Oelwein Daily Register
Published: Thursday, September 2, 2010 2:06 Pm CDT
(Editor’s note: The following review was submitted by Doug McFarlane, Director of the Williams Center for the Arts.)
OELWEIN - What do you get when you mixed 770 people with some of the best of southern music and a group which has
traveled and performed in several European countries? You get an evening of enjoyable listening with a performance by
a group called Branson on the Road.
The three performers in the group are Debbie Horton, director and lead guitar player, Donnie Wright who plays every
known string instrument and has a very keen slap stick type of humor, and Brian Capps who has to be one of the best
upright bass players in the industry. They kept the audience enraptured with mountain music, gospel music, music that
can only be called Americana , and they injected good clean humor. It was a great show.
This marks the fourth time Branson on the Road has appeared on the Williams Center stage, and each year the
audience has grown and the quality of their entertainment improved.
Debbie Horton makes no bones about the fact they simply love coming to Oelwein. Recently the group completed an 11
day tour of Austria , yet, it is the good old-fashioned values of towns such as Oelwein that make them a powerhouse in
country music.
Branson on the Road performs two months a year in Branson and the remainder of the time on the road. They appear
frequently on the country television station RFD, and it is here that their following comes.
The concert was sold out on Friday, and everyone wanting tickets after that time had to put their name on a waiting list
and waited to see if they got seats to the program up until 6:55 p.m. Fortunately everyone who wanted to see Branson
on the Road got to.
The Williams Center auditorium holds right around 780 people. There were about 10 seats not filled making the
attendance at this event the largest audience in the center for an event sponsored by Williams Center for the Arts.