News | Appearances 2008
2007
- Wednesday, October 10 in San Antonio
Watch
It, Write It: Translate Your Experience to the Page
Joe Nick is teaching a Gemini Ink class during the International
Accordion Festival. Open to the public. Call 210-734-9673 for details.
- Saturday, October 6 in Lockhart, TX
An
Evening with The Authors 6:00-9:00 pm
A unique opportunity to meet and socialize with authors and artists
over great wine and food, in an elegant garden setting. In Rebecca Hawener's
Enchanting Gardens, 625 West San Antionio Street, Lockhart, Texas, 512-398-9707.
 Saturday,
June 2 in Houston
Texas Accordion
Kings 7:00-10:00 pm
I will be hosting the Texas
Accordion Kings at Miller
Outdoor Amphitheatre in Hermann Park in Houston on Saturday June
2, from 7-10 pm featuring Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band, Mingo
Saldivar y sus Tremendos Cuatro Espadas, Ginny Mac and the Road To Texas
Band, and the winners of the Big Squeeze rising accordion stars contest.
Located at 100 Concert Drive, Houston, TX 77030. Theatre phone: 713-533-3276.
Texas Folklife Resources phone: 512-441-9255.- Monday, May 28th, Memorial Day in Austin
KLBJ-AM 590
6:00-10:00 am
I'm going to be doing the morning drive with Kenny Rahmeyer on
Memorial Day.
- Saturday, April 14 in San Antonio
Museo
Alameda Opening Celebration 6pm-Midnight
I'll be signing copies of Conjunto along with photographer John
Dyer and fellow essayist Juan Tejeda at the grand opening of Museo
Alameda in the restored, art deco Alameda Theatre in San Antonio.
Located at 318 W. Houston Street, Suite 200, San Antonio, Texas 78205.
Phone: 210-299-4300
- Wednesday, April 4 in Denton
UNT
Nature Writing Symposium 10:00-10:45 am
Catch
me at Writing a Wide Land: A Conference on Texas Nature Writing.
The Symposium will be in University Union, Silver Eagle Suite. Registration
starts at 8:00 a.m. with a coffee/coffee cake reception. Directions
are here: www.unt.edu/pais/map/M_directions.htm.
Call 940-565-2142 for tickets.
- Saturday-Monday, March 31-April 2
Texas
Country Reporter
This weekend's episode is of the story featuring Big Bend National Park
by Parent and Patoski. To check showtimes in your area, please visit
www.texascountryreporter.com/SubSites/show_time.htm
- Saturday/Sunday, February 17-18th
Kenny
Rahmeyer Show on KLBJ-AM 590 Catch my comments on the local
news talk station that carries Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. [See
Blog Obama,
Sammy and Me]
- February
I'm pleased to announce an article with my byline in the February issue
of National Geographic in collaboration with the photographer Jack Dykinga!
Check it out! Desolate
Majesty: Preserving beauty without borders and Big
Bend Field Notes. Or, listen
to National Geographic staffer Kathleen Ridgely read "Desolate Majesty:
Beyond Big Bend."
 2006
- Thursday, November 30th
-- Texas Memorial
Museum 4:00-7:00 pm
2400 Trinity Street, Austin, 512-232-4278. (Texas Memorial Museum is
the exhibit hall of the Texas Natural Science Center. It is located
on The University of Texas at Austin campus.)
- Saturday, November 25th
-- Barnes
and Noble, Westlake, Austin Noon-2:00 pm
701 South Capital of Texas Hwy. #P860, Austin, TX 78746, 512-328-3155
-- Barnes
& Noble Sunset Valley 3:00-5:00 pm
5601 Brodie Lane, Austin, 512-892-3493
- Friday, November 24
KLBJ-AM 590,
6:00-10:00 am: I'll be joining Kenny Rahmeyer on KLBJ-AM in Austin
from 6 to 10 am.
- Saturday, November 18th
Texas
Country Reporter, Laurence and I will be interviewed by Bob
Phillips, on the weekend of November 18, check www.texascountryreporter.com
for local listings.
- Thursday, November 16th
-- KGSR-FM 107.1
8:00 am: On Thursday morning, November 16, I'll be on the Brian
Beck Show on KGSR-FM at 8 am.
-- Barnes
and Noble, Westlake, Austin 7:00 pm: Laurence and I will
be talking about the photographer writer dynamic with the Austin
Writers League
- Sunday, October 29th
 Texas
Book Festival Noon-1pm
Catch Joe Nick at the Austin
Museum of Art
823 Congress Ave at 9th St, 512-495-9224
- Thursday, October 19th
-- KERA
FM 90.1 Noon: in Dallas / Fort Worth on The Talk Show.
-- Whole
Earth Provisions 6:00-8:00 pm
5400 East Mockingbird Lane, Dallas, 214-824-7444
- Saturday, October 14th
-- Panther Junction Visitor's
Center - Big Bend National Park Noon-2:00 pm
Book signings for Big Bend National Park. Call 432-477-2236 for
information. Several highways lead to Big Bend National Park: TX 118
from Alpine to Study Butte or FM 170 from Presidio to Study Butte (then
26 miles west to park headquarters) or US 90 or US 385 to Marathon (then
70 miles south to park headquarters).
