Gary Helms & Rick Underwood To Judge Colgate Country Showdown Texas Finals

(Lance Kitrick)--TBG Entertainment will be on hand for the Texas finals of the Colgate Country Music Showdown. The label will have Country singers Gary Helms and Rick Underwood on the panel as judges for the event. This will be Helms fourth year to be a judge and is currently responsible for putting the judges on the panels for that state the last three years. Rick Underwood is looking forward to his first experience as a judge for this event on a state level. Other judges on the panel will be Tammy Millsaps, she has been on the judging panel the last two years and works for a music publishing firm, Sammy Millsaps, a former musician now working in tour management and Rodney McClannahan, a singer-song writer who is currently writing penning material for some of today's top talent.

Colgate Country Music Showdown brings together the top talent from each region of the United States on a nation wide search to find some of today's rising stars in the world of country music. Each state has their own regional contests with those winners moving on to the state finals and the winners from that moving on to the National finals held in Nashville.

The 2008 Texas Finals will be held Saturday, August 30th, in Boerne, Texas at the Kendall County Fairgrounds. The event is open to the public. For more information and details see below.

Colgate Country Showdown
Kendall County Fair
DATE: Saturday, August 30, 2008
SHOW TIME: 4:00 p.m.
STAGE: KCFA
ADDRESS: Kendall County Fair - #7 Highway 46 East, Boerne, TX 78006

TICKET INFORMATION: Gate Admission $5 before 6 p.m. and $15 after 6 p.m.
HOTEL SUGGESTIONS: All Hotels are located in Boerne, TX
Best Western Texas Country Inn - 35150 lh 10 W (830-249-9791)
Boerne Vistro - 911 South Main Street (830.816.2470)
Tapatio Springs - 314 Blue Heron Blvd. (800-999-3299)
Holiday Inn Express-Six Flags West - 35000 lh 10 W (830-249-6800)