Texas Top Hands bus fuss
A 1948-model tour bus carried the storied San Antonio-based Texas Top Hands band from dance hall to dance hall for years. It’s spent the past decade-and-a-half parked alongside The Broken Spoke dance...
View ArticleMason Ruffner is back with the blues
On Sunday, Mother’s Day, at Gruene Hall, Mom, and anyone else within earshot beginning at 5 p.m., will be able to hear the kind of blues/rock that’s just not heard every day in these parts. One of the...
View ArticleBarry Manilow concert: Postponed
Barry Manilow: Postponed (Rick Diamond/WireImage) Pop pianist, singer and songwriter Barry Manilow has postponed his Texas dates, including a concert scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the...
View ArticleHyperbubble meets Ian Rubbish
If you’re looking for a summer anthem, Hyperbubble has delivered. The S.A.-based electro-pop/dance music duo, the wife/husband team of Jess and Jeff DeCuir, is offering a free download of their bouncy,...
View ArticleAward-winning Gospel music
The gospel choir at Philadelphia Seventh-day Adventist Church (of San Antonio, not Philadelphia, Pa.) won $5,000 after taking first place on May 18 in the American Sunrise “Rise Up and Sing” Gospel...
View ArticleLil’ Band O’ Gold and Robert Plant
The good news is Robert Plant is touring with his Sensational Shape Shifters. The bad news is he and the band aren’t touring through San Antonio. Plant and the Shape Shifters are working the Palladium...
View ArticleBrent Watkins Trio and more S.A. jazz
Going up against a nationally televised San Antonio Spurs game is a tough thing to do at any time in the basketball season. Going up against the San Antonio Spurs vs. The Miami Heat in the NBA Finals,...
View ArticleGruene Hall and Americana music know how to help
Americana music and Gruene Hall, the historic dance hall in New Braunfels, have been an excellent fit for decades. Gruene Hall was staging top-flight American roots music long before the term Americana...
View ArticleRichard Garza: Memorial Service Set
Drummer/trumpet player Richard Garza, far left in this Dell Kings reunion photo taken last month at the South Texas Popular Culture Center, died last week of a heart attack. Garza’s memorial service...
View ArticleR.I.P. Barbara Wolfe
Barbara Wolfe, who, with her husband Steve Silbas, owned Casbeers on Blanco Road and on South Alamo Street (which became San Antone Cafe and Concerts) died Monday morning after a battle with cancer....
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