MARCIA
BALL • GREG PICCOLO
JOHNNY NICHOLAS • AUGIE MEYERS
JOE KING CARRASCO • JOEL GUZMAN
CINDY CASHDOLLAR •
FLOYD DOMINO • REDD VOLKAERT
and The Texas All-Star Big Band
Saturday, November 12,
2005 -- 8p.m.
Lady Bird Johnson Park, Pioneer Pavillion Hall
Fredericksburg, Texas
General Admission: $25
• Patron Tickets: $75 Includes reserved tables and seating , special
dinner and mixer with artists before show. Patron Party starts at 5 p.m. Note to
Patrons: Dinner will be served between 5 & 7 p.m.
PREVIEW
PARTY 2005
Proceeds to benefit
Fredericksburg Youth Fine Arts
Foundation
For more information click HERE
PAST PERFORMANCES
FEATURING
MARCIA BALL | JOHNNY
NICHOLAS | AUGIE MEYERS | CINDY CASHDOLLAR
JOE KING CARRASCO |
FLOYD DOMINO | GREG PICCOLO | LOS AZTEX
JOHN MILLS | KEITH WINKING
| DANNY LEVIN | ROCKY MORALES
RANDY ZIMMERMAN | AL GOMEZ | DAN TOROSIAN
| DANNY LEVIN | ERNIE DURAWA
KAZ KAZANOFF | TERRY HALE | RICK TREVENIO | DAMIEN LLANES | REDD VOLKAERT
| THAD SCOTT |
JACK BARBER | JIMMIE VAUGHAN |
| DAN TOROSIAN
| BARRY "FROSTY" SMITH
 MARCIA BALL - KEYBOARDS,
VOCALS
Marcia honed her powerful singing and deft, rollicking keyboard chops while growing up in
the small town of Vinton, Louisiana, just across the Texas border. This musical and
cultural frontier was and is a hotbed of country, blues, gospel, Cajun, Zydeco, rockabilly
and Gulf Coast "swamp pop", and young Marcia absorbed it all, even as she was
receiving her formal piano training. After attending LSU, Marcia hit Austin in the late
1970s, started the beloved band "Freda and the Firedogs" and soon after signed
with Capitol Records.
Marcia has since recorded five critically acclaimed Rounder albums - Soulful Dress, Hot
Tamale Baby, Gatorhythms, Blue House, and her current album, Let Me Play With Your Poodle,
bursts with passion, excitement and sly humor. Marcia’s prolific studio work is
sandwiched between live appearances that keep her constantly in touch with her legion of
fans throughout the U.S. and Europe. She has appeared at virtually every festival on both
continents and has been featured on leading radio and television programs around the
globe. She received the 1998 Handy Award for Contemporary Female Vocalist of the Year and
is nominated again in 1999. Marcia has also been nominated for a Grammy and Handy award
for her work with Irma Thomas and Tracy Nelson on the album, Sing It
 JOHNNY NICHOLAS - GUITAR, VOCALS
In 1980, after twenty years of the blues scenes of Providence, Detroit-Ann Arbor, Chicago
and Texas - performing with Duke Robillard, Steve Nardella, Big Walter Horton, Johnny
Shines and Asleep at the Wheel - Johnny Nicholas felt increasingly estranged from the
modern blues movement and got out of music. He and his new wife Brenda Schlaudt moved from
Austin into the central Texas Hill Country to start their family; they also bought an
abandoned gas station/beer joint, and built it up, seemingly one brick and one dish at a
time, into the Hill Top Cafe. After about 6 months, Johnny started taking to the battered
upright in the corner of Hill Top to play some blues again. And, until 1991, when he
produced and played on the late Johnny Shines’ last album (with Snooky Pryor), that
was the only way you could hear Nicholas.
Since 1991, Johnny has started to perform solo, and
with old friends in band settings, at festivals from coast to coast and in Europe,
although most of the time you can catch him at Hill Top Cafe doing what he loves best -
serving up great food and music at the old gas station on the hill. [For more about Johnny
Nicholas click HERE.]
