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Tony Haselden, from the Bluebird Café, performer at the 2009 Mount Dora Music Festival

Tony Haselden

Singer-songwriter-lead guitarist Tony Haselden is a founding member of Louisiana’s LeRoux, who recorded five albums for Capitol and RCA and produced the southern standards ‘New Orleans Ladies’ and ‘Nobody Said It Was Easy’. After touring with Foreigner, Journey, ZZ Top, The Doobie Brother, Beach Boys, and Kansas, Haselden relocated to Nashville where he scored his first independent songwriting hit, Shenandoah’s ‘Mama Knows’. More hits followed with Keith Whitley’s ‘It Ain't Nothin’, George Strait’s ‘You Know Me Better Than That’, Collin Raye’s ‘That’s My Story’, and Michelle Wright’s ‘Take It Like A Man’. Haselden’s songs have also appeared on albums by Shania Twain, Toby Keith, Trisha Yearwood, Marie Osmond, Shelby Lynne and the list goes on. An award-winning producer, Haselden has also produced gold and platinum albums for The Kinleys and the Wilkinsons and contributed to other projects for Giant Records and Dreamworks.

Friday, February 20 at 7:30 p.m.
Mount Dora Community Center

Tony Haselden