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Rich Harney Quintet Makes Rare Concert Appearance

Listen — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:26:50 +0000

Austin is looking forward to a rare concert appearance of The Rich Harney Quintet on April 1, 2010 at The Elephant Room. Featuring Rich Harney on piano, and Alex Coke on sax and flutes, this promises to be an unforgettable evening of truly great jazz.

Harney, a prolific pianist and composer, has been illuminating the Austin jazz scene as one of its brightest stars for many years. His remarkable talents as pianist, composer, and vocalist have gained him acclaim from musicians as one of Austin’s best kept secrets and from the Austin American-Statesman as “one of Austin’s most valuable musical resources.”

As one of the bravest and most diverse talents of the Austin and Amsterdam music communities, Alex Coke has explored everything from Be-Bop to Huddie Ledbetter and beyond. Coke’s multifarious bands include the post-bop quintet, The Worthy Constituents, a collaboration with Harney, which won the Best Unsigned Bands Contest from Musician Magazine in 1990. Harney & Coke released Soul Prayers in 2005 and brought their formidable talents together yet again on Harney’s last release, Where Love Begins on Aardvark records in 2008.

As members of a musical partnership that spans many decades, a concert with Harney & Coke is all ways an opportunity to hear jazz at its best. For the upcoming concert at the Elephant Room, expect many of Harney’s original compositions as well as a few tried and true classics.

The Rich Harney Quintet includes Bruce Saunders on guitar, Masumi Jones on drums and Pat Harris on doublebass.

April 1, 2010
9:30pm-1:30am
The Elephant Room
315 Congress Avenue
Austin, Texas

For more info please visit http://www.xs4all.nl/~alexcoke.

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Quick Facebook Reference

Sam Moore — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:35:11 +0000

Here is just a quick note for all you Facebook users.

Someone recommended to me that I become a fan of “The Center for Texas Music History” on Facebook. I did and discovered it is managed by the History Department of Texas State University at San Marcos. Pretty cool!

If you have any similar suggestions for the followers of Texas Music Journal, please let us know.

Cowboy Militia Strikes Partnership with Texas Music

admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:00:54 +0000

Press Release by Julie Mankin – Dallas, Texas

Cowboy Militia has teamed up with Ambiance Artists of Austin, Texas, in a cross-promotional relationship that benefits Texas music fans and Western aficionados alike. The affiliation will drive more country music fans to rodeo and Western wear – and vice versa – through partnerships with five hit-making Texas country music artists, including the Josh Abbott Band, Whiskey Myers and bands fronted by Kyle Bennett, Charlie Shafter and Rich O’Toole.

“We play shows in Dallas, San Antonio, Houston and Austin, but it’s the little rural communities or rodeo towns where we really fit in,” says Ambiance co-founder Bruce Kalmick. “The markets we really focus on are rural – those people are attainable and they remain fans for a longer period of time.”

Texas music, or alternative country, began in the 1970s with Willie and Waylon but resurged in the late 1990s and has exploded in nationwide popularity as Pat Green and others have crossed over into Nashville. “It’ll be around a very long time,” said Kalmick, who booked the Randy Rogers Band’s first show. “We’re expanding outside college to where Texas music festivals are getting huge and the music’s penetrating families, from 16-year-olds to 40-year-olds. The things Cowboy Militia is doing with high school rodeo – that’s the market. Everyone wants a piece of that.”

Cowboy Militia founder Jason Trosper has always had a love for Texas music. He and his partners even flew to Nashville to look into establishing their own record label. “Ambiance has the biggest up-and-coming Texas artists on the market right now, so combining their ties and connections with ours is a great mix,” he said.

As for Kalmick, he noticed Cowboy Militia because of its early artwork and unique logo at a music festival this year. “They have some innovative ideas,” Kalmick said. “Cock Your Hammer and Compete To Defeat are great slogans. And it’s priced more competitively than others of its kind. I think it’s going to be the must-have brand.”

Cowboy Militia recently teamed with Gilley’s Dallas and Cavender’s Western Outfitters to sponsor the Josh Abbott Band’s new trailer. Abbott, 29, is described by his agent as a “good ole West Texas boy” with the ability to get through to the soccer moms. His material is new and edgy, but at live venues he covers a little Don Williams or Steve Warner, too. His fiddle player grew up in a rural town with just six classmates. “The heritage of Texas is in us all; it’s in our blood,” said Trosper, a fourth-generation rancher and team roper. “The history associated with Texas is cowboy history, and Texas music upholds that heritage.”

John Tracy joins Squeaky Wheel Tour

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:49:40 +0000

John Tracy joins an exciting event in its fifth year. The Squeaky Wheel Tour runs October 17th – November 4th. It is promoted by the GINA for Missing Persons FOUNDation and is a 19 day grassroots effort by artists to FIND missing people. John Tracy is really excited to be part of this event this year as the mission of the GINA for Missing Persons FOUNDation (to find missing people and bring families together) ties closely with the mission of his music (to build relationships, strengthen families and bring purpose and meaning to listeners’ lives).

During the Squeaky Wheel Tour, GINA artists use their platform as musicians (the stage) to make some noise about a local missing person. They ask attendees to take flyers to post throughout their community. People are FOUND every year. To date, since Jannel Rap founded the GINA for Missing Persons FOUNDation after her sister disappeared after a gig in October 2000, over 450 people profiled collectively by GINA artists have been found.

For more information on John Tracy’s Squeaky Wheel Tour dates, please visit www.411gina.org/squeakywheeltour.htm#tx.

For more information on the GINA for Missing Persons FOUNDation, please visit www.411gina.org..

For more on John Tracy and his music, please visit www.johntracymusic.com.