MUSIC

Dosey Doe Coffee House presents Real Life - Real Music.  Featuring Tony Arata. Join us as Tony spends the evening talking & playing with host Kyle Hutton for this recorded for radio event.

Tony Arata was born and raised in Savannah, Georgia. While studying for a journalism debree at Georgia Southern University, he began performing his original songs in local bands. In 1986, he and wife Jaymi moved to Nashville where his unique, soulful style began to get the attention of people like Allen Reynolds and Garth Brooks.

Garth recorded seven of Tony's songs and "The Dance" won song of the year at The Academy of Country Music and received both a CMA and a Grammy nomination, as well as most-performed song in Radio and Records magazine.

"Here I Am" for Patty Loveless, "I'm Holding My Own" for Lee Roy Parnell and "Dreaming With My Eyes Open" for Clay Walker. Other artists who have recorded his songs include Trisha Yearwood, Emmylou Harris, Reba McEntire, Delbert McClinton and Hal Ketchum.

Tony has just produced a solo album entitled "Way Back When" which can be ordered from www.tonyarata.com.

Real Life - Real Music makes it's home at Dosey Doe in the Woodlands Texas select Tuesday nights throughout the year. Every show is recorded and rebroadcast throughout the Real Life syndicated network of radio stations. Season 6 of Real Life will feature Singer Songwriter Kyle Hutton going behind the songs of guest artists including: Asleep at the Wheels' Ray Benson, Deryl Dodd, Bryan White, Cross Canadian Ragweeds' Cody Canada, Cory Morrow, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Bands' John McEuen, Joe Ely, Guy Forsyth, Monte Montgomery, Fred Eaglesmith, and an unprecedented Texas reunion of Foster and Lloyd.

Real Life also offers our "Real Life Appetizers" 30 minute opening acts, one of which will earn their own show! The act with the best audience response will be added to the lineup for Real Life Season 7.