*GUY SCHWARTZ & THE NEW JACK HIPPIES - Live At Cosmos Cafe
*REPORT FROM THE FIELD - KPFT, San Jacinto Day, SXDE, Raw Oysters, Changes
*WEEKEND CALENDAR - Courstesy of The Blueshound & KPFT-FM
*EARTHWIRE SAYONARA BASH - WWW.EARTHWIRE.NET

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GUY SCHWARTZ & THE NEW JACK HIPPIES
Live At Cosmos Cafe
SATURDAY MAY 3rd
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I'll play bass with Chaz and Teri Greene on piano and guitar.
Heath Spencer Philip said he'll be there, too!
Leesa and Carlos will play skins.

We'll play a set sometime earlier in the day at earthwire.net's Sayonara Bash!

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REPORT FROM THE FIELD
Changes On The Home Front
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I've said it before and I'll say it again - I'm the luckiest boy in the
world!

I have been so busy doing all of the things I love to do, with so many
collaborators, that writing about it would have only gotten in the way of
making the music and art. So, I've left the newsletter alone for several
weeks. Therefore, let me say that I'm sorry I didn't write last month, but
I'll do my best to get you caught up with this letter. There's a lot to tell
you about! In fact, this will be the essay where I remove the blinders on a
couple of aspects about the ways we've been working lately, and project some
of our goals for the near future.

It's 3:56am on a Monday morning, and I'm sitting in the control room at
KPFT-FM with Pat Leech of Pat & Rosie's Nightsounds. Mark Zeus has just
finished a well played live acoustic set, and he's hanging with Pat & I as
we're getting ready to preview some of the live recordings from all the great
bands and singer/songwriters who played at the South By Due East festival....

OK, we just took a on-mic break to talk about the SXDE event and
performances. It was a great event, held at the same time as SXSW in Austin.
Marlo Blue envisioned it as a guerilla marketing event, aimed at getting
music she works with, and our Houston music scene, another piece of the
international independent media focus. Marlo worked online and on the phones
for six months, and then took Gina and Bonita to Austin to run a hospitality
suite in Austin while several of us ran her showcase in Houston (at
earthwire.net). We recorded and videotaped over 50 bands, poets, DJs and
singer/songwriters over a four day period, and getting those performances to
travel over the internet for simultaneous viewing at the suite in Austin, and
anywhere in the world.

From these recorded performances, we intend to make several CDs, a full
length feature documentary and several video projects. I'm not certain what
will come of it, but there will be at least one or two compilation CDs, and
50 local acts and artists will have new video to help their websites sell
themselves AND Houston music, and that's enough results for me to be happy.

It seems that SXDE has also marked the passage of time in many other ways,
too. Other than working with me, SXDE was Marlo's first foray into the public
world of entertainment in many years. She's been very busy working behind the
scenes, but this event forced her to go public. SXDE will also have been the
last major event held at a funtioning earthwire.net performance space at it's
studio in the Montrose. And, of course, loss of the earthwire space will
undoubtably lead to more of those types of sessions happening at my house,
and that has already begun. The video footage I took at SXDE has inspired me
to make a film. Also, during this time, The New Jack Hippies will change
focus a bit. There will be differences in the way we will tour and are
recording.

Earthwire is a big loss. Martin lost his lease, and a most amazing 2-year run
of collaboration and creativity is moving on to morph itself in many ways.
Earthwire has been a creative kitchen for performing artists of all types,
and the catalog of recorded works will affect us all for years, as it is all
sorted out and combined in various ways for public release and digital
distribution. Earthwire.net will continue to function as an internet radio
station, but the performances will be prerecorded, with more and more of the
content coming from performances which actually happened live at
earthwire.net.

