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C E N T R A L
A S S O C I A T I O N
May 2017 Volume 39, Number 5
Member IBMA
© 2017 Central Texas Bluegrass Association
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INSTRUCTION FOR BANJO,
GUITAR, AND MANDOLIN
Private Lessons in North and South Austin
Eddie Collins
www.eddiecollins.biz
512-873-7803
Sam Bush played Friday night on the Hill Country State of the 30th Anniversary Old Settler’s Music Festival in
Driftwood, TX.
Sam and the guys played….well...that pretty much says it all. It was a more high-energy music than most ears
are entitled to hear in one sitting. Backing up Sam are Scott Vestal on banjo, Chris Brown on drums, Todd
Parks on bass, and Stephen Mougin on guitar. Photos by Bob Vestal.
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Better Late Than Never Austin/Round Rock Duane Calvin 512-835-0342 [email protected] Black Diamond Austin Chuck Middleton 512-203-4574 [email protected] Eddie Collins Eddie Collins 512-873-7803 www.eddiecollins.biz [email protected] Four Fights Per Pint Jay Littleton 512-- 848-1634 www.facebook.com/FourFightsPerPint [email protected] Hot Pickin 57s Max Zimmet http://hotpickin.com/ [email protected] The Lost Pines Talia Bryce 512-814-5134 www.lostpinesband.com [email protected]
Missing Tradition Dan & Diana Ost 512-845-8749 [email protected] One Eye Open Max Zimmet www.oneeyeopenband.com [email protected] Out of the Blue Rob Lifford 512-422-7706 www.outoftheblue.ws [email protected] Pearl and the Polka Dots Rachel Bates 817-239-5624 www.facebook.com/pearlandthepolkadots [email protected] Pine Island Station Gary & Janine Carter 936-520-2952 www.pineislandstation.com [email protected] The Piney Grove Ramblers Wayne Brooks 512-699-8282 877-899-8269 www.pgramblers.com [email protected]
CTBA Bands centraltexasbluegrass.org/bands.html
The Rusty Razors Patrick Davis 515-802-7438 [email protected] The Sieker Band Rolf & Beate Sieker 512-937-4496 www.siekerband.com Shawn Spiars Shawn Spiars 512-627-3921 www.banjohangout.org/my/sspiars [email protected] The Texas Honeybees Leslie Collier 512-328-0144 [email protected] West of Waterloo Austin & Hill Country Michael Sanders 512-673-9095 [email protected] Wood Street Bloodhounds Oak Park, IL, Robert Becker 708-714-7206 www.woodstreetbloodhounds.com [email protected]
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Peter Rowan played the Hill Country Stage at this year’s 30th Anniversary
Old Settlers Music Festival in Driftwood, TX.
Rowan kept the crowd hoppin’ as he and the boys from Wood & Wire
showed us what bluegrass is all about.
Members of Wood & Wire are Billy Bright (mando), Tony Kamel (guitar),
Dom Fisher (bass), and Trevor Smith (banjo). Photo by Bob Vestal.
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Not sure what this young feller is pointin’ at unless he’s meaning to say that he thinks he’s
found some really good bluegrass music or maybe he’s trying to tell me that his CTBA cap is
about worn out and he needs a new one!
Oh, wait, that’s Alan Munde, having a good time listening to Wood and Wire play on the Blue-
bonnet Stage at this year’s Old Settlers Music Festival.
But still, maybe it is time for a new cap. Just sayin’. Photo by Bob Vestal.
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The 2017 edition of Old Settler’s Music Fes-tival was a resounding success. Old Settler’s started 30 years ago as a small, one-day bluegrass festival in Old Settler’s Park in Round Rock. This small festival has grown into a four-day, nationally-respected tradition, showcasing the best in bluegrass, Americana, and roots music.
