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SUMMARY:Lydia Mendoza: Houston's Lark of the Border
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Lydia Mendoza. She would be 110 today. \nLydia Mendoza was born in Houston\, Texas on May 31\, 1916\, into a family that performed on the streets of the Texas-Mexico border towns. Her mother played guitar. Her sisters sang. Lydia taught herself 12-string guitar and sang with a voice that was already fully formed before anyone outside the barrio heard it. In 1934\, she recorded “Mal Hombre” for Bluebird Records in San Antonio. She was paid $3.24 for the session. The record became one of the biggest hits in the Spanish-language market and made her a star overnight. \nThe First Superstar of Tejano\nMendoza performed for migrant farmworkers in tent shows and for Mexican-American communities across the Southwest at a time when no major record label took that audience seriously. She recorded over 200 albums across her career. President Jimmy Carter invited her to perform at his inauguration in 1977. President Bill Clinton awarded her the National Medal of Arts in 1999. She died December 20\, 2007\, in San Antonio\, having never entirely left the world she grew up in. The 12-string guitar and the voice were all she ever needed. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/lydia-mendoza-birthday/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260528
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260529
DTSTAMP:20260701T150038Z
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SUMMARY:T-Bone Walker: Linden's Electric Prophet
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of T-Bone Walker. He would be 116 today. \nAaron Thibeaux Walker was born in Linden\, Texas on May 28\, 1910 — deep East Texas\, in Cass County pine country. His family moved to Dallas when he was two. He grew up in the Oak Cliff neighborhood and learned to play guitar and banjo in the street tradition. As a teenager he led Blind Lemon Jefferson through the Dallas streets\, learning from the master. Then he decided to take the guitar somewhere Blind Lemon hadn’t gone: electric. \nThe Language Every Guitarist Still Speaks\nT-Bone Walker was the father of the electric blues guitar. His recordings for Capitol in the late 1940s — “Call It Stormy Monday\,” “T-Bone Shuffle” — invented the vocabulary. The bent note\, the behind-the-back guitar trick\, the walking around the stage while playing: all of it started with Walker. B.B. King heard him at a Dallas club around 1946 and went home a different musician. Freddie King\, Albert King\, Buddy Guy — they all learned a language that Walker wrote. He died March 16\, 1975\, in Los Angeles. But pick up any electric blues record ever made and you’re hearing Linden\, Texas. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/t-bone-walker-birthday/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260518
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260519
DTSTAMP:20260701T150038Z
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SUMMARY:George Strait: Poteet's Country King
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of George Strait. He is 74 today. \nGeorge Harvey Strait was born in Poteet\, Texas on May 18\, 1952 — the strawberry capital of Texas\, deep in the South Texas brush country. He grew up on a ranch outside Pearsall and joined the army\, where he played in a country band. He came back to Texas\, enrolled at Southwest Texas State University\, and formed the Ace in the Hole Band. He played the honky-tonk circuit across Texas for years before MCA Records signed him in 1981. \nSixty Number Ones\n“Unwound” was his first charting single. Then came “Fool Hearted Memory” at No. 1 in 1982. Then the hits simply did not stop. Strait accumulated 60 No. 1 singles on the Billboard country charts — more than any other artist in any genre. He did it without chasing trends. He wore a cowboy hat and played traditional country music at a moment when the industry was moving toward pop crossover. He became the reason the movement failed. He won the CMA Entertainer of the Year award in 1985\, 1986\, 2008\, and 2013. Find his place items on Texas Music Map and learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/george-strait-birthday/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260515
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260516
DTSTAMP:20260701T150037Z
CREATED:20260701T144657Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260701T150037Z
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SUMMARY:Trini Lopez: Dallas's Rock and Roll Ambassador