For the past two years, I've done my favorite outside collaborating at the
earthwire.net studios. The jam sessions in my studio became secondary to the
jams in Montrose. Earthwire had location and space. Just the number of people
who showed up with open minds, almost guaranteed that cool art would happen.
Kingfish Keith first invited me there for his show on Saturday afternoons. He
and DJ Scout had had great success in bringing the community to earthwire on
a weekly basis, and the crowd which assembled on those Saturdays and at
Scout's PM Funk show on Tuesday nights included artists, friends and fans.
Mike McGuire may have created the most diverse melting-pot on his spoken word
Sundays, but his crowd was an eclectic one, and mostly an artist-only
situation.

When I first visited Kingfish Keith at earthwire, I found that my old friend
M. Martin was the 400lb. gorilla of this organization. Mike Farber, and old
buddy from my days in Z-Rocks, was Keith's producer. I was at home. I began
collaborations on Saturdays, but was soon invited to participate on other
nights, with other artists and producers. I was fun and productive.

For example - I met Kool B there sixteen months ago, and already we've
collaborated to create a spoken-word opretta (with Lyric, Don Walsh and
Char), several live performances, 4 live radio appearances and two CDs ('The
Wandering Poets' with Dizzy, Mikey, Jody and Stephen Bogle, & , 'The Sun's
Gonna Rise Before I Get To Texas' with Carrie Ann Buchanan's husband) of
music and spoken word. Dubtex and SoundPatrol both contributed to the weed CD
as a direct result of earthwire meetings. And there are another 20-30 artists
I've collaborated with because of earthwire.

But now the sessions are starting up at my house again, and I can't say that
I'm bothered by that at all.

We had a great one on San Jacinto Day.

Marlo's families are full of people with names that have been part of
generations of Texas history - names like Tips, Bagby & Watkins. These folks
are Texas blue-blood aristocracy by tradition, and take the Texas holidays
seriously. For decades, Marlo's granddad spoke the San Jacinto Day
festivities at the battleground.

Now, most of those generations are gone, and our celebrations have been more
personal. That changed this year.

A newer friend of mine hasn't decided whether he wants to be a star or a
private person. Recently, he expressed that he did not want the press
writing about him, unless they are writing about his band, their shows or his
albums. He said that having his name printed on one of my CDs, caused him
some concern when he realized that a search on the world-wide web for his
name might now send someone to the website with my CD instead of his. He's a
great entertainer. I've gotten to know and like him the past couple of years,
so I will not be telling you his name. It's not important to the story.

Marlo and I go eat raw oysters on San Jacinto Day, a tradition left over from
generations of fine Texans who knew or cared little about the bacterial
content of a tasty raw oyster. This year we decided to invite my nameless
friend and his wife, Carrie Ann (a great singer/songwriter in her own right)
to join us, because my friend's new CD is titled 'San Jacinto'. It's a cool
CD, filled with well recorded songs of the rowdy country punk persuasion. San
Jacinto Day wouldn't seem the same now without him. Carrie had some fortunate
work come in for Monday, so Marlo and I went for oysters ourselves and
invited them for dinner and a jam that evening. The oysters were good, but
the jam was better. Before it was over, we had Carrie's husband and me on
electric guitars, Tony and Neville from The Tony Xpress Band on guitar and
drums, and Roger, Chaz and Carlos rounding out the group. We proceeded to
record a bunch of impromptu Texas/African/Jamaican/Jewish music and had a
blast celebrating the day with fajitas and Lone Star beer.

