Starting on April 7th and until June 16th, beginning at 6:30pm at Green Valley Park.
Free admission and free parking.
Food and drink will be available for sale during concerts
Seating will be on the lawn and spectators are encouraged to bring blankets and lawn chairs.
Don’t Mess with Texas Music CDs will be sold at the concerts in support of the Texas Music Project, a statewide initiative with a mission of restoring and strengthening music education in Texas schools. Proceeds from TMP music sales during the concert series will benefit the Birdville ISD music program.
Friday, April 7 – Watusi opening for Brave Combo
Friday, April 21 – Drop Trio opening for Fingerprints
Friday, May 5 – Grupo Amistad opening for Zayra Alvarez
Friday, May 19 – meridianwest opening for Radiant*
Friday, June 2 – Fishing for Comets opening for South Austin Jug Band
Friday, June 16 – Blake and Fallon opening for The Django Walker Band
June 16th - Django Walker
Blake and Fallon opening
So far, in the advent of a very young career, Django Walker has a) co-written songs with Texas country music blockbuster Pat Green, b) played a show at Dallas’ famed Cotton Bowl headlined by the Dixie Chicks, c) released his first solo album and began writing songs for a second album also to be released on his independent label, Lazy Kid Music, and d) extended a long and honorable Texas music legacy into a new era.
“Texas On My Mind,” one of the standout tracks of Django’s 2002 debut release, “Down The Road,” introduced Texas music fans to a young singer-songwriter who is heir to a distinguished Lone Star musical tradition-Jerry Jeff Walker, but whose tastes and tempos evoke a kinship with a younger generation. Django Walker is stepping out of the shadow of inherited celebrity, and into the sunlight of his own musical identity. Django grew up in a house where music was an integral part of everyday life. Citing Coldplay and Tom Petty, along with Lone Star singer-songwriters including his father, Guy Clark, Pat Green and others; Django epitomizes the mix of eclectic musical influences that has always characterized the maverick independence of Texas music.
In a brief but hectic tenure on the road, Django has already worked with some of the leading lights of the burgeoning Texas country-rock scene: He opened a number of shows for Pat Green and Cross Canadian Ragweed, getting his sea legs in front of huge audiences, while he’s venturing outside the state,
performing in Oklahoma, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, and Arkansas. Django also joined Jerry Jeff for a stint of solo shows from New Orleans’ House of Blues to the Bottom Line in New York City. In between has been the grind of beer joint Saturday nights and college town clubs that are the bread-and-butter lot of any touring musician.
The payoff for the ceaseless work has been inspiration for new songs and a steadily accruing number of loyal fans. “The steady fans will do anything if you ask ‘em,” he marvels gratefully. “You know you can go into a strange place and count on seeing some familiar faces.”
Writing late at night, drafting poetry and melodies and letting them find a common meeting place, Django is engrossed in the lonely alchemy of creativity that every songwriter knows intimately. “We want an album full of songs that you can’t hear anywhere else unless you come to one of our shows,” Django says. “We want to progress to the rockier side of country,” said Django, speaking for himself and his quartet of young Austin and Oklahoma-based musicians. “The only way to grow is to push myself outside my original comfort zone. It’s like, keep yourself anchored on the ground floor, but let’s expand. We want to be country, but more country-rock. Think of it as going from fiddles and pedal steel to blues harmonica and B-3 organ.”
Find out more at: www.djangowalker.com
