Dempsey’s harp style is reminiscent of Little Walter & Jimmy Reed and his guitar style brings to mind the style of B.B.King, with solos that makes it difficult for the listener to sit still.
Unique comedy entertainment featuring world-class lasso and whip tricks, juggling, high unicycle and other stunts. He has performed in every kind of venue for 25 years and in 31 different countries around the world. High-energy, original and clean comedy!
Unique comedy entertainment featuring world-class lasso and whip tricks, juggling, high unicycle and other stunts. He has performed in every kind of venue for 25 years and in 31 different countries around the world. High-energy, original and clean comedy!
Unique comedy entertainment featuring world-class lasso and whip tricks, juggling, high unicycle and other stunts. He has performed in every kind of venue for 25 years and in 31 different countries around the world. High-energy, original and clean comedy!
Hot Country Western, Good Old Rock N' Roll and Pop all mixed in to a Kick-Butt package! Big City Outlaws is the hottest new country rock party dance band to hit the Music scene.
North Texas based smooth jazz and soul band with 6 recordings and over 20 years in the business, delivering exceptional grooves, emotional energy and some of the most soulful covers around.
Unique comedy entertainment featuring world-class lasso and whip tricks, juggling, high unicycle and other stunts. He has performed in every kind of venue for 25 years and in 31 different countries around the world. High-energy, original and clean comedy!
Abraham Alexander is a musician living in Fort Worth, Texas hailing all the way from Athens, Greece. His view of life was shaped by his time in Europe. With ties to the past and letting his faith guide him, his music carries a story. His soulful, blues style voice brings listeners into a personal journey, evoking emotion in the deepest sense.
The acclaimed singer-songwriter has been a staple of the Dallas music scene for nearly a decade, and he has two Dallas Observer Music Awards to show for it.
Candy Williams calls her music funkyjazzycool. As leader of a duo, trio, or larger ensemble, she incorporates a smooth stage presence with passionate, skilled song delivery, bringing funk, jazz, blues, R&B, and her own original music to fiery life.
Rhythms and sounds of Mexico, South America and the Caribbean as well as North American R&B, Jazz, and Country music. This “New World Music” embraces a wide variety of stylistic ideas and improvisational elements with melodies and harmonies voiced primarily on acoustic and electric guitars, with additional color provided by steel guitar and harp.
Unique comedy entertainment featuring world-class lasso and whip tricks, juggling, high unicycle and other stunts. He has performed in every kind of venue for 25 years and in 31 different countries around the world. High-energy, original and clean comedy!
Unique comedy entertainment featuring world-class lasso and whip tricks, juggling, high unicycle and other stunts. He has performed in every kind of venue for 25 years and in 31 different countries around the world. High-energy, original and clean comedy!
The mission of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra is to perform great symphonic music at the highest level of artistic excellence to educate, entertain, and enhance cultural life, to present engaging music education programs for young people to foster early interest in and inspire lifelong enjoyment of music, and to achieve ever-greater levels of artistic accomplishment and leadership in Fort Worth and across the nation.
Unique comedy entertainment featuring world-class lasso and whip tricks, juggling, high unicycle and other stunts. He has performed in every kind of venue for 25 years and in 31 different countries around the world. High-energy, original and clean comedy!
Unique comedy entertainment featuring world-class lasso and whip tricks, juggling, high unicycle and other stunts. He has performed in every kind of venue for 25 years and in 31 different countries around the world. High-energy, original and clean comedy!
Paul’s new album, Don’t Let the Devil Ride, collects soulful songs originally cut by black southern gospel groups, and features guests Blind Boys of Alabama, the McCrary Sisters, the Preservation Hall Jazz Horns, and Bonnie Bishop. The new release marks Thorn’s first time recording gospel music, after a dozen albums in roots-rock mode and his creation of a body of strikingly original songs. In his own songwriting, Thorn often addresses the foibles of human relationships, although he doesn’t favor the sacred over the profane.
Superfónicos is Colombian Funk. Better yet, it is Caríbe Soul…fed by the Indigenous and African roots of the band’s Colombian heritage, telegraphing a politics of peace and unity from the stage to your ears. They only ask that you dance toward a place in your mind beyond struggle and strife.
Superfónicos is Colombian Funk. Better yet, it is Caríbe Soul…fed by the Indigenous and African roots of the band’s Colombian heritage, telegraphing a politics of peace and unity from the stage to your ears. They only ask that you dance toward a place in your mind beyond struggle and strife.
Known for his success on season 11 of NBCs’ The Voice, Austin Allsup’s rugged vocals can melt into smooth melodies. He grabs an audience's soul and does not let go even after the last note fades away. His unique sound encompasses the diverse styles of the musically fertile Southwest with a genius for intelligent lyrics and wry humor. A country outlaw and renegade rock n’ roller persuaded by passion and purity to his craft.