Meanwhile, back at KPFT tonight, we're starting off with Giancarlo's Big
Stick, just the way the South By Due East festival did. The cut is called
'Psychedelic It', and is a very fluid instrumental. Giancarlo plays just
about any and all types of music when he performs. At the SXDE show, besides
several of his own compostions, he played numbers by Santana, Muddy Waters
and John Coltrane, on the Chapman Stick, a multi-stringed instrument (10 or
11 strings, I don't exactly remember), which is played by tapping strings
with all ten fingers, allowing Giancarlo to play bass, rhythm and lead parts
at the same time - all by himself.... Now we're listening to Alex Wukman, on
of the great young poets who work and write in this city. Between sets at
SXDE, The New Jack Hippies had begun jamming to a recording of Kinney Abair
that Mikey had put on. Kinney was recorded performing live in the earthwire
studios a couple months before he passed away, and the recorded jam was hot,
and th e Hippies were hot on top of it, so I introduced Alex and it all
flowed as if we had rehearsed it. It was a great tribute to Kinney, and one
of my favorite of all New Jack Hippies spontaeneous recordings.... Now it's
4:40 am and we are listening to 'Peel', performed by Hollister Fracus, a
great hard rock band from the north side. We got some great video on these
guys, as we did on Chango Jackson - who showed up in chemical suits and gas
masks and blew the rock-n-roll roof off the place the following night. Next
comes Irene, a cool surprise who were brought to SXDE by DJ Woo. These guys
had a different touch, mixing clean rhythm guitars with death-metal vocals at
times - but mostly they rocked hard.... SXDE rocked hard! Conscious
CoCreation tripped their way through some jazzy-psychedelic jams, and Guy
Layman unvieled his new band called New Damage, who were as solid as if
they'd been playing together for years. At one point we had a special
presentaion of 15 poets with orchestral ambient jazz musicians on the outside
stage while the amazingly cool Joe B. manned the turntables in the studio,
followed by Houston's stalwart entertainers, Los Skarnales! All of this great
music was from Houston!

Marlo had arranged for several videographers to be on the spot with cameras
to tape on all four days, but, as with many volunteer situations, could not
be certain that they would all contribute their time as agreed. Before she
left for Austin, she purchased a good video camera and told me to take it
along in case those cameras were late. That way, we'd be sure to get at least
one camera on every act. It was a good thing she did it that way, because
NONE of our volunteers showed up. I watched the whole festival through the
viewfinder. It was great. The experience was intense! I'm a huge promoter of
our Houston music, but having all of this talent in one place, in my
viewfinder, was awesome. I was moved. I decided to try to turn this footage
into a movie - and I'm gonna do it. That movie can travel around the world to
promote our music a lot easier than a festival can!

I know that movie making is a change for me, but a movie project is much like
an album project - one throws all the different artists and techs together
with the equipment and an agenda, and then tries to stick to the plan and
create the final product. With a movie, there's just more of it. I've put
together a half-dozen 30 minute video programs twenty years ago, and Marlo
has done color correction and editing on a part-time basis as long as I've
known her, so how hard can it be for us to put together a film? <g> Anyone
have post-production skills and the desire to help? Even without actual
skills, we could use help just watching the tapes and making notes on the
cool stuff you see. We have 100 hours of footage and Marlo is building a
state-of-the-art video editing unit, so we're off to a great start!

In fact, we are taking on a lot of production at this time. It's a
culmination of several things, including our recent recording circumstances
and our current ability to tour. Some of it is driven by me and some of it by
Marlo or Roger.

During the past few years, I've specialized in the guerilla-style recording
of events and live performances. The CDs I've released have come exclusively
from events like 'Bluesguy's Birthday Jam' and 'Glo & Guy on Tour' or special
performances like 'Little Joe Washington with The New Jack Hippies - Live at
earthwire.net', ' The Sun's Gonna Rise Before I Get To Texas' (recorded live
and spontaeneously by Kool B, Carrie's hubby & I, live on KPFT) or 'The
Wandering Poets'.(which recorded live and KPFT and then taken back to the
studio for sweetening with additional instruments). I haven't done an actual
studio album since 1999, and it seems to be time to do one… or two… or maybe
more.



We've started out to do a New Jack Hippies studio CD twice since then.



A couple of years ago, my son Levon Louis (a great producer in his own right
- and the creator of The New Jack Hippies' name) took us into a hiphop studio
he was working in. The sessions were good, but the owners of the studio got
mad at each other and studio folded. The files we received before the
partners took out their equipment, were digital files we could not open with
our software, or with anyone's we knew. We never got our music out of there
in any form we could use… 'til now. Last week Roger bought a Mac with
ProTools for his home studio, and it opened those files right up.



