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