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Rosie Flores
Dig Wayne
Born in San Antonio, TX and raised in Southern California,
Dig
Wayne formed the legendary rockabilly band Buzz and The
Flyers.
Rosie Flores's music blends the best of rock, country and blues
In
1982 after having inspired many musicians, and seeing
with the traditional sounds of her
Mexican-American heritage.
rockabilly gain some commercial success, Dig moved to London and
Since the late 70s, Rosie has been an important figure in the
was one of the
main conspirators in
the creation of JoBoxers.
Los Angeles, Austin, TX and Nashville music scenes.
Flash
forward: Dig appears in Hollywood movie' Judge Dread
with
Sylvester Stallone as well as USA TV shows CSI and
ER...
The Collins Kids
The Collins Kids
are a
Rockabilly
duo, featuring
sister Lawrencine "Lorrie" Collins (born
May 7,
1942,
in
Tahlequah,
OK)
and younger brother Lawrence "Larry" Collins (born
October 4,
1944,
in
OK).
Their infectious singing and playing crossed over
generations.
Larry, a lightning-fingered
guitarist
was a
whiz at
the age of 10.
They were regular performers on
Tex Ritter's
"Town Hall Party" and
"Ranch Party" television series in
1958
and
1959.
Sean
Mencher
Sean Mencher performs an assortment of original songs blended with
American standards and
classics from the best of
traditional American music
including rock n’ roll, western swing,
bluegrass, jazz, blues and rockabilly. From Duke Ellington to
Buddy Holly to Les Paul, Sean leads with his unique
thumb-pickin’ guitar style of Boogie & Swing
that has
taken him around the world from Carnegie Hall in New York to
Barcelona Spain, as well as an appearance on
Conan O’Brien- NBC Television,
Back to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Kieran
Kane
James
Intveld
Kieran began writing songs and recording demos with
Jamie O'hara in
James is a multi instrumentalist, songwriter,
movie Director,
the mid 1980's
and the two of them were signed to Columbia Records as
Hollywood actor and your modern day Don Juan!
The O'Kanes. In 1988, Jamie & Kieran found
themselves performing on
From Texas to Los Angeles to Nashville, James music
and art
Austin City Limits
Television program. Today, Kieran records and
are true Americana; Honky Tonk, Roots deluxe!
performs around the world with Kevin Welch and Fats Kaplin.
After The Lonesome Strangers disbanded in 1998, Randy Weeks began
concentrating
on his songwriting skills and performing dates around L.A. with
a new band of gypsies that
included guitarist Tony Gilkyson (X, Lone Justice)
drummer Don Heffington (Bob
Dylan, Emmylou Harris) and bassist Kip Boardman.
Around this same time, he
learned that Lucinda Williams had
recorded
one of his songs, "Can't Let Go," for
her
Car Wheels On a Gravel Road album,
which later
garnered a Grammy nomination for her performance of
Randy's song.
Ray Sharpe
Marti Brom
In 1966, two of
Ray Sharpe’s recording sessions, under the
Since 1993, Martí
Brom has applied her bold, sultry voice and
direction of fellow
Fort Worth native King Curtis, featured
riveting style to the
full spectrum of what the Blaster’s call
Jimi Hendrix playing guitar. Truly an enigma, this great American
“American
Music”.Always backed by the very best musicians and
seems to simultaneously embrace all the ingredients of rock 'n' roll's
aided by her own
songs of love, death and sheer orneriness, Martí'
magic potion with similar aplomb, a rare feat since day one,
passionately spreads
the American Music gospel -- her dynamic
but one that
makes him a living example of the real thing.
performances are forged from rough and ready R&B, pure sweet
Country torch and twang, and flat-out hard Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Mariachi
Nuevo Sonido
Mariachi Nuevo Sonido emphasizes authenticity and tradition
and reflects the current
international resurgence of interest in
Mariachi music. All members originate from
Chihuahua, Mexico and all are third
generation Mariachi.
All members have both extensive performing and
educational experience.
Glenn
Barber
Bill Kirchen
Country and rockabilly performer
Glenn Barber
was born in Hollis, OK,
Bill Kirchen plays American roots
music. He received a Grammy
on February 2, 1935. From there, he and his family
moved to Pasadena, TX,
nomination for Best
Country Instrumental Performance 2001.
where he learned the guitar, also took up bass, drums,
dobro, and mandolin.
A Titan of the
Telecaster guitar (Guitar Player magazine),
He first appeared on wax with the 1952 Stampede single
"You Took the
he celebrates an American musical
tradition where country music
Twinkle Out of My Stars"; by 1954, he had a contract
with the Starday label.
draws upon its origins in blues
and bluegrass, and in the Western
Over the next few years,
Barber
would release numerous countrified rockabilly
swing of Texas and California honky tonks.
Bill Kirchen first gained
hits such as Ice Water, and
Shadow My Baby on the label, the last being issued
renown as lead guitarist and a
vocalist for Commander Cody &
in 1956, just as rock & roll was sweeping the country.
his Lost Planet Airmen. It was the resonant twang
of
Kirchen’s battered
Telecaster that drove “Hot Rod
Lincoln”
into the Top Ten in 1972. Kirchen has played guitar on
recordings
and performances with Gene Vincent, Link Wray,
Danny Gatton
Emmylou Harris, Hoyt Axton, Nick Lowe and
Elvis Costello.
Wanda
Jackson
Billy Lee Riley
WANDA recorded for Decca Records for two years
(1954&'55),
Born in
Pocahontas, Arkansas,
the son of a
sharecropper,
and for
Capitol
Records 18 years,(1956-1973). She now records for
Billy Lee Riley learned to play
guitar from farm workers.