Then, last fall, we went into a studio Roger had built for a small jazz
label, under the plan that Roger would produce a studio album in a more
traditional way of recording - one or two songs per day - finishing each song
as closely to perfection that day and then moving on. But, for some reason,
when we got there, we just jammed on some of his new musical ideas, and got a
dozen new studio jams. That studio closed, too, and a problem with
incompatible portable hard drives kept us from these tracks for a while, too.



It's funny. The first reason Roger and I began writing and recording our music
together again was a response to Roger's verbally kicking himself in the butt
for not doing it during the ten years he had worked at a great digital
studio. He knew it would be OK with the owner. When one works at a studio,
using that studio's downtime for one's own project is often a workable thing.
So, after all is said and done, I've been busy as hell for seven years since,
much of it with the band or Roger, yet we have never actually recorded a New
Jack Hippies CD at a good digital studio that Roger worked at, or anywhere
else.



I began to do a solo CD full of weed songs in the studio last year, but that
turned into a compilation - as friends added their weed tracks to my CD. That
CD (titled 'Guy Schwartz presents The New Jack Hippies' Homegrown
Collective') was fun for its' subject matter (and the research which went
into it), and for the fact that I collaborated with 53 other local musicians
to make it. Roger didn't participate. He was promised good cash to build that
studio for the jazz label, so he was busy doing that.



So there still hasn't been a true New Jack Hippies Studio CD.



'The Return of The New Jack Hippies' was recorded while Roger lived in
California (as a result of a career move by his ex-wife). He flew here to
play with us at Party on the Plaza and do a rhythm tracking session at
Digital Concepts Studios, but that was my production featuring a band which
was formed while he was away. I was lucky to have him for those few days of
tracking and a few more (six months later) for mixing. After the CD came out,
and Roger had moved home to Houston, he took me and the band to Rock Romano's
Red Shack for an evening of recording (with the late Chuck Crow on bass), but
we concentrated on Jerald Gray and Heath Spencer Philip projects that night.



His 18 months in California were pretty and restful, but Roger was frustrated
by his inability to break into a studio work situation. He was just beginning
to get work when it was time to move back to Houston. Then it took him a year
to break back into the studio scene here. It's always that way with session
work, whether you are a musician or an engineer. Once you leave, it takes
time to get back in.



When we toured last year, Roger lost his place at the studio feed-trough
again. And again, it's taken time for him to find a new spot. This is one
reason why I don't think Roger may ever do another extended tour again.



Another reason that I believe Roger may never tour again is that he had a
terrible time last year. He had his great moments, too, because he's a great
guy, but sharing space and being away from home was obviously difficult for
him on much of the tour. On two of four tour legs, he was downright miserable
and angry half the time. When one looks at our website, the lack of photos
from Nov-Dec of 2001 tourleg is a direct result of Roger's feeling so bad
that he never took out his camera, something he usually loves to do. He's
such a good photographer, and is always taking photos, so none of us has
bothered even bringing another camera on that leg.



Another reason I believe Roger might not go touring again is that he told me
he won't. I'm less inclined to believe this reason for three reasons. First,
Roger always liked the road when we were younger. Second, although he was
miserable last year, it was also the year that his ex-wife had dumped him,
and I have reason to believe that played some part in his unhappiness. I had
hoped that his heart would heal faster than it has. Thirdly, Roger has always
expressed his fears more openly than anything else. Before the tour, the
statement heard from him the most often was, "I hope we don't get booed off
the stage!" Fortunately, we didn't!



So, suddenly there appears to be a surge of energy saying to stay home and
create good quality studio CDs. Musicians are coming around to record. Even
Heath has been a regular visitor. The high price of gasoline means I won't
make any money if the next tour goes like the last one. Staying home and
creating product and a publicity campaign for next year seems to be the
ticket for now. We are considering a plan to work hard so that we may have my
movie, a book, a new solo CD, and a New Jack Hippies' CD all ready at the
same time next year. By then, we can sort out the touring situation. It'll
probably require a new musician or two.



