The Next Waltz has evolved from a YouTube sessions channel and a singles label to a compendium of what's new and special in Texas songwriting culture, steered by veteran artist and producer Bruce Robison. Recently the company took on management of breakout star Charley Crockett. And in late September, it released its first album by a solo artist, Back Down Home by Tony Kamel.
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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 s
NORWALK, Conn. Some Norwalk announcements:
Darwin Day celebrated online Friday
Dillards seek White Barn Theater memorabilia
Oystering book author to speak online
The cover of James Prosek’s book.
A free Zoom Darwin Day celebration featuring internationally acclaimed artist/author/naturalist/conservationist James Prosek is planned for 7-9 p.m. Friday Feb. 19, according to a press release. Melding natural science with art, Prosek’s work has been shown worldwide, notably at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, and at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C. His latest book is Art, Artifact, Artifice (Yale University Press; 2020). Commemorating Charles Darwin’s birthday which falls on Feb. 12, Prosek’s presentation will address “Making Sense of the Natural World through Art.”