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Philadelphia citypaper.net – Jan 2, 2008
KEN FWSER AND HIS QUARTET 11:30pm $8 Chris’ Jazz Cafe 1421 Sansom St. THE NEW BTSIE BARNES QUINTET with George Burton & Duane Eubanks 8 & 10pm $12 Chris’ Jazz Cafe 1421 Sansom St. DICK BRAYTENBAH TRI with Tony Mennella 7-10pm $15 Hopewell Valley Bistro 15 E.
Hall of FWame
FWWeekly – Jan 2, 2008
Here’s what some fellow scenesters had to say. Some of their answers may surprise you. Anthony MarianiKelly Parker’s liverA guy at the vanguard of the Fort Worth music scene for damn near two decades Parker established his rep as owner of the Axis (the original one) a rock club famous for hosting a Fugazi show and also for turning away Vanilla Ice who showed up unannounced and was consequently forced to perform for a few disinterested punk-rock kids in the parking lot. After a false start with another club Mad Hatter’s Parker opened a huge venue The Engine Room on West Vickery Street mainly to give Fort Worth alt-rock radio darlings The Toadies someplace local to play. In the 1990s he opened The Impala a club that with apologies to The Aardvark and Wreck Room (R… Wes Race’s shakoKansas expat and poet Wes Race is a blues fan’s blues fan. He’s been there and done that: lived in Chicago in the ’70s served as Hound Dog Taylor’s road manager was present at the creation of Alligator Records and so on. Since the ’90s he’s been a fixture at Fort Worth blues joints the more authentic the better often carrying an artifact from his collection of blues memorabilia as an icebreaker or mounting the stage to declaim his poetry alongside local blues eminences like Ray Reed of the BTA Band or the late Robin Sylar. Race just finished recording a spoken-word-and-blues project with Lost Country’s Jim Colegrove at the boards. As was once said of Lord Buckley Race is an immaculately hip aristocrat.
Builder by day bluegrass Belle by night
San Francisco Chronicle – Jan 2, 2008
Amazingly Brandon juggles both bands with her day job as a structural engineer. Isn’t there some kind of disconnect between belting out “Columbus Stockade Blues” by night and project-managing an engineering team at the new Academy of Sciences building by day? “Math and music are closely related” Brandon 43 says in the Market Street headquarters of Arup the international engineering firm that’s been her employer for 21 years. “I don’t know the science behind this but I think there is probably a correlation between the part of the brain that enjoys the rigor of math problems and the part that enjoys the discipline of music. The mix isn’t rare. “I know quite a few musicians who are also engineers or mathematicians or I… She was the only child of Derek an inorganic chemistry professor who plays banjo and piano and Jean a school nurse who sings and plays guitar. “They were very cool. They were bluegrass musicians so there was always a lot of music in the house people coming to visit. We’d go to jam sessions and shows. It really was a wonderful upbringing.