An opportunity to tour Japan for six months came through, and Roger nixed it
out of the starting gate. I wanted to do it. We'll talk more. We have labels
there who have said they will distribute if we come play. The hard part is
getting a promoter there without a label, or getting a label first without a
promoter. I may still find another way to do it, but I doubt it.



Roger and Chaz have each given the OK for short tours. A long weekend here,
ten nights there, but nothing much longer. This is OK, but then all tours
must stay closer to home, or they must involve long distances between each
night's gig. Long drives burn the guys out faster, and cost more per day when
out there, but staying close to home leaves a lot of territory untouched. So
- if touring is to be the ticket, I'll have to do some in other ways - either
solo, with other musicians, or working with other bands/musicians in other
regions.



We'll sort this stuff out as we record the CDs and edit the movie.



I've been recording tracks for a rock CD, a blues CD and an acoustic CD. Plus
we have the tracks from those other New Jack Hippies' sessions suddenly
available to us after they weren't for a time. Add that to the work with the
poets, with Little Joe, and the SXDE movie and compilation CD, I ought to be
busy.



It's weird - I usually know I can finish a project by myself, because those
projects are things I can do all by myself, if needed. But - this movie thing
will take this whole enlarged team. I've promised I will do it, but it took
trust that the others involved will make it to the end, also! I'm way to
cynical to be good at giving that kind of trust, but I've given it this time!
So that's what we'll be doing!



Plus - new stuff is gonna happen, too! I have no idea what form it'll take,
but it'll happen…



It always does!



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WEEKEND CALENDAR - HOUSTON

Courstesy of The Blueshound & KPFT-FM
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FRIDAY, MAY 2nd

