Joe Carr (1951-2014)

members – and there are many of them – who have been frequent attendees CTBA at Camp Bluegrass in Levelland will know Joe Carr well and will be sad- dened to hear of his passing on December 14. A native of Denton, after completing a BA in so- ciology at North Texas State, he moved to Levelland in 1984 to join the Commercial Music fac- ulty at South Plains College and was still teaching as an associate professor in the 2014 fall semester. There, he supervised bluegrass, western swing and Irish music ensembles. He was also the Camp Bluegrass director for many years and was fluent in mandolin, guitar, and fiddle (as well as a few other instruments we don’t like to talk about, like banjo and ukulele). Accord- ing to Alan Munde, Mike Bub, Ron Block, Stuart Duncan, Jeremy Garrett and Kym Warner were numbered among his students.

I first met Joe in the late 1970s when he was on mandolin with the Fort Worth-based bluegrass band Roanoke, along with Mark Maniscalco (banjo), Dan Huckabee (dobro and guitar), and Mike Anderson (bass). That band had evolved from an earlier version called the Bluegrass Road Apples, and “the” Gerald Jones was also a member. Roanoke had regular gigs at the Chelsea Street Pub in Highland Mall and sometimes at the Lock, Stock and Barrel on Anderson Lane in Austin, as well as Chelsea Street Pubs in Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Albu- querque. A 12-song LP (Roanoke, RRR0010, Ridge Runner Records) released in 1977 resulted from that band, with Joe on mandolin, guitar and vocals. Joe also played mando on Slim Rich- ey’s Jazz Grass LP, released the same year. Joe joined Country Gazette in 1978, playing mostly guitar alongside mandolinist Roland White, and stayed in that band until 1983, after which he left for Levelland. He can be heard on an early LP (Otter Nonsense, 1980, RRR0024) and several later CDs with his longtime colleague Alan Munde (e.g., Windy Days and Dusty Skies, 1995, FF70644; Welcome to West Texas, 1998, RRR669). In 1996 he and Alan also published Prairie Nights to Neon Lights: the Story of Country Music in West Texas (1997 winner of the Belmont University prize for best book on country music). They also wrote and performed a two-man musical comedy, Two Swell Guys from Texas. Anyone who has experienced the wry wit of Munde, Carr, or “the” Gerald Jones knows anything could happen when the three of them were in the same room. Send memorial donations to: Joe Carr and Alan Munde Scholar- ship, South Plains College Foundation, 1401 College Avenue, Levelland, Texas 79336

Picking at Hill’s Café for the Annual Meeting: From left: Steven Crow (bass), Elliott Rogers (guitar), and Billy Bright (mandolin); hidden, Alan Munde (banjo). Photo by K. Brown, November 2, 2014.

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Duane Calvin, board member Central Texas Bluegrass Association Rob Lifford, board member Box 9816 Katherine Isgren, board member Austin, Texas 78766 Chuck Middleton, board member Alice Moore, board member www.centraltexasbluegrass.org/ Lenny Nichols, board member Jason Pratt, board member Jeff White webmaster Jamie Stubblefield, board member Ken Brown, newsletter editor 2 Meet a New CTBA Board Member – Katherine Isgren

by Bob Vestal

e met Jason Pratt last month, one of three new CTBA board members. This month, let’s W get to know the second new board member, Katherine Isgren.

Let’s get to know you. Where were you born and reared? I was born and raised in Houston. I am 100% Texan. My family are all Texans and Houstonians until my father and mother moved to Austin about 30 years ago. I was raised in Houston and graduated from Memorial High School. I say that because I was a real city girl.

I went to college in San Marcos when it was called South- west Texas State, and now is just Texas State. There, I met my first country girlfriends and began a love for the rural life. I also went to Houston Baptist University and while I was there took some piano and voice lessons. Classical piano and opera voice was the norm for begin- ners; it’s what they told me, anyway. I quit them both before I was any good. As a child, I tried the accordion for some reason; I still do not know why, but I think maybe my mother thought it was a good substitute for a piano. I remember it was really heavy to carry but I enjoyed the time I spent learning but it is no more than a childhood memory.