 AUGIE MEYERS - VOCALS, ACCORDIAN
Like so many artists, Augie had to leave home to achieve any type of success. Although he
has always had a loyal following on the South Texas and Louisiana club circuit, it
wasn’t until he and friend Doug Sahm formed "The Sir Douglas Quintet" that
included other musicians with a similar bent for doing their own kind of music that things
began to happen for them on the national and international scene. Their extremely popular
tours of Scandinavia and Central Europe were instrumental in getting their careers moving
forward in the USA. Augie and Doug are still recording and touring together, but they are
also recording individually again.
When Augie plays, live or on vinyl, you can expect to hear music delivered with the wide
open, charismatic flair and unpretentious style that’s been his trademark for many
years. His single, ‘KEP-PA-SO’, released off his 8th solo album, ‘My Main
Squeeze’, received nationwide attention which got his cohorts, Doug Sahm, Freddy
Fender and Flaco Jimenez together to form the super Tex-Mex group, The Texas Tornadoes.
This group went on to win a Grammy in 1990 for the "Best Mexican-American"
group. Augie was inducted into the Texas Music Hall of Fame in 1991.
 CINDY CASHDOLLAR
In a musical career marked by quality and variety, steel guitar and dobro player Cindy
Cashdollar has won five Grammy Awards, recorded with leading country roots, folk and jazz
artists, and logged countless miles on tour playing with Asleep At The Wheel, Leon
Redbone, Beausoleil and others. Her talents can be heard on Bob Dylan’s Grammy
winning Album of the Year Time Out of Mind, as well as recordings by Manhattan Transfer,
The Dixie Chicks, Dwight Yoakam, George Strait, LeeAnn Womack, Reba McIntire and Willie
Nelson among others.
Captivated by Delta blues music at a young age she started out at age 11. An affinity for
swing music led Cashdollar to the steel guitar. Relocating to Austin, TX, she also became
a busy player in that musical city’s recording scene playing on three
critically-acclaimed albums by Austin country legend Don Walser and sessions with Steve
James, Rosie Flores and Omar and the Howlers. Cashdollar continues to forge new
directions for steel guitar and dobro in a variety of styles and settings including
instructional videos for steel guitar and dobro on Homespun Tapes, and frequently conducts
workshops across the nation.
 JOE KING CARRASCO - Since
the early 1980’s "Joe King Carrasco" has been the toast of Texas as the
crown regent of the "nuevo wavo" crowd. In 1978 he released an LP titled Tex-Mex
Rock & Roll with his band El Molino. Somehow this record made its way to England and
was re-released by Big Beat Records. Elvis Costello remarked in the press that it was
"better than the Police". In 1980 Joe and his new band, The Crowns, released
their first single, Party Weekend, and the label chase began. During this time Joe toured
extensively throughout Europe, Central America, Bolivia and Columbia as well as across the
USA and Canada, consistently delivering high energy performances where dancing was numero
uno priority. With thousands of live performances under his belt, a dozen albums to his
credit, and fans circling the globe, it’s little wonder Joe King Carrasco is still
the #1 party act in music circles around the country.
 LOS AZTEX - Marriage makes sweet music for singer Sarah Fox and
accordionist/keyboardist Joel Guzman. The husband and wife team is one of Tejano
music’s most respected duos, and Los Lobos’ Steve Berlin produced their 2000
debut CD, Short Stories. Based in Austin, Texas, Los Aztex make Tex-Mex magic, alternating
between Spanish and English on conjunto, mambo and straight-up rock tracks.
 .FLOYD DOMINO - PIANO Grammy-winner Floyd
Domino’s stellar boogie-woogie and swing has been heard on dozens of #1 radio hits.
With a recording resume from George Strait to Herb Ellis to Waylon Jennings to Asleep at
the Wheel to Merle Haggard to Willie Nelson to Townes Van Zandt and beyond, Floyd’s
piano has been heard all over the world and even beamed up to the space shuttle. NASA
beamed George Strait’s Ace in the Hole to the space shuttle Columbia in a wake-up
call that featured Floyd’s sparkling boogie-woogie piano solo. Currently,
Floyd’s piano is heard every weekday on over 100 radio stations on the Jim Hightower
talk radio show, broadcast live from Austin. Floyd also plays or records with Texas
favorites Don Walser, Monte Warden, the Texas Playboys, Asleep at the Wheel and many
others. Floyd, a dedicated father and family man, has released 5 children’s
albums on his own label, Golliber, that have gotten rave reviews from the national press.
