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About
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Singer * Songwriter * Musician * Nashville Recording Artist * Rome Recording Artist
Jim Lillo
The following CDs are currently available for $9.95 each
This price includes all applicable taxes and "free" shipping to any of the lower 48 states. We accept PAYPAL, BIDPAY, Money Orders. Please allow 2 weeks for personal checks.
Current CDs
"My Favorite Hit's" " Back In The Day"
"Golden Country" "Amazing Grace" recorded at Grand Ole Opry
"Keepin Country, Country" Jim & Bev sing " Country Music's Greatest Duets"
"All I Have To Offer You Is Me" "Live " New London Benefit Concert CD
"What A Friend We Share"
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| Awards & Affilations
1980 & 81 Ohio "King" of Country Music
2007 NTCMA Band Scramble Winner Missouri Valley, Iowa
Member: (ACM) Academy of Country Music (Nashville, Tn)
Member: (OCWMA) Ohio Country & Western Music Association (Akron Ohio Chapter)
Professional Menbership BMI ( Broadcast Music Incorporated) Songwriter Group New York, Ny.
Member: (NTCMA) National Traditional Country Music Association (Anita, Iowa)
 
Bev on Stage Ohio Opry Show Loudonville Theatre
Member: (BMI) Broadcast Music, Inc.
Check the web page for dates and times.
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Every Thursday Night Jam
"Mr Piano Music Store""
1133 W. 4th St.
Mansfield , Ohio
Free Show Open To The Public
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Mt. Gilead State Park
Jim & Bev (only)
2010
Spring Camp-out Festival TBA
Taste Of Country Festival TBA
Apple Butter Festival TBA
Snowflake Festival Sat. TBA
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Making Waves for Christ
WXCB WGCT WOCB WOCB-LP
TV-42 TV-8 TV-39 TV-48
Jim & Bev Lillo
Next Show To Be Announced
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2010 Morton School Festival
Returning For Our 7th Year
TBA
Across from the Shelby Airport
Shelby, Ohio
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Jim & Bev Lillo & Friends
appearing at:
Johnny Appleseed
Outdoor Drama Center
On St.Rt.603 near I-71 & Rt.30
TBA
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"NEW SHOW" Willard Hope Center
( Fromer Eagles Lodge Bld , Maple St.)
Downtown Willard Ohio
1st & 3rd Tuesdays Each Month
7:00 to 9:00 Pm
Free Show Open To The Public
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2010
Plymouth "Silver King" Festival
Plymouth, Ohio
TBA
Behind Plymouth Police Station
Parking Lot 9 (Tent)
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Jim & Bev Appearing At:
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National Traditional Country Music Assn. Festival
2010 Show Dates & Times
Plymouth Fairgrounds Lemars, Iowa
Jim & Bev Guest Appearance Show Times:
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| Current Events and Up-Dated Biography
 2004
At a music show in Shelby, Ohio Jim & Bev met, started dating, and a year later were married. Some of their common interests were country music, singing, and a strong Christian background. Bev's past singing experience was mostly church choir, but she quickly adapted to the stage performances and recording. Jim has played through the years in several professional tour bands and enjoys playing several instruments.
The vocal harmonies that Jim & Bev produce singing together have caused them to book singing engagements all over the northern Ohio area. Some engagements are Jim & Bev and a guitar only, and some engagements are with their whole band "Wild Horses." Whether it be singing a mixture of classic country, bluegrass and gospel, or gospel only, they enjoy performing and meeting new people everywhere they go.
2006
Jim & Bev made several out-of-state trips to Nashville, Branson, and Renfro Valley. Jim currently has 5 CDs available and is working on a duet CD project. On December 16, 2006 Jim & Bev recorded a single song CD at the Ryman Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. The single was their rendition on "Amazing Grace" and was recorded as a demo for their future duet CD project.
2007
Jim & Bev have just released a new GOSPEL CD entitled "What A Friend We Share." A 13-song collection of mostly traditional Gospel songs with a few new contemporary ones. This CD has just been released for national and international air play across the United States and 17 foreign countries through the CD distributor CDBABY.com. We will try to update this page as soon as new information becomes available. We have just sent out cd's to Tj's Dj's a web based forum that creates a source for radio disk jockys to find and play songs from new or original artists .
We have just started a new show called "Jim & Bev's Ohio Opry " we are dong this show at the newly restored Ohio Theatre in Loudonville, Ohio. Email or call for show dates and times...
2008
Jim & Bev have completed their latest recording project a collection of well known country duets. Songs by such Country greats as Dolly and Porter, Allison Krauss and James Taylor, George Jones and Tammy Wynette and several other well known artists. The Cd is called "Jim & Bev sings Country Music's Greatest Duets" is now available.
2009
Show dates for new and interesting stage shows just keep comming in. A request for another Theatre show has been put in probably around June. Jim & Bev will shortly start recording there 11th and newest CD project. An album intitled " When Each Tear You Cry Becomes A Rose" song are still being selected for that recording peoject.
2010
There will be 4 people representing the United States at the country music Marton Festival concert this year in Marton, New Zealand, 1 is Nashville recording artist Terry Smith, whose song "Far side banks of Jordon" was recorded by Johnny Cash and June Carter, No.2 is international recording artist Charlie Groth. The other last two are Jim & Bev Lillo. Jan. 15,16,17.
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Biography
 I was born August 13th, 1952 in Willard Ohio. My parents were Joe & Betty Lillo. I have a younger sister and a older sister. I grew up with my mother playing piano, and Dad struggling with the banjo. Sundays after church almost always ment relatives visiting and some sort of music jam session.
I started piano lessons about the same time I started 1st grade and continued to take lessons till graduation. Bach and Beethoven never held my interest as much as Johnny Cash and Merl Haggard did.
A 1971 graduate of Willard High School, Jim started his first musical group "The Green Expressions " in high school. Jim's first group played area parties, reunions, fairs, and festivals all over Ohio. Shortly after high school, Jim started teaching guitar lessons at a local area music store. One day the store owner told Jim " Your banjo student will be here at 5:00!" Jim said,"That's nice, but I don't play the banjo." The store owner said "Oh that's no problem, just get a banjo teaching book off the shelf and stay one lesson ahead of the student and you'll be fine!" Before he knew it, Jim was teaching 11 different musical instruments. In the early 1980s Jim and his new band "The Brandy Band"
( Jim on Stage Loudonville Ohio Opry Show)
had their first 45 rpm record release, a self-penned song entitled, "What You See Is What You Get" and " I Don't Love You Anymore," which received local area radio air-play from WNCO Ashland, WTTF Tiffin, WMRN Marion, WCPZ Sandusky.
Jim also played a "live" radio broadcast for WNCO and WTTF. Over the years, Jim has entered and won several singing contests and in 1980 and 1981 had the proud distinction of winning for the state of Ohio,"King" of country music for the Ohio Country & Western Music Association. Jim then signed with a professional promoter and booking agent, John Moore Entertainment Inc., which was based out of Columbus, Ohio.
Jim played stage shows all over Ohio and was able to be an opening act for such musical greats as: Johnny Cash, Little Jimmy Dickens, Teresa Brewer, Bobby Goldsboro, Sha-Na-Na, and Jimmy C. Newman. Jim's career started in the 60s and is alive and well today.
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