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Your
Schedule of Western Swing Music Events and More
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Here are a few of our favorite folks who work with
us to promote and preserve Western Swing music:
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MIKE GROSS
comes to us from Connecticut where he has hosted the "Swingin'
West" radio program since 1980. Catch Mike's show Saturday afternoons from
2-3 p.m. (eastern) on WVOF-FM 88.5 - broadcasting to Fairfield County, CT.
and areas of Long Island, NY. Mike's Western Swing program is heard
simultaneously on the Internet at www.swinginwest.com. He can also be heard
with a specially recorded hour anytime, 24 hours a day on
www.twangtownusa.com.
This continuous hour changes monthly. He contributes his revered album
reviews to several niche publications, and we are honored to be counted among
them. Visit his website or send him an email at mike@swinginwest.com.
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MARSHALL
ALLEN BAILEY - "I am the REAL Marshal of Dodge City, Kansas." And a dandy one he is! Marshall Bailey has been playing Western Swing and Cowboy Music off of a stage since he was a teenager. A musician himself, he plays fiddle, steel, guitar, bass, banjo, and drums. (My Goodness - he is a band!) The Marshall has been hosting his show Western Swing and Other Things for 15 yrs. on High Plains Public Radio. It is on every Saturday at 10:30AM to 2PM CST broadcasting over a large area of five states; Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Texas. "I especially enjoy interviewing artists as well a playing the music of newer artists trying to break into the business." |
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JOHN SCHMITZ
of Lincoln NE began in 1980 as Wagonmaster
of his western swing show "The Heyride." The
show is broadcast over KZUM 89.3 - FM and can
be heard live worldwide on the internet at www.kzum.org.
The Heyride is on every Friday night from 7:30
to 9:00 pm. "I like to open the show with a
selection of contempory artists playing western
swing, then play the works of the pioneers,
both well known and obscure groups playing red
hot western swing and old honky tonk classics
from the 1930's, 40's and 50's. Tune in every
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JOHN WOOLEY
is best known in Western Swing circles for his years on radio
KVOO-Tulsa and his show "Wooley Wednesdays." As the "Entertainment" writer
for years with "Tulsa World" newspaper, his was a familiar face at the area
music events. A longtime friend of the Bob Wills family, musicians and
associates, his rich experiences help color his lead-ins on his current
radio show: "Swing On This" at KWGS-Tulsa (89.5 FM), streaming live on
Saturday evenings at 7PM. Tune in to John's entertaining and engaging show.
John continues to author books, and write liner notes, press biographies and
magazine and newspaper stories.
He was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in 2003, and the
Western Swing Music Society of the Southwest Hall of Fame in July 2008.
Visit his website at: www.kwgs.org.
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