HOTSwing TEXAS Band ABOUT THE BAND HOT TEXAS SWING BAND ARE With one boot in Cowboy music and the Alex Dormont Vocals + Upright Bass other in Swing, the Hot Texas Swing Band Selena Rosanbalm Vocals + Rhythm Guitar is following the trail previously blazed by Karen Biller Drums artists such as Bob Wills and the Texas Cat Clemons Guitar Playboys. Erik Hokkanen Fiddle Scott Benner Sax With a passion for traditional Western Swing, the Hot Texas Swing Band pushes ALBUMS the genre forward with original material » Ain’t Dead Yet (June, 2015) and fresh Rockabilly and Latin beats for a » ‘Bout Time (July, 2013) new sound and high-energy live shows that » Hot Texas Swing Band (June 2012) have critics and fans raving. All three CDs have been receiving airplay across the United States, in Europe, Australia and Canada. Alex Dormont m: (512) 422-9897 h: (512) 264-2182 [email protected] AWARDS » Hot Texas Swing Band - Finalist, Western Swing Band of the Year, 2015 Ameripolitan Music Awards While Asleep at the Wheel has carried the » Alex Dormont’s original song, “Way Too torch of Western Swing and kept it alive Soon” – Western Swing Song of the Year, and well, they have also lit the way for 2013 Academy of Western Artists outfits like the Hot Texas Swing Band. Hot » Alex Dormont - Western Swing Male Texas leans heavily to the Bob Wills & the Vocalist, 2012 Academy of Western Artists » Finalist, Western Swing Group, Album Texas Playboys-style swing, the kind that and Song, 2012 Academy of Western makes you wish for the nearest wooden Artists dancefloor...The good thing about swing is » City of Austin, TX proclaimed October 17, that it never goes out of style, and Hot Texas 2013 “Hot Texas Swing Band Day” Swing Band bounces that country boogie » City of Dripping Springs, TX proclaimed February 10-16, 2013 “Alex Dormont and with panache. Hot Texas Swing Band Week” » Top Ten Jazz Band in Austin Chronicle’s - Margaret Moser, Austin Chronicle Reader Poll in 2012, 2013 and 2014. Here’s a bunch of guys and gals that sound like they’re really enjoying themselves and … outstanding in their [Hot Texas Swing I’d like to think is a good representation of Band’s] field… Dormont’s tight outfit has what they can do live. It feels fast and loose, flourished over the last three years. …the and I suspect was recorded ‘as live’, and band name pretty much says it all … that’s what makes it so darn enjoyable. - John Conquest, 3rd Coast Music Magazine - Duncan Warwick, Country Music People Alex Dormont m: (512) 422-9897 h: (512) 264-2182 [email protected].