Patron tickets available only at Hilltop Café and w/Carol Reeh @ FISD

To use MC & VISA - please call Carol Reeh, 830-997-7182  

Proceeds benefit
Fredericksburg Youth Music Mentoring and Performing Arts Foundation
For more information about previous events click HERE

FEATURING
JOHNNY NICHOLAS   |    JIMMIE VAUGHAN  
STEVE RILEY & THE MAMOU PLAYBOYS   | GREG PICCOLO   |  TOMMY MCCLAIN 
JOEL GUZMAN & SARAH FOX  |  STEPHEN BRUTON  |  JOE KING CARRASCO   |   FLOYD DOMINO | AL GOMEZ 
KAZ KAZANOFF   |  TERRY HALE   |   DANNY LEVIN  | JOHN MILLS | KEVIN SMITH
  DAN TOROSIAN  |  KEITH WINKING   | RANDY ZIMMERMAN 
   

Thursday &  Friday November  8 & 9 - Preparty Show @ The Hill Top Cafe
• Thursday: w/ Johnny Nicholas, Greg Piccolo, Floyd Domiono,
Joe "King" Carrasco and Kevin Smith
• Friday: TBA

READ A REVIEW OF THE 2001 CONCERT

JIMMIE VAUGHAN -- Jimmie Vaughan is far more than just one of the greatest and most respected guitarists in the world of popular music. As Guitar Player Magazine notes, "He is a virtual deity--a living legend." After all, Vaughan provides a vital link between contemporary music and its proud heritage, as well as being a longtime avatar of retro cool.
       Since releasing his first solo album in 1994, he has set the standard for quality modern roots music. Throughout his career, Vaughan has earned the esteem of his legendary guitar-playing heroes and superstar peers along with successive generations of young players. His musical ethos and personal style have had an impact on contemporary culture, from spearheading the current blues revival with The Fabulous Thunderbirds to his longtime, innate fashion sense of slicked-back hair and sharp vintage threads (now seen throughout the pages of contemporary fashion journals) to becoming a premier designer of classic custom cars. But for Jimmie Vaughan, none of it is part of a crusade or a career plan. It's just his natural way of living his life and pursuing the interests that have captivated Vaughan since his youth.

STEVE RILEY AND THE MAMOU PLAYBOYS-- Steve Riley grew up in the prairie town of Mamou where French is spoken on the street, the national holiday is Mardi Gras, and a poor family is one without a fiddler or accordion player. American popular culture was stealing Mamou’s children away when Steve took up the accordion and became his hometown’s favorite son. He plays a single-row diatonic instrument made by his cousin, famed accordionist Marc Savoy. Steve concentrated on learning Savoy’s fiery, intricate style and the music of the Balfa Brothers. At age 15, this young prodigy was noticed by Dewey Balfa, who invited Steve to join his band. Under Dewey’s guidance, he grew as a performer, learning hundreds of French songs and how to sing them in Balfa’s singular hurts-so-good style, and taking up the fiddle as well. In 1988, he and David Greely formed the Mamou Playboys, which rapidly gained prominence on the international folk scene without sacrificing the allegiance of Louisiana fans. In a land where accordion is king, Steve has inspired countless young men and women to follow him and keep Cajun music’s royal instrument alive.

JOEL GUZMAN, SARAH FOX & ANDREW HARDIN -  Grammy  winners Joel Guzman and Sarah Fox return to the Big Band Bash with guitarist Andrew Hardin. Fusing their traditional and urban sensibilities, the trio reached deep into the ocean of Texas folk and Mexican Roots music.creating a sound as seamless as water. Flawlessly blending Fox's vocal power and Andrew's heavenly guitar with Guzman's innovative accordion playing, which has been called brilliant and genius, their music crosses the borders of cumbia, blues and rock.

TERRY HALE - ACOUSTIC, ELECTRIC BASS: Terry has performed everywhere from New York’s Madison Square Garden to the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, on television shows from Austin City Limits to the BBC.  As an original founding member of the “Ace in the Hole Band”, Terry has been supplying the “bottom end” for MCA recording artist George Strait for the last thirty years and as such has appeared on numerous gold and multi-platinum selling albums, two major motion pictures, “Pure Country” 1992 (Warner Bros.) and “The Soldier” 1980 (James Glickenhous Films).  He has also performed on many television and radio commercials, videos and countless syndicated radio broadcasts.  He has performed live on “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson as well as with Jay Leno, multiple music awards shows, “pay-per-view” telecasts and two HBO specials.