Lifelong musician Chris Watson's Retrophonics is a smooth neoteric blend of Funk, MoTown, and Blue Eyed Soul. With a powerhouse horn section, buttery organ tones, and larger than life guitar playing, this band has something for everyone to move to. Compelling, powerful vocals complete the fullness of this unique sound, which transcends genre and generation alike.
The 1: UTA Jazz Ensemble is the second big band at the University of Texas at Arlington. The ensemble focuses on essential jazz styles and techniques. Performing music of the big band masters as well as more recent repertoire, the ensemble allows students a chance to present audiences with exceptional concerts while gaining valuable experience in the jazz idiom. The Jazz Ensemble has performed at the University of Kansas at Wichita Jazz Festival, Six Flags Over Texas, previous Main St Fort Worth Arts Festivals, and other events locally and regionally.
Carlos Averhoff Jr. offers a new hybrid sound of Cuban Jazz showcasing original compositions and arrangements masterfully painting a landscape of contemporary harmonies and rhythms from his native land, Cuba.
The UTA Department of Music is an exciting program offering both graduate and undergraduate degrees in music. Students work with an exceptional, world-renowned faculty, who work with them to realize their musical potential. The department presents many top-notch performances each semester that are often free and always open to the general public, such as this one by the UT-Arlington Flute Ensemble.
The UTAJO has performed invitational concerts at the Montreux International Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland; the first International Jazz Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil; the first International Jazz Festival in Nassau, Bahamas. Other international tours include Montreal, Canada; the American Music Festival in Manila, Philippines; and Beijing, China. Telecasts by the Swiss, Japanese, Philippine, American and Brazilian Public Broadcasting Systems have brought UTAJO performances to an estimated 70 million people across four continents.
Gifted Dallas-based jazz artist Damon K. Clark is a favorite of Kessler Theater audiences in Dallas, with his sophisticated arrangements, excellent choice of material, and absolutely stunning vocal skill set.
Unique comedy entertainment featuring world-class lasso and whip tricks, juggling, high unicycle and other stunts. He has performed in every kind of venue for 25 years and in 31 different countries around the world. High-energy, original and clean comedy!
The jazz studies program offers several jazz combos. Membership is open to any currently-enrolled student at 1: UTA, regardless of major. In these small groups, students are able to work on interaction and improvisation in an intimate setting. With a blend of classic small group repertoire, jazz standards, and student compositions and arrangements, these groups are the cornerstone of students' training in jazz studies. In addition to performing at the Late Night Jazz Sampler each semester, the jazz combos often perform at on-campus events, local and regional functions, the Fort Worth Jazz by the Boulevard Festival, and much more. The jazz combos are directed by the jazz faculty and jazz graduate teaching assistants.
Unique comedy entertainment featuring world-class lasso and whip tricks, juggling, high unicycle and other stunts. He has performed in every kind of venue for 25 years and in 31 different countries around the world. High-energy, original and clean comedy!
America’s favorite heavy medley cover band! Great music, great personalities, great performances, great fun! If you haven't seen this band play, you're missing something in your life and you need to fix this!
Unique comedy entertainment featuring world-class lasso and whip tricks, juggling, high unicycle and other stunts. He has performed in every kind of venue for 25 years and in 31 different countries around the world. High-energy, original and clean comedy!
Lou CharLe$ focuses on positively affecting the world around him through hip-hop. The Texas native creates fun refreshing music, always delivering on his purpose of creating a sound that resonates with his fans.
The Latin Katz sound is a challenge to discriminating, demanding listeners who search for “the next new” jazz style. You will also be challenged to resist the urge to get up and dance to both spicy and romantic Latin melodies that inevitably pull you from your seat!
Freddie Jones is a popular jazz trumpet player and composer in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. Freddie has taken his trumpet and his group on the road, performing in hot spots from Austin, to Chicago, New York and everywhere in between.
Unique comedy entertainment featuring world-class lasso and whip tricks, juggling, high unicycle and other stunts. He has performed in every kind of venue for 25 years and in 31 different countries around the world. High-energy, original and clean comedy!
Singer-songwriter Kylie Rae Harris’ early musical influences include Radney Foster and Jerry Jeff Walker. Throw in singer/songwriters Walt Wilkins and Patty Griffin and you begin to understand why her lyrics sound so real.
Born in Dallas in 1991, New York-based performer Jazzmeia Horn is a gifted jazz vocalist with an inventive, scat-influenced style that helped her win the 2015 Thelonious Monk International Vocal Jazz Competition. She is a singer who stands apart from many of her peers because she takes on every song she sings so naturally; every word, gesture, and ornament becomes an expression of her total conviction and she completely comes alive in the moment.