-- Terlingua
Trading Company 3:00-5:00 pm
Book signings for Big Bend National Park. Terlingua Trading Co
is located at 100 Ivey Street, Terlingua, TX 432-371-2234)
- Friday, October 13th (extra good luck, I believe)
-- Marfa
Public Radio 93.5 FM 9:30 am
I will arrive at 9:30 am for live interview broadcast. (1111 South High
Avenue, Marfa, TX 432-729-4578)
-- Hotel Limpia
Gift Shop in Fort Davis 3:30 pm-5:00 pm
Book signings for Big Bend National Park. (Hotel Limpia is located
at 100 Main Street, Fort Davis, TX 79734, 432-426-3241)
-- Marfa Book
Company 6:00 pm
Book signings for Big Bend National Park. (Marfa Book
Co. is located at 105 South Highland, Marfa, TX 79843, 432-729-3906)
- Front Street
Books
Thursday, October 12th, 7:00 pm: I'll be doing signings
for Big Bend National Park. (Front Street is at 121 East Holland
Avenue, Alpine, TX 79830, 432-837-3360, on U.S. Highway 90 fronting
the railroad tracks.)
- BookPeople
in Austin
-- Sunday, October 8th, 5pm: I'll be doing signings for
Big Bend National Park.
--Thursday, October 5th, 3:00 pm: Signings for Big Bend National
Park. (Book People is located at 603 N. Lamar "6th & Lamar"
Austin, TX 78703, 512-472-5050 or 1-800-853-9757)
- Whole
Earth (at Westgate Mall in Austin)
Friday, September 22nd, 2006, 5:00-7:00 pm: I'll be doing signings
for the release of Big Bend National Park. (Whole Earth is located
at 4477 South Lamar, Austin, TX 78745-1579, 512-899-0992)
 Texas
Accordion Kings
Saturday, June 3, 2006 at Miller Outdoor Theatre in Hermann
Park in Houston, TX
I will be co-hosting of the Texas Accordion Kings show and announcing
our 2006 Accordion Kings! C.J. Chenier, Joel Guzman & Aztex featuring
Sarah Fox, Cedryl Ballou & the Zydeco Trendsetters, Brian Marshall &
His Tex-Slavic Playboys. Get ready for some "mighty pleasin' squeezin'
" 7 p.m. June 3 at Miller Outdoor Theatre in Hermann Park, Houston.
Plus, on June 2, we're hosting "An Evening
with Hector Galan," featuring his Mingo Saldivar documentary, "I Love
My Texas, I Love My Freedom,," and excerpts from his new film, "Los
Lonely Boys: Cottonfields and Crossroads," at Talento Bilingue de Houston.
[Accordion
Kings Website] [Blog on last
year's Accordion Kings]- Bastrop
Audubon
Tuesday, May 16, 2006 at 7:00 P.M.: I will be speaking to the
Bastrop Audubon about my Texas Observer story and the sorry state of
Texas' state parks. (Located at: First National Bank, Cecil Long Community
Room, 1020 Main Street, Bastrop, TX)
- Every Monday: Kevin
& Kevin KGSR in the Morning
Joe Nick is a weekly guest Mondays, 7:00-8:30 am.
- South By Southwest
Music Conference
Week of March 15, 2006: Catch Joe Nick on the Music Panels.
2005
- Kevin & Kevin KGSR
in the Morning
Joe Nick is a weekly guest Mondays, 7:00-8:30 am.
- Borders
in Fort Worth
Sunday, December 18th, 3:00-5:00 pm: I'll be doing signings for
Texas Coast and my sister Christina Patoski will also be signing
her book Merry Christmas America. (Borders is located at 4613
S. Hulen, Fort Worth, TX 76132 Phone: 817-370-9473)
- Borders
in Lewisville
Saturday, December 17th, 12:00-3:00 pm: I'll be doing signings
for Texas Coast North of Dallas. (Borders is located at 2403
S. Stemmons, Suite 100 Lewisville, TX 75067 Phone: 972-459-2321)
- Joe
Nick on "The Talk Show" KERA-FM
Thursday, December 15th at Noon: I'll be talking about Texas
Coast in Dallas-Fort Worth.
- Texas Memorial
Museum
Wednesday, December 14, 4:00-7:00: I'll be doing signings for
Texas Coast. (Texas Memorial Museum is located at 2400 Trinity
Street, Austin, TX 78705, Phone: 512-471-1604)
- Borders
at Baybrook Mall
Sunday, December 11, 11:00 am- 1:00 pm: I'll be doing signings
for Texas Coast. (Borders is on I 45 southeast of Houston at
Baybrook Mall, 19419 Gulf Freeway, Webster, TX 77598. Webster is between
Houston and Galveston.)