DANNY LEVIN - FIDDLE
Danny grew up in the suburbs of Philly and studied cello with Philadelphia Orchestra cellist Francis de Pasquale from 1959-1967, and by the age of 15, was an accomplished chamber musician. He joined up with the swing band Asleep at the Wheel in 1971. By 1972, he had picked up the fiddle and was listening to and playing country music and string jazz, and by 1978, he had won his first Grammy. Danny is now producing and writing advertising commercials with such artists as Johnny Nicholas, Ethel & Methel, Don Walser, Sean Colvin, Leon Raush of the Texas Playboys, Charlie Sexton, Johnny Cash, Sara Hickman and the Leann Rimes "Don’t Mess with Texas" TV commercial.

JOHN RUSSELL MILLS   -  BARITONE & TENOR SAX
John Mills is one of central Texas’ most in-demand saxophonists and arrangers, covering a complete spectrum of musical styles—jazz, R&B, salsa, classical, rock ’n roll, country, alternative, folk, gospel and more—in concert and in the recording studio. Over his long professional career he has performed, arranged and composed on hundreds of CDs, film/TV soundtracks, and jingles. He holds a Doctorate Degree (DMA) in Composition from UT-Austin, is Director of Jazz Studies and Coordinator of Music Theory at Southwest Texas State Univ. and co-owner of Austin Media Music.

KEVIN SMITH -  Kevin Smith grew up in Denver Colorado, and moved to Austin in 1989.As one of the members of the modern rockabilly band High Noon, he toured the world including Japan, Russia and Europe, as well as backing Rockabilly legends like Ronnie Dawson, Mac Curtis,Wanda Jackson, Johnny Caroll.  Since then, he's recorded with Asleep At The Wheel, Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, Marcia Ball, and Pam Tillis among others. He's toured with the Asylum Street Spankers, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, and is currently recording and touring with Heybale! and Dwight Yoakam.

DAN TOROSIAN: Dan grew up in New York, moved to Boston in 1976, and switched from trumpet to saxophone in 1982.  He played with dozens of jazz and R&B bands, then moved to Austin in 1990.  He has played sax, clarinet, flute, and keyboards in many bands, most notably with Rotel and the Hot Tomatoes, Marcia Ball, Irma Thomas (New Orleans), Alejandro Escovedo, Ted Roddy, and Tish Hinojosa, also working extensively as an arranger.  He will receive his Master’s degree in Music Composition from Southwest Texas State University in December, 2002, having composed and arranged for vocal and instrumental chamber groups, orchestra, and big band.

KEITH WINKING - TRUMPET
Keith is a professor at Texas State University where he teaches trumpet and directs the Texas State Jazz Orchestra, and is a member of the SouthWest BrassWorks. Dr. Winking received his undergraduate degree in Music Education from Quincy University, his M.M. in Trumpet Performance from Texas State, and his D.M.A. in Trumpet Performance from the University of Texas at Austin. His teachers have included Raymond Crisara, Vince Cichowicz, Leon Rapier and Don "Jake" Jacoby. He has served as a visiting lecturer to scores of universities and conservatories including the Crane School of Music and the Moscow and St. Petersburg Conservatories. Dr.Winking has presented solo and ensemble concerts and clinics throughout the United States, Canada, Sweden, Japan, Switzerland and Russia. He is a freelance trumpet player performing with many local and national groups including the Austin Symphony, the Austin Jazz Orchestra, James Brown, the Manhattan Transfer and the Austin Sinfonietta. He has extensive recording experience and has recorded national jingles for McDonalds and American Express. He has also taped numerous TV shows including PBS's "Lonesome Pines," TNN's "Texas Connection," PBS's "Austin City Limits" and a taping for the BBC entitled "Rhythms of the World." He has presented papers at the International Trumpet and New York Brass Conferences and also published articles in The International Trumpet Guild Journal, School Band and Orchestra Magazine and the International Jazz Educators Journal. Dr. Winking is voting member of the National Association of the Recording Arts and Sciences (Grammy's) and a clinician for the Selmer Company.

RANDY ZIMMERMAN - TROMBONE
Randy played first trombone at North Texas State University's One O'Clock Jazz Band and traveled to the Soviet Union and Portugal with them before moving to New York, then connecting with the Klaus Lenz Fusion Band and touring Germany. One of the main CO2 composers for 18 years, he is also a sought-after arranger for salsa and big bands. He is at home in brass quintets, big bands, jazz combos, chamber music, polkas, Dixieland, salsa, etc. His efforts as bandleader include the steaming Jazz PR--original arrangements of Latin classics and jazz standards, for three trombones and Puerto Rican rhythm section (their CD, "La Brisa Del Sur" on CreOP Muse); Jazz Nomads-- septet featuring great Blakey arrangements, music by Kenny Dorham and McCoy Tyner, as well as originals; Southern Reconstruction Brass B and--trombone, tuba, 2 trumpets, 2 drummers in a funky and quirky little street band that really cooks.