Photos by Mary Jane Farmer / Click on the link below for more photos Austin Allsup, who really needs no further credentials, but can’t help but introduce him as a top contender on the most recent The Voice series and as the son of the famous and late Tommy Allsup, (look Tommy Allsup up if […]
For all photos, click here: All photos by Mary Jane Farmer, except for two, as depicted, by Ken Maxwell. Love & War in Texas (Plano location at the NE corner of U.S. 75 and Plano Parkway), annually hosts the Singer/Singwriter contest named after the late and oh-so-great Rusty Wier, a Texas Hill Country-based musician who entertained […]
This first appeared in January issue, Buddy Magazine. Story and photos by Mary Jane Farmer Look for a new CD to drop this month, a CD which includes a chart-topping song and features others destined to slide right on up to the charts. It’s Mark McKinney’s fifth CD, titled World in Between, a collection of […]
Click here for all photos Sponsored by Love & War in Texas, this 7th yearly Rusty Wier singer/songwriter competition has now finished up its Round 1, with Week 3 having been completed Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017. Competing in this Week 3 were: Bryan Adam Joyner, Whitney O’Neil, J.D. Cobb, Kevin Edwards, Nick Flint, Mandalyn Mack, Larry Martin, […]
For photos of each contestant, click here: Sponsored by Love & War in Texas, the yearly Rusty Wier singer/songwriter competition is now in full swing with Round 1 Week 2 having been completed Tuesday night, .Jan. 24, 2017. Competing in this Week 2 were: Jake Bays, Ed McGory, Peggy Houlihan, Dan Schwein, Byron Dowd, […]
9 Stevie Ray Vaughan at Celebrate Austin Music
Because you asked… The Celebrate Austin Music Festival at Zilker Park, circa April 15, 1984, was filled with Austin-based touring acts with generous sprinklings of up-and-comers. A lot of that information is in Rod Kennedy’s book, Music of the Heart, written many years before his 4-14-14 death. It had been a long three-day event, and […]
This was first in Buddy Magazine, August 2016 issue. People ask me a lot — why am I in the music business? OK, I’ll share the secret – it was a guy who got me into all this. While teaching school in El Paso, I met another teacher, a musician, out there and that chance meeting and […]
(I’m sorry, but we got absolutely NO photos of these people.) Ake Pecha — I was told this means “Start fresh, my friend.” It was probably around 1982 when Kerrville Festival Producer Rod Kennedy took a trip to the southeast, where he met a group of travelers from the Scandinavian countries. This was the “International School […]
Three things to think about before quitting.
This took a lot of prayer and thanksgiving for me to write and publish. This was one changing quote in my life… From the movie “Mozart,” this statement by composer Salleri: “Why?… implant the desire (for music)… like a lust in my body? And then deny me the talent?” Early on, I could not figure out myself […]
I (this is Mary Jane here) think I will do a daily blog similar to what I could do at Larry Joe Taylor Fest. Blog being ‘I’m included’ compared with Website being ‘It’s all about the other person.’ The staff orientation is tonight (Wednesday, May 20), but it isn’t by any chance the beginning of happenings […]
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