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Trini Lopez. He would be 89 today. \nTrinidad Lopez III was born in Dallas\, Texas on May 15\, 1937\, in the Segundo Barrio neighborhood of West Dallas. His father played bajo sexto in the Dallas Mexican-American community\, and Trini absorbed the music early. He played local clubs through his teens and moved to Los Angeles in his early twenties\, landing a gig at PJ’s nightclub in Hollywood. One night\, Frank Sinatra walked in. He liked what he heard. \nLive at PJ’s and Beyond\nSinatra signed Lopez to his Reprise Records label in 1963. Trini Lopez at PJ’s came out that year and produced a Top 5 hit with “If I Had a Hammer.” Lopez delivered it with a driving guitar rhythm that turned a protest song into a dance floor hit. He appeared in The Dirty Dozen in 1967 alongside Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine. He became one of the most internationally recognized Latin entertainers of his era\, touring Europe extensively through the 1960s and 1970s. He died August 11\, 2020\, from COVID-19\, in Palm Springs. Dallas’s West Side sent one of its best to the world stage. Learn more on Wikipedia.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/trini-lopez-birthday/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260507
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260508
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SUMMARY:Terry Allen: Wichita Falls' Poet of the Plains
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Terry Allen. He is 83 today. \nTerry Allen was born in Wichita Falls\, Texas on May 7\, 1943. The Panhandle edge and the oil field country made an impression that never washed off. Allen grew up to become one of the most genuinely original artists Texas has produced — songwriter\, visual artist\, playwright\, and performance artist simultaneously. He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles\, but his imagination never left the red-dirt towns of West Texas. \nThe Lubbock Suite That Explained Everything\nHis 1979 album Lubbock (on everything) is a masterpiece — a song cycle about Lubbock\, Texas\, that is also a song cycle about America\, desire\, violence\, and memory. David Byrne of Talking Heads called it one of his favorite records. Guy Clark\, Joe Ely\, and Jimmie Dale Gilmore all consider Allen a peer. He has exhibited visual art at the Museum of Modern Art. He has written plays for major theaters. He has never stopped making all of it simultaneously\, and none of it sounds like anything else. Find his place items on Texas Music Map.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/terry-allen-birthday/
LOCATION:TX
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260429
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260430
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SUMMARY:Willie Nelson: Abbott's Outlaw Poet
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Willie Nelson. He is 93 today. \nWillie Hugh Nelson was born in Abbott\, Texas on April 29\, 1933. Abbott is a small farming community in Hill County\, about sixty miles south of Fort Worth. His parents left when he was young. His grandparents raised him. He was picking cotton at six and playing guitar in a band at nine. He played every roadhouse and dance hall in the area before heading to Nashville to sell songs in the late 1950s. Nashville bought them but didn’t quite know what to do with Willie himself. \nThe Outlaw Who Never Left Texas\nPatsy Cline took his “Crazy” to No. 1 in 1961. Faron Young hit with “Hello Walls.” Billy Walker charted “Funny How Time Slips Away.” Nashville loved his pen and ignored his voice. So Nelson moved back to Texas in 1972 and played the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin to a crowd of hippies and rednecks who didn’t care about Nashville’s rules. The Outlaw Country movement grew from that moment. Red Headed Stranger in 1975 was the album that proved it. He has not stopped moving since — touring every year\, farming in Luck\, Texas\, and recording albums in his late eighties. Abbott gave the world its most durable songwriter. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
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SUMMARY:Willie Nelson's birthday
DESCRIPTION:Country music legend Willie Nelson’s birthday is April 29. He was born in 1933 in Abbott\, near Waco in Central Texas. However\, due to a clerical error on his birth certificate\, his birthday was recorded as April 30. As a result\, Nelson celebrates his birthday on both April 29 and April 30 each year.
