Levitt Arlington is launching its inaugural Texas Made Songs: Singer-Songwriter Night, a new program designed to broaden our artistic offerings and celebrate Texas’ rich musical heritage. This special event will feature acclaimed Texas duo Dawn and Hawkes as the headliner! Thank you to the Texas Music Office for sponsoring this free night of live music!

7:10 PM – Levitt Youth Spotlight presented by Texas Trust Credit Union

7:30 PM – Tony Pierce 

In 2010 Tony Pierce, a budding guitar player from Texas moved to Nashville when he got the job to play lead guitar for a new country artist that had just signed a record deal. After 3 years with the emerging artist and a few opportunities like playing onstage at the Grand Ole Opry under his belt, he should have been on cloud nine. He was living out any young guitar player’s dream, but instead he was frustrated with the feeling something was missing.
In late 2013 Tony & his wife Jaime took a leap of faith and released their first single as a country duo, Pierce Avenue, written solely by Tony, “Take It to the House.” In 2016, Tony entered a guitar contest online through Guitar Center, and was 1 of 5 finalists out of 6,000 entries to be flown to Los Angeles, CA and play on stage with Vince Gill and his band in the ‘Onstage with Vince Gill Contest’ chosen by Vince himself! Vince then invited all five contestants to play a special show with him one evening in Nashville! Each contestant got to use their allotted time on stage with Vince and his band as they chose. The crowd watched and cheered them on, as Tony along with Jaime closed their set with Vince’s hit, “One More Last Chance” with Tony sharing the guitar licks with his idol Vince Gill and well-renowned guitar player, Tom Bukovac. It was a dream come true for these two Nashville hopefuls, standing on stage with some of Nashville’s biggest musicians!
After 9 years of performing & traveling the country together as a duo, a pandemic, and having their first child in 2020, Pierce Avenue decided it was time for a change! Tony and his family decided it was time to move back to Texas and for him to get back to his Texas Music roots. His new solo EP will reflect all he’s learned in the last 12 years in Nashville, but how he’s always remained a Texas country boy at heart.

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8:30 PM – Dawn and Hawkes 

Miranda Dawn and Chris Hawkes formed Dawn and Hawkes after a chance meeting on an Austin dance floor. The first time they sang together they found a sound Texas Monthly calls “undeniably intimate”. Their initial duo effort, Golden Heart, climbed to No. 25 in Billboard’s Folk chart and landed at No. 2 in iTunes singer-songwriter albums kicking off a whirlwind of cross-country and international touring, and original albums.

Acoustic Guitar hails their musicality as “Impeccable vocal harmonies and instrumentation” while The Austin American Statesman describes their songs as “sweet folk-rock – instantly appealing tunes – rooted in the singer songwriter heyday of the early 1970’s, they also fit well into the modern-day indie-folk revival” and Huffington Post summarizes “Transcendent alternative-folk — you will find yourself craving more from this amazing, dynamic duo.”

The newest album from Dawn and Hawkes, Light Inside, is illuminated by the warm glow of family homes, old guitars, familiar stories, new infatuation and loyal, long-standing love. It’s an invitation to embrace the light that comes from all of us.

In a time when the world seems more divided than ever, Dawn and Hawkes celebrate hope and our common humanity, illuminating our shared human experience in a way that resonates deeply with all who listen.