We proudly maintained our heritage with bona-fide bluegrass legends like Del McCoury and Peter Rowan, as well as the best new bluegrass in the genre like The Lil’ Smokies, Wood & Wire, and Billy Strings. And, we have broadened the scope to include artists like the Lone Bellow, the California Honeydrops, and Los Lobos. We are delighted to play a role in encouraging young artists with our youth competition, campfire jams, and performance workshops. I can’t tell the Old Set-tler’s story without mentioning Sarah Jarosz, who won our first youth competi-tion in 2002 and won two Grammy awards this year, or Shakey Graves, who got his name around the Old Settler’s campfires and, at one time, served on our vol-unteer trash crew. We’re pretty lucky to have a strong, core group of volunteers. Judy Knopp in art-ist relations has been with the festival since its inception. Many other volunteers come back year after year. The sense of community among the volunteers is one of the festival’s strengths. We’re also blessed with a supportive group of spon-sors and attentive, dedicated fans who love music. This year we had to rearrange the entire festival footprint because the Salt Lick had asked us to move our Bluebonnet Stage away from the lawn by the creek where they hold weddings and receptions. We have had several rain years and each time had torn up the grass – it was impossible to fix it by the next week when they needed it for a wedding. We moved the Bluebonnet to the back of the property and moved the larger stage across the field, giving us one big backstage area. That worked great – eliminating golf cart traffic between the two stages and making production so much more streamlined. We were also able to greatly improve the backstage experience for VIPs and Platinum ticket buyers. So, it was challenging, but it worked. All in all, it was one for the books, and even though I haven’t finished putting the festival to bed, I’ve already put out some offers for 2018!
OLD SETTLERS DOES IT AGAIN B Y J E A N S P I V E Y
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Talk about team work! Ten Bluegrass Associations and Bluegrass-supporting groups across Texas
worked together to compile the funds needed to put on the 2017 Bluegrass Instrument Contests
for banjo, guitar, and mandolin and help continue the tradition of having Texas State Champions for
each of those instruments this year.
Those organizations generously agreed to contribute the funding that will provide for the Cash Priz-
es, Awards, Judges Compensation, the Winfield Accreditation, and the Texas Champ entries to the
National Competition and Festival.
The venue this year is the Pearl, Texas Community Center, centrally located in the middle of the
state (see http://www.pearlbluegrass.com/NEWSmugMug-Files/NEWMap/MAP-to-Pearl/n-VpCpWV ) and
will be provided for free. The contests will be held in conjunction with the Pearl Bluegrass Jam &
Stage Shows held on the first Saturday of each month.
Following is the schedule.
• June 3rd – Texas State Mandolin Championship
• July 1st – Texas State Guitar Championship
• Aug 5th – Texas State Banjo Championship
• Sept 13-17 - National Competition at Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas
The Cash prizes for the first three places in each of the contests (banjo, guitar, mandolin) will be:
First Place: $500; Second Place: $350; Third Place: $200. 100% of the funds contributed will be used
for the contest. No one except the contestants and judges will be paid.
Volunteers from Pearl Bluegrass and Bay Area Bluegrass (BABA) will help run the contest, coordinat-
ed by Lynn Holbrook, the BABA Contest Chairman. Rick Kirkland, the BABA President, is maintaining
the relationship with the Winfield National Competition organizers and managing the incoming con-
tributions and cash awards.
Think about any musicians you know who may be interested in representing your area at the State
Championship along with a fun time of jamming, free Stage Shows ,and “Bluegrass in the Country”
at Pearl.
See the flyer on the next page. Complete info is available on the Bay Area Bluegrass website at
http://bayareabluegrass.org/Contest.php
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Got word from Dave Moore that the Boerne Pickers jam is alive and well. Dave says, “We are an acoustic
jam focusing on traditional bluegrass and fiddle music, Gospel, Irish tunes, and a smattering of other
styles. Our purpose is to play awesome music, introduce and exchange new songs, and learn together.
We welcome musicians from the NW side of San Antonio, Boerne, Comfort, and surrounding areas and all
others willing to brave the traffic and con-
struction on I-10. Friends, family, spouses,
significant others, onlookers, and coffee
drinkers are welcome!”
You can bring your instrument(s), music
stand (optional), and a few copies of any
music you'd like to share with the group.
The jam happens the 2nd and 4th Thursday
of the month, 6:30-8:30 PM at Electric
Coffee, 215 W. Bandera Road (aka Hwy 46)
in Boerne. From I-10, take Exit 540 and go
east about two blocks to the shopping cen-
ter on the right. Electric Coffee is the fur-
thest right shop in the strip mall.
