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Lone Star Fest, Richardson, March 13-14 Volume 37, No. 2 Copyright © Central Texas Bluegrass Association February, 2015 Lone Star Fest, Richardson, March 13-14 or the last several years, usually in late February or early March, Alan Tompkins and the F Bluegrass Heritage Foundation have held an indoor “Bluegrass Heritage Festival” at South Oaks Baptist Church in Arlington, an event that has brought some great touring acts to the Metroplex and furnished a welcome respite to late-winter cabin fever. These are the same folks who bring us the wonderful “Bloomin’ Bluegrass” festival in Farmers Branch each October. Kicking off the spring festival season in Arlington, I’ve seen Kati Penn and Newtown, Balsam Range, Chris Jones and the Night Drivers, Honi Deaton, Joe Mullins, Blue Highway, Special C, Junior Sisk, the Gibson Brothers and others in the past. Well, this year Alan and the Heritage folks have expanded the lineup, changed its name and its focus somewhat, and moved the location. The Lone Star Fest (not to be confused with the Lone Star Bluegrass Festival which the CTBA sponsored in Hallettsville last July) will take place Friday and Saturday, March 13-14 at the DoubleTree Hotel (1981 N. Central Expressway) in Richardson, northeast of Dallas. The lineup will include the Boxcars, Marty Raybon and Full Circle, Suzy Bogguss, Gold Heart, and a couple of Texas bluegrass gospel bands (the Herrins and In Achordance), along with Pearl stalwarts the Dueling Hearts. From this lineup, it looks as though the musical focus will be a three-way mix of bluegrass, country, and bluegrass gospel, and if you’ve been to the Farmers Branch festival, you’ll already be familiar with some of these acts. Reserved seating ranges from $44 to $63.50. Alan cautions that seating at the hotel is only about 50% of the capacity of the former location at South Oaks Church, so he urges getting a ticket online early (these are two-day passes). Most of the seating is reserved, but there is general admission seating at the back of the ballroom. There is also a special festival rate of $89/night at the hotel. Jamming will be allowed in the lobby Friday night and all day Saturday, and the first floor has been reserved as a jamming floor for folks who want to jam in their hotel room. I believe there are plans for an instrument checkroom as well. There is also a hotel restaurant, the Connected Cactus, and unlike the culi- nary terrain in Arlington, many more restaurant options nearby. The DoubleTree is on the west side of Highway 75, at Campbell Road, just over 4 miles northeast of IH-635. Check the web site at www.LoneStarFest.com Kati Penn and Newtown at South Oaks Baptist Church, Arlington, Texas; March 1, 2013. Photo by K. Brown. This late winter festival, sponsored in Arlington by Alan Tompkins and the Blue- grass Heritage Foundation for the last several years, is the forerunner to the upcoming and newly expanded festival in Richardson. Newtown has an engaging mix of bluegrass and classic country. February births: Red Allen, Dudley Connell, Jack Cooke, David Davis, Pam Gadd, Tom Gray, Little Roy Lewis, Rudy Lyle, Claire Lynch, Del McCoury, Jim McReynolds, Joe Meadows, David Parmley, John Reischman, Dale and Don Wayne Reno, Brandon Rickman, Don Rigsby, Louise Scruggs, Garland Shuping, Ralph Stanley, Donna Stoneman, Joe Stuart, Tater Tate, Chris Thile, Sean Watkins, Howard Watts, Art Wooten. R.I.P. Bill Yates (April 30, 1936-January 26, 2015). The Central Texas Bluegrass Bulletin is published by the Central Texas Bluegrass Association, a 501(c)(3) tax- exempt Texas nonprofit corporation. Contributions are deductible as charitable and educational donations. Work published in this Bulletin is used by permission of the writers, artists, and photographers, who retain all copy- rights. Jamie Stubblefield, president Central Texas Bluegrass Association Jason Pratt, vice president Box 9816 Katherine Isgren, treasurer Austin, Texas 78766 Chuck Middleton, membership chair Alice Moore, secretary www.centraltexasbluegrass.org/ Duane Calvin, board member Rob Lifford, board member Jeff White, webmaster Lenny Nichols, board member Ken Brown, newsletter editor 2 The Boxcars in Farmers Branch on a sunny October 15, 2010. Left to right, Ron Stewart, Adam Steffey, Harold Nixon (bass, partly hidden), Keith Garrett, and John Bowman (photo by K. Brown). Bowman has since been replaced by dobro picker Gary Hultman (below, courtesy Bluegrass Heritage Foundation) The Boxcars The Boxcars (Adam Steffey, mandolin; Ron Stewart, banjo and fiddle; Keith Garrett, guitar; Harold Nixon, upright bass; and John Bowman, fiddle) have won IBMA Emerging Artist of the Year in 2011, and Instrumental