Country Music Association (CMA) of Texas Songwriter of the Year Thom Shepherd and Country recording artist Coley McCabe welcome a stellar lineup of Texas country and Trop Rock artists along with Nashville songwriters to Margaritaville Lake Resort, Lake Conroe for the Lone Star Luau 2025.
The dates are March 27-30 at the resort. Festival goers will receive a special room rate at the resort. See a special Lone Star Luau at Margaritaville page for tickets and the room deal.
Along with Thom and Coley, the Lone Star Luau 2025 will feature Jesse Rice & the Americaribbeans, El Wencho, Mike Nash, Sunny Jim, John Patti, Django Walker Band, Donny Brewer, Eric Erdman, Leslie Satcher, Anthony Smith, Doug Moreland, Stoney Gabel, Aaron Scherz, Aubrey Wollett, Erica Sunshine Lee, Carrie Welling, and the Jonas Lorence Band, making it the best little party in paradise.
See the 2025 schedule at lonestarluau.com/schedule.
The event has twice been named the Event of the Year at the Trop Rock Music Association Awards.
Shepherd grew up in the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri before his family moved to Virginia when he was in high school. His dad worked for General Electric and he has fond memories of his mother’s relatives coming over to play country music.
In college, he thought he’d study television and film, but the urge to play music was strong and he joined his first band. His path was set and he headed to Nashville after college.
He found success as a songwriter in the “Music City.”
Shepherd is the writer of five No. 1 singles including “Redneck Yacht Club,” “Riding with Private Malone,” and three Texas music number ones. In total, he has written over 10 radio singles, two Grammy nominated songs, and has had over 100 songs recorded by other artists. He was also named the CMA Texas Songwriter of the Year.
Coley McCabe also sings and writes. In 2000, she signed to RCA Records Nashville and released two singles. The first of these, “Grow Young with You” (a duet with labelmate Andy Griggs), was also included in the soundtrack to the 2000 film “Where the Heart Is.”
They were both working for Nashville publishing companies in the same building when they met and now they travel the country together as performers.
In 2007, Shepherd played at a Parrot Head event in New Orleans and at once knew he’d found his people. The legion of Parrot Heads — followers of Jimmy Buffett’s music and the Trop Rock genre and lifestyle — had him asking “Where have you people been all my life?”
For the first four years, the Lone Star Luau took place in Marble Falls, Texas just outside of Austin.
The first year they packed 200 people in Marble Falls’ Brass Hall. They second year they moved the event to the Lakeside Pavilion with a capacity of 425. The event regularly draws fans from 20-plus states. The past few years the four-day event has taken place at Margaritaville.
See the full details and tickets at lonestarluau.com.
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