<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Rio Grand's Blog On Digital Rodeo.com</title><link>http://www.digitalrodeo.com/</link><description>Rio Grand's Blog On Digital Rodeo.com</description><ttl>60</ttl><item><title>Rio Grand Honored With Easter Seals Business Of The Year Award</title><link>http://www.digitalrodeo.com/riogrand/blog/1556</link><description>&lt;b&gt;10/30/2008 1:00 PM&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Easter Seals Rio Grande Valley has been helping individuals with disabilities and special needs, and their families, live better lives for more over 50 years. Whether helping someone improve physical mobility, return to work or simply gain greater independence for everyday living, &lt;a href='http://www.easterseals.com/'&gt;Easter Seals&lt;/a&gt; offers a variety of services to help people with disabilities address life's challenges and achieve personal goals.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;At the core of the Easter Seals organization is a common passion for caring, shared by its staff members and thousands of volunteers, and by those who support its mission. This heart-felt commitment to helping people with disabilities and their families is what Easter Seals is all about.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;The Easter Seals and &lt;a href='http://www.riogrand.net/'&gt;Rio Grand&lt;/a&gt; affiliation began with an idea for a Benefit Concert to be held down in the Rio Grande Valley, or Danny's home town area, where all proceeds would benefit local Easter Seal...</description><author>http://www.digitalrodeo.com/riogrand</author><pubDate>10/30/2008 1:00:00 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>Rio Grand Taking Part In IEBA In Nashville </title><link>http://www.digitalrodeo.com/riogrand/blog/1474</link><description>&lt;b&gt;10/11/2008 7:00 PM&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
IEBA was founded in 1970 as a non-profit trade organization for talent buyers, concert promoters, agents, managers, artists and other related entertainment professionals. IEBA's goal is to provide educational and networking opportunities for their members to further the development of the live entertainment industry. In addition &lt;a href='http://www.ieba.org/'&gt;IEBA&lt;/a&gt; is known for showcasing the best and brightest talent in all genres of music and all fields of entertainment—exposing buyers to the freshest acts for the buying season. International Entertainment Buyers Association, October 12-14, 2008.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.360artistagency.com/'&gt;360 Artist Agency&lt;/a&gt; presents "New Artists Showcase" including &lt;a href='http://www.curb.com/'&gt;Curb&lt;/a&gt; recording artist Rio Grand, MCA recording artist Ashton Shepherd and Mercury recording artist Randy Rogers Band Hosted by Neal McCoy with special surprise guest performances to be held at &lt;a href='http://www.nashville.com/'&gt;Nashville&lt;/a&gt;'s ...</description><author>http://www.digitalrodeo.com/riogrand</author><pubDate>10/11/2008 7:00:00 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>Rio Grand on GAC’s Master Series with Bill Cody</title><link>http://www.digitalrodeo.com/riogrand/blog/1356</link><description>&lt;b&gt;9/16/2008 4:00 PM&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Rio Grand interview with Bill Cody, Master Series on GAC aired this afternoon.  It's a piece that was recorded from CMA Fest 2008 by the Riverfront Stage and the second of a two part Master Series that aired on GAC.  For those of you who got to see it today, thanks for sending in the many positive emails and messages, we greatly appreciate your support everyone.  &lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Thank You so much Bill Cody and GAC!