Terri Hendrix

OYOU's Executive Director/President

Workshop Host, OYOUth, SongBuddies, Program Director, Booking, Multiple Events 

Terri Hendrix is a singer-songwriter, educator, and author with more than 25 years of experience as a nationally touring artist. She has performed extensively as a solo artist and alongside acclaimed Texas musician and producer Lloyd Maines. Hendrix leads songwriting and music workshops for children, adults, and individuals with special needs through schools, camps, and community programs across Texas. She co-wrote the GRAMMY Award-winning instrumental “Lil’ Jack Slade” for the Chicks and has received numerous honors for her artistic and community contributions. She founded and has operated the nonprofit Own Your Own Universe Center for the Creative Arts since 2012. 

Terri: https://www.terrihendrix.com/

Patty Sughrue 

OYOU's Vice President 

Carol Champagne 

OYOU's Treasurer 

Workshop Host

OYOUth & Song Circle Coordinator 

Carol Champagne is a singer/songwriter who expresses hope through her lyrics and finds fulfillment in sharing the joy that music can bring.  She grew up in Louisiana, playing hymns in church, singing in choirs, and accompanying singers on piano. She has lived over 30 years in the Austin area, where she is fortunate to be surrounded by amazing musicians and songwriting mentors. She is happiest when noodling around on the piano, playing guitar, writing songs, singing with friends, spending time with her husband and grown kids, and going for walks at McKinney Falls SP.

Carol taught her two sons basic piano when they were little, and in 2015 she started teaching piano lessons to friends’ children as well.  Her teaching business has grown since then, and she continues to welcome new students and pass on the joy of music to others. 

Veronica Samo 

OYOU's Secretary 

OYOU Young Adult Programming & Outreach, Marketing, Internship Coordinator

Jeanne Ply

OYOU Song Circles 

Playing for Good Coordinator 

Team Leader 

Jeanne Ply is a multi-instrumentalist whose love of music began as a child singing around her Granny’s piano. She grew up playing violin and piano while singing in church and school choirs, laying the foundation for a lifetime of making music and serving others. After college, Jeanne began her first career as a Registered Music Therapist at Travis State School, where she led sensory stimulation groups, choirs, handbell ensembles, and instrumental groups for adults with intellectual disabilities. She later pursued a second career as a speech-language pathologist, serving students in Central Texas school districts for more than 20 years. In retirement, Jeanne has embraced her lifelong dream of performing. She plays fiddle, guitar, mandolin, and piano, writes original songs, and performs with several bands. She especially enjoys improvising, singing harmony, participating in music jams, and sharing songs with friends through church ensembles and song circles. As the mother of an extraordinary child with special needs, Jeanne has experienced firsthand the power of music to inspire and transform lives. That understanding fuels her passion for OYOU’s Playing for Good program, where she brings music to communities throughout the year. Jeanne’s greatest joy comes from her husband, two children, three grandsons, and extended family. She believes every day is a gift and often reminds her friends, “We have to plan the fun in order to get it done!”

Lloyd Maines 

OYOU's Volunteer & Workshop Host

Team Leader 

Lloyd Maines is a Grammy Award-winning producer, steel guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist whose influence on Texas music spans more than four decades. Born in Lubbock, Texas, Maines began his recording and producing career in 1974 and has since produced or performed on thousands of albums with many of the most respected artists in country, rock, and Texas music. Renowned for his musicianship and production work, he has been inducted into the Buddy Holly Walk of Fame, the Texas Steel Guitar Hall of Fame, and the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame. Maines holds the record for the most appearances on Austin City Limits.

Lloyd:  https://www.lloydmaines.com/) 

Dana Jones

OYOU's Volunteer & Workshop Host 

Mind, Body, Spirit, Writing Workshops

Dana Jones was born in Texas and has devoted her life to growing, loving and learning (most often the hard way!). She's been a jack of many trades, a homeschooling mom, and currently spends workdays as an Office Administrator for a commercial HVAC company. In her spare time, you'll find her day drinking with her husband, writing, reading all kinds of books, listening to music, bragging about her grown children, talking with her spirit guides, reading cards with friends, loving on dogs, dreaming of more boots and more jewelry, and doing all she can to throw more positive out into the universe.

Kim Kyle: Strength, History, and Heart 

OYOU Workshop host, OYOUth

Teaching and Performing Artist

Team Leader 

Kim Kyle is a brilliant Texas songwriter and cancer survivor whose life and music are woven deeply into the fabric of the state’s music scene. A longtime fixture of the Houston music community, she is a powerful and seasoned performer and vocalist who began her career more than four decades ago in a trio with Marie English and Lisa Morales, opening for luminaries such as Chris Isaak and k.d. lang. She later fronted the band Kim Martin & Mustang and spent years as a dynamic lead vocalist in various cover and country bands across Texas and Oklahoma, playing legendary venues from Houston’s Mucky Duck alongside Houston great Jack Saunders, to performing in the house band at Tulsa’s storied Wormy Dog — a pivitol venue that helped shape and establish the Red Dirt genre and sound. These days, she continues to perform in a variety of ensembles, including alongside longtime sideman and frontman Willie B in his cover band, Tacocat.

Beyond the stage, Kim devoted herself as a caregiver to her mother — a role that reflects the same strength, grit, and heart that define her music. After stepping away for a time, she returned to performing with renewed fire, continuing to bring authenticity, soul, and Texas spirit to every stage she graces (Website https://kimkylemusic.com/)

Art Programs

Susan Warren 

Team Leader

Assistants:

Val Crevaling & Cecily Howze

Susan was born in Texas and raised in Round Top and Houston. She's currently living in San Marcos. Creating art has always been part of her life. Shae says she has a kaleidoscope brain, and has always been on the lookout for objects to reclaim for different purposes. In 1972, she attended Texas State University to pursue a degree in Commercial Art. During college she designed advertising for a local record shop, that was then used in the University Star. She then began working at Texas State University in the Travel Office, where she designed the logo for the VP of Finance newsletter. Retiring after 28 years, the same year, she began working at the San Marcos Farmers Market. The Market allowed her more time for creativity. She later began experimenting with Mosaics and Cement art, and developed a love for both.