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Lew Apollo and Rosie Flores:Texas Radio Live
December 10 @ 7:00 pm
Lew Apollo
Lew Apollo is a rising soul artist whose music blends vulnerability with genre-bending style. Born in rural Northern Minnesota, he fuses the storytelling of Bob Dylan with the eclectic artistry of Prince, while drawing inspiration from Hozier, Leon Bridges, and Labrinth. Catalyzed by his father’s passing in 2022, Lew channels deep struggles into lush soundscapes defined by hypnotic guitar, rich production, and a sultry voice. His 2023 debut EP led to sold-out shows and marked him as an artist to watch. With his self-produced debut album Fool’s Gold arriving August 8, 2025, Lew continues redefining modern soul music.
Rosie Flores
The story of Rosie Flores’s career is long and winding road that curves like a rollercoaster at a theme park. After years of honing her craft as a songwriter and guitarist, she ended up in Los Angeles playing the Palomino Club, winning every talent contest she could get her guitar licks on. Soon afterwards played the country bar scene in LA for a few years before taking a left turn into a Punk rockin’ female group called the Screamin’ Sirens. They recorded and released “Fiesta” for Enigma Records produced by Brian Ahern (Emmy Lou Harris) followed by some US touring ripping a hole through the South and destroying the minds of young men. Things changed when offers came in to start opening just solo acoustic for quite a lot of concert shows from the coast of California to New York, for the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis, John Prine, Steve Goodman, Elvin Bishop, David Lindley, Taj Mahal and Jerry Garcia. Rosie started on a new phase to find a producer and get her songs recorded which led to her Warner Bros /Reprise deal out of Nashville releasing the acclaimed 1987 “Rosie Flores” produced by Pete Anderson
Texas Radio Live at Half Step Bar is a weekly fundraiser every Wednesday night that supports the Sun Radio Foundation. This live radio show is broadcast across Central Texas on the Sun Radio Network and streamed worldwide at SunRadio.com.
Each week, Sun Radio hosts the latest and greatest singers, songwriters and musicians that call Texas home, while also paying tribute to myriad Texas musicians who have gone before us.
Texas Radio Live is the longest running live music radio program on Austin radio!
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Part of Sun Radio’s mission is to support local musicians
Texas Radio Live is a continuation of Larry Monroe’s program, Texas Radio. When Monroe moved to Austin in 1977, his goal was to put Austin music on the radio in the form of records, live performances, and interviews. Soon after he joined KUT in 1981, he started a program called Texas Music, which was soon called Texas Radio. Texas Radio primarily spotlighted the recordings of Texas musicians, but occasionally featured a live guest or broadcast interviews taped by others. Monroe joined Sun Radio in 2011 and brought his programs, Blue Monday and Phil Music, with him, and also desired to bring back his Texas Radio program. Sun Radio founder, Daryl O’Neal responded to this by suggesting they create a live version of it. O’Neal then pitched the idea to Rob Lippincott, owner of Guero’s Taco Bar, who was thrilled at the idea of having Larry Monroe doing a program from Guero’s. Monroe then solicited the help of David Arnsberger… and Texas Radio Live was re-born! Texas Radio Live continues today after Monroe’s untimely death in January 2014 now from its new home at Half Step on Rainey Street.
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