The Octaburger. La Grange Texas
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Larissa Ness Live At The Bugle Boy
Larissa Ness performing at The Bugle Boy in La Grange, Texas.
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The chicken Ranch La Grange TX
Remains of the ranch as of July 4 2011
Brandon Wilkerson-WR La Grange,TX Junior Season
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Kreische Brewery, LaGrange, TX - The Daytripper
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Chet visits Kreiche Brewery State Historical Site to tour the ruins of one of the oldest breweries in Texas.
Fayette County Courthouse in La Grange, Texas
The Fayette County courthouse in LaGrange, TX, proudly adorned with a tall clock tower, could be seen for miles around when it first opened in 1891. The Romanesque Revival style building was designed by prominent Texas architect J. Riely Gordon, who also designed the Bexar County courthouse in San Antonio, TX. Standing tall and majestic on the courthouse square, this beautiful historic building was fully restored in 2005 and is still a working courthouse.
Picturesque LaGrange, located midway between Houston and Austin, along the Colorado River, has for years been a popular stopping off place for travelers going between the two cities. This colorful farming community has a heavy German and Czech heritage because of the many Europeans who settled here in the 1800s. In fact, LaGrange boasts some of the best kolache bakeries in Texas.
Another legendary attraction at LaGrange was the notorious chicken ranch, a long-time brothel that attracted customers from all over the state. After operating for decades, it closed when Houston television crusader Marvin Zindler demanded that state officials shut it down in the 1970s. The story of the chicken ranch evolved into a Broadway musical, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, and later a Hollywood movie of the same name starring Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton. Local residents were not pleased about the movie and the film was shot in another Texas town.
Even though today a modern highway bypasses the LaGrange business district, many travelers stop by to visit the courthouse square with its quaint shops, bakeries, home-style restaurants and the impressive Fayette County courthouse.
The Fayette County courthouse was featured in the PBS documentary, The Golden Age of Texas Courthouses, produced by Texas Foundation for the Arts.
Produced by Kim Lykins and Jim Bailey
Directed by Jim Bailey, Sunset Productions
Edited by Mike Snow, Fast Cut Films
Valentines Day in LaGrange at Bistro 108
Bistro 108 was our destination for a fun Valentine's Day outing, about 1 and 1/4 hours drive out of Austin, TX.
BP MS150 Day 2 - Start in LaGrange, TX
Day 2 of BP MS150 from Houston to Austin. Start and lead out from LaGrange, TX.
GM at Aaron's in La Grange, Tx ALS ice challenge
Tami Cooper, GM of the Aaron's in La Grange, Tx accepts the ALS ice challenge .
David Garza plays -Texas Is My Hometown- - Video - State Songs- Texas - The A.V. Club
David Garza has been a fixture in the Austin music scene since he was a kid, playing with local bands and as a solo artist. (His discography is miles long.) Garza has also done plenty outside of Texas, having toured with Fiona Apple as both guitarist and opening band. He briefly flirted with the mainstream in the early '00s, releasing a pair of excellent major-label albums, This Euphoria and Overdub. But he's always come back to Texas, and for State Songs, he wrote an ode to his home state, Texas Is My Hometown. We met up with Garza at Bishop's Palace in Galveston, a beautiful Victorian house that was completed in 1892. It was originally the home of Colonel Walter Gresham, but now it's a gorgeous house museum that's open to the public. (And singer-songwriters and pop-culture websites.) Rather than just picking one room to perform, Garza offers his own tour.
Journeay Fiddle - Donnie Blanz
Songwriter Donnie Blanz meets with Mier Expedition survivor Henry Journeay's great great grandaughter, Carol Journeay and learns of the making of Henry's violin and puts the story to song.
La Grange Part 1
The Spring Branch ISD SpringBoard Mentoring Program was named the top school based mentoring program in the state this year by both the Texas GEAR UP Project and the Texas Association
of Partners in Education. Earlier in the year, as the top GEAR UP program, a 10 minute video was produced about our program for all Texas middle and high schools as part of the state's TEA GEAR UP Toolkit.
While in production, Spring Branch mentioned that we were helping La Grange ISD develop a mentoring program, and TEA decided to follow our district-to-district mentoring to launch the La Grange project over the course of the year.
The result is the video available for viewing at the link above designed to help school districts across the state be inspired to inspire kids and shape their lives through mentoring.
an evening at the ranch
shot in la grange, texas 2003.