When/why did you come to Austin? My family started to come to Austin when I was 15 because we owned a lot in Lakeway. That was in the 60s. Lakeway was just starting up and there was The Lakeway Inn and a few tennis courts and swimming pool. We would come and stay at the Inn and my father would dream about coming to live in Austin. My mother and father and younger brother moved to Austin in the 1980s full time and I would come to vis- it. Eventually, my older brother and some cousins and aunts and uncles also moved to Austin; kind of the family clan following my father who was the patriarch. So, for many years I visited Austin. I never had any interest in moving to Austin unless I ran for a State office or worked in one. I have been coming to Austin for 50 years and now I live here.

Married? Kids? I have been married but for now am single. I have and enjoy a big family of seven grandchildren from my three adult children of which two are married. My two girls graduated from the University of Texas and my son-in-law also graduated from UT. My son graduated from Baylor University and his wife from Boise State. My oldest grandchild is graduating high school this year and hopes to be attending UT next year. My son-in-law just retired from his first career as a Major in the US Marine Corps and is working to finish his Ph.D. and return with my daughter (his wife) and their four children to the Austin area and hopefully to the Uni- versity of Texas to teach or work. My only son lives in Seward, Alaska, where he is married

3 and has my two little granddaughters. He owns a fishing lodge and has been in business there for eight years. Anyone wanting to fish in Alaska can contact me for his information and you will have an outstanding Alaska experience and fishing trip. I have a daughter here in Austin who graduated from UT and never left. She is now on her second career and is an acupuncturist and has a private practice in Northwest Hills, if anyone needs a good acupuncturist. She has one son and we live in the same ZIP code now that I am in Austin. Did I say my family bleeds UT orange?

Tell us a bit about what you do for a living. I make money for a living and I guess you want to know how I do that. I was a politician in my earlier career. I was Fort Bend County Tax Asses- sor/Collector and was thinking of coming to Austin as a state officeholder but got side tracked when I realized how hard it would be to take Bob Bullock’s office or come to the Capitol and work as an assistant to someone who wanted to be governor but lost the election. My active days of politics are long over. I went out of office in 1985 and operated a small woman-owned business until I remarried. My husband and I were very successful in the hospital pharmacy business for many years. I was retired but decided to return to working and became a certified trainer and speaker for Vistelar Group, a company of speakers, trainers, and consultants for Verbal Communication Skills in Conflict and Under Stress. Starting in Law Enforcement for 30 years led to expanding training to healthcare, customer service, business in general, which is why I work with them. I am non-law enforcement and can train anywhere but law enforcement.

What instrument(s) do you play and for how long? I have been learning and playing guitar for three years now. I have two acoustic guitars and one electric guitar. I just moved in to a new house and have a big music room. I have a fiddle and started fiddle lessons and have a standup bass and have been taking lessons for all instruments with Wes Green. I hope to be a beginner jammer in 2015 with my new instruments. Eddie Collins sent Wes Green to me and he has taught me so much about bluegrass playing and singing. He has been my teacher and encourag- er. He has been very patient with me as I have never been a very good student but I am a better student as time moves on. Thank you, Wes!

Has bluegrass always been your focus? I became focused on bluegrass about 2011 when I was living on my ranch in Fayetteville. I was going to a little church in Industry near where I lived and my Sunday School teacher and his wife (Hal and Dorothy Stall of Fayetteville ) were bluegrass players and very active in the bluegrass community for many years. They were in the pro- cess of renaming the square The Pickin’ Park. Dorothy invited me to get a guitar and join the Sunday School class of Hal's Angels ... a bluegrass gospel band. I had never even heard of bluegrass music before Hal and Dorothy Stall. I already loved gospel music and I fell in love with bluegrass gospel so I got a guitar and started lessons and she recommended a man in Austin namely Eddie Collins. Seemed like others were taking from Eddie and commuting to Austin and so I decided I would also. I was not a very good student but I was playing and practicing with the Sunday School class bluegrass players and they seemed to be okay with me jumping in to learn and I was hooked.