For the past three decades the Denton, Texas based quintet has perfected a world music mix that includes salsa, meringue, rock, cumbia, conjunto, polka, zydeco, classical, cha cha, the blues and more. The band has won two Grammy Awards and been nominated for their work 7 times.
Joey Green has been playing music in the Fort Worth area since he was 17. He started out in his former band Defining Briscoe, and he brought his friend Noah Garcia and started Joey Green Band. Since then, he has become a household name in North Texas. He has toured/played with National acts such as Eli Young Band, Kevin Fowler and Randy Rogers. He has released 6 albums since his debut, and plans on continuing making great music!
Over the span of 30 years, British blues guitarist James Hunter has provided backup vocals and guitar for Van Morrison, played clubs and theatres all over the world, written scores of original songs, and recorded some of the most original and honest rhythm & soul albums of the last two decades. By 2006, Hunter was recognized with nominations for a GRAMMY® Award (“Best Traditional Blues Album” for People Gonna Talk (Rounder)) and an American Music Award (“Best New/Emerging Artist”). He and his band then hit the road for a decade of extensive touring and recorded three additional critically-acclaimed studio albums— The Hard Way (Hear Music), Minute by Minute (Fantasy) and Hold On!(Daptone). By 2016, MOJO magazine had crowned him “The United Kingdom’s Greatest Soul Singer.” In February 2018, renowned soul label Daptone Records released James Hunter’s most ambitious album to date, Whatever It Takes, offering ten new and original songs written by Hunter.
The Austin-based band were Americana before there really was such a term, combining roots, rock and country influences into an uncompromising musical approach that has earned the Grammy-winning group a very steadfast and loyal following
Bobby Falk group is a contemporary jazz ensemble featuring top talent in the DFW area, playing jazz classics and pop/soul standards. They also feature original material from the band members.
The UTA Department of Music is an exciting program offering both graduate and undergraduate degrees in music. Students work with an exceptional, world-renowned faculty, who work with them to realize their musical potential. The department presents many top-notch performances each semester that are often free and always open to the general public, such as this one by the UT-Arlington Flute Ensemble.
Unique comedy entertainment featuring world-class lasso and whip tricks, juggling, high unicycle and other stunts. He has performed in every kind of venue for 25 years and in 31 different countries around the world. High-energy, original and clean comedy!
Unique comedy entertainment featuring world-class lasso and whip tricks, juggling, high unicycle and other stunts. He has performed in every kind of venue for 25 years and in 31 different countries around the world. High-energy, original and clean comedy!
Named the 2017 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, Lang Lang Music Foundation Young Scholar Clayton Stephenson is prize winner of the 2015 Van Cliburn Junior International Competition and 2016 Cooper International Competition. He is also a proud recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke scholarship. Born in Beijing and based in New York City, Youlan Ji is currently pursuing a degree at the Juilliard School. She won the Bronze medal in the inaugural Van Cliburn Junior Competition in 2015, and in 2018 won first prize at the 2018 New York International Piano Competition.
Hosted by Justin Frazell, The Texas Red Dirt Roads Radio Show has become one of Country Music's most unique broadcasts recorded LIVE from Fort Worth, Texas - the epicenter of the Texas-Red Dirt Music Revolution, introducing the hottest new music & hanging out live with a whole slew of Texas-Red Dirt Stars and future Up & Comers. Our Flagship station since 2009 has been 95.9 The Ranch in Fort Worth, which is also where Justin serves as Program Director and Morning Show host. The Texas-Red Dirt Music Revolution has spread Nationwide, and Justin's show is now Syndicated in over 20 markets and 7 states across America, with a listener base each week over 1 million people.
Unique comedy entertainment featuring world-class lasso and whip tricks, juggling, high unicycle and other stunts. He has performed in every kind of venue for 25 years and in 31 different countries around the world. High-energy, original and clean comedy!
Accompanied by a vibrant 10 piece band, Andy's live show delivers vocals powerful enough to compete with the likes of Harry Connick Jr., Michael Buble and Frank Sinatra.
Unique comedy entertainment featuring world-class lasso and whip tricks, juggling, high unicycle and other stunts. He has performed in every kind of venue for 25 years and in 31 different countries around the world. High-energy, original and clean comedy!
Husband-wife Texas troubadours Jason Eady & Courtney Patton perform together for a special evening of roots-oriented Americana music drawn on true life day-to-day life experiences.
Jay Perez is an American Tejano musician, who is known for his mixing of rhythm and blues with traditional Tejano music. Initially a drummer for Mysterio Band with Albert Castaneda, then he became a leading vocalist for Latin Breed and David Lee Garza y los Musicales. Perez began a solo career in the early 1990s and has released several solo albums. He has also won several Tejano Music Awards.[2] To his fan base, he is known as "The Voice".
