September 28: The Texas Folklore
Society was well represented at the Texas Music Heritage
Foundation’s “Texas Living History Day” on the Kerrville campus of
Schreiner University. (see their website:
http://www.texasheritagemusic.org/
) Our kudos to TFS members Jean Schnitz,
Herb Arbuckle, and Lee and Acayla Haile for being
wonderful entertainers and panelists at the event.
Jean reports that it was fun and well worth spending a very long
day in the very hot Kerrville sun. From the TFS booth they talked
about folklore and entertained the school children, teachers, and
sponsors with music and stories.
Lee drew crowds with this picking and singing,
and Jean gave the kids some hands-on dulcimer-playing experiences.
The Panel Discussion on folklore, emceed by Jean, had a lively
general discussion. Jean said, “Lee and Acayla and Herb were
wonderful contributors to that discussion and then Herb took the
floor with his folksy sayings and led into his paper about the 'Corrido
of Gregorio Cortez.' The audience loved it and he got several
ovations before he got through. He sang a verse in Spanish and
Kathleen translated it in English before he went to the next one.
That opened up discussions about storytelling and
ballads and that sort of thing so Lee and Acayla each told an
entertaining story or two.” A discussion about Texas music ended
with everybody “singing three verses of 'Beautiful
Texas' accompanied by none other than the Light Crust Doughboys
(courtesy of the CD Patrick gave me awhile back). I think folks got
a kick out of that.”
