Ace McNeely

Grant Jones at the Magnolia Motor Lounge

Grant Jones Names His All-Time Top Five Non-Texan Country Artists

Grant Jones​Regular readers of DC9 and regular drinkers at just about any North Texas honky-tonk are likely familiar with Grant Jones & The Pistol Grip Lassos by now. Between celebrating a great victory in the 2009 Shiner Rising Star Contest (where they won a recording contract) and suffering ... More >>

Friends to Remember Ace McNeely With First Annual Ace-A-Thon Benefit on Saturday at Dada

Ace McNeely​A year ago, nine days before he was to turn 31, Dallas musician Ace McNeely tragically passed away after falling off a cliff following a performance in Austin.McNeely's death hit the Dallas music community hard -- so much so that House Of Blues soundman Brian Fiegelman, a close friend ... More >>

Brian Fiegelman Runs Sound For The O's on the Road, and House Of Blues at Home

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans , where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene -- those who aren't necessarily members of local bands, but the people who make the scene move.Brian Fiegelman​Brian Fiegelman came to DFW from the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. His friend Scotty Tee ... More >>

How Do Bands Move On After Bandmates Die?

Gig Alert: The Ace McNeely Memorial Concert/Fundraiser at Sons of Hermann Hall on Sunday

​Back in mid-September, when the Ace McNeely Foundation was announced as a response to the death of 30-year-old area musician, sound engineer and music teacher Ace McNeely, we passed along word that an eight-hour memorial and benefit concert was in the works, so as to help the fledgling foundation ... More >>

Newly Created Ace McNeely Foundation To Hold Eight-Hour Benefit Concert On October 10

Ace McNeely was 30 years old.​On Sunday, October 10, two months to the day after the Dallas music community lost Ace McNeely, a benefit concert will take place at Sons of Hermann Hall with the aim of raising funds to back a newly created charity in McNeely's name. Featuring performances from the B ... More >>

Picture Show: Trees' One-Year Anniversary with Fair to Midland, Otep, and Moving Atlas

Rachel ParkerOtep is PETA's favorite band.​Trees celebrated its one-year anniversary this weekend with some help from Otep and Fair to Midland, the latter of which was one of the first to play the storied Deep Ellum venue when it re-opened last August. And, no surprise here, the place was packed, ... More >>

Good Friday: Trees' Anniversary, Ace McNeely Memorial Concert, Doug Burr, Monco Poncho, Airline, Loretta Lynn, Jackson Browne, Record Hop, Spooky Folk, The Beaten Sea, More.

​The Granada Theater's not the only venue around town celebrating an anniversary this week: On Saturday night in Deep Ellum, Trees will celebrate its own one-year anniversary. Tough to believe that it was just a year ago that the venue re-opened, but, hey, time flies. And the venue will be celebra ... More >>

Gig Alert: Ace McNeely Memorial Concert Set For Saturday Night at City Tavern

Ace McNeely was 30 years old.​As anticipated, City Tavern will remember fallen sound engineer Ryan "Ace" McNeely with a memorial concert set to take place on Saturday night at the downtown establishment, starting at 9 o'clock.McNeely died Tuesday afternoon after spending much of Monday in an Austi ... More >>