NEWS RELEASE Office of Public Relations 3600 South Constitution Boulevard West Valley City, Utah 84119-3720 Office: (801) 963-3466 Mobile: (801) 232-0466 Fax: (801) 966-8455 Email: [email protected] For Immediate Release Date: January 13, 2009 Contact: Aaron Crim, Public Relations Director, 963-3466 (media use only) Michael Christensen, Utah Cultural Celebration Center Folklorist, 965-5108 Utah Cultural Celebration Center Honors the Western Folklife Center and the 25th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering By Presenting The Quebe Sisters Band in Concert West Valley City – When Grace, Sophia and Hulda Quebe (pronounced kway-bee) take to a stage, audiences marvel. When they raise their fiddles and play, audiences marvel again at the intricacy of the sound issuing forth. When the girls sing their vintage-style three-part harmony, audiences are blown away. Add the rhythm guitar of Joey McKenzie and the upright bass of Drew Phelps, and the Quebe Sisters band becomes a force of nature. Whether it’s a Western swing classic a la Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, a swing standard (Benny Goodman), vintage country shuffle (Ray Price) or Western anthem that would do Sons of the Pioneers proud, the band is phenomenal. The house comes down, too, when they launch into bluegrass or a traditional, Texas old-time fiddle breakdown. Reaction is the same wherever the Fort Worth-based group goes – and it’s been around – to concert halls, festivals, cowboy gatherings and rodeos across North America, as well as The Kennedy Center, the Grand Ole Opry and NYC’s Lincoln Center. Concert performances from Canada to California and Austin to Boston to Bangor, Maine, include shows with Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, Asleep at the Wheel, Merle Haggard, Marty Stuart, Riders in the Sky and The Reno Philharmonic. Investor Warren Buffet was so impressed by the band’s rendition of “Red River Valley” at a Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting that he was moved to sit in with a ukulele and sing along. Singer- songwriter Jimmy Buffett said the band’s “blend of swing with a dash of contemporary color … so unique in today’s music world” and its “cannonball of stage presence … stopped me in my tracks … Man, can they play.” QSB — recently tagged Group of the Year by the Academy of Western Artists and named winner of the Crescendo Award by the Western Music Association — is in the midst of an extensive tour behind its debut album, TIMELESS (FiddleTone Records), with dates scheduled from Texas to Canada and Washington to Tennessee through the end of the year. Join us Monday, January 26, at 7:00 p.m. for a free concert at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center (1355 West 3100 South). Visit www.quebesistersband.com or www.youtube.com/quebesistersband to see & hear the QSB! ### .