Anderson Fair - Dana Cooper
Austen's Coffee House (Pinehurst Trail & 1960) - open mic w/Dr. Gray
&
Gary Joe
Big Easy (The) - The Tony Vega Band
Blanco's - Johnny Bush
Brian O'Neill's - Trey Clark
Brothers Petronella (Galveston) - Sweet Mama Cotton (7-10 pm)
Buck's - The Mighty Orq
Cactus Moon Blues Café - The Shadowcasters
Caps Piano Bar - Faye Robinson (9 pm)
Continental Club (The) - "Soul Happening" w/Mike Flanigan B-3 Organ
Trio
(9 pm); Waxploitation DJs (10:30 pm); Sugarman 3 (midnight)
Cosmos - Del Rios
Crawdaddy's Bayou Grill (Kemah) - C.C. Riders (8 pm)
Cruiser's (Santa Fe) - jam w/Donny Taylor
Fat Cat's - Cursive/Appleseed Cast/Carsinogents
Firehouse Saloon (The) - Eleven Hundred Springs
Fitzgerald's (down) - St. Jane/Strangelight/The Magdalene/Pavlov's
Dogs/
Sunbury
Fitzgerald's (up) - Cruiserweight/Monroe/C'mon C'mon/South 59/Sadbert
Hard Rock Café (The) - Man Mechanical/My Twilight Pilot
Henry's Hideout - John McVey & the Stumble
Hideaway (The) - Luther & the Healers
Houston International Festival - Downtown Houston www.ifest.org
<http://www.ifest.org>
Lunchtime Concert:
11:00 am Claude Sims & Darryl Cleveland
11:15 am Doppelganger
12:00 pm Ballet Folklorico
12:15 pm Doppelganger
Innkeeper Ale House & Martini Bar (The) - Jeremy Todd & Dirty South
Jack's For Cocktails - 2nd Wind
Lance's Turtle Club - The Blues Kats
Last Concert Café (The) - Los Skarnales/Grupo Fantasma
Magnolia Bar & Grill (The) - Sonny Boy Terry (6-10 pm)
Maribelle's - Gary Mouton
McGonigel's Mucky Duck - Hayes Carll
Mercury Room (The) - Rick Marcel
Mixed Nuts (League City) - Splitfinger
19th Hole (The) - Seven Witches/Omen/Well of Souls
Old Quarter Acoustic Café (The) (Galveston) - Rodney Branigan/Todd
Adams
O'Shay's (Pasadena) - Bill Hendrick's Blues Experience
Outback Pub (The) - The Rachels
Oz Bar (The) - All Stars
Pennison's #2 (Copperfield) - Loud Love
Pennison's #3 (West Oaks) - Pull
R & R Sports Bar (Friendswood) - The Grateful Geezers
Rhythm Room (The) - Steve Wedemeyer
Rock's (LaMarque) - Down to Earth
Rudyard's - The Oranges Band/Bottles & Skulls
Sambuca Jazz Café (The) - Tommy Dardar
Sandbar (The) (Clear Lake Shores) - Kenny & the Bluesmen
Scooter's Ice House - Plan B
Shakespeare's Pub - Pearl Murray & the Jewels
Sidecar Pub (The) - Jeffrey Gaines/Dale Sonnier/Seansmith/Matt Ramsey
Silky's - Mike Barfield
Splash #3 (Bacliff) - Pulse
SRO Sports Bar - Old Dog Mac featuring Scott McGill
St. Pete's Dancing Marlin - E. Phillip Vallejo's F. Bomb
T-Bone Tom's (Kemah) - The Sharks
Texas City Tavern (The) - Lyndrix
Texas Crawfish Festival - Preservation Park, Old Town Spring
www.texascrawfishfestival.com <http://www.texascrawfishfestival.com>
Texas Stage:
6:00-8:00 pm Phil Pritchett
8:30-10:00 pm The Stone Coyotes
10:30 pm-midnight Honeybrowne
Zydeco Stage:
6:00-8:30 pm Bayou Roux
9:00 pm-midnight Wilfred Chevis
Crawfish Stage:
6:00-8:00 pm Jimmy Hunter
8:30-10:00 pm Kern Pratt & the Accused
10:30 pm-midnight Mark May
Walter's on Washington - The Luxurious Panthers/Deke Dickerson
Whiskey Blues (Galveston) - Elijah & the Profts
Whole Foods (Kirby) - Davee Bryan