Gary Baccus played the banjo, and Jerry Ward on the guitar, and Dorothy played the guitar but had just gotten a standup bass and of course I wanted one as soon as I saw her playing so well in such a short time. I thought I can do that, maybe? Hal Stall had been playing the fiddle for years and played the mandolin, and was the driving force with his wife Dorothy. We had a few other bluegrass guitarists. They all talked of their adventures in bluegrass, and going around the

4 country to bluegrass festivals, and camping and playing in jams and making friends every- where. I watched them having such a full music life and I wanted to do the same. I had all the encouragement I needed to get started. Corliss Mayfield, our church soloist, said she just learned some guitar the year before so I jumped in. She said Dorothy had brought in a lady to teach a group just a year previous and they only knew enough to be included with the guitarist who had been jamming for years. I was included and surrounded by such a group of nice people I became one of them. I went to the slow jams at The Pickin’ Park in Fayetteville and started my way in to the larger bluegrass family. I met Tom Duplissey from Fayetteville. Hal and Dorothy were going to Camp Bluegrass and invited me to go, so I went to my first Bluegrass Camp at South Plains College in Levelland. What a thrill it was to be a beginner student at my first bluegrass camp. It was a tribute to Bill Monroe so I started learning how it all began. We had a concert every night and jams afterward. I came home with books, tapes, music, and lots of memories. My teacher at camp was Elliot Rogers from Wimberley. Alan Munde was there with others teaching. I learned they were pro- fessionals, performers, teachers, jammers, recording artists, and wrote music. My music world was getting so much larger. I would have packed up and moved to South Plains College and gotten a bluegrass college degree if I had it to do again. My world of music was always Chris- tian, classical, country western, rock n’ roll, easy listening, but never bluegrass. As I said, I had never even heard of bluegrass until Hal and Dorothy Stall came in to my life at Sunday School at West End Baptist Church. Any other musicians in your family? There were no musicians in my family that I knew of. I was the only one interested in music and singing, and my parents who never gave it much encouragement except the time I got to take accordion lessons. I always sang in the church choir or the school choir or any time there was singing I wanted to be part of it as a child, a teen, and an adult. I still like to sing and have picked up what training that came with choirs and groups. I have taken some voice along the way but not as much as I would if I could go back in time and do again. I am sure many people feel that way when we look back at what we could have done or accomplished better, or done more of. I did have a second cousin who played the violin in the symphony orchestra somewhere up north. I never met him but did hear about him from time to time.

I was rebuilding my life when I took up bluegrass and decided it would be my focus and a pri- ority. It was decided I would leave the country life and come to Austin to be near my daughter who lived here. I came to a kickoff concert at Scholz Garten and joined CTBA. I was glad to know a few faces so I connected as soon as I could to the beginner jams. With your work responsibilities, what do you do to stay in shape, musically? How do you practice/jam, etc.? I play at Bruce and Elaine's Thursday jams, and the Steve and Jacque Mangold jams at Wildflower Terrace, hosted also by Joy and Chris on Saturday afternoons. Wes Green invited me to a private Monday jam started by one of his student friends and I go to it now. Jacque Mangold lets me know when something bluegrass is coming up and shares her experience. I have been to concerts, home concerts, parties with jamming, festivals and open mikes. Jacque and Steve have been around bluegrass a long time and worked in the bluegrass community so I decided to do so myself which is why I was asked to be a board member. I volunteered to work at several events so I guess my name was tossed around as someone who would work, and here I am a new board member. I am getting acquainted with more and more people all the

5 time who are involved with the bluegrass community and I plan to stay connected and helpful for as long as I am fit for playing and enjoying the community of bluegrass musicians and my life as I see it playing out. I also look forward to the broader bluegrass community and partici- pating as I can, to keep paying it forward. What a great opportunity I found in that little Sunday School starting with Hal and Dorothy Stall. God always is directing my path and in in the people he puts in my life. I am always grateful for God's hand in my life.

Who are your favorite artists/musicians? I listen to Sirius/XM bluegrass and like a lot of the bluegrass groups like Flatt Lonesome, the Boxcars, Balsam Range, and duets... and I know all the old timers who paved the bluegrass way and I have a list of bluegrass women that I keep whenever I hear them sing. Then I go online and listen to their songs and choose some to use as I learn songs for jams. My favorites are many. One week it may be Della Mae and the next Claire Lynch or Alison Krauss, but I have a list of many to choose from and I am constantly singing along with XM bluegrass in my car and my downloads.

I also have a special iPad that is just for music and I download all the jam music and songs to use so I do not have to take so many sheets and books or CD player around. ForScore for the iPad (http://forscore.co) is the best for sheet music and if anyone wants my downloads just let me know. I have about 800 songs from Steve Mangold who has some of his on a thumb drive. I look forward to bluegrass sheet music being more readily available soon. I find most songs I want hard to find but I am learning to make my own and in what key I want, work it up, and enter it directly to my iPad. Technology has helped me minimize what I have to carry around and I use YouTube and some online teachers from time to time.

