Monday February 22, 2010 - 8:00 pm
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Kinky Friedman's Twenty-Ten Tour

The Logon Cafe welcomes you to a special concert by Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jewboys. Kinky, who is currently running for Texas Agriculture Commissioner, will be doing a book signing and probably promo-ing his signature line of cigars. We are limiting the ticket sales to 150, so be sure to get your tickets early because this is surely going to be a sold-out show. Tickets are $25 and are on sale now. Here's a little background on Kinky:

In 1971, Kinky Friedman organized his band with a social message, Kinky Friedman & the Texas Jewboys. Hailed as the Frank Zappa of country music because of his satirical songs, Kinky inspired other musicians of that era and continues to do so today. Friedman and his band were invited to the Grand Ole Opry twice and were instrumental in helping to establish what would become the outlaw country music movement.

Moving onward from music, Friedman turned primarily toward writing. He has authored 29 books to date, 19 of them unique and outrageous mystery novels that feature a Jewish-country-singer-turned-Greenwich-Village-private-eye named Kinky Friedman. The other ten books range from political commentary to Christmas fable to travelogue with Kinky’s distinctively humorous slant on life figuring prominently in every one. His two newest books, which were released in September and October 2009 respectively, are Heroes of a Texas Childhood and Kinky's Celebrity Pet Files.

Since the nineties, Kinky’s ongoing ‘pet project’ has been the no-kill animal shelter, Utopia Animal Rescue Ranch, of which he is the founder. (Utopia is a non-profit rescue organization, which takes in and cares for stray, abused, homeless or aging animals while working to find them a permanent home)

Among the honors Friedman has received throughout his career, one of the most meaningful was an invitation to be the featured speaker for the ‘Pen Warmed up in Hell Lecture Series’ hosted by the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut. The honor is reserved for those who best represent the legacy of Mark Twain’s work as a social critic.

Kinky’s first entrepreneurial venture is a premium cigar company – Kinky Friedman Cigars. The company debuted in 2007 to rave reviews with five different cigars made of Honduran & Nicaraguan tobaccos and beautiful hand-rolled Cuban wrappers grown in Honduras. The company has continued to expand with two more premium cigars and a line of bundle cigars.

In February 2005, fed up with ‘Texas politics as usual’, Friedman announced his candidacy for Texas Governor and launched a serious, albeit colorful, campaign. Although the final outcome was not in his favor, he revived the independent spirit of Texas and inspired nontraditional voters to become part of the political process. He plans to continue inspiring Texans and working for the people of this state as the Democratic nominee for Agriculture Commissioner in 2010.

For more information please contact Rania Batrice 512-701-1984 or rbatrice@kinkyfriedman.com