Sometimes it’s just fate working its magic, or in this case, its gypsy magic.
That was the case with the Texas Gypsies, a band that snacks on eclecticism for breakfast, serving up a granola mix of throwback, cool, hepcat ‘30s/’40s jazz smooshed together harmoniously and fortuitously with its sister sound, Western swing.
The Dallas-Fort Worth area group, which will open the fall season of the Performing Arts Series Thursday night at the Kemp Center for the Arts, didn’t come together, after all, with any force of velocity from its band members. None of them sought to form a band with such a cool, hip, gypsy jazz/Western swing sound.
“It wasn’t like we planned it. It was kind of funny …,” said guitarist/vocalist Steve Curry in a phone interview about how the band formed back in 2003.
Curry happened to be selling an upright bass of his. The guy who showed up to look at it noticed that Curry had another musical instrument in his arsenal — a 1930s period-looking, Django Reinhardt-style guitar.
“He started asking me questions about the guitar. I said that I was learning Django Reinhardt music,” Curry said, and that was it. The guy started coming over, brought over Erik Swanson, the group’s other guitarist, and they started their own little eclectic music club at Curry’s house, where they played to their hearts’ content.
That was the case with the Texas Gypsies, a band that snacks on eclecticism for breakfast, serving up a granola mix of throwback, cool, hepcat ‘30s/’40s jazz smooshed together harmoniously and fortuitously with its sister sound, Western swing.
The Dallas-Fort Worth area group, which will open the fall season of the Performing Arts Series Thursday night at the Kemp Center for the Arts, didn’t come together, after all, with any force of velocity from its band members. None of them sought to form a band with such a cool, hip, gypsy jazz/Western swing sound.
“It wasn’t like we planned it. It was kind of funny …,” said guitarist/vocalist Steve Curry in a phone interview about how the band formed back in 2003.
Curry happened to be selling an upright bass of his. The guy who showed up to look at it noticed that Curry had another musical instrument in his arsenal — a 1930s period-looking, Django Reinhardt-style guitar.
“He started asking me questions about the guitar. I said that I was learning Django Reinhardt music,” Curry said, and that was it. The guy started coming over, brought over Erik Swanson, the group’s other guitarist, and they started their own little eclectic music club at Curry’s house, where they played to their hearts’ content.
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