</description><author>http://www.digitalrodeo.com/riogrand</author><pubDate>9/16/2008 4:00:00 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>Rio Grand About.com CMA Performance Review</title><link>http://www.digitalrodeo.com/riogrand/blog/1294</link><description>&lt;b&gt;9/3/2008 4:00 PM&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The girls at &lt;a href='http://countrymusic.about.com/od/cmamusicfestival2008/a/RiverfrontSun08.htm'&gt;About.com&lt;/a&gt; have done it again!  They have posted a wonderful review about our show back at the &lt;a href='http://cmafest.com/'&gt;CMA Music Festival&lt;/a&gt; this year in &lt;a href='http://www.nashville.com/'&gt;Nashville&lt;/a&gt;.  You can check out the Rio Grand Review along with some other artists at the CMA Fest by using the following link, &lt;a href='http://countrymusic.about.com/od/cmamusicfestival2008/a/RiverfrontSun08.htm'&gt;RG Review on About.com&lt;/a&gt;.  Thank you all at About.com for the Awesome! Support!  (Uh, let me see...Uh, NO MORE CHICKEN!!!!)      Thanks Laurie!</description><author>http://www.digitalrodeo.com/riogrand</author><pubDate>9/3/2008 4:00:00 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>Rio Grand Finally Makes It To Country Thunder USA</title><link>http://www.digitalrodeo.com/riogrand/blog/1069</link><description>&lt;b&gt;7/17/2008 10:00 AM&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
We finally made it to Wisconsin!! after some Bus troubles.  You can view our scheduled dates and times on our Profile Calendar or just jump onto the Country Thunder web site and check out the Massive lineup of Artist! We'll be playing tonight at the Miller Lite Stage, tomorrow afternoon on the Main Stage and the Miller Lite Stage too in the evening and finally on Saturday late evening at the Miller Lite Stage.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;See you all there! Hope you can make it!  &lt;BR /&gt;Rio Grand&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.riogrand.net'&gt;Rio Grand Web Site&lt;/a&gt; </description><author>http://www.digitalrodeo.com/riogrand</author><pubDate>7/17/2008 10:00:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Country Thunder Wisconsin Rio Grand Stream on Friday</title><link>http://www.digitalrodeo.com/riogrand/blog/1070</link><description>&lt;b&gt;7/17/2008 10:00 AM&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Country Thunder to Stream our show on Friday, July 18 at 2:30pm.  Check out the site location at &lt;a href='http://www.iclips.net/ctusa_wisconsin.php'&gt;iClips Country Thunder Stream&lt;/a&gt; </description><author>http://www.digitalrodeo.com/riogrand</author><pubDate>7/17/2008 10:00:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Rio Grand Gets Ready For Country Thunder! </title><link>http://www.digitalrodeo.com/riogrand/blog/1045</link><description>&lt;b&gt;7/14/2008 12:00 AM&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
It's getting close to &lt;a href='http://www.countrythunder.com/'&gt;Country Thunder&lt;/a&gt; in (Twin Lakes) Randall, &lt;a href='http://www.wisconsin.com/'&gt;Wisconsin&lt;/a&gt; and we can't wait!  As some of you have noticed our MySpace Calendar has been updated with some new shows for Country Thunder at the Miller Lite Stage aside from our Main Stage Show.  You can check out so much more information at Country Thunder's web site and give &lt;a href='http://www.millerlite.com/'&gt;Miller Lite's&lt;/a&gt; web site a gander if you like too.  If you've seen our Bus Video here on MySpace TV, our YouTube RG-TV Video or you've seen us on the Road, you've notice our Bus is sponsored by Country Thunder, so give a hollar or a honk if you see us!  We finally have some New T-Shirts, Caps, Koozies &amp; 8x10's that will be for sale at Country Thunder!  See You All there!  We're gonna kick it like there's no tomorrow, get your Thunder ON, country style!  YeHaw!!!!