Bill Text: TX HR32 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Congratulating Melenie Lissette Gonzalez for winning the conjunto category at the 2018 Texas Folklife Big Squeeze Accordion Contest.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-03-08 - Reported enrolled [HR32 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HR32-Enrolled.html
| H.R. No. 32 | ||
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| WHEREAS, Melenie Lissette Gonzalez of Rio Grande City won the | ||
| conjunto category at the 12th annual Texas Folklife Big Squeeze | ||
| Accordion Contest finals at the Bullock Texas State History Museum | ||
| in Austin on April 21, 2018; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Since 2007, the Big Squeeze competition has | ||
| highlighted talented young musicians from across the Lone Star | ||
| State who perform various genres of traditional accordion music, | ||
| including Tejano, Creole, Cajun, and polka; Ms. Gonzalez was the | ||
| first teenage girl from the Rio Grande Valley to take top honors in | ||
| the conjunto category for players ages 17 and under; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Melenie Gonzalez grew up listening to conjunto, but | ||
| it is her older sister, Carmen, a mariachi violinist, whom she | ||
| credits with firing her love of music; she took up the accordion | ||
| when she was 14 and studied with Jesus Lozano and Jaime Lozano, | ||
| becoming a valued member of Roma High School's conjunto ensemble, | ||
| Los Cardenales; for her award-winning performance in Austin, she | ||
| played the classic "Polka Idalia" and a huapango, "Picame | ||
| Tarantula"; and | ||
| WHEREAS, This outstanding young Texan has proven herself to | ||
| possess both exceptional talent and a passion for her craft, and she | ||
| may indeed look forward to a future bright with promise; now, | ||
| therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 86th Texas | ||
| Legislature hereby congratulate Melenie Lissette Gonzalez on | ||
| winning the conjunto grand prize at the 2018 Big Squeeze Accordion | ||
| Contest finals and extend to her sincere best wishes for continued | ||
| success; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
| prepared for Ms. Gonzalez as an expression of high regard by the | ||
| Texas House of Representatives. | ||
| Guillen | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Speaker of the House | ||
| I certify that H.R. No. 32 was adopted by the House on March | ||
| 6, 2019, by a non-record vote. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