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LOCATION:TX
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260423
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260424
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SUMMARY:Roy Orbison: Vernon's Operatic Voice
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Roy Orbison. He would be 90 today. \nRoy Kelton Orbison was born in Vernon\, Texas on April 23\, 1936\, and grew up in West Texas oil towns — Wink and Odessa. He had an operatic tenor voice in a land of honky-tonk. He started recording in Clovis\, New Mexico with Norman Petty — the same producer who worked with Buddy Holly — and had early rockabilly records that didn’t go anywhere. Then he moved to Monument Records in Nashville and found his real register: the dramatic\, tormented love ballad. \nThe Darkness That Was Also Radio Gold\n“Only the Lonely” hit No. 2 in 1960. “Crying” hit No. 2 in 1961. “In Dreams” in 1963. “Oh\, Pretty Woman” went to No. 1 in 1964 and became one of the best-selling singles of the decade. Orbison lost his wife and two sons in separate tragedies in 1966 and 1968. He kept recording. In 1988\, he joined the Traveling Wilburys alongside Bob Dylan\, George Harrison\, Tom Petty\, and Jeff Lynne — and held his own on every track. He died December 6\, 1988\, nine days after the Wilburys’ debut album. The sunglasses were his armor. The voice needed none. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
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LOCATION:TX
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260419
DTSTAMP:20260701T150020Z
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SUMMARY:Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown: Texas Blues Unboxed
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown. He would be 102 today. \nClarence Brown was born on April 18\, 1924 in Vinton\, Louisiana — but Texas made him. His family moved to Orange\, and Brown grew up absorbing everything the Gulf Coast offered: blues\, country\, Western Swing\, jazz\, zydeco. He played guitar\, violin\, viola\, drums\, and harmonica. He refused to be categorized\, which annoyed record labels and delighted musicians. He landed in Houston and built a career at the Peacock Club on Almeda Road\, cutting records for Don Robey’s Peacock Records starting in 1949. \nThe Multi-Tool That Defied Every Box\nBrown’s guitar work on “Okie Dokie Stomp” in 1954 is still one of the great showcases in Texas blues. But he was always as likely to be playing fiddle as guitar. He appeared at the Montreux Jazz Festival. He toured the world. He won a Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album in 1982 for Alright Again!. He lived in Slidell\, Louisiana in his later years but never stopped calling Texas home. He died September 10\, 2005\, after Hurricane Katrina destroyed his house and most of his possessions. Find his place items on Texas Music Map.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/gatemouth-brown-birthday/
LOCATION:TX
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260416
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260417
DTSTAMP:20260701T150020Z
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SUMMARY:Selena: Lake Jackson's Queen of Tejano
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Selena. She would be 55 today. \nSelena Quintanilla was born in Lake Jackson\, Texas on April 16\, 1971. Her father Abraham had played in a Tejano band and knew the business. He recognized something in his youngest daughter early and built a family band around her. They played restaurants and small venues across South Texas\, often for tips. Selena was nine years old and already the most magnetic person in the room. \nThe Crossover That Never Happened — and Still Did\nBy the late 1980s\, Selena was the biggest Tejano star in the country. She won the Grammy for Best Mexican-American Album in 1994 for Live! — the first Tejano artist to win in that category. She was recording her first English-language album when she was murdered on March 31\, 1995\, in Corpus Christi\, at twenty-three. The album Dreaming of You was released posthumously and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 — the first album by a Latin artist to do so. Lake Jackson put up a mural. Corpus Christi put up a statue. Texas never forgot. The Texas State Historical Association tells the full story.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/selena-birthday/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260409T193000
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SUMMARY:San Antonio: ZZ Top at Majestic Theatre
