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Nashville recording artist Pete
Martinez performs Thursday at the Riverwalk Center. Concert proceeds go toward the purchase of a nuclear medicine machine to
support cardiovascular services at St. Anthony Summit Medical Center.
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Who: Pete Martinez
Type of music: ‘Progressive traditional country'
When: 8 p.m. Thursday
Where: Riverwalk Center, Breckenridge
Tickets: $22 adults, $12 children 12 and younger
Purchase: (970) 547-3100, www.townofbreckenridge.com or at the Riverwalk Center box office.
Martinez website: www.petemartinezusa.com
Type of music: ‘Progressive traditional country'
When: 8 p.m. Thursday
Where: Riverwalk Center, Breckenridge
Tickets: $22 adults, $12 children 12 and younger
Purchase: (970) 547-3100, www.townofbreckenridge.com or at the Riverwalk Center box office.
Martinez website: www.petemartinezusa.com
Thursday, country music musician Pete Martinez is not only playing with heart; he's also playing for the heart.
Martinez will perform a benefit concert to help St. Anthony Summit Medical Center purchase a nuclear medicine machine to support its cardiovascular services.
Martinez has been playing guitar since he was 4 years old. All it took was his dad showing his little fingers how to play a few chords, and from there, Martinez's natural talent took over — he could play everything he heard, he said, as well as write his own lyrics.
Since his dad was a rancher and farmer in Wyoming, Martinez started performing his country songs on the rodeo circuit.
“Rodeo is country,” he said. “And country is the first thing I heard out of the womb.”
In 1998, a scout invited him to record in Nashville after hearing his music at a rodeo. The move took him to the next level: branding his own sound and releasing his debut album, “Changes.” It also garnered attention from Washington D.C., where he performed for President Bush and Vice President Cheney in 2005.
“In both cases, I was just highly honored and just reverent of the opportunity,” he said.
Though Martinez always has had his own style, musicians like Elvis, Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash and the Eagles, as well as Southern rock, blues and jazz, influenced him to produce what he calls “progressive traditional country.”
His soon-to-be-released album, “I Would for You,” revolves around the “ups and downs, insides and outs of relationships.” He speaks to people through “the heartfelt storytelling of real life and of raw life experiences,” he said.
And, he's happy to help a good friend of his at the hospital, Dr. Jeff Lee.
“One of the greatest gifts of music is to share it for the benefit of others,” he said. “It's my philanthropy. It's just great to be able to contribute to a good cause.”
Martinez will perform a benefit concert to help St. Anthony Summit Medical Center purchase a nuclear medicine machine to support its cardiovascular services.
Martinez has been playing guitar since he was 4 years old. All it took was his dad showing his little fingers how to play a few chords, and from there, Martinez's natural talent took over — he could play everything he heard, he said, as well as write his own lyrics.
Since his dad was a rancher and farmer in Wyoming, Martinez started performing his country songs on the rodeo circuit.
“Rodeo is country,” he said. “And country is the first thing I heard out of the womb.”
In 1998, a scout invited him to record in Nashville after hearing his music at a rodeo. The move took him to the next level: branding his own sound and releasing his debut album, “Changes.” It also garnered attention from Washington D.C., where he performed for President Bush and Vice President Cheney in 2005.
“In both cases, I was just highly honored and just reverent of the opportunity,” he said.
Though Martinez always has had his own style, musicians like Elvis, Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash and the Eagles, as well as Southern rock, blues and jazz, influenced him to produce what he calls “progressive traditional country.”
His soon-to-be-released album, “I Would for You,” revolves around the “ups and downs, insides and outs of relationships.” He speaks to people through “the heartfelt storytelling of real life and of raw life experiences,” he said.
And, he's happy to help a good friend of his at the hospital, Dr. Jeff Lee.
“One of the greatest gifts of music is to share it for the benefit of others,” he said. “It's my philanthropy. It's just great to be able to contribute to a good cause.”