Changing of the Guard

t’s 2015 now, and incidentally 37 years since the CTBA was formed (January 22, 1978 at the I Tumbleweed Restaurant, 9512 RR 2222, on the north side of the road as you’re heading out west to Four Points). Before we bring the next band onstage, let’s all get up out of our lawn chairs and give a standing ovation to our retiring president, Stacy Holt; newsletter editor, Bob Vestal; and board members Adam Roberts, Jacob Roberts, and Tracie Upham. Well done! En- joy your retirement, but don’t expect a pension check from the CTBA. We spent the pension fund on strings, picks, and funnel cakes. Now, let’s sit down again and welcome our three new board members, Lenny Nichols, Jason Pratt, and Katherine Isgren. All the board members are listed on page 2 of this issue, but there are no officers listed, because they haven’t been elected yet. That’ll be the first order of business at the January 18 board meeting at Hill’s Café. Offic- ers will be listed in the February issue. That is, if they survive the dunking booth.

6 CD Review: Hot Rize, “When I’m Free,” THR 9001 (2014)

Western Skies/Blue Is Fallin’/Come Away/Sky Rider/ You Were on my Mind This Morning/Doggone/A Cowboy’s Life/I Never Met a One Like You/Burn It Down/Glory in the Meeting House/I Am the Road/ Clary Mae

his is, if I’ve got my facts straight – the first T original Hot Rize offering of the post- Sawtelle era. So Long of a Journey was released in 2002, but it’s a live recording from 1996. Aside from Bryan Sutton replacing Charles, what’s really different about this CD is that most of the material (8 out of 12 cuts) is written or co-written by the band members. Hot Rize has always featured a three-way mix of songs by other writers (Hazel Dickens, Pete Goble, Bob Amos, and many others), instant classics like “Nellie Kane” or “Walk the Way the Wind Blows” by Tim O’Brien, and plenty of traditional material. But here the emphasis is on brand-new original material. I can’t really see anything here becoming a jam standard like “Colleen Malone” or “Montana Cowboy,” but dyed– in– the– wool Knuckleheads or Hotheads won’t care. What this new CD will do, though, is remind everyone just what Nick Forster can do with an e-bass. I’ve never been a fan of bass guitar in bluegrass, but Nick Forster does just what Ray Cargo always did – take a solid piece of wood, charge it with electrical par- ticles, and make it sound like it really belongs there just as much as any other bluegrass instrument. The bass playing on this CD is (no surprise) stellar, and just like Ray’s playing always did, it commands the entire proceedings. Slap this thing in your CD player and EQ the bass at 11. You can get these at Waterloo Records or County Sales. —— Ken Brown

Instruction for Banjo, Guitar, and mandolin Private Lessons in North and South Austin

Eddie Collins www.eddiecollins.biz 512-873-7803 7 Events calendar: January, 2015

Note: For a more complete and up–to-date listing, with web links to venues. See the CTBA web page at www.centraltexasbluegrass.org/

It’s the first page to appear on the web site.

Saturday, Jan. 3, noon-4 PM: The Sieker Band at Callahan's General Store, 501 Bastrop High- way

Sunday, Jan. 4 11 AM: The Sieker Band at Threadgill's South Gospel Brunch

Friday-Sunday, Jan. 9-11 Hill Country Acoustic Music Camp at Mt. Wesley Conference Center, Kerrville

Friday, Jan. 9, 8-10 PM: Wood and Wire at The Bugle Boy, La Grange, $18

Friday, Jan. 16, 8 PM: The Carper Family at Strange Brew, $10

Saturday, Jan. 17, 9 PM: Milk Drive at Strange Brew 5 PM: BABA Bluegrass Night, Johnny Arolfo Civic Center, League City (see next page)

Sunday, Jan. 18 Noon-3:30 PM: Milk Drive at Gruene Hall, New Braunfels 3 PM: CTBA board meeting at Hill’s Café (open to all CTBA members)

Friday, Jan. 23, 8:30 PM: Bottom Dollar String Band at Cypress Creek Cafe, Wimberley

Friday, Jan. 30 6:30-9 PM: The Carper Family at Central Market North 7-9 PM: Pine Island Station at Roots Bistro, 118 W. 8th St., #101, Georgetown

