Every Monday night, 86-year-old Gene “Pappy” Merritts can be found onstage at Robert’s Western World singing and playing fiddle for John England and the Western Swingers. The stage, under neon beer ...
Fifty-one years ago today, the King of Western Swing, a major influence on modern country music, died in Texas.
What you’ll find after the jump was posted to Vimeo only a few hours ago: a cleaned-up version version of Ken Harrison’s 1981 doc on Western Swing fiddle-playing legend Johnny Gimble titled, simply, ...
From May 7-9, the Western Swing Music Society of the Southwest will host a weekend of music and dancing to benefit young ...
Johnny Gimble, the so-called "king of the swing fiddle," has toured with Willie Nelson and recorded tracks with Merle Haggard, Charley Pride, Chet Atkins and Connie Smith. The 84-year-old ...
RIFLE — Katie Glassman fuses soulful fiddling with a sparkling voice to span a range of genres from Western swing to vintage jazz and bluegrass. She and her band, Snapshot, will perform at the Clough ...
Western swing had lost a great deal of its popularity, and most dancehalls were less than full. Wills was battling the bottle, which led him to miss shows. He was also changing his home base from ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Wynn Rutberg was 3-years old when she was first charmed by the keening wail of a fiddle during a visit to the National Western Stock Show’s Colorado Fiddle ...
Once upon a time, deep in the heart of Texas, siblings Hulda, Sophia and Grace Quebe all decided to pick up the violin and take lessons together at the behest of their mother, who wanted the girls to ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Wynn Rutberg was 3-years old when she was first charmed by the keening wail of a fiddle during a visit to the National Western Stock Show’s Colorado Fiddle ...
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