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CLASSES START SEPTEMBER 14
C&W CLASSES RUN 5 WEEKS, JITTERBUG RUNS 4 WEEKS
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Thursday • September 4,1997
C/ex as music comes /o fife
Festival in Austin and Kerrville honors Jimmie Rodgers’ 100th birthday
By Rhonda Reinhart
Staff writer
T exas music - two words that speak vol
umes. It is not country, blues, rock or jazz,
but a class all its own. Texas music is writ
ten for Texans by Texans.
In an effort to preserve the traditions of
Texas music, the Texas Heritage Music Foun
dation will be holding its annual Texas Heritage
Music Festival this weekend.
The four-day event starts with a kick-off par
ty in Austin Thursday night and continues in
Kerrville Friday through Sunday.
This year’s festival is a celebration of what
would have been Jimmie Rodgers’ 100th birthday.
Rodgers is considered the father of country music,
and his influence is evident in the works of musi
cians from Texas and other parts of the country.
Recently Bob Dylan released a tribute album
containing 14 of Rodgers’ songs with guest artists
including Van Morrison, Aaron Neville and Mary
Chapin-Carpenter.
Glen Alyn, a Texas poet, writer and musician
who has been performing at the Texas Heritage
Music Festival for about six years, said the festi
val is something he looks forward to every year.
“It’s a lot of fun,” he said. “It’s charming and
refreshing. It’s like a breath of fresh air in the
country.”
Alyn said he enjoys going to the festival be
cause everyone involved in it really respects the
musicians.
The Texas Heritage Music Foundation is made
up entirely of volunteers.
Kathleen Hudson, foundation director and
an English professor at Schreiner College in
Kerrville, said the volunteers offer their services
because they know what they do is unique.
“Telling stories and singing songs make a dif
ference,” she said. “We are a grass roots organi
zation, not a bunch of people trying to figure out
how to get on the radio.”
Hudson said she is interested in Texas music
because it has a rough edge to it.
“Texas music is. not really slick and commer
cially-oriented,” she said. “It’s original, unique and
it breaks new ground. Texas musicians are really
passionate about what they do. They’re passionate
folks doing exacdy what they want to do.”
She said Texas music gives listeners a sense
they are connect
ing to the peo-
pie who are \J
perform
ing it. N
“ It’s like a breath
of fresh air in the country.”
GLEN ALYN
Texas poet, writer
and musician Lori
Hughes, a
member of the office
staff at the Foundation,
agrees there is a special bond between listeners
and performers of Texas music.
“The spirit, the writing, the subjects of the
writing and the personal stories make Texas mu
sic special,” she said. “Texans think of themselves
as special people - more rugged and enduring.”
She said musicians from Texas have brought
more of the outlaw spirit and the wildness people
associate with the state to other styles of music.
Alyn said Texas music has more of a frontier
bite to it than other music.
“I’m really glad to be a part of the Texas mu
sic tradition,” he said. “There is a lot ofvarietv
and a lot of influences from different cultures
in Texas music.”
Alyn said one of the goals of the festival is to help
edify people on the influence Texas music has had
on the state, the United States and the world.
Events at the festival will include educational
exhibits beginning with a focus ofTexas heritage
on Friday, a fiddling contest on Saturday anda
scholarship fundraiser on Sunday.
The Wayne Kennemer Scholarship fund is |
named foraTexas musician who was killed inan |
automobile accident in September 1992.
Willie Nelson and Little Joe Y La Familiawi
be headlining the benefit, and all proceeds from ;
the fundraiser will go to a student interested in I
studying some aspect of music.
Texas has produced a wide variety of musi
cians, including Janis Joplin, Ernest Tubb and
Buddy Holly. Even though their musical styles do
not share many similarities, their Texas heritage
gives them a common bond.
Alyn said where you grow up is what makes
you who you are.
“Texas music reflects the natural environ
ment," he said. "Music was originally thereto
preserve the culture of people, the history and
emotional content of people’s lives and the para
doxes that occur in life.”
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