 REDD
VOLKAERT GUITAR After not listening to
commercial radio anymore for the last two years, I was asked when I moved to Austin, TX in
an interview what had brought me to Austin. All I could say was "Nashville." I'd
always enjoyed the live music scene in Austin, especially the variety: country, blues,
swing, jazz, tejano, salsa, and everything else you can think of. At that point I had
enough of the pop bubble gum music that I hadn't cared for the first time around, being
played on the radio and in all the studios. The crowds in Austin seem to accept people for
their musical ability more than their clothes or lack of, hair or lack of, cowboy hats or
lack of.
So now I live in south Austin, play a few nights a week with my own band where I can
noodle to my heart's content, within reason, mine. Play with Merle Haggard, around a
hundred days a year, give or take a few, until he hangs it up or runs me off.
 GREG PICCOLO - Greg Piccolo, after thirty six years of recording
and and touring, continues to present his unique style and sound all over the US, building
an impressive following and turning on new fans every step of the way. Piccolo’s credentials include 25 years with
the Grammy nominated, world renowned, Roomful of Blues. He served as bandleader, lead
singer, and tenor sax man from 1978 until his departure in 1994. His impressive recording
history includes over 50 albums including sessions with Pat Benetar, Colin James, Big Joe
Turner, the Fabulous Thunderbirds and Stevie Ray Vaughan to mention a few. Rhode Island based, Piccolo has never once wavered
in his desire to perform and write his own music.
“There is simply nothing I would rather
do.”
Piccolo's
unique writing refuses to be defined. He cleverly fuses the simplicity of blues, the
freedom of jazz, and the rhythm of reggae, all on a solid traditional R&B foundation
always keeping the music fresh, exciting and designed for commercial appeal. Watching Piccolo on stage is like experiencing a
gentle, but exhilarating roller coaster ride. Fans easily float from the swinging style of
Buddy Johnson, the emotion packed slow sax instrumentals of Lester Young and Jimmy Forest. The groove never stops as Piccolo moves from the
rollicking honkers of Red Prysock, to the steamy guitar licks referencing the Kings, Earl
and BB; and to the acclaimed clever lyrics and uncategorized "gotta-move"
rhythmic arrangements of his own compositions.
As Piccolo says, “I just
try to play good music that will move your soul”.
 JOHN RUSSELL MILLS
BARITONE & TENOR SAX
John Mills is one of central Texas’ most in-demand saxophonists and arrangers,
covering a complete spectrum of musical styles—jazz, R&B, salsa, classical, rock
’n roll, country, alternative, folk, gospel and more—in concert and in the
recording studio. Over his long professional career he has performed, arranged and
composed on hundreds of CDs, film/TV soundtracks, and jingles. He holds a Doctorate Degree
(DMA) in Composition from UT-Austin, is Director of Jazz Studies and Coordinator of Music
Theory at Southwest Texas State Univ. and co-owner of Austin Media Music.
 DANNY LEVIN - FIDDLE
Danny grew up in the suburbs of Philly and studied cello with Philadelphia Orchestra
cellist Francis de Pasquale from 1959-1967, and by the age of 15, was an accomplished
chamber musician. He joined up with the swing band Asleep at the Wheel in 1971. By 1972,
he had picked up the fiddle and was listening to and playing country music and string
jazz, and by 1978, he had won his first Grammy. Danny is now producing and writing
advertising commercials with such artists as Johnny Nicholas, Ethel & Methel, Don
Walser, Sean Colvin, Leon Raush of the Texas Playboys, Charlie Sexton, Johnny Cash, Sara
Hickman and the Leann Rimes "Don’t Mess with Texas" TV commercial.