- The
Twig in San Antonio
December 7th, 5:00-7:00 pm: I'll be doing signings for Texas
Coast (The Twig is located at 5005 Broadway, San Antonio, TX 78209,
210-826-6411)
-
Barnes
& Noble Westlake in Austin
December 4, 1:00-3:00 pm: I'll be doing signings for Texas
Coast (Barnes & Noble is located at 701 S. Capital of Texas Hwy.,
Austin, TX 78746, 512-328-3155)
- BookPeople
in Austin
Friday, December 2, 7:00 pm: I'll be doing signings for Texas
Coast (Book People is located at 603 N. Lamar "6th & Lamar"
Austin, TX 78703, 512-472-5050 or 1-800-853-9757)
- Barnes
& Noble in Corpus Christi
November 18th, 7:00-9:00 pm: I'll be doing signings for Texas
Coast (Barnes & Noble is located at 5129 Blanche D Moore Drive,
Corpus Christi, TX 78411, 361-992-1339)
- Texas
Book Festival
October 29-30th: at the Texas Capitol in Austin
- Puro Conjunto panel: Saturday the 29th at 11:00 am
I'll be on the panel with photographer John Dyer and writer Juan Tejada
with whom I collaborated on John's photo book, Conjunto, published
by UT Press. Filmmaker Hector Galan will moderate. Johnny Degollado
"El Montopolis Kid" will perform.
- Book Signing follows on Saturday the 29th at 12:15 pm
- Sunday the 30th at 3:00 pm
I'll be joining my collaborator, the photographer Laurence Parent,
and attorney/author/environment activist Jim Blackburn on the panel
"Fragile Waters: Where Texas Meets the Sea", moderated by
Charles Lohrmann. Laurence and I will be signing copies of Texas
Coast afterwards.
- Hangin' Out
With ... Joe Nick Patoski
September 12, 2005: Joe Nick talked to MyWestTexas online editor
Jimmy Patterson about his thoughts of the region after Katrina, and
about Stevie Ray Vaughan and Selena.
- Joe
Nick on NPR's Day to Day
September 12, 2005: "Weathering Katrina at the Log
Cabin Bar". Reporter Joe Nick Patoski relates the story
of a group of people who holed up in a Mississippi bar to ride out Hurricane
Katrina, and then had to make a harrowing escape through the roof and
across two makeshift gangplanks to safety at the height of the storm.
- Joe
Nick on the Glenn Mitchell Show [Blog
on Glen
Mitchell]
August 12, 2005: KERA-FM (1pm central). Laurence Parent, Jeff
Whittington, Shelly Seymour and yours truly will be talking with about
our Big Bend
hike.
- Joe
Nick on Weekend Edition, NPR
July 23, 2005: Some of my comments were aired on on National
Public Radio. Check out "Chip and Carrie: Rock Roots, Americana
Sounds"
- 16th
Annual Accordion Kings Music Festival
June 4, 2005: Hosted by Joe Nick Patoski at the Miller
Outdoor Theatre in Houston, TX.
- Joe Nick
on the Glenn Mitchell Show
April 27, 2005: KERA-FM (noon to 2 pm). It's time to celebrate
Texas Music month and raise money for KERA by spinning great and obscure
pieces of Texas Music accompanied by plenty o' platter chatter. [KERA
Blog]
- 30th
Annual Winedale Spring Symposium
April 23, 2005: "Texas Music" presented by the Center for American
History. Joe Nick lectures on "Doug Sahm as a Metaphor for Texas Music".
- Joe Nick on Country
Music Television
April 16, 2005: Joe Nick is one of several "experts" interviewed
for this CMT special on the 20 Greatest Country Bands of all time. [CMT
Blog]
- Joe Nick on Fox
7 News
March 27, 2005: Joe Nick discusses the anniversary of Selena's
death date.[Selena blogs: Fox
7, Selena
Update, Selena's
Murder]
- South By Southwest
Music Conference
Week of March 14, 2005: Yours truly hanging around Austin at
several events.[SXSW blogs: JNP
on BBC, JNP
at SXSW, Monday/SXSW,
SXSW
Top Ten I Saw, SXSW
Top Ten I Missed]
2004
- Merry
Christmas, All Y'all
December 23, 2004
- Joe
Nick kayaking on News 8
November 21, 2004: Kayakers say post-rain is the best time to
hit the rapids. Searching for rapids Videojournalist Hermelinda Vargas
shows off some of the sights and sounds from defiant kayakers. [Kayaking
on Barton Creek Blog]
- Voices of Civil Rights audio story [click
for audio]
October 27, 2004: Reporter Emily Kopp with the Georgia Gazette
caught up with the "Voices of the Civil Rights" bus tour. It is traveling
the country collecting stories of ordinary people who lived through
the civil rights movement. [see
individual segments] [Joe
Nick's blog]
- The
Voices of Civil Rights Bus Tour
September 17-October 8, 2004: Joe Nick joined up from
for the 70-day journey to collect personal civil rights stories. [documenting
the trip]
- Audubon Dallas hosted Big Bend program
February 9, 2004: Writer Joe Nick Patoski presented "Big Bend:
The Great Natural Treasure of Texas" in the auditorium of Texas Scottish
Rite Hospital. www.au
dubondallas.org
- Texas
Music Archives
January 22-March 30, 2004: See Joe Nick's interview of Joan Baez
circa 1970 on display at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA).
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