One of the hardest working bluegrass groups in
Central Texas, Hot Pickin Bluegrass, has officially
changed its name to Hot Pickin 57s. The group
started out as a pure bluegrass group, but has
morphed into a band that at any given moment
might break into Texas Swing, Classic Country,
Americana, Gypsy Jazz or Old-Time Rock 'n Roll.
The 57 part of the name is a reference to the varie-
ty of music they play, like the old Heinz slogan that
identified the total number of products they sold,
Heinz 57. It also harkens back to one of the greatest years ever of classic American-made cars, 1957,
which makes sense, since just about all of their music is American made, including their many originals.
Bluegrass fans seem to love the variety of the group. All the music is performed on acoustic instru-
ments - Max Zimmet on guitar and mandolin, Eddie Collins on banjo, guitar, and mandolin, Mike Mont-
gomery on fiddle, and Vance Hazen on upright bass. You can find all the info and show schedule on
their website at http://hotpickin.com Photo by Lisa Rich.
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The Texas Blueberry Festival kicks off Friday night, June 9th, with the Blueberry Bluegrass Concert in the Park, from 6 to 10 p.m. June 9 at Festival Plaza in downtown Nacogdo-ches. Rex Perry Autoplex is sponsoring the family-friendly event that will feature four musical acts: The Purple Hulls, The Baker Family, The Blake Brothers and The Sabine River Bend Band.
The concert will also feature food vendors, including some local farmer's market favor-ites selling homemade items, as well as catfish, barbecue, snowcones, blueberry lemonade and lots of water. Organizers en-courage attendees to bring blankets and lawn chairs. The event is family-friendly, so no coolers or alcohol will be allowed.
Parking will be available downtown; howev-er, some downtown streets will be closed, so concert-goers are urged to visit
www.Facebook.com/bluegrassnac or www.tbf.nacogdoches.org/page.php?id=60 for parking instructions. Parking with free shuttle service to the concert venue will be available at First Baptist Church, 411 North St. Handicapped parking will be available behind Regions Bank, ac-cessed via S. Mound St. to E. Pilar St. Van and RV parking will be at the Nacogdoches City Gar-age location at 114 W. Cox St.
Organizers are grateful for the enthusiastic partners that make the concert possible, especially Rex Perry Autoplex and the City of Nacogdoches.
Word from Gene Varley by way of Dave Stritzinger that a new Monday night jam is trying to get
formed at 300 Bluff Springs Drive, behind the First Baptist Church in Buda. Some folks have
been there twice when the Texican was being used for a banquet. Now, the facility is available to
them every Monday night for all. Hope you can make it. They love to play and usually start
around 6:30 pm. Note that this does not replace the Texican jam; just a new jam hoping to get
folks who live in the area to come and play.
A NEW PLACE TO PLAY
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Join today. Help keep bluegrass
going strong in Central Texas!
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CTBA Area Jams centraltexasbluegrass.org/jams.html
AUSTIN Every Sunday, 3 PM-??, CTBA Sunday jam at Hill’s Café, 4700 S. Congress; 512-851-9300. 2nd and 4th Saturday, 3-5 PM, beg./int. jam at Wildflower Terrace, 3801 Berkman Drive; Steve Mangold, 512-345-6155. 1st Thursday, 7-9 PM, beg./int. jam, Northwest Hills area; Steve Mangold, 512-345-6155. Every Thursday, 6-9 PM, beg./int. jam, Texican Café, 11940 Manchaca Road; Dave Stritzinger, 512-689-4433. 2nd Thursday, bluegrass jam at Texas Barber Services, 2301 E. Riverside Dr, #400A; Kurt Phillips, 512-330-4895. Every Tuesday, 8-10 PM, Texas Old Time Fiddling, Scholz Garten, 1607 San Jacinto; 512-474-1958. BANDERA 4th Friday of each month except Good Friday, November, and December at Silver Sage Corral – east of Bandera. Starts at 6 PM. For more info call 830-796-4969, www.silversagecorral.org. BELLVILLE 4th Sat., Texas Bluegrass Music jam/show Jan. through September, 4pm jam, 6:30 pm show. Coushatte Recrea-tion Ranch, 2812 Nelius Rd. 936-697-5949, [email protected], www.TXBluegrassMusic.com. Plenty of RV camping, restrooms, showers. BLANCO First Saturday, 2-5 PM at Buggy Barn Museum, 1915 Hwy 281 N; contact Deanna Dosser, 830-554-0006 2nd & 4th Sunday, 3:00-6:00 pm, Old 300 Barbecue, 318 4th St, Info: Tibby Armke 830-660-5734. BOERNE 2nd & 4th Thursday, 6:30-8:30, at Electric Coffee, 215 W. Bandera Road (Hwy 46), Info: Dave Moore, 210-846-9745, [email protected].