</description><author>http://www.digitalrodeo.com/riogrand</author><pubDate>7/14/2008</pubDate></item><item><title>Rio Grand CMA Music Festival Day 4</title><link>http://www.digitalrodeo.com/riogrand/blog/984</link><description>&lt;b&gt;6/23/2008 5:00 PM&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Day Four started off with the CBR/&lt;a href='http://www.rfdtv.com/'&gt;RFD-TV&lt;/a&gt; Celebrity Bull-Riding Challenge in the Chevy Sports Zone Activity Area hosted by four-time World Champion and President of &lt;a href='http://www.cbrbull.com/frontpage.asp?act ion=formformID=1723recordID=310178'&gt;Championship Bull Riding&lt;/a&gt; (CBR), Tuff Hedeman.  Five CBR Riders were teamed up with country music's celebrities in a mechanical bull riding contest.  The Teams were Steve Woosley and Josh Newcom, Wesley Silcox with Trent Wilmon, Bonner Bolton with Lance Lesley, Travis Sellers with Danny Rivera and winners Jake Littlefield and Jason Brown.  Then it was signing time at the Convention Center with &lt;a href='http://www.trutv.com/'&gt;TruTV&lt;/a&gt;.  Then jumped over to the &lt;a href='http://www.tetleyusa.com/'&gt;Tetley Tea&lt;/a&gt; signing booth.  Another awesome time at the &lt;a href='http://cmafest.com/2008/'&gt;CMA Music Festival&lt;/a&gt;!    &lt;a href='http://www.riogrand.net'&gt;Rio Grand&lt;/a&gt;</description><author>http://www.digitalrodeo.com/riogrand</author><pubDate>6/23/2008 5:00:00 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>Rio Grand CMA Music Festival Day 1</title><link>http://www.digitalrodeo.com/riogrand/blog/979</link><description>&lt;b&gt;6/23/2008 5:00 PM&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
We started our day one with an early morning rise and shine and headed out to the &lt;a href='http://cmafest.com/2008/'&gt;CMA Music Festival&lt;/a&gt; Kick-Off Parade and Block Party.  There we jumped into an awesome new &lt;a href='http://www.chevrolet.com/silverado/'&gt;Chevy Silverado&lt;/a&gt; truck bed and off we went!  After the Parade we did a show at &lt;a href='http://www.fuelsecondavenue.com/'&gt;FUEL&lt;/a&gt; with our Friends from &lt;a href='http://nixacountry.com/'&gt;NIXA&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href='http://www.digitalrodeo.com/riogrand'&gt;Digital Rodeo&lt;/a&gt;.  The show went great, Thanks to Everyone that was there for showing some way cool support!   Digital Rodeo!, you all rule!  A few hours later we headed out to &lt;a href='http://www.grahamcentralstationnashville.com/'&gt;Graham Central Station Nashville&lt;/a&gt; for a show at the Roof.  It's an intimate outdoor stage set up overlooking Nashville's sky rises, river and LP Field.  We had a blast!   We've been getting quite a bit of &lt;a href='http://youtube.com/riograndband'&gt;video footage&lt;/a&gt; so as soon as...</description><author>http://www.digitalrodeo.com/riogrand</author><pubDate>6/23/2008 5:00:00 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>Rio Grand CMA Music Festival Day 2</title><link>http://www.digitalrodeo.com/riogrand/blog/983</link><description>&lt;b&gt;6/23/2008 5:00 PM&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Our day two kick started with another early morning rise and a quick breakfast.  Then we headed to the Convention Center for some booth signings with &lt;a href='http://fan-clubhouse.com/'&gt;Fan Clubhouse&lt;/a&gt;  (Sharon, Rachel and Staff - Thanks!) and &lt;a href='http://www.digitalrodeo.com/riogrand'&gt;Digital Rodeo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;BR /&gt; (Everybody there was great and Robert Reynolds was awesome! Thanks).  Running tight on time we had to stop by and pick up our gear from &lt;a href='http://www.grahamcentralstationnashville.com/'&gt;Graham Central Station Nashville&lt;/a&gt;.  We then loaded the bus and were off to Alabama to do our show at &lt;a href='http://www.bamajammusicfestival.com/'&gt;Bama Jam Music &amp; Arts Festival&lt;/a&gt;.     &lt;a href='http://www.riogrand.net'&gt;Rio Grand&lt;/a&gt;</description><author>http://www.digitalrodeo.com/riogrand</author><pubDate>6/23/2008 5:00:00 PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>