Photos and notes by Mary Jane Farmer — for many photos, click on the link at the bottom of this page Bill Hearne has been around since the mid-70s, walking through and enjoying the heyday of the original Texas music revival, aka, the Progressive Country, Redneck Rock, Outlaw music brought to popularity by Hearne and […]
For photos, click on the link below Troy Cartwright Dixon didn’t hang around long after learning he’d won the 2013 B.W. Stevenson songwriting competition, but when he left, the smile on his face said it all, and his fan of $100 bills, the winning $1,000 prize, didn’t hurt either. Cartwright may have also delivered […]
You get these four Texas musicians on the same stage, at the same time, and the total of their musical experience and the number of musicians with whom they have worked and the results can be staggering — more than 100 years combined. True Texas Troubadours, Shake Russell, his trio members Doug Floyd on mandolin […]
It may be a quickie singer/songwriter contest, compared with several others that can go on for weeks and into months, but the B.W. Stevenson 26th contest by far had its fair share of incredible musicians, great audiences, and judges beyond compare. Poor David’s Pub hosts the B.W. Stevenson contest teach year. After accepting all the […]
MARY JANE’S NOTE: David Card, aka Poor David, sent me this quote after Friday night’s show and after reading the story on Jason. “Jason Elmore was one of the most engaging, mesmerizing and successful opening acts I have ever had. He WILL be back, and so will the fans.” By Mark Bickham Bugs Henderson meets […]
One Indictment and Police Arrests for August
By Mary Jane Farmer, Scene In Town, for the Van Alstyne News Note: Names are not used until or unless a suspect is indicted for the offense. Indictment On Aug. 31, the Grayson County Grand Jury indicted Van Alstyne resident Scott Nelson Bass on a charge of accident involving serious bodily injury. The vehicle crash […]
Assault, family violence results in one arrest
By Mary Jane Farmer, Scene In Town, for the Van Alstyne News Van Alstyne Police received a domestic disturbance call about 5:45 p.m. Tuesday (Aug. 30). The incident took place at a home, occupied by at least two members of the same family, in the 700 block of Nash Street Police Lt. Steven Hayslip said […]
By Mary Jane Farmer, for Van Alstyne News, Scene In Town, Photos courtesy of Van Alstyne Police A two-vehicle crash Wednesday evening (July 20) caused one car to go up in flames and the driver of the second car to go to jail on numerous felony charges. Van Alstyne Police Lt. Steven Hayslip said the […]
This is a feature I wrote in 2007 and, crazily, found it on my My Space somehow. It also was printed on the Rockabilly Hall of Fame’s Website of the same name. Roy Head was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame that year. I am excited to be able to include it now here […]
Van Alstyne is Autumn Town, too!
Story and photos by Mary Jane Farmer, Blog style, not reporting style. More photos on link at bottom, and more will be added on future Sunday drives, so please feel free to check back throughout October and November. Sundays are made for driving around, slowly, and looking at things one misses when moving so fast. […]
Photography is… No. 2 stimulates imagination
C\ Click here, on this link, to see a few more of my “challenge” photos. No. 2 — Photography requires imagination Each year, lately, I have gone on my own photographic journey, calling it my “Challenge.” I’ll pick a topic and do what I can to photograph items, people, […]
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