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Heritage Fest & Muziky to Feature Bob Wills & Texas Playboys Tribute Band
The Texas Czech Heritage and Cultural Center is excited to announce this year’s plans for the Texas Czech Heritage and Cultural Center’s annual Heritage Fest & Muziky! TCHCC and the Texas-Czech founded organizations are joining hands for another special festival this year!
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Music Lineup Includes Kovanda Czech Band, Red Ravens and Dujka Brothers
Western Swing: Texas Born and Bread (With Light Crust Flour)
Western Swing music. “The secret was it had a good dance tempo, mmpah- mm-pah, a 2/4 rhythm. The thing that Milton [Brown] said was ‘If I pattern my music and make it a good polka tempo out the songs I play, play the polka tempo just a little bit harder, I think I’ll have a good band.’ When you boil it down, it was a good simple, polka beat.”--- Leon “Pappy” Selph ( Light Crust Doughboys, Bob Wills, Blue Ridge Playboys).
About Jason Roberts
When Texas Playboys front man Jason Roberts steps onto a stage with his fiddle and utters his first “AH-ha” of the evening, western-swing fans know they're seeing and hearing nothing less than the living embodiment of a tradition that stretches all the way back to 1933. That was the year the charismatic fiddler Bob Wills and several other musicians in a group called the Light Crust Doughboys broke away from Fort Worth's Burris Mills and its autocratic business manager, W. Lee “Pappy” O'Daniel, to form their own band. As Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, they became one of the most popular touring and recording acts in the nation, offering audiences the highly danceable musical mixture that came to be known as western swing.