 AL GOMEZ - TRUMPET
1995 Grammy Nomination (R&B), "The Last Real Texas Blues Band" Current
Magazine (San Antonio), Ninth Annual Music Awards Best Latin Salsa Group: Henry Brun &
The Latin Playerz Notre Dame Jazz Festival, Outstanding Musician Award 1994-95 Texas
Minority Graduate Fellowship 1991-94 Music Scholarship, SWTSU, Jazz & Orchestra
Ensembles 1992 Music Achievement Award; Wichita, Kansas Jazz Festival (IAJE) 1985 Music
Achievement Award; UT Austin Jazz Festival
Performance Experience: Current, Dick’s Last Resort, San Antonio, Texas • 1996 European Tour with Doug
Sahm and the Last Real Texas Blues Band; including the Moulin Blues Festival (Ospel,
Holland) • 1995-96
Corpus Christi Jazz Festival • 1996 JAZZ’ Alive (San Antonio Jazz Festival) with The Jazz Vatos • 1996 Eureka Springs,
Arkansas, Jazz Festival with The Jazz Vatos •
1995 March-August: U.S. Tour with The Last Real Blues Band and
the Texas Tornadoes • 1994 European tour with SWTSU Mysterium (composer ensemble) • 1994 World Premier, "Rio Bravo
Ballet," by Alice Gomez • 1993-96 Pura Vida Awards Orchestra
 RANDY ZIMMERMAN - TROMBONE
Randy played first trombone at North Texas State University's One O'Clock Jazz Band and
traveled to the Soviet Union and Portugal with them before moving to New York, then
connecting with the Klaus Lenz Fusion Band and touring Germany. One of the main CO2
composers for 18 years, he is also a sought-after arranger for salsa and big bands. He is
at home in brass quintets, big bands, jazz combos, chamber music, polkas, Dixieland,
salsa, etc. His efforts as bandleader include the steaming Jazz PR--original arrangements
of Latin classics and jazz standards, for three trombones and Puerto Rican rhythm section
(their CD, "La Brisa Del Sur" on CreOP Muse); Jazz Nomads-- septet featuring
great Blakey arrangements, music by Kenny Dorham and McCoy Tyner, as well as originals;
Southern Reconstruction Brass B and--trombone, tuba, 2 trumpets, 2 drummers in a funky and
quirky little street band that really cooks.
 KEITH WINKING - TRUMPET
Keith is a professor at Texas State
University where he teaches trumpet and directs the Texas State Jazz Orchestra, and is a
member of the SouthWest BrassWorks. Dr. Winking received his undergraduate degree in Music
Education from Quincy University, his M.M. in Trumpet Performance from Texas State, and
his D.M.A. in Trumpet Performance from the University of Texas at Austin. His teachers
have included Raymond Crisara, Vince Cichowicz, Leon Rapier and Don "Jake"
Jacoby. He has served as a visiting lecturer to scores of universities and conservatories
including the Crane School of Music and the Moscow and St. Petersburg Conservatories.
Dr.Winking has presented solo and ensemble concerts and clinics throughout the United
States, Canada, Sweden, Japan, Switzerland and Russia. He is a freelance trumpet player
performing with many local and national groups including the Austin Symphony, the Austin
Jazz Orchestra, James Brown, the Manhattan Transfer and the Austin Sinfonietta. He has
extensive recording experience and has recorded national jingles for McDonalds and
American Express. He has also taped numerous TV shows including PBS's "Lonesome
Pines," TNN's "Texas Connection," PBS's "Austin City Limits" and
a taping for the BBC entitled "Rhythms of the World." He has presented papers at
the International Trumpet and New York Brass Conferences and also published articles in
The International Trumpet Guild Journal, School Band and Orchestra Magazine and the
International Jazz Educators Journal. Dr. Winking is voting member of the National
Association of the Recording Arts and Sciences (Grammy's) and a clinician for the Selmer
Company.
 DAN TOROSIAN: Dan grew up in New York, moved to Boston in 1976,
and switched from trumpet to saxophone in 1982. He
played with dozens of jazz and R&B bands, then moved to Austin in 1990. He has played sax, clarinet, flute, and keyboards
in many bands, most notably with Rotel and the Hot Tomatoes, Marcia Ball, Irma Thomas (New
Orleans), Alejandro Escovedo, Ted Roddy, and Tish Hinojosa, also working extensively as an
arranger. He will receive his Master’s
degree in Music Composition from Southwest Texas State University in December, 2002,
having composed and arranged for vocal and instrumental chamber groups, orchestra, and big
band.
