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SUMMARY:Saturday Night: David Farias
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column icons_position=”left”][vc_column_text css=””] \nFREE LIVE MUSIC: DAVID FARIAS\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space alter_height=”none” hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][vc_empty_space alter_height=”none” hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row gap=”30″][vc_column width=”1/4″ icons_position=”left”][vc_column_text css=””] \nMUSIC PROFILE\nHometown: San Antonio\, Texas \nGenre: Tejano / Conjunto\n\nKnown For: Accordion playing child prodigy turned Grammy winning Tejano veteran\n\nBand Legacy: La Tropa F\, originally named Los Hermanos Farias\, won the Tejano Music Award for Best Album of the Year with Right On Track in 1993\n\nGrammy Recognition: Won a Grammy Award as part of Los Texmaniacs alongside Max Baca\n\nSolo Career: Signed a recording contract with VMB Music Group in March 2015\, debuting his first solo single “Cada Beso Que Me Das” that May\n\nRecent Work: Announced in 2022 that he was heading back into the studio for new music\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″ icons_position=”left”][vc_column_text css=””] \nDavid Farias: The Accordion Never Left His Hands\nSome musicians choose their instrument. David Farias grew up inside his. Raised in San Antonio as part of a family act\, he started playing accordion as a child alongside his brothers\, first as Los Hermanos Farias\, then under the name that would define Tejano music for a generation\, La Tropa F. The band’s sound\, built on the interplay of accordion and bajo sexto that defines conjunto music\, carried them to a Tejano Music Award for Best Album of the Year in 1993\, cementing Farias as part of one of the genre’s defining family dynasties. \nAfter decades with his brothers\, Farias found a second creative home with Los Texmaniacs alongside Max Baca\, a partnership that earned him a Grammy Award and further secured his place among the genre’s most respected players. Then\, thirty six years into a career built on family\, he did something that surprised even him. He went solo. Signing with VMB Music Group in 2015\, Farias released “Cada Beso Que Me Das” as his first single\, stepping out from behind the family name for the first time in his life. He described the shift with characteristic humility\, noting the strange feeling of building a band without a single brother standing beside him. \nThat solo chapter has not slowed him down. Farias remains a constant presence on the Tejano and conjunto festival circuit\, sharing bills with genre icons like Flaco Jimenez and Jay Perez at events like the Tejano Conjunto Festival in San Antonio\, and by 2022 he was already talking about heading back into the studio for new material. Decades in\, the accordion still sits in his hands the same way it did when he was a kid learning alongside his brothers\, an instrument less played than lived. \nFor a Central Texas crowd\, Farias represents something rare\, an artist whose music is not an interpretation of the region’s heritage but a direct extension of it\, passed down through family\, refined over decades\, and still very much alive on stage. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:Main Come & Take It Celebration Stage\, Independence Square\, Gonzales\, 78629
CATEGORIES:Events,Free Live Music,Sunday Events
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SUMMARY:Sunday: Shiner Hobo Band
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column icons_position=”left”][vc_column_text css=””] \nFREE LIVE MUSIC: SHINER HOBO BAND\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space alter_height=”none” hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][vc_empty_space alter_height=”none” hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row gap=”30″][vc_column width=”1/4″ icons_position=”left”][vc_column_text css=””] \nMUSIC PROFILE\nHometown: Shiner\, Texas\n\nGenre: Polka / German-Czech brass / Texas dance hall \nKnown For: No sheet music\, no conductor\, no setlist\, just brass\, accordion\, and pure Texas charm \nFounded: In the years following World War I\, by returning veterans who missed the joy of making music \nMembers:Up to 30 active musicians from across Central and South Texas\, from Schulenburg to Port Lavaca \nLegendary Leadership: Emmett Busch\, who led the band to regional stardom by 1936 wielding a toilet plunger as his baton\, a tradition later carried on by Joe Panus after the band’s 1986 revival \nNotable Revival: Reborn in 1986 for the Texas Sesquicentennial\, complete with a speaker rigged school bus and a renewed spirit of heritage and humor\nOrganization: Operates today as a nonprofit[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″ icons_position=”left”][vc_column_text css=””] \nThe Shiner Hobo Band: A Century of Playing Without a Net\nThere is no sheet music. There is no conductor. There has never really been a setlist\, not in over a hundred years of existence. And somehow\, that absence of structure is exactly what has kept the Shiner Hobo Band alive for a century\, longer than most professional acts with actual management behind them. \nThe story starts after World War I\, when veterans came home to find the family bands and dance hall groups that once soundtracked their small towns had scattered during the war years. Rather than mourn what was lost\, a group of returning soldiers stitched something new together out of patched clothes\, borrowed instruments\, and the simple determination to make people laugh and dance again. That combination of chaos and charm became the blueprint. Mismatched overalls\, rowdy energy\, and a standing arrangement with the Spoetzl Brewery to supply a keg per show turned the Hobos into something closer to a traveling party than a traditional band. \nBy 1936\, under the direction of Emmett Busch\, who led the group while waving a toilet plunger in place of a baton\, the Hobos had become a genuine regional sensation. Crowds across Shiner\, Gonzales\, and the surrounding towns turned out for the brass and button accordion sound\, a combination that felt both foreign and completely at home in Central Texas. The band kept showing up through the 1950s for parades\, church picnics\, and civic events\, a fixture of small town life until longtime leader Curt Messer’s declining health slowly pulled the group out of the spotlight. \nThe silence did not last. In 1986\, the Hobos returned for the Texas Sesquicentennial\, rallying local musicians under Joe Panus\, who inherited both the leadership role and the plunger baton tradition along with it. A speaker rigged school bus and a fresh coat of paint gave the revival its own identity\, but the spirit underneath was unchanged\, humor first\, heritage always\, rules optional. \nToday the band carries up to thirty active members pulled from towns across Central and South Texas\, still operating as a nonprofit\, still sponsored by the brewery that backed them from the start. Every performance is played from memory\, no sheet music in sight\, which means no two Hobo sets ever sound quite the same. That unpredictability is the whole appeal. Somewhere between a polka breaking into a joke and a surprise solo nobody saw coming\, the band proves its own philosophy correct: the best music happens when you throw out the rules and play from the heart. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://come6875.live-website.com/event/shiner-hobo-band/
LOCATION:Beer Tent\, Independence Square\, Gonzales\, TX\, 78629\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Free Live Music,Sunday Events
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