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Volume 37, No. 1 Copyright © Central Texas Bluegrass Association January, 2015
Joe Carr (1951-2014)
CTBA members – and there are many of them – who have been frequent attendees
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 sev-
eral 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
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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
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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Meet a New CTBA Board Member – Katherine Isgren
by Bob Vestal
W e met Jason Pratt last month, one of three new CTBA board members. This month, let’s
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 be-
fore 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 grad-
uated from the University of Texas and my son-in-law also graduated from UT. My son gradu-
ated 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
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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 blue-
grass 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 blue-
grass 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
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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 encour-
agement 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 prac-
tice/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 experi-
ence. 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 commu-
nity 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
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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 peo-
ple 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
I t’s 2015 now, and incidentally 37 years since the CTBA was formed (January 22, 1978 at the
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.
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Instruction for Banjo,
Guitar, and mandolin Private Lessons in North and South Austin
Eddie Collins
www.eddiecollins.biz 512-873-7803
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
T his is, if I’ve got my facts straight – the first
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 instru-
ment. 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
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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, Wimber ley
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
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CTBA Artists and Bands Karen Abrahams Band (512) 484-0751 ka-ren@karenabrahams.com www.karenabrahsms.com
Alan Munde Gazette Bill Honker bhonk-er@gmail.com
The Austin Steamers Joe Sundell (501) 416-4640 www.theaustinsteamers.com
Bee Creek Boys Jim Umbarger (512) 922-5786 info@beecreekboys.com
Better Late Than Never Duane Calvin (512) 835-0342 BLTNbluegrass@gmail.com
Blacktop Bend George Rios (512) 619-8536 blacktopbend@yahoo.com
Blazing Bows Cara Cooke (512) 280-9104 caracooke@gmail.com
Bluebonnet Pickers Brooks Blake (830) 798-1087 ranchdoc@zeecon.com
Blue Creek Bluegrass Gospel Band Bing Rice (830) 253-7708 bluecreekbg.com bluecreekbing@cs.com
Blue Creek String Band Thomas Chapmond (512) 791-3411 tchapmond@gmail.com
Blue Skyz Band Mike Lester (210) 913-9597 www.blueskyzband.com
Bottom Dollar String Band John Ohlinger (512) 431-5150 Bottomdollarstringband @gmail.com
David & Barbara Brown
(361) 985-9902 ddbrown@grandecom.net
BuffaloGrass Don Inbody (512) 923-0704 don@inbody.net buffalograssmusic.com
Carper Family Band Jenn Miori carperfamilyband@gmail.com
Chasing Blue (512) 963-7515 suzoleson@aol.com www.chasingblueband.com
Christy & the Plowboys Dan Foster (512) 452-6071 dan@fostersplace.com
Eddie Collins (512) 836-8255 www.eddiecollins.biz tuneman@austin.rr.com
David Diers & #910 Train (512) 814-5145
daviddiersbooking@gmail.com
Four Fights Per Pint Jay Littleton (512) 848-1634 bluegrassman@usa.com
The Grazmatics Wayne Ross (512) 303-2188 lwayneross@gmail.com
Hard to Make a Living john.hood.tx@sbcglobal.net
Allen Hurt & the Mountain Showmen Allen Hurt (Sherman, Texas) www.allenhurt.com
The Ledbetters Spencer Drake (830) 660-2533 kthdrake@wildblue.net
Lone Star Swing Gary Harman (979) 378-2753 gh08@txstate.edu
Los Bluegrass Vatos Danny Santos danny_santos@hotmail.com
The Lost Pines Talia Bryce (512) 814-5134 thelostpines@gmail.com www.lostpinesband.com
Missing Tradition Diana & Dan Ost (512) 850-4362 missingtradition@gmail.com
Rod Moag & Texas Grass (512) 467-6825 rodmoag@texas.net
Out of the Blue Jamie Stubblefield (512) 923-4288 jamie5011@aol.com www.outoftheblue.ws
The Pickin’ Ranch Ramblers Richie Mintz Ritchie@ritchiemintz.com
Pine Island Station Gary & Janine Carter (936) 520-2952 pineislandstation@gmail.com www.pineislandstation.com
The Piney Grove Ramblers Wayne Brooks (512) 699-8282 877-899-8269 www.pgramblers.com
The Prime Time Ramblers Jacob Roberts jrobertsrr@gmail.com
Ragged Union Geoff Union (512) 563-9821 geoffu@geoffunion.com
James Reams & the Barnstormers (718) 374-1086 james@jamesreams.com www.jamesreams.com
Redfire String Band Molly Johnson
Robertson County Line Jeff Robertson (512) 629-5742 jaydubya7@yahoo.com
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Bluegrass Band Dave Walser dave@davewalser.com
Shawn Spiars (512) 627-3921 sspiars@gmail.com
The Showmen Bluegrass Band Ben Buchanan bbuchanan6@austin.rr.com
The Sieker Band Rolf & Beate Sieker (512) 733-2857 www.siekerband.com thesiekers@aol.com
The Stray Bullets Bob Cartwright (512) 415-8080 bob.cartwright@sbcglobal.net
String Beans Mike Montgomery mikemon@astro.asutexas.edu
Upham Family Band Tracie Upham uphambluegrass@gmail.com
White Dove Angie Beauboef glen_angieb@yahoo.com
Wires and Wood David Dyer (210) 680-1889 wiresandwood.net daviddyer@satx.rr.com
Woodstreet Blood-hounds (Oak Park, Illinois) Robert Becker (708) 714-7206 robertbecker1755 @sbcglobal.net
Yellowgrass Brett Morgan (512) 745-0671 morganpiper@yahoo.com
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CTBA Area Jams and Events AUSTIN AREA, CTBA
Every Sunday, 2 PM-??, CTBA Sunday jam
at Hill’s Café, 4700 S. Congress; (512) 851-
9300.