 TERRY HALE - ACOUSTIC, ELECTRIC
BASS: Terry has performed everywhere from New York’s Madison Square Garden to the
Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, on television shows from Austin City Limits to the
BBC. As an original founding member of the
“Ace in the Hole Band”, Terry has been supplying the “bottom end” for
MCA recording artist George Strait for the last thirty years and as such has appeared on
numerous gold and multi-platinum selling albums, two major motion pictures, “Pure
Country” 1992 (Warner Bros.) and “The Soldier” 1980 (James Glickenhous
Films). He has also performed on many
television and radio commercials, videos and countless syndicated radio broadcasts. He has performed live on “The Tonight
Show” with Johnny Carson as well as with Jay Leno, multiple music awards shows,
“pay-per-view” telecasts and two HBO specials.
 RICK TREVINO -
VOCALS, GUITAR
With the release of his lively Latin American roots solo album ‘Mi Son’, singer
Rick Treviņo takes a break from country music and rediscovers the sounds of his
childhood. Treviņo, who’s gained recent notice as one of the featured singers in Los
Super Seven, grew up in Austin, Texas, the son of a Tejano musician who played in one of
the hottest bands in the region. But he didn’t feel that Tejano music was his: Since
he wasn’t fluent in Spanish, understanding the lyrics was difficult. "I was
exposed to lots of Latin music, but it wasn’t mine." The young Treviņo
preferred the sounds of Top 40 radio.
Nonetheless, Treviņo was drawn to the music, although the attraction was first based on
his love of the expressive melodies and not in allegiance to his background. "There
are mixed memories for me with Mexican music, since my father had such a strong
association with it. But once I start playing it, all of that becomes secondary to the
actual bearty of the sounds."
Treviņo’s first foray into Latin roots music arose from his winning association with
Los Super Seven, the all-atar group of musicians who’s first recordings including
David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas (Los Lobos), Flaco Jimenez, Freddy Fender, Tejano star Ruben
Ramos and Joe Ely. Don’t be surprised if the singer’s next album is a new hybrid
of Latin roots and country music.
 ROCKY MORALES -TENOR
SAXAPHONE
Rocky is the heart and soul of the "West Side Horns" of San Antonio. He has
achieved legendary status all over the world and continues to thrill audiences wherever he
goes. Performance Credits: Doug Sahm, Kim Wilson, Angela Strehli, Lou Ann Barton, Stevie
Ray Vaughn, Albert Collins, Augie Meyers, Jackie King,Randy Garibay and many, many others.
 KAZ KAZANOFF - TENOR
SAXOPHONE
Saxophonist Mark ‘Kaz’ Kazanoff is well-known to Rhythm and Blues and Jazz fans
around the world. He has produced and contributed horn arrangements, saxophone and
harmonica solos, and original songs to more than 80 record albums over the last fifteen
years, but still thinks of himself as a live musician. Albums he has played on or
produced, have won, or been nominated for, Grammy and W.C. Handy Awards. Kaz performs
often at major international music festivals such as the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage and
Monterrey Jazz Festivals. He received his D.M.A. Doctoral Degree in Music Composition in
1998 from the University of Texas at Austin, lives and teaches in the Austin area.
 JACK
BARBER - BASS
Jack is currently touring with the Last Real Texas Blues Band. He is also touring with the
Texas Tornadoes and performed on their latest Grammy-nominated album '4 Aces' on the
Reprise label. The single, 'A Little Bit is Better than Nada' is the opening track in the
Kevin Costner film, 'Tin Cup'.
Performance credits include: Sir Douglas Quintet, David Bromberg, Bob Dylan,
Willie Nelson, David "Fathead" Newman, Joseph Latiff, Johnny Winter, Flaco
Jimenez, Freddy Fender, Doug Sahm, Augie Meyers, Los Lobos, Wayne Jackson (Memphis Horns),
Joe Lewis Walker, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimmy Vaughn, Kim Wilson, Asleep at the Wheel, Dr.
John, Gene Taylor, Amos Garrett Band, Joe King Carrasco, Johnny Nicholas, Stephen Bruton,
Earl King, John Hammond, Delbert McClinton, Boz Scaggs and Roger McGuinn.
