{"id":6689,"date":"2025-10-16T13:38:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/6689\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T13:38:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:38:52","slug":"lubbock-lights-home-ttu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/6689\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock Lights | Home | TTU"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\t\t\t\t11th Lubbock Lights: Los Hometown Boys<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tFriday, April 18, 2025
7:00 PM \u2022 Allen Theatre<\/p>\n

\n \t\t\t\tOne of the most celebrated Tejano\/Conjunto groups of their era, Los Hometown Boys
\n started out as a family band and went on to
\n \t\t\t\tbecome one of most popular conjunto acts in the Southwest. Based in Lubbock, Texas,
\n the Hometown Boys\u0092 had the honor of
\n \t\t\t\tbeing the first Hispanic act inducted into the Lubbock Music Walk of Fame in 1996,
\n and in 1997, the tune \u201cJoe\u0092s Special 10\u201d was
\n \t\t\t\tnamed Best Instrumental at the 1997 Tejano Music Awards.\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n \t\t\t\tOver the years, through many tragedies with band members passing and new ones
\n being added, the group continued to enjoy the support
\n \t\t\t\tof their fans in the Lone Star State, who nicknamed the group \u201cthe Homies.\u201d Newer
\n members are at lead vocals Elias
\n \t\t\t\tAredondo, who has a great history of music behind him, being related to Los Huracanes
\n Del Norte.\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n \t\t\t\tThe group recorded several albums for EMI Records from 1991 to 1995 before moving
\n to Fonovisa. The band won the 1997 Tejano Music
\n \t\t\t\tAwards Best Instrumental Award for “Joe’s Special 10”, 2003 \u2013 23rd Tejano Music
\n Awards for Echame A Mi La Culpa which was
\n \t\t\t\tAlbum of the Year, 2010 \u2013 30th Anniversary Tejano Music Awards, 2011 \u2013 31st Tejano
\n Music Awards for Simplemente El
\n \t\t\t\tJefe, and 2012 \u2013 32nd Tejano Music Awards, for Manteniendo La Promesa.\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Venue: Allen Theatre<\/a><\/p>\n

Student Union Bldg, 1502 Akron Ave, Lubbock, TX 79409<\/p>\n

Artist Information<\/a>Buy Tickets<\/a><\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\tAbout Lubbock Lights<\/p>\n

\n \t\t\t\tIn the spring of 2015, regional artists Wade Bowen, Butch Hancock, Terri Hendrix<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tand Lloyd Maines paired up with Texas Tech University to launch an event series<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tcalled \u201cLubbock Lights: Celebrating the Musical Heritage of the South Plains.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tThe event, sponsored by the Office of the President and conducted by the Presidential<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tLecture & Performance Series, features discussions and performances by local and
\n \t\t\t\tregional musical artists and gives attendees an inside look at the creative processes<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tand inspirations that go into each artist’s work. The weeklong festival consists
\n of the
\n \t\t\t\tparticipating artists visiting dozens of classrooms to discuss their process &
\n offer
\n \t\t\t\tinsights to students within & outside TTU and culminates in a concert accessible<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tto all on the Allen Theatre stage in the TTU Student Union Building on campus.<\/p>\n

\n \t\t\t\tPast Series Events\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 11th Lubbock Lights: Los Hometown Boys Friday, April 18, 20257:00 PM \u2022 Allen Theatre One of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-6689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}