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Join us for the largest North Texas Giving Day celebration in DFW! 10 years of North Texas Giving Day. 10 years of Levitt Pavilion Arlington. 10 years of the Arlington Tomorrow Foundation. That's a lot to celebrate! The Arlington GIVES! North Texas Giving Day celebration includes food trucks, a showcase of Arlington charities participating in North Texas Giving Day, special grant presentations and your chance to vote for your favorite charity to receive a $10,000 People's Choice grant donated by…
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Grammy-winning blues guitar legend Jimmie Vaughan's free concert is a special Thursday concert for Arlington GIVES! North Texas Giving Day. Join us at 7 p.m. before the concert for food trucks, a showcase of Arlington charities, special grant presentations and your chance to vote for your favorite charity to win a People's Choice grant! Jimmie Vaughan is far more than one of the greatest and most respected guitarists in the music world and a three-time Grammy winner. As Guitar Player…
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Compelling alternative rock Based in Fort Worth, The Unlikely Candidates, an alternative rock band, was initially formed as an acoustic duo by childhood friends Kyle Morris and Cole Male, then expanded to include guitarist Brenton Carney, bassist Jared Hornbeek and drummer Kevin Goddard. Building from strength to strength in recent years, The Unlikely Candidates signed to Another Century Records in 2016 and crashed alternative rock radio with two infectious singles, “Your Love Could Start a War” and “Ringer,” which became…
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A hard-scrabble package of folk, rock and bluegrass You can tell a lot about a group of musicians by the name they give themselves. The Dirty River Boys make music with the type of sound and texture that's soaked in the realities of the hard-scrabble city of El Paso that they call home in the far west Texas desert. Playing more than 200 dates a year, giving heartfelt, unrestrained performances, and winning over a loyal audience show by show, it…
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Part Janis Joplin, part Stevie Ray Vaughan A musical force equipped with the soulful vocals of Janis and the guitar-slinging skills of Stevie Ray, Carolyn Wonderland reaches into the depths of the Texas blues tradition with the wit of a poet. She hits the stage with unmatched presence, a true legend in her time. Carolyn grew up the child of a singer in a band and began playing her mother’s vintage Martin guitar when other girls were dressing dolls. She’s…
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Transcendent alt/folk with intimate harmonies Miranda Dawn and Arlington’s own Chris Hawkes became Dawn & Hawkes in 2012 after a chance meeting on an Austin dance floor. The first time they sang together, they found a sound Texas Monthly called "undeniably intimate.” Their initial duo effort, Golden Heart, climbed to number 25 on Billboard’s Folk chart and landed at number 2 in iTunes singer-songwriter albums, kicking off a whirlwind of cross-country touring performances with influential artists like Alison Krauss & Dan…
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Old-time blues meets classic country Grady Spencer and The Work is a blue collar band making blue collar music for a blue collar world. Grady formed The Work in Fort Worth, after he met and befriended guitarist, Trevor Powell, and drummer, Blake Sager, under the marble angels of Bass Hall. After an absence of a steady bassist became an issue, Grady took to the dank underbelly of the Craigslist musician forums. It was there he found seasoned veteran, Steve Moore,…
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A hometown artist keeping jazz alive and well On a July day in 2013, Tatiana “LadyMay” Mayfield, a 26-year-old native Texan, stepped off of an airplane and found herself in the London Heathrow Airport. It was hard for her to believe. Surreal even. But hard work and pure talent had paid off. A Kickstarter campaign. Countless concerts and gigs as fundraisers. Constant plugging of her latest album, A Portrait of LadyMay, as one of the songs, “Real,” number 1 slot…
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Triple-threat fiddles and killer harmony! When the Quebe Sisters take the stage and the triple-threat fiddle champions play and sing in multi-part close harmony, audiences go from transfixed to blown away. It’s partly because the trio’s vocal and instrumental performances are authentic all-Americana and respectful of the artists who have inspired them the most. Not surprisingly, the Quebe Sisters win standing ovations at just about every show. It’s been that way since 2000, when they started fiddling together while growing…
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No-holds-barred honky-tonk tunes Some might say the four-piece JB & the Moonshine Band was born the day JB Patterson looked up to see that only three musicians had shown up at his open-call auditions in his hometown in Tyler. Fortunately, Gabe Guevara (drums), Hayden McMullen (lead guitar) and Chris Flores (bass guitar) turned out to be the right three, and after a brief musical and personal get-to-know-you session, everyone realized the stars had aligned to bring them together. But if…
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