SATURDAY, MAY 3rd

Acadia Bar - The Tony Vega Band
Anderson Fair - Michael Marcoulier
Big Easy (The) - The Texas Terraplanes
Blondie's (LaPorte) - The 4 Barrel Ramblers
Brian O'Neill's - Elijah & the Profits
Brothers Petronella (Galveston) - Sweet Mama Cotton (8-11 pm)
Buck's - Kern Pratt & the Accused
Budweiser Southern Blues Festival - Crosby Fairgrounds (14920 FM
2100,
Crosby, TX) w/Tyrone Davis/Marvin Sease/Denise LaSalle/Latimore/
Mel Waiters/Floyd Taylor/Big Cynthia/Pat Brown/Patrick Green
(gates open 11 am; show 1:30 pm)
Cactus Moon Blues Café - Carolyn Wonderland
Caps Piano Bar - Faye Robinson
Continental Club (The) - Dale Watson/Seth Walker
Cosmos - The New Jack Hippies
Crawdaddy's Bayou Grill (Kemah) - Andrea Fairless (8 pm)
Cruiser's Ice House (Santa Fe) - Billy Wells (recording live CD)
Dave's Treasure Island Bar (Dickinson) - GPS Band
Fat Cat's - Mono/My Twilight Pilot/Serene
Firehouse Saloon (The) - Mark David Manders
Fitzgerald's (down) - Thumbscrew/Ember/Yuna/Tri 7 Kru/The End of Irony
Fitzgerald's (up) - Eyeagainst/7th Day Sky/Leaf/The Color
Clear/Arizenme/
Forever Is Never
Flashback - The Professor Blues Band
Henry's Hideout - The Fire Ants
Hideaway (The) - Luther & the Healers
Houston International Festival - Downtown Houston www.ifest.org
<http://www.ifest.org>
Ifest Stage:
1:00 pm Grady Gaines & the Texas Upsetters
2:45 pm Jimmy Nelson
4:45 pm CJ Chenier & the Red Hot Louisiana Band
6:45 pm Blind Boys of Alabama
World Music Stage:
1:00 pm Mark Towns Flamenco Jazz
2:45 pm Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca
4:30 pm Angelique Kidjo (Benin)
6:45 pm Kassav (Guadeloupe)
ZiegenBock Texas Stage:
1:00 pm Mike Barfield
2:45 pm Rosie Flores
4:45 pm Reckless Kelly
6:45 pm Steve Earle & the Dukes
Innkeeper Ale House & Martini Bar (The) - Owen Temple
Jack's For Cocktails - Black Jack Co.
Kemah Boardwalk Plaza Stage - La Raza (7-11 pm)
Lance's Turtle Club - Mambo Jazz Kings
Last Concert Café (The) - Melinda Mones/Bucko Ruckus/The Gringos
Maribelle's - The Sharks
McGonigel's Mucky Duck - Steve Forbert (2 shows, 8 & 10 pm)
Mercury Room (The) - Global Village
Miss Ann's Playpen - Super Saturday Blues Review w/Bobby Lewis &
Friends
(4 pm)
Needsville Knights of Columbus Hall - Lady D & the Zydeco Tornadoes
(5-9 pm;
crawfish boil)
Next Door Coffee House (The) - Colleen O'Grady (8 pm); Chapter Two
(10 pm)
19th Hole (The) - Broken Teeth/Mercury Down/Six Past Hell
Old Quarter Acoustic Café (The) (Galveston) - P.C. Cowboys
Outback Pub (The) - The Rachels
Oz Bar (The) - What Is Hip
Pennison's #1 (Sugarland) - Krank
Pennison's #2 (Copperfield) - Freddie Everett
Pennison's #3 (West Oaks) - Spy Dust
Poor Michael's on the Strand (Galveston) - Tim Wheeler/Soul Shufflers
R & R Sports Bar (Friendswood) - Herman & the Dearhearts
Rhythm Room (The) - 2-year Anniversary bash; live broadcast "Joe's
Roadhouse" w/The Stone Coyotes (2 pm); Chris Duarte (9 pm)
Rudyard's - Lowery 66/Molly & the Hatchets
Sambuca Jazz Café (The) - Tommy Dardar
Scooter's Ice House - Plan B
Seabrook Beach Club - Domestic Violence
Shakespeare's Pub - Sonny Boy Terry
Silky's - The Explosion
Softails (Baytown) - Kenny & the Bluesmen
Sons of Herman (120 Yale) - The River Road Boys (8:30 pm)
Spencer's Pub (FM 1960) - Lance G & Co.
Splash #2 (Dickinson) - Down to Earth
Splash #3 (Bacliff) - Constant Buzz
St. Theresa Church (6622 Haskell St.) - El Conjunto Estrella (Cinco
De Mayo
Dance; 7:30-11:30 pm)
T-Bone Tom's (Kemah) - Texas Johnny Brown & the Quality Blues Band
Texas City Tavern (The) - High Rise
Texas Crawfish Festival - Preservation Park, Old Town Spring
www.texascrawfishfestivalcom <http://www.texascrawfishfestivalcom>
Texas Stage:
12:00-3:00 pm Randy Marshall
3:30-5:30 pm One Light Town
6:00-8:00 pm Jesse Dayton
8:30-10:00 pm Dub Miller
10:30 pm-midnight Roger Creager
Zydeco Stage:
12:00-4:00 pm Zydeco Joe & H Town
4:30-8:30 pm The Zydeco Players
9:00 pm-midnight Brian Jack
Crawfish Stage:
6:00-8:00 pm Broken Spoke
8:30-10:00 pm Jay Hooks
10:30 pm-midnight The Rachels
Timeout Sports Bar #3 - Volumizers
Walter's on Washington - H!X.
Whiskey Blues (Galveston) - The Hunger (18+ show)