Core (In Time)
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Core (In Time) · David Garza
This Euphoria
℗ 1998 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Bass Guitar: Alan Hewitt
Violin: Alexandra Cutler-Fetkewicz
Cello: Amanda Zidow
Drums, Producer: Andy Kravitz
Mandolin: Andy Taub
Violin: Becky Ward
Percussion: Chris Searles
Drums: Craig Ross
Guitar: David Garza
Producer: David johnson
Bass Guitar: John Thomasson
Cello: Jon Roth
Keyboards: Malcolm Burn
Electric Guitar: Michael Musmanno
Violin: Noah Simon
Producer: Robbie Adams
Composer, Lyricist: David Garza
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Mike Stinson - Forever Is Too Long
Recorded at The Bugle Boy, La Grange Texas, November 2015.
en el lago de la grange tx
las chiquillas remojadas
JENNIFER LEONHARDT - AMERICA
Trained on classical violin since the age of seven and not allowed to listen to recorded music until her teens, Jennifer Leonhardt spent a lot of time onstage in frequent live performances by the time she was eighteen. Drawing comparisons to songwriters as disparate as Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and Patti Smith, artists she spent little or no time listening to growing up as a per house rules, her live shows deliver a completely unique approach to musical styling, combining seemingly opposing elements like they were meant to be together. She draws deeply from the blues, from old poetry and miscellaneous mythologies, and frank humorous references to current cultural trends. Some of her songs have been covered by singer-songwriters and country bands, and included in films and on compilations with folks like John Hiatt, Bobby Bare and even Cash, and she's shared stages and festival billing with folks like Kevin Gordon, Tom Freund, Doug Burr, and Los Lonely Boys, adding up miles on an old Nikon documenting a time of unrest and change in her own life as well as the country, photos she posted on a blog she kept online until recently since 2005.
Born in Fort Worth TX, home to native sons Townes van Zandt and T Bone Burnett (a band mate of one of her uncles back in the '60s) to a family of musicians and singers helped develop her flexible approach to interpretation. Her parents moved the family to Washington DC when she was still a baby and she spent her early years on the east coast. With no television or stereo in the house, she spent long hours teaching herself piano and guitar after school, eventually listening to Thelonious Monk on a portable radio in her room late at night. Family time included harmonizing on everything from Appalachian traditionals to old-time spirituals, which gave her a broad musical vocabulary and became the necessary groundwork for keeping in line with her own vision: music for its own sake.
Completing five recordings in as many years was a necessity since she was writing for survival- the soul kind. Her first recording was a 5-song EP Homeless (2004) recorded three months after the breakup of her marriage. With just her singing and an acoustic guitar accompaniment, Ear Candy Magazine gave it 4 out of 5 stars for moments of brilliance. Hard Times LIVE (2005) was taken off the soundboard at a live show in Los Angeles. In the fall of the same year, after performing at a roots festival in New Orleans two weeks pre-Katrina, she began work on Gods & Nations (2007) in New York City. Compelled by stories of survivors of the hurricane and her own recent visit there with friends who lost their home, she wrote the album in a month and enlisted noted blues guitarist and producer Marc Copely (James Montgomery, Tracy Bonham, Jess Klein) who helped her lay down the first three tracks, including the haunting Homeland, named one of the Top 20 Americana songs of 2008 (KRVM Eugene, OR). Marc's signature guitar work helped to define the sound for the rest of the record, a punch of driving folk-blues. Completed by guitarist-producer Matt Brown (Lucinda Williams, Bill Frissell) of Trespassers William in Seattle the following summer, who added some Otis touches, varied instrumentations and lush modern dream pop layers. Water St (2007), a collection of alt country songs written in collaboration with another Austin musician, was never released. Compilations include ShutEye Record's United State of Americana Vol 4 (2006), A Taste of Triple A and samplers from Pop Culture Press, a 2009 Waterbug Records' artist's collective and Texas Music Magazine.
Last year she released Minstrel's Daughter (2009) first on her own imprint Grassroots Records and later re-released on Chicago-based label Waterbug Records. Dedicated to her family's influence and recorded at the kitchen table at home on Austin's east side with band members and musician friends, the album was co-produced with guitarist Jeff Rady with whom she co-wrote one of the tracks. The majority of the record got put down on an old Shure 57 mic, keeping the straight-shot vibe of a live band mixed with atmospheric playfulness. They went for a stripped-down, homemade sound culminating in a gentle but gritty referendum on love and survival by an artist clearly thinking for herself.
Hummingbird Pit Stop - La Grange Texas - Getting Tanked!
September 14, 2009 -
Hummingbirds Getting Tanked! La Grange Pit Stop! More hummers have arrived as they prepare to leave thru out the week heading for Rockport, Texas where they will re-fuel before making their grand migration to Central America and Mexico!
Da Bears on Texas
Da Bears share their views on the Lone Star State while passing La Grange.
Corbin McHazlett -WR La Grange,TX 2009
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