Courtesy of Nancy Barnard
How many music posters can fit in a forty-by-sixty-foot barn in Hill Country?
It’s a problem that Nancy Barnard, the former co-owner of San Marcos’s Sundance Records, is struggling to solve. “Fifteen hundred [posters]? Two thousand? We were reaching hoarder levels of stuff, if I’m being honest,” she says. And posters are just one part of her massive collection, which includes thousands of items of music memorabilia.
Barnard owned the beloved record store until 2012 with her late husband, Bobby Barnard, who died last August after thirty years as a fixture in the local music scene. Now Nancy has tasked herself and a former employee, Parker Wright, with getting Bobby’s archive of music posters, records, vintage T-shirts, and other memorabilia online—and, in news San Marcos music lovers were thrilled to learn, available for purchase. Barnard and Wright plan to launch the trove in batches on Instagram and at a series of in-person pop-up shops starting March 9 in San Marcos. They suspect it will take months or even years to release it all to the public, but it’s a passion project they’ve embarked on in honor of Bobby.