DESCRIPTION:The gritty Houston-born blues-rock trio ZZ Top is back on tour for 2026 with the Big One Tour. Guitarist Billy Gibbons\, drummer Frank Beard\, and bassist Elwood Francis carry the torch for the band’s legendary sound — beards\, boogie\, and all — making 2026 look like another hefty chapter in the Little Ol’ Band From Texas’ long\, loud history. \n🎟️ Buy Tickets \nZZ Top was born in Houston in 1969\, and they cut their teeth on the blues and Southern rock circuit\, playing endless bars and clubs before signing to London Records and releasing their first album in 1971. Their breakthrough came with Tres Hombres in 1973 — anchored by gritty\, Texas-boogie tracks like “La Grange” and “Tush” — and by the late ’70s they were known nationwide for their live shows and relentless touring\, cultivating a reputation as one of rock’s tightest power trios. \nAs the MTV era dawned\, ZZ Top leaned into synthesizers and sleek visuals on albums like Eliminator and Afterburner\, spawning iconic hits such as “Gimme All Your Lovin’\,” “Sharp Dressed Man\,” and “Legs\,” complete with custom hot rods and goggles-and-beard imagery that turned them into ’80s pop culture stalwarts. \nAfter decades of genre-bending and more than 15 studio albums\, lineup changes only came with the sad passing of Dusty Hill in 2021\, after which longtime tech Elwood Francis stepped in on bass\, keeping the band’s swaggering\, blues-based rock rolling into the modern era and ongoing tours.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/san-antonio-zz-top-at-majestic-theatre/
LOCATION:Majestic Theatre – San Antonio\, 226 E Houston St.\, San Antonio\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concerts
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260409
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260410
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SUMMARY:Mance Lipscomb: Navasota's Steady Hand
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Mance Lipscomb. He would be 131 today. \nBeau De Glen Lipscomb was born in Navasota\, Texas on April 9\, 1895 — the son of a sharecropper and a former slave. He spent sixty years as a farmer and part-time musician in Grimes County\, playing dances and picnics for his neighbors. He called himself a “songster” rather than a blues musician\, because his repertoire ran from field hollers to spirituals to ragtime to whatever the crowd needed. He was not discovered. He was simply found — in 1960\, by a musician and folklorist named Mack McCormick. \nFamous at Sixty-Five\nMcCormick brought Lipscomb to the 1961 Berkeley Folk Festival. The audience had never heard anything quite like him — fingerpicking guitar with a conversational grace that made virtuosity look effortless. He began recording for Arhoolie Records and toured the college folk circuit into his seventies. His song “Ella Speed” had been in the Texas tradition for generations. He made it live again for a new audience. Lipscomb died January 30\, 1976\, in Navasota\, having never left Grimes County for long. The farm held him. The music kept traveling. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/mance-lipscomb-birthday/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260214T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260214T200000
DTSTAMP:20260112T155046Z
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SUMMARY:Austin: Bob Schneider at ACL Live
DESCRIPTION:Every February 14th\, Bob Schneider doesn’t just pick up his guitar and mumble sweet nothings — he throws a full-on romantic concert with his band\, The Moonlight Orchestra\, at ACL Live in Austin. \n\nBUY TICKETS\n\n\n  \n  \n\nHere’s the rundown: \n\n\nHere comes the musical cavalry: Bob Schneider and The Moonlight Orchestra (often with horns\, strings\, jazz drums\, and standup bass) deliver a lush\, romantic set meant for lovers and lovers-to-be. \n\n\nLove songs galore: Expect classic love tunes and favorites from his own vast songbook — a mix of heartfelt ballads and quirky Schneider magic. \n\n\nIt’s an annual tradition: This ain’t a one-off — it’s become the Valentine’s gig local Austinites mark on their calendars each year. \n\n\nOver the years\, Bob Schneider has released more than a dozen albums and written over 1\,000 songs. He has won over 59 Austin Music Awards\, including Best Album\, Best Songwriter\, Best Musician\, and Best Male Vocals\, making him the most decorated artist in Austin’s music history. \nPopular Songs: \n\n\n“40 Dogs (Like Romeo and Juliet)“: A fan favorite known for its catchy melody and romantic lyrics. \n\n\n“Big Blue Sea“: Showcases Schneider’s ability to blend storytelling with engaging melodies. \n\n\n“Metal and Steel“: Highlights his talent for combining delicate storytelling with enchanting tunes. \n\n\n“Sideways”: An introspective track with a laid-back vibe and melodic guitar riffs. \n\n\n“Tarantula“: Known for its haunting melody and introspective lyrics. \n\n\nSchneider’s live performances are legendary\, often featuring improvisation and audience involvement. He has maintained a long-standing Monday night residency at the Saxon Pub in Austin. Beyond music\, he’s also a published author and an avid painter and collage artist.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/austin-bob-schneider-at-acl-live/
LOCATION:ACL Live at the Moody Theater\, 310 West Willie Nelson Boulevard\, Austin\, TX\, 78701\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concerts
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