FAYETTEVILLE 2nd Saturday, Fayetteville Picking Park jam Jan.-Nov. beginning at 1:00 PM on the courthouse square. Acoustic only. [email protected] GARLAND Every Saturday, Bluegrass on the Square, March- November, between Main and State Sts. at 6th, 7:30 PM to 1:00 AM. GLEN ROSE 3rd Saturday, Oakdale Park, Paluxy River Bluegrass Association, free stage show, jam; and potluck Friday night before. Jim Chapman 469-231-6616, www.paluxybluegrass.com HOUSTON 1st Tuesday, Fuddruckers, 2040 NASA Rd 1, 281-333-1598 JOHNSON CITY 3rd Saturday except in December, 2-6 PM, jam at The Dome, 706 W. Main St., Hwy 290 W; Charlene Crump, 512-632-5999. Last Saturday of each month, 2:00 PM, Dally’s Down Under 9097 US-290, Johnson City. Info: Cliff Robbins 701-770-8962 or [email protected] LEAGUE CITY (BABA) 3rd Saturday: Jam 5:00 PM, Stage show 6:30 PM Jan- Nov., League City Civic Center, 300 W. Walker St. 281-636-9419. Sponsored by Bay Area Bluegrass Association. LEANDER 1st Sunday, 2:00 - 4:00 PM, CTBA Be-ginner/Intermediate Bluegrass Jam, at Leander Public Library, 1011 South Bagdad Road. Bob Vestal, 512-983-5031 LILLIAN 2nd Saturday, 4:00 PM jam, 7:00 PM show, First Baptist Church, $4; Dale Brawner 97-935-4525.
LLANO 4th Saturday, 2:00 PM, jam at Fuel Coffee House, 106 East Main St.; 325-247-5272; www.fuelcoffeehouse.org MAGNOLIA 1st Saturday, West Montgomery County Community Development Cen-ter on Friendship Drive, 5:00 PM. Info: Bill Ingram, [email protected] MEDINA 2nd Tuesday, all gospel jam, 6 PM at First Baptist Church; contact Linda Barton, 830-589-2486. 2nd Friday, jam at 6 PM, Masonic Lodge; Maude Arnold, 830-796-8422. PEARL 1st Saturday: Jam all day/night, stage show, 12:15 PM-6:15 PM; food and RV hookups available. Pearl Community Center, on FM 183, 7 mi. south of Purmela; [email protected]. Check website for show schedule: www.pearlbluegrass.com ROUND ROCK 3rd Saturday, 2-5 PM except Novem-ber and December, jam at Danny Ray’s Music, 12 Chisholm Trail; 512-671-8663. www.dannyraysmusic.com SAN ANTONIO Every Monday, 6:30-8:30 PM, at The Barbecue Station, 1610 NE Loop 410 at Harry Wurzbach exit; 210-824-9191. SCHULENBERG 1st and 3rd Tuesday, 6 :00 PM, jam at Schulenberg RV Park Community Cen-ter, 65 N. Kessler Ave. Laretta Baum-garten, 979-743-4388, [email protected] TOMBALL 4th Saturday, 4:00 PM, bluegrass jam at Kleb Woods Nature Center and Preserve, 20303 Draper Road, Tom-ball, 281-373-1777 or 281-910-4396.
