Performance
Date
Sunday,
June 5
Former
Kerrville campground favorite and main-stage
performer Tom Burris returns to the Kerrville Stage
again in 2005.
One thing that hasn't
changed throughout Tom's career is his ability to
stand before a crowd of people and bring them into
his performance. The man projects an almost manic
energy from the stage, and that's deliberate.
"I can have a cold or the flu and arrive in
Monroe, LA and there's 12 people and I won't just go
through the motions. I still try to be entertained
and it's not entertaining to me unless I get some
energy back, so I put a lot out. Even in Monroe,
Louisiana on a rainy Tuesday with the flu I would
still try to put on a good show."
That desire to put on a good show, time after time,
regardless of the circumstances reflects a
remarkable energy and an uncompromising nature. The
same attributes are what drive Tom to work long and
hard to create such crafted songs. "It's fun to
write songs and make them exactly what I want them
to be. It's like somebody said about poetry: you
spend 100 hours on a phrase so that it appears to be
the product of a passing thought!" That
somebody was William B. Yeats. And with Tom's music,
it's easy to see what he means.
For
more information on Tom, visit www.tomburris.com
.
