The Three Redneck Tenors are back in the Texas Panhandle singing their hearts out and tickling funny bones. Group members, Matthew Lord, Blake Davidson, and Jonathon Fruge followed different paths to return to the area.
Lord recounted his tale of traveling through Amarillo in 1980 on his way to college, he broke down in Vega and limped his truck into Amarillo. While repairs were being done he was told that if he was going to eat anything, it needed to be Vince's- the home of the biggest and best pizza ever. He decided to give it a try and in his words “I will always remember that pizza, I have never had one bigger than that”.
Before joining the Three Redneck Tenors, Davidson had his own chiropractor practice. But prior to the decision of being a chiropractor he put his musical talents to work as a Ringmaster for the circus that performed in the Amarillo Civic Center on several occasions.
Fruge attended college in the Panhandle. He was a student at Texas Tech.
The trio did a charitable performance of a work written by Matthew Lord that was such a success, they begn touring in 2006.
The group is in Amarillo along with co-creator and director, Michael Barnard performing August 28th and 29th at the Amarillo Globe News Center for the Performing Arts.