told and performed by those who put pen to paper and touch our hearts and lives.

West Texas Symphony Presents Downtown Classics
2023-03-24 19:30 - 21:30
West Texas Symphony Presents
Downtown Classics
Gary Lewis, Music Director & Conductor
As an extra concert on the Celebratory Season, members of the West Texas Symphony will perform innovative classical favorites.

Comedian Chingo Bling
2023-03-11 19:30 - 22:30
Chingo Bling is known for his insightful, unapologetic stand-up comedy and multiple viral videos. He is a fearless, cross platform performer who has appeared in everything from feature films, Netflix and MTV shows, to comedic web series, musical parodies and out live stand-up comedy shows all over the USA. You can currently watch Chingo Bling on HBO MAX and his podcast, Red Pill Tamales and Cafectio Time can be heard on all listening platforms.

Hayes Carll
2023-03-09 19:00 - 22:30
You Get It All
The country simplicity that imbues Hayes Carll’s songs can sometimes hide the social conscience and sharp humor that also runs through them, but if you want to find those things, they are there. In fact, Carll has spent over 20 years having a conversation about what it is we’re all doing here with anyone who will listen. He makes us laugh––but then he makes us cry. We judge a song’s protagonist, only for Carll to spin us around to commiserate with them.
“I like to tug at heartstrings, find commonality with others, reflect on my own life, and sometimes I do it in a lighthearted way,” says Carll. “A lot of musical styles found their way onto this record, but my first and most formative influences came from country music. This is a country singer-songwriter record. It’s just unapologetically me.”
Carll is talking about You Get It All, his eighth album. His voice, rich but worn, has never sounded better. As a songwriter, he is in top form, turning droll confessions, messy relationships, motel room respites, and an exasperated, hitchhiking God into modern nuggets.
The New York Times likened Carll’s ability to undergird humor with a weightier narrative to Bob Dylan. When Carll talks about the sounds that are in his own head, he mentions Randy Travis. That juxtaposition defines the singularity of Carll’s career: He exists in a space of his own, informed by John Prine, Tom Waits, and Dylan but also by Travis, Kenny Rogers, and Hank Williams, Jr.
Those influences may have made him hard to pigeonhole, but he’s still been embraced. Two Americana Music Awards, a Grammy nomination for Best Country Song, and multiple Austin Music Awards line his resumé́. He’s had the most-played record on Americana radio twice. His songs appear on the screen regularly and have been recorded by Kenny Chesney, Lee Ann Womack, and Brothers Osborne, to name a few.
You Get It All was produced by Allison Moorer and guitar legend Kenny Greenberg. Carll credits his partnership with singer, songwriter, and artist Moorer, his wife, as a force that helps both clarify what he wants and challenge self-imposed limits. “She’s a world-class artist who has a way of helping me articulate my vision,” he says.
Opener “Nice Things” layers a laugh-out-loud narrative exposing humanity’s botched stewardship of Earth––and one another––over vintage country cool. In the song written with the Brothers Osborne, God comes down to check on us––and she is not impressed. “It’s social commentary, but it’s not dour,” Carll says. “I hope the song can make people sing along, laugh a bit, and maybe recognize that we can do better.”
The title track is classic Carll—a front-porch singalong with a deeper message for those who want it. Self-deprecating and sweet, the song is an ode to bringing one’s whole self to a relationship––the good and the bad. “I’m at a point in my life where that rings true to me,” says Carll. “What I want, and what I think a lot of people want, is to feel like they’re getting the real thing.”
“Help Me Remember” is a feat of storytelling that tackles an underrepresented topic in art: dementia from the perspective of the patient. “It’s a visual song. To tell this story, we had to put the listener right there,” Carll says. “I was thinking about how scary and sad it is for the person who is suffering from it, and how heartbreaking and frustrating it is for the friends and family going through it with them.”

Brightburn, All Falls Down, Astringency, Nightmare Canvas & More
2023-02-25 19:00 - 22:00
Headliner: Brightburn
Main Support: All Falls Down
Special Guest: Astringency
Local: Nightmare Canvas + Follow The Awakened
Note: Tickets for this event are sold via StubWire.com.

The SteelDrivers
2023-02-17 19:30 - 22:30
