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| September 27: TFS members Jean
and Lew Schnitz,
Carolyn Arrington, Herb Arbuckle, and Lee and Acayla Haile represented
TFS 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 thanks to them for being
wonderful entertainers and panelists at the event. |
| Jean reports that it was fun and better than ever
this year. There were no tents this year, so the TFS group set up
under a nice shade tree near a chuck wagon on the far side of the
creek. Jean, Lew and Carolyn spent the morning showing dozens (even
hundreds) of children old time musical instruments. "We played and
sang for them and WITH them. Some of the groups were really
enthusiastic singers." |
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Jean played the hammered dulcimer, and Carolyn
played the guitar, fiddle, mountain dulcimer, and pickin' stick (not
all
at the same time). They "played and sang and talked and ate biscuits from
the chuck wagon" until the school busses took the children away at
about 2:30 p.m. Jean chaired the panel discussion in the
auditorium. The subject was "The Music of Texas. |
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Herb Arbuckle presented a research paper with some stories about Bob
Wills and his band. He also led a discussion of the nonsense songs
that were popular during the Great Depression and during World War
II. Lee and Acayla sang a song or two and Carolyn Arrington
gave a presentation about styles of fiddle music popular in Texas.
We had a general discussion about the various types of music
festivals that abound in Texas, including dulcimer festivals,
bluegrass festivals, old fiddlers contests, Czech fests and
Wurstfests, and such as that. Audience participation was wonderful
throughout the program. |
| We thank the Texas Heritage Music Foundation for the
opportunity to share Texas folk music with such an appreciative
group again this year. |
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