 KEITH WINKING - TRUMPET
Associate Professor / Department of Music / Southwest Texas State University (SWTSU) San
Marcos, Texas • 1987-Present
Southwest BrassWorks (Faculty Brass Quintet), SWTSU. •
April 1996 Sweden - Concert Tour with Southwest BrassWorks • August 1995 Moscow, Russia -
Moscow Trumpet Festival • 1989-1994 Staff Trumpeter, Black Top Records, New Orleans, LA • Sept. 1993 Moscow, Russia -
Concert Tour with Southwest BrassWorks • Rimskey Korsakov Hall, Spaso House, Glinka Museum Russian National School for
Wind Music • June
1992 St. Petersburg/Moscow, Russia - Concert Tour with Southwest BrassWorks - Union of St.
Petersburg Composers House, Leningrad Conservatory, Petrodvorets Palace (Peter the Great),
Pushkin Palace. Moscow State Conservatory - Rismsky Korsakov Hall, National Radio
Broadcast, Union of Moscow Composers House. •
1982-Present Founder and Leader of The Mighty Big Horns
(award-winning horn section) • 1981-Present Free lance performer, Austin/San Antonio, Texas
 ERNIE DURAWA- DRUMMER
Earnie is a drummer who has provided the back beat for the Texas Tornados,Delbert
McClinton.He is also a much-in-demand jazz and show
drummer who has played with the late great bassist..Gene
Ramey, trumpeter Clark
Terry and guitar masters Herb Ellis,Charlie Byrd ,Pat Martino, Jackie King and Larry Coryell. During the late 60’s he performed with John Lee Hooker, the Les Elgart Orchestra, George Gobel,Myron Cohen, Jack
Carter, Tiny Tim and Gatemouth
Brown, among others.
DAN TOROSIAN: Dan grew up in New York, moved to Boston in 1976,
and switched from trumpet to saxophone in 1982. He
played with dozens of jazz and R&B bands, then moved to Austin in 1990. He has played sax, clarinet, flute, and keyboards
in many bands, most notably with Rotel and the Hot Tomatoes, Marcia Ball, Irma Thomas (New
Orleans), Alejandro Escovedo, Ted Roddy, and Tish Hinojosa, also working extensively as an
arranger. He will receive his Master’s
degree in Music Composition from Southwest Texas State University in December, 2002,
having composed and arranged for vocal and instrumental chamber groups, orchestra, and big
band.
 BARRY
“FROSTY” SMITH Barry “Frosty”
Smith began his drumming career in 1960 in San Francisco, CA. From 1969-1980 he recorded
and performed with Lee Michaels, Sly & the Family Stone, Parliament/Funkadelic, Rare
Earth, and the Steve Miller Blues Band He
also performed in numerous Motown Record sessions and commercial jingles.
During 1981
to 1991 Frosty continued recording and performing in Texas. These performers included
Marsha Ball, the Texas Tornadoes, Lou Ann Barton, Alejandro Escovedo, Omar & The
Howlers, Butch Hancock & the Sunspots, Delbert McClinton, Doug Sahm and the Texas
Mavericks, Texana Dames, Tex Thomas & the Danglin' Wranglers, W. C Clark Blues Revue,
the Chris Duarte Group and Soulhat.
He has played
drums and percussion, Soulhat (Sony/Epic Records), toured the US, Canada, Europe and Japan
with the Chris Duarte Group (Silvertone Records) and been a session player, freelance
drummer and percussionist, instructor, and clinician for Fibes Drum Co.
In 2000 he
joined the Guy Forsyth Band, recorded, started web label DV8 Records, began production
company- S&M Productions, co-produced Omar and the Howler's album entitled
"Screamin' Cat," co-wrote music and lyrics for SoulHat, Omar and the Howlers,
Papa Mali, and The Nighttime Institute.
He has
received the Austin Music Awards Best Drummer in 1987, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, and 1994.
The Austin Music Awards Best Rock Band (Soulhat, 1993), and the Best Cassette (Soulhat,
Live at The Black Cat, 1991.) Also, he has
been recognized as one of the Most Innovative
Drummers of the 1960's.
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