January Residencies

Sunday, January 4, 11, 18, 25 10 AM-2 PM: The Prime Time Ramblers at The Westin at the Domain 3-5 PM: David Diers and the #910 Train at Sweetwater Bar

Monday, January 5, 12, 19, 26 7-9 PM: Bottom Dollar String Band followed by 9-11 PM, The Bluegrass Outfit at Radio Coffee & Beer

Wednesday, January 7, 14, 21, 28 9 PM-midnight: The Bluegrass Outfit at Tantra Coffehouse, San Marcos

9 CTBA Artists and Bands Karen Abrahams BuffaloGrass Rod Moag & Texas The Showmen Band Don Inbody (512) 923-0704 Grass Bluegrass Band (512) 484-0751 ka- [email protected] (512) 467-6825 Ben Buchanan buffalograssmusic.com [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.karenabrahsms.com Carper Family Band Out of the Blue The Sieker Band Jenn Miori Alan Munde Gazette Jamie Stubblefield Rolf & Beate Sieker [email protected] Bill Honker bhonk- (512) 923-4288 (512) 733-2857 [email protected] Chasing Blue [email protected] www.siekerband.com

(512) 963-7515 www.outoftheblue.ws [email protected] The Austin Steamers [email protected] The Stray Bullets Joe Sundell (501) 416-4640 www.chasingblueband.com The Pickin’ Ranch www.theaustinsteamers.com Ramblers Bob Cartwright (512) 415-8080 Christy & the Plowboys [email protected] Richie Mintz Bee Creek Boys Dan Foster (512) 452-6071 [email protected] String Beans Jim Umbarger (512) 922-5786 [email protected] [email protected] Pine Island Station Mike Montgomery Eddie Collins [email protected] Gary & Janine Carter Better Late Than Never (512) 836-8255 www.eddiecollins.biz (936) 520-2952 Upham Family Band Duane Calvin (512) 835-0342 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Tracie Upham www.pineislandstation.com [email protected] David Diers & #910 Blacktop Bend Train (512) 814-5145 The Piney Grove White Dove George Rios (512) 619-8536 [email protected] Ramblers Angie Beauboef [email protected] Wayne Brooks (512) 699-8282 [email protected]

Four Fights Per Pint 877-899-8269 Blazing Bows Jay Littleton (512) 848-1634 Wires and Wood Cara Cooke (512) 280-9104 www.pgramblers.com [email protected] David Dyer (210) 680-1889 [email protected] wiresandwood.net The Prime Time The Grazmatics [email protected] Bluebonnet Pickers Wayne Ross (512) 303-2188 Ramblers Brooks Blake (830) 798-1087 [email protected] Jacob Roberts Woodstreet Blood- [email protected] [email protected] Hard to Make a Living hounds Blue Creek Bluegrass [email protected] Ragged Union (Oak Park, Illinois) Robert Becker (708) 714-7206 Gospel Band Geoff Union (512) 563-9821 Allen Hurt & the [email protected] robertbecker1755 Bing Rice (830) 253-7708 Mountain Showmen @sbcglobal.net bluecreekbg.com James Reams & the [email protected] Allen Hurt (Sherman, Texas) Yellowgrass www.allenhurt.com Barnstormers Brett Morgan (512) 745-0671 Blue Creek String The Ledbetters (718) 374-1086 [email protected] [email protected] Band Spencer Drake (830) 660-2533 www.jamesreams.com Thomas Chapmond [email protected]

(512) 791-3411 Redfire String Band [email protected] Lone Star Swing Molly Johnson Gary Harman (979) 378-2753

Blue Skyz Band [email protected] Mike Lester (210) 913-9597 Robertson County www.blueskyzband.com Los Bluegrass Vatos Line Danny Santos Jeff Robertson (512) 629-5742 [email protected] Bottom Dollar String [email protected] Band The Lost Pines Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely John Ohlinger (512) 431-5150 Talia Bryce (512) 814-5134 Bottomdollarstringband [email protected] Bluegrass Band @gmail.com www.lostpinesband.com Dave Walser [email protected] David & Barbara Missing Tradition Brown Diana & Dan Ost Shawn Spiars (361) 985-9902 (512) 850-4362 (512) 627-3921 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