SUNDAY, MAY 4th

Big Easy (The) - The Zydeco Players
Brian O'Neill's - jazz brunch with Matt Johnson
Cactus Music & Video In-Store Performance - The Tony Vega Band
(acoustic; 4 pm)
Cosmos - Snit's Dog & Pony Show
Cruiser's Ice House (Santa Fe) - jam w/Adam Burchfield (4-8 pm)
Dog House (The) (Galveston) - Bert Wills (5-8 pm)
End of Dike (Texas City) - Down to Earth (4-8 pm)
Engine Room (The) - Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks
Etta's - Grady Gaines & the Texas Upsetters
Fat Cat's - Mastodon/Cephalic Carnage/Uphill Battle/Dysrhythmia/
Blackchild Avatar/Incisor
Henry's Hideout - Steve South
Houston International Festival - Downtown Houston www.ifest.org
<http://www.ifest.org>
Ifest Stage:
1:00 pm Basics Reunion
2:45 pm Vallejo
4:45 pm Los Lonely Boys
6:45 pm Los Lobos
World Music Stage:
1:00 pm Grupo Ka-che
2:45 pm Lila Downs (Mexico)
4:45 pm: Mono Blanco (Mexico)
6:45 pm Café Tacuba (Mexico)
ZiegenBock Texas Stage:
1:00 pm Micky & the Motorcars
2:45 pm Hayes Carll
4:45 pm Brave Combo
6:45 pm Jack Ingram
JP Hops House - open mic w/T.C. Smythe (6 pm)
Kemah Boardwalk Plaza Stage - Luther & the Healers (5-9 pm)
Lance's Turtle Club - Tyrin Benoit
Last Concert Café - Benefit for Judith Huddleston & Misty Childress
w/Gypsy Fire/Ted Miller/Maggie Drennon Band/Joseph King/Wyrd
(2-10 pm)
MacGregor Place - Faye Robinson
Magnolia Bar & Grill - Kenny & the Bluesmen (1-5 pm)
Marguerite's (Santa Fe) - Cowboy's Nightmare (benefit for Texas
Equusearch,
1-7 pm)
Maribelle's - Bad Habits
Mr. Gino's - I.J. Gosey (4-7 pm)
19th Hole (The) - open jam; singer/songwriter contest
Numbers - Ween
Ocean Breeze Club (The Flagship Hotel, Galveston) - Magazine (5-10
pm)
Poor Michael's on the Strand (Galveston) - jam w/Tom'z Katz
Red Cat Jazz Café - jazz brunch (11 am-3 pm)
Rhythm Room (The) - jam w/Felix Madison
Sambuca Jazz Café (The) - jazz brunch w/Sheri Lavo; dinner w/Blue
Monks
Shakespeare's Pub - jam w/Spare Time Murray
Sherlocks' Pub (Clear Lake) - Soma
Sherlock's Pub (Humble) - Stacey Steele
Sherlock's Pub (West Gray) - Twin Tones Showcase
Sherlock's Pub (Westheimer) - Eric Ashley
Splash #3 (Bacliff) - Mark May
Texas Crawfish Festival - Preservation Park, Old Town Spring
www.texascrawfishfestivalcom <http://www.texascrawfishfestivalcom>
Texas Stage:
12:00-2:00 pm Guppies From Outer Space
2:30-4:00 pm Elvis Contest
4:30-6:00 pm The Barry Kaye Band
Zydeco Stage:
12:00-3:00 pm Dora & the Zydeco Badboyz
3:30-8:00 pm Nooney & the Zydeco Floaters
Uncle Albert's - rock-n-blues jam (6-10 pm)


That's about it! See you where the live music is. I'm going to see Sonny
James.....

In The Next Letter - Music Business In Houston?

-Guy Schwartz
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