2nd and 4th Saturday, 3-5 PM, beg./int. jam
at Wildflower Terrace, 3801 Berkman Drive; Steve Mangold (512) 345-6155.
1st and 3rd Thursday, 7-9 PM, beg./int. jam,
Northwest Hills area; Steve Mangold (512)
345-6155.
Every Thursday, 6-9 PM, beg./int. jam,
Texican Café, 11940 Manchaca Road; Dave
Stritzinger, (512)689-4433.
Every Tuesday, 8-10 PM, Texas Old Time
Fiddling, Scholz Garten, 1607 San Jacinto; (512) 474-1958.
BANDERA
4th Friday of each month at Silver Sage
Corral– east of Bandera. Starts at 6:30 pm. For more info call (830)796-4969 (Not on
Good Friday)
BELLVILLE
Spring Creek Club jam/show Jan. through September, 4th Sat; 4pm Jam, 6:30 pm show.
Coushatte Recreation Ranch (979) 865-5250.
bluegrass221@ev1.net Plenty of RV camping and good food.
BURNET
2nd Saturday, 5 PM, Café 2300, Hwy 29
west
CORPUS CHRISTI
2nd Sunday, 2 PM, jam at Her itage Park,
1581 N. Chaparral St. Bill Davis (361) 387-
4552, stx.bluegrass@gmail.com
DALLAS
1st Tuesday, 7-9 PM, Charley’s Guitar Shop,
2720 Royal Lane #100. (972) 243-4187
www.charleysguitar.com/Events.asp
DICKINSON
Every Friday, 7-9 PM, Dickinson BBQ and Steakhouse, 2111 FM 517 East.
FAYETTEVILLE:
Texas Pickin’ Park: Jam 2nd Saturday, Apr.-
Nov. beginning at 6 PM on the courthouse
square. Acoustic instruments only. For info: info@texaspickinpark.com
www.texaspickinpark.com
GARLAND
Bluegrass on the Square: Every Saturday,
March- November between Main and State Sts. At 6th, 7:30 PM to 1 AM
GLEN ROSE
3rd Saturday, Oakdale Park, Paluxy River
Bluegrass Association, free stage show and
jam; John Scott (817) 525-0558.
HOUSTON
1st Tuesday, Fuddruckers, 2040 NASA Rd 1
JOHNSON CITY 3rd Saturday, 2-6 PM, jam at The Dome, 706
W. Main St., Hwy 290 W; Charlene Crump,
(512) 632-5999. Potluck at 6 PM, optional
jamming afterward.
LEAGUE CITY (BABA)
3rd Saturday: J am 5 PM, Stage show 6:30 PM Jan- Nov., League City Civic Center, 300
W. Walker St. (281) 636-9419. Sponsored by
Bay Area Bluegrass Association.
LLANO
4th Saturday (Jan.-Oct.), 5:30-10:30 PM, Bluegrass in the Hill Country jam at the Badu
House, 601 Bessemer Ave.; (325) 247-2238;
www.bluegrassinthe hillcountry.org
PEARL
1st Saturday: Jam all day, stage show,
11:30 AM-5:30 PM; food and RV hookups
available. Pearl Community Center, on FM 183, 7 mi. south of Purmela; contact Ronald
Medart (254) 865-6013. Check web site for
show schedule:
www.pearlbluegrass.com
ROUND ROCK
3rd Saturday, 2-5 PM, jam at Danny Ray’s
Music, 12 Chisholm Trail; (512) 671-8663.
www.dannyraysmusic.com
SAN ANTONIO
Every Monday, 6:30-8:30 PM, at The Barbe-
cue Station, 1610 NE Loop 410 at Harry
Wurzbach exit; (210) 824-9191.
Every Tuesday, 6-8 PM, bluegrass jam (up
the hill) and country jam (to the left) at Home-
wood Residence at Castle Hills, 1207 Jackson Keller Rd.
SCHULENBERG
1st and 3rd Tuesday, 6:0-9 PM, jam at Schu-
lenberg RV Park Community Center, 65 N.
Kessler Ave. Laretta Baumgarten (979) 743-4388; camp@schulenbergrvpark.com
TOMBALL
Saturday, noon–4 PM, bluegrass jam at
Kleb Woods Nature Center and Preserve,
20301 Mueschke Road, Tomball. (281) 373-1777 or
(281) 910-4396.
tonynema@earthlink.net
Editor’s note: this list of jams
hasn’t been verified in a long
time. Call ahead before check-
ing out an unfamiliar jam, to
make sure it’s still active.
Central Texas Bluegrass Association P.O. Box 9816
Austin, Texas 78766
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Student $15 $20 1/2 page $15
Family $35 $40 1/4 page $12
Business $50 $55 1/8 page $10
Lifetime $300 $300 1/8 page $10
Take $5 off the advertising rates if you are already a business member. Copy deadline is the 15th of the
month. Advertisers assume liability for ad content and any claims arising therefrom. Send ad copy as
PDF file to kbrown@austin.utexas.edu
and send payment to:
Central Texas Bluegrass Association
Box 9816
Austin, Texas 78766
Merchandise
Compilation CD of member bands, vol 2 $10
CTBA logo T-shirt (black, white, orange) $15
Earl Scruggs design T-shirt $20
Mona Lisa design T-shirt $20