The world has changed a great deal since 1938. That was the year fiddle and mandolin player Johnny Gimble, at age 13, first appeared with his brothers on radio station KGBK in their hometown of Tyler, ...

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 ...

The Quebe Sisters, a progressive Western swing trio made up of Dallas-based siblings Grace, Sophia and Hulda Quebe, will perform classic and original music — featuring authentic triple fiddle and ...

KRISTIN EBERTS ~ [email protected] Jack Engel, left, on rhythm guitar, Mike Squires, center, on fiddle, and Bill Gilbert, right, on fiddle perform during the Sixth Annual Western Swing Music ...

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TURKEY, Texas (NEWS RELEASE) - For 50 years, the official music of Texas Western Swing has been filling the air in Turkey, Texas on the last Saturday in April in honor of the King of Western Swing, ...

The Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra opens its 76 th season with its full orchestra performing a special concert with two highly regarded Western Swing touring acts. Western Swing is a sort of melting ...

Oct. 18—Greenville is poised and ready to greet November with the lively, charming sound of fiddle-driven Western swing music at its 10th annual Bob Wills Fiddle Festival and Contest. Combining ...

Merle Haggard called him “The Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World” on a tribute album. Waylon Jennings opined that it didn’t matter who roamed the halls of state governmental power in Austin, because ...

While any fiddler in Texas can play “Faded Love,” the versions at the Festival of Texas Fiddling, in Blanco, might sound as different as an owl does from a rooster. The styles could be Gulf Coast, ...