Fort Worth Weekly
Metro Musicians
A newly published retrospective on North Texas music saves ample space for iconic and lesser-known Fort Worth musicians and songwriters.
By Edward Brown
Courtesy of TCU Press
While some early-20th-century North Texas singers and musicians were fortunate to gain a modicum of fame through airtime on radio shows, most dance band members, fiddlers, and singers were content to drum up a living gigging in dance halls and other music-friendly venues.
Those early tales (and more recent music history) are compiled in TCU Press’ newly released
Metro Music: Celebrating a Century of the Trinity River Groove. The book highlights the musicians and bands that shaped and defined local music throughout much of the 20th century. Largely unpublished photos tell much of that story, and a rightful share of the book’s 270 pages are saved for influential, or simply interesting, Fort Worth musicians.
Nicaragua to receive more than 340,000 vaccines in March
Nicaragua to receive more than 340,000 vaccines in March
Managua, Mar 3 (Prensa Latina) Nicaragua will receive more than 340,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines in March, Carlos Saenz, Secretary General at the Ministry of Health (MINSA), confirmed on Wednesday.
Nicaragua began immunization on Tuesday with 6,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine, donated by the Russian Direct Investment Fund. The vaccines arrived in the country on February 23, Sanz said on Canal Cuatro s Revista En Vivo television program.
The MINSA expects that a batch of 200,000 doses of the Covishield vaccine, donated by the Government of India, arrives in the country on Sunday and Monday next week, the official confirmed.