Amethyst Records in Oklahoma
City. WANDA has recorded
Riley first recorded in
Memphis, Tennessee
in 1955 before
somewhere between 50 to 60 Albums, 8 Tracks, Cassettes,
and
being lured to
Sun Studios
by
Sam Phillips,
recording the singles
CD's around the world.
WANDA has been nominated for
Red Hot and Flying
Saucer Rock ‘n’ Roll (both with
the GRAMMY AWARD twice as the best performing
female singer.
backing piano by
Jerry Lee Lewis).
She has been inducted into THE OKLAHOMA COUNTRY MUSIC
HALL OF
FAME, THE ROCKABILLY HALL OF FAME,
THE INTERNATIONAL HALL OF FAME, THE
INTERNATIONAL
GOSPEL MUSIC HALL OF FAME and most recently into THE
OKLAHOMA
MUSIC HALL OF FAME. She has been awarded
THE OKLAHOMA NATIVE DAUGHTER AWARD.
Miss Mary Ann
Miss Mary Ann is founder of the vocal duet "The Ranch
Girls" from Rotterdam NL.
Mary Ann has
played all over the world for the last 20 years with
the terrific band from
Rotterdam "The Ragtime Wranglers":
Joe Sixpack on guitar; Sietse on drums and Huey Moore on double-bass.
Bill Haley's
The
Original Comets
The music form that we call rock 'n' roll did not burst
forth fully-formed one day in the 1950's.
It evolved over many years, from many different musical
tributaries and from
the explorations and endeavors of myriad musicians from at
least the 1920's onwards.
However - it is certainly possible to acknowledge some of
the key architects of the music form
that revolutionized popular culture and the chronology of
their achievements...
there was one group of musicians that can truly be said to have been the
FIRST BAND of rock 'n' roll. That band was the
original incarnation of The Comets -
the musicians who provided the musical foundation for
singer Bill Haley from
1949 through the key years of their musical journey
together as rock 'n' roll pioneers.
The band was the foremost group in the musical revolution
that gathered steam in
the early 50's and culminated in the Big Bang of rock 'n'
roll.
High Noon
Barnshakers
Sean Mencher, Shaun Young and Kevin Smith formed High Noon in
From FINLAND, The Barnshakers
are an authentic
Austin, Texas in 1988 through a mutual love of
roots & rockabilly music.
western swing, rhythm and
blues,
jazz, rock'n roll and
For the next seven years IN A ROW, High Noon was named Austin's
rockabilly-county-blues troup...! The main feeling;
being
"Best Rockabilly Band" by the cities music journal, The Austin Chronicle.
true musicianship and loyalty to the American roots of what
During
these seven years, The Trio released a multitude of records,
has now become
their music. The story began when
45's,
78's, CD's and even a 10" vinyl disc. They played not only
Pete Hakonen, president of Goofin'
Records (Helsinki Finland),
throughout the United
States, but toured Russia, Scandinavia, Japan,
brought the great late Johnny Carroll (USA) for a concert in
Central Europe and The Canary
Islands. In 1994, High Noon played the
Finland
in 1992 and needed a backing group.
world renown, Carnegie Hall, in New
York City, USA with Ronnie Dawson.
The four guys - later to become The Barnshakers
– had
With Ronnie, they went on to perform on
NBC TV's,
on their mind to form an authentic rockabilly band for
Late Night with Conan O'Brien Show.
quite a while, and as Pete asked them to form a backing band
suitable for the Carroll show, he didn't have to ask these
guys
twice.
The Blazers
Burbank, CA - East Los
Angeles’ native sons, THE BLAZERS play
roots rock that's soulful,
surprising and always fun. Augmenting
electric guitars, bass and drums with
traditional instruments
such as the tres, bajo sexto and button accordion, their
music,
which draws on the deep well of Mexican-American culture and life,
combines electric guitars, bass and drums with traditional instruments
such as
the tres, bajo sexto and button accordion, resulting in a sound
that will have
you dancing in a flash.
Ray
Collins Hot Club
Levi Dexter
The
Hot Club is THE HOTEEST THING SINCE BUTTERED
TOAST...!!
Levi has
been seen on TV programs and news shows from
These guys are the real deal... they
can really play!!
Los Angeles
to Texas to Louisiana to Tennessee to New York.
and from where do the hail.??
Not
Chicago...
Levi & the
Rockats were the first unsigned band to perform on
the nationally televised program, The
Merv Griffin Show as well as
ABC TV's show 20/20;Wolfman Jack's "Midnight Special" TV
show as well as being the ONLY rockabilly band to perform
on The Louisiana Hayride Show. Levi Dexter was
featured on
the Andy Warhol TV show and
was also featured in Andy's
Interview magazine.
Linda Gail Lewis
When it comes to Linda Gail Lewis, you're talking
Rock'n'Roll royalty. The youngest sister of
piano-pounding Louisiana Fireball Jerry Lee,
Linda Gail's pedigree was never in doubt
from the very first moment she debuted at Sun in the early
60s.
Jimmy Sutton
Additional Management & Booking Clients
Vibro Champs, Austin, TX
King Memphis, Portland ME
Pep Torres, Los Angeles CA
Shaun Young, Austin TX
Sonny Burgess, Memphis TN
Heather
Myles, Los Angeles CA
Mike Barfield, The Hollisters, Austin TX
Roger Wallace, Austin TX
Wildfire Willie &
The Ramblers, Eskilstuna Sweden
The Dave Biller Combo, Austin TX
Glen Glenn, Hollywood CA
The Rockats, New York NY
Slim Jim Phantom, Los Angeles CA
The Lustre Kings, Albany NY
Johnny Powers, Detroit MI
Huelyn Duvall, Dallas TX
Angela Strehli, Nicasio CA
DJ Fontana, Memphis, TN
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