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Each year, the Bugle Boy Foundation ( http://thebugleboy.org and http://www.facebook.com/thebugleboy ) joins with Songwriters Serenade to allow performing songwriters to showcase their skills before their peers, a panel of esteemed judges, and an enthusiastic crowd of music lovers.
Fifteen finalists from eight states will compete for $7,000 in prize money.
This year's contest is held Saturday, May 6th from 11am-5pm at The Parish Hall in Moravia, Texas. After the contest in Moravia, The Bugle Boy will host a Satur-
day evening concert with the 2017 winner, opening for Songwriter Serenade judges Susan Gibson, Carrie Rodriquez & Walt Wilkins.
Ken Gaines will emcee and judges are Walt Wilkins, Susan Gibson, and Carrie Rodriguez.
Susan Gibson was the lead singer for the alternative country band, The Groobees, but is best known for writing the Dixie Chicks mega-hit, Wide Open Spaces.
Carrie Rodriguez is a prodigious fiddler, a soulful singer, and a probing songwriter who has recorded and/or performed with John Prine, John Mayer, Alejandro Escovedo, Los Lonely Boys, Bruce Hornsby, Robert Earl Keen, Los Lobos and Patty Griffin.
Singer/Songwriter/Producer Walt Wilkinsâ compositions have ended up on albums by such artists as Eric Church, Ricky Skaggs, Pat Green and Kenny Rogers.
The Bugle Boys Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
A not-for-profit family festival, Farmgrass hosts a celebration of community and foot-stomping music with proceeds supporting local farmers. Bring a tent, bring your kids, BYOB! More details at farmgrass.org.
2017 Lineup:
8:30 Shinyribs 7:15 Whiskey Shivers 6:00 Hot Club of Cowtown 4:45 The Lost Pines 3:30 High Plains Jamboree 2:15 Sour Bridges 1:00 Lil Darlin 12:00 TBD Contest Winner
Camp Friday or Saturday & enjoy an outdoor screening of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?". BYOB and bring the kids (12 and un-der are free; we'll provide the entertainment). Join us for a full day of music on Saturday with food selections from delicious lo-cal trucks.
Ticket info is at http://www.farmgrass.org/buy-tickets.html
The Facebook event is at
https://www.facebook.com/events/1372621926121228
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Serving the Central Texas
Bluegrass community since
1978.
Organization The Central Texas Bluegrass newsletter is published monthly by the Cen-
tral Texas Bluegrass Association (CTBA), a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt Texas
nonprofit corporation. Contributions are deductible as charitable and ed-
ucational donations. Work published in this newsletter is used by permis-
sion of the writers, artists, photographers, and contributors, who retain
all copyrights.
Jamie Stubblefield, president
Jason Pratt, vice president
Sam Dunn, board member
Mike Hurlbut, membership chair
Nan Hurlbut, secretary
Alice Moore, board member
Lenny Nichols, treasurer
Bob Vestal, editor
Cheryl Wagoner, board member
Jim Wiederhold, board member
Jeff White, webmaster
Central Texas Bluegrass Association
P. O. Box 9816
Austin, TX 78766-9816
www.centraltexasbluegrass.org
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PARTING SHOTS
Here’s the world-famous banjo player Scott Vestal (r), backstage after playing with Sam
bush at this year’s 30th Anniversary Old Settler’s Music Festival. Don’t know who the old
guy who sneaked in with him is but at least he seems to like Texas...and that’s a good
thing. Photo by Jean Vestal.
CTBA established the Willa Beach-Porter CTBA Scholarship Fund with income used to pay for scholarship awards to students who have demonstrated a serious interest and performance tal-ent in bluegrass music, and who show a need for financial assistance to support their musical studies.
This scholarship is named after Willa Beach-Porter, a long-time supporter of bluegrass music and of the Central Texas Bluegrass Association.
Your membership or donation will help us continue this great program. Go to centraltexasblue-grass.org and click Join at top right then contact us to assure your contribution goes to the schol-arship fund.
If you know a young person who would benefit from the scholarship, you can download the Ap-plication (.pdf) and submit his or her name. Please note that the applicant must be a Texas resi-dent in order to qualify.
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