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Where It’s Scat: The 10 Best Places to Hear Live Jazz in DFW

By John McClanahan
Dec 3, 2019

More than just a music genre, jazz is a lifestyle often associated with timelessness and musical creativity. North Texas can boast of a few joints perfect to hear local artists explore the grooves made famous by legends such as Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis. Whether you're into sculptural rhythms spit...
Dallas Musicians Rally for Peace, Once Again, by Openly Carrying Their Guitars

By John McClanahan
Oct 29, 2019

In the wake of what can only be described as America’s mass shooting epidemic, some local folks use music to express sentiments of camaraderie over fear and intimidation. During a cool late-October dawn, dozens of free-spirited musicians congregated toward the middle of the Ronald Kirk Bridge, tuning their instruments on...
Open Carry Guitar Rally Is Returning for Dallas’ Biggest Jam Session This Weekend

By John McClanahan
Oct 22, 2019

After two years, the Open Carry Guitar Rally is back for a fifth set. From 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 27, several guitar-yielding musicians plan to occupy Ronald Kirk Bridge, formerly Continental Avenue Bridge, to participate in Dallas’ biggest jam session, which will take place over the Trinity...
No Strings Unattached: The Story of Little D Guitars’ Master Luthiers

By John McClanahan
Jul 18, 2019

When local musicians’ guitars get battered and bruised, many bring them to a small, yellow-painted house sitting on Denton’s Elm Street. There, 62-year-old Gregory Lange pumps life back into stringed instruments. He’s a luthier — one who fixes and fashions pieces such as guitars and violins. One might call Lange a...
Navy Veteran Uses Photography to Work Through PTSD and Help Other Vets

By John McClanahan
Mar 19, 2019

Aaron Mahlon Thomas, a U.S. Navy veteran, uses the art of capturing light and creating images to cope with a condition that once alienated him from his family. Thomas, a North Texas-based photographer and documentarian, wants to use photography to help other veterans manage their post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD,...

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