Group of the Year in 2011, 2012, and 2013. Adam Steffey prac- tically owns the Mandolin Player of the Year award, having won it each year in 2002-2006, 2008, and 2010-2014. Only Jesse Brock and Sam Bush have managed to capture it in single years. Ron Stewart tied Kristin Benson for Banjo Player of the Year, and won Fiddler of the Year in 2000, so these guys probably have the instrumental aspect of their music figured out by now. They’ve previously worked as band members with Alison Krauss, J. D. Crowe, Mountain Heart, and Blue Moon Rising, and that ought to be worth some street cred, too. In June, 2014, John Bowman left the band and was replaced by dobro picker Gary Hultman, an East Tennessee State University music major from Minnesota. The Boxcars have released three CDs and have a fourth one on the way this spring that will also feature Hultman. 3 Marty Raybon and Full Circle After a productive career as a member of the country chart-riding band Shenandoah, Alabama native Marty Raybon has gotten back into bluegrass the past few years (although he’s also re- cently rejoined a revamped Shenandoah), releasing The Grass I Grew Up On in 2006. That al- bum included Ashby Frank on mandolin and Andy Hall on dobro. His latest release (The Back Forty, 2013, Rural Rhythm 1111) has a sizable cast that includes Zach Rambo on mandolin, Daniel Grindstaff on banjo, Tim Crouch on fiddle, Tim Raybon on vocals, and John Bradley on bass – but there are other supporting musicians as well, like Scott Napier on mandolin, and it’s impossible to guess from web sites just how many pickers or who will appear at the festival in Richardson. It’s a safe bet that he’ll recycle many of his Shenandoah hits, like The Church on Cumberland Road, or Ghost in This House (a hit for Alison Krauss, too) or Sun- day in the South. What kind of instrumenta- tion will be used, and how grassy the results will be, I can’t guess. You’ll have to show up to find out, I reck- on. As for these guys to the right, outstand- ing in their field? You can’t find out who they are by going to Marty Raybon’s web site, I can tell you that. Suzy Bogguss Like Marty Raybon, Suzy Bogguss has had a productive career in commercial country music. The last time I saw her perform, she was chiefly doing jazz and swing. In Richardson, I expect she’ll use the same sort of sparse accompaniment she used on a recent Woodsongs appearance with Chris Scruggs (steel, mandolin) and Charlie Chadwick (bass). Maybe she’ll bring guitarist Pat Bergeson (Alison’s ex), too. In any case, we can expect to hear plenty of material from her 2014 release, Lucky, a Merle Haggard tribute album that includes standards like Silver Wings, Sing Me Back Home and If We Make It Through December. And if we make it through the north Dallas traffic, I hope she does Let’s Chase Each Other Around the Room. If you’ve been to the Farmer’s Branch festival, you may have seen Gold Heart, featuring the Gold sisters (Tori, Jocelyn, and Shelby) from Virginia, IBMA showcasers in 2009. The Herrins (guitar, mandolin and banjo, with Alan Tompkins on bass) are a bluegrass gospel band from Fort Worth. In Achordance is another bluegrass gospel band from the Corpus Christi area, with similar instrumentation, winners of the Heritage Foundation’s “Battle of the Bands.” 4 New CTBA Officers t the January board meeting, the newly constituted CTBA board of directors met for the A first time and elected officers for the coming term. They are: Jamie Stubblefield, president Katherine Isgren, treasurer Jason Pratt, vice president Alice Moore, secretary Chuck Middleton continues to serve as membership poohbah, and Jeff White as webmaster. We should be glad these folks are willing to serve (without pay!), and they all have important jobs. The president takes the blame for everything that goes wrong. The vice president wears a dark suit and attends the funerals of foreign dignitaries. The treasurer manages the vast CTBA slush fund. And the secretary records the transgressions and digressions of the other board members. Meet a New CTBA Board Member: Lenny Nichols by Bob Vestal e met Katherine Isgren last month, one of three new CTBA board members, and Jason W Pratt in January. This month, let’s meet the third new board member, Lenny Nichols. Where were you born and reared? I was born in Galveston, Texas – BOI (Born On the Island), as they say. I grew up in Hitchcock, Texas, on the Galveston County mainland. Went to Santa Fe High School in what was then called Alta Loma, Texas (it's now Santa Fe). When/why did you come to Austin? I graduated from HS on a Friday in 1970. The following Sunday afternoon, I came to Austin to attend the UT summer semester.
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