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, […]
Click here for photos Sponsored by Love & War in Texas, the yearly Rusty Wier singer/songwriter competition is now in full swing with Round 1 having begun Sunday, January 15. Competing in this Week 1 were: Harley Dale Brown, Zack Jones, Wesley Joe Malone, Matt Nix, Marina Rocks, Tyler John, Tanner Sparks, Stacey Shope, Town […]
Mary Jane Farmer, Scene In Town — This article first appeared in Buddy Magazine, September 2016 issue. Growing up in Whitewright, Texas, The Time Jumpers’ and Nashville studio fiddler Larry Franklin said the only music he heard was fiddle music and it was just natural he was hit with the music bug. Larry is the […]
After a day of closing out the guitar and songwriting schools, two performers took to the Threadgill Stage. Eric Schwartz from Los Angeles and Steve James (blues guitar school instructor) from Seattle. For the night’s photos, click here
For the last four years, on the near-eve of the Larry Joe Taylor Texas Music Festival, a winner has been chosen from the LJT Songwriter Showcase to play the festival. John D. Hale from Jackson, Missouri, took the crown this year, but his competition gave him a run for it. Just a little background on […]
Fred Spears Has Made a Life of the Music Business
First published in the Texoma Farm and Home Magazine, April 2024 issue. Published by the Whitesboro News. Photos by Mary Jane Farmer unless otherwise noted. By Mary Jane Farmer When you sit in a Freddie Lee Spears’ audience, you quickly realize he’s as genuinely classic as the songs he sings. Freddie Lee, or ‘Fred’ as […]
By Mary Jane Farmer for the Van Alstyne News, Scene In Town Note: An indictment is a formal charge, and not proof of guilt. Indictment A local woman Van Alstyne Police arrested February 15 went before the Grayson County Grand Jury Wednesday and that group indicted her on multiple counts of Sexual Assault of a […]
By Mary Jane Farmer for the Van Alstyne News, Scene In Town It blew into town like the winds that accompanied it, the Third Annual Van Alstyne Wine Festival. What didn’t blow in were the heavy rains and thunderstorms that preceded Saturday and which were predicted, although with less chance than the days before, to […]
“Pack Up” Makes the Possibilities Possible.
Texas Nexus / Story and photos by Mary Jane Farmer It’s a 3-column list I have worked up — “PACK UP” it’s called. It’s what I have to reference and cling to when getting ready to go to all the music festivals in my life. And there’s a bunch! Me and Hippie Van head out. […]
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. […]
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