10 CTBA Area Jams and Events

AUSTIN AREA, CTBA GLEN ROSE Every Sunday, 2 PM-??, CTBA Sunday jam 3rd Saturday, Oakdale Park, Paluxy River at Hill’s Café, 4700 S. Congress; (512) 851- Bluegrass Association, free stage show and 9300. jam; John Scott (817) 525-0558. Editor’s note: this list of jams hasn’t been verified in a long 2nd and 4th Saturday, 3-5 PM, beg./int. jam HOUSTON at Wildflower Terrace, 3801 Berkman Drive; 1st Tuesday, Fuddruckers, 2040 NASA Rd 1 time. Call ahead before check- Steve Mangold (512) 345-6155. ing out an unfamiliar jam, to JOHNSON CITY 1st and 3rd Thursday, 7-9 PM, beg./int. jam, 3rd Saturday, 2-6 PM, jam at The Dome, 706 make sure it’s still active. Northwest Hills area; Steve Mangold (512) W. Main St., Hwy 290 W; Charlene Crump, 345-6155. (512) 632-5999. Potluck at 6 PM, optional jamming afterward. Every Thursday, 6-9 PM, beg./int. jam, Texican Café, 11940 Manchaca Road; Dave LEAGUE CITY (BABA) Stritzinger, (512)689-4433. 3rd Saturday: Jam 5 PM, Stage show 6:30 PM Jan- Nov., League City Civic Center, 300 Every Tuesday, 8-10 PM, Texas Old Time W. Walker St. (281) 636-9419. Sponsored by Fiddling, Scholz Garten, 1607 San Jacinto; Bay Area Bluegrass Association. (512) 474-1958. LLANO 4th Saturday (Jan.-Oct.), 5:30-10:30 PM, BANDERA Bluegrass in the Hill Country jam at the Badu 4th Friday of each month at Silver Sage House, 601 Bessemer Ave.; (325) 247-2238; Corral– east of Bandera. Starts at 6:30 pm. www.bluegrassinthe hillcountry.org For more info call (830)796-4969 (Not on Good Friday) PEARL 1st Saturday: Jam all day, stage show, BELLVILLE 11:30 AM-5:30 PM; food and RV hookups Spring Creek Club jam/show Jan. through available. Pearl Community Center, on FM September, 4th Sat; 4pm Jam, 6:30 pm show. 183, 7 mi. south of Purmela; contact Ronald Coushatte Recreation Ranch (979) 865-5250. Medart (254) 865-6013. Check web site for [email protected] show schedule: Plenty of RV camping and good food. www.pearlbluegrass.com BURNET 2nd Saturday, 5 PM, Café 2300, Hwy 29 ROUND ROCK west 3rd Saturday, 2-5 PM, jam at Danny Ray’s Music, 12 Chisholm Trail; (512) 671-8663. CORPUS CHRISTI www.dannyraysmusic.com 2nd Sunday, 2 PM, jam at Heritage Park, 1581 N. Chaparral St. Bill Davis (361) 387- SAN ANTONIO 4552, [email protected] Every Monday, 6:30-8:30 PM, at The Barbe- cue Station, 1610 NE Loop 410 at Harry DALLAS Wurzbach exit; (210) 824-9191. 1st Tuesday, 7-9 PM, Charley’s Guitar Shop, 2720 Royal Lane #100. (972) 243-4187 Every Tuesday, 6-8 PM, bluegrass jam (up www.charleysguitar.com/Events.asp the hill) and country jam (to the left) at Home- wood Residence at Castle Hills, 1207 Jackson DICKINSON Keller Rd. Every Friday, 7-9 PM, Dickinson BBQ and Steakhouse, 2111 FM 517 East. SCHULENBERG 1st and 3rd Tuesday, 6:0-9 PM, jam at Schu- FAYETTEVILLE: lenberg RV Park Community Center, 65 N. Texas Pickin’ Park: Jam 2nd Saturday, Apr.- Kessler Ave. Laretta Baumgarten (979) 743- Nov. beginning at 6 PM on the courthouse 4388; [email protected] square. Acoustic instruments only. For info: [email protected] TOMBALL www.texaspickinpark.com Saturday, noon–4 PM, bluegrass jam at Kleb Woods Nature Center and Preserve, GARLAND 20301 Mueschke Road, Tomball. (281) 373- Bluegrass on the Square: Every Saturday, 1777 or March- November between Main and State (281) 910-4396. Sts. At 6th, 7:30 PM to 1 AM [email protected]

11 Membership and Advertising Rates

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