One thing that all three bands had in common who played Shiner Rising Star’s Round 1 Week 6 session was that they came to have fun. Of course, each played to earn the chance to move on into Round Two. When the announcement was made Friday morning, it was The Bigsbys who are moving on. […]
NOTE: I’m more disappointed than anyone, but in case a reader is unaware, all of my photos, except these few shown, taken at this past week’s Shiner Rising Star disappeared like my paychecks do… into thin air! I put my computer in for repairs and possible retrieval, but that didn’t bring them back. The […]
Click the link provided after each band’s section to see more pictures Shiner Rising Star, the band contest holding as its ultimate prize a recording contract, completed its fourth week contest Thursday night, and when the votes were tallied, the Lewisville-based band led by Kerry Davis Jr. learned it would be moving into Round Two. […]
August 4,2012, brought with the 100+ degree temperatures in North Texas the first Cooler’n Hell festival, sponsored by Dallas’ Americana Radio Station KHYI (95.3, The Range). And rumor has it, confirmed rumor that is, that the date is set for the first Saturday in August 2013, for the second installment. This first year, at Southfork […]
Three strong bands showed up to compete in Shiner Rising Star’s Round 1, Week 2 contest Thursday night (Aug. 2) at Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill in Dallas. All three wowed the judges, judging by their comments at critique-time, and Friday morning, KHYI’s Chuck Taylor announced on the morning show that it would be Twisted Pistols who would […]
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 […]
Police Investigating Construction Material Thefts
By Mary Jane Farmer for the Van Alstyne News, Scene In Town Van Alstyne Police made no arrests made this past week, but are investigating another theft of construction material, reported Police Lt. Steven Hayslip. It was about 2 p.m. Friday (April 5, 2024) when officers were dispatched to 1556 Whispering Meadow in regard 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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