McGuckin Entertainment PR - Music - The Quebe Sisters Band

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Feb. 28, 2008

Quebe Sisters Band at SXSW Music Festival 2008:
Noon Saturday, March 15, SESAC Day Stage Café, Music Trade Show + Exhibition,
Austin Convention Center, 500 E. Cesar Chavez St.
9 p.m. Saturday, March 15, Jovita’s, 1619 S. First St.
Information: www.sxsw.com/music
www.quebesisterband.com

QUEBE SISTERS BAND TO PLAY 2 SHOWCASES
AS PART OF SXSW MUSIC 2008

Quintet Invited to Share its Western Swing, Jazz, Vintage Country
with Festival-Goers from Here to Holland

AUSTIN, Texas — Quebe Sisters Band — the award-winning five-piece combo led by the three voices, three-part harmonies and triple fiddles of Grace, Sophia and Hulda Quebe — will play two showcases during South By Southwest Music Festival 2008 in March in Austin.

Quebe Sisters Band (pronounced kway-bee), which also features the rhythm guitar of Joey McKenzie and Drew Phelps on upright bass, is to play its SXSW Official Showcase at 9 p.m. Saturday, March 15, at the South Austin landmark restaurant and music club Jovita’s, 1619 S. First St.

Earlier Saturday, the quintet plays at noon in the SESAC Day Stage Café, part of the SXSW Music Trade Show + Exhibition, being held in the Grand Ballroom of the Austin Convention Center. Information on these two shows and the festival’s entire musical lineup is available at www.sxsw.com/music.

QSB — recently tagged 2007 Group/Duo of the Year by the Academy of Western Artists and named winner of the 2007 Crescendo Award by the Western Music Association — is in the midst of an extensive tour behind its debut album, TIMELESS (FiddleTone Records), with dates scheduled from Texas to Canada through the end of the year.

Classical lyrics and the “warm, rolling charm” of the Quebes’ album provide “universal comfort,” says the John Shelton Ivany Top 21. Tunes from the Sons of the Pioneers standard, “So Long to the Red River Valley,” to Duke Ellington’s “Take the ‘A’ Train” to Spade Cooley’s “Shame on You” to Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell’s “Georgia on My Mind” do the trick, highlighting the band’s astounding technical musicianship and mesmerizing vocals and letting shine through the upbeat spirit and playfulness so obvious onstage.

After SXSW, the band shows its stuff at festivals and fairs across the country including Fort Worth’s Main Street Arts Festival on April 19, the Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival (held at Gene Autry’s historical Melody Ranch in California) on April 26-27, the 70th National Folk Festival July 11-13 in Butte, Mont, and the State Fair of Texas in Dallas, with shows every day September 29-October 18.

QSB has been invited again to sing and swing for Texas’ Justin Boots at the annual Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Meeting on May 3 in Omaha, where last year, CEO Warren Buffett played ukulele and sang with the band and pop-music veteran Jimmy Buffet met the band and proclaimed, “Man, can they play!”

QSB Upcoming Shows include:

February 28, Lakeway Activity Center, Lakeway, Texas (Brown Bag Lunch Series)
February 28, Central Market-Westgate, Austin (evening)
February 29, Lamberts Downtown BBQ, Austin
March 1, Central Market-Central, Austin
March 8, 14th Annual Cowboy Jubilee, Carson City, Nev. (benefit show)
March 15, Jovita’s, Austin (Official SXSW Music Festival Showcase)
March 16, The Oaks, Manor, Texas
April 18, Main Street Arts Festival, Fort Worth
April 24, Mavericks Coffeehouse & Roasting Company, Visalia, Calif.
April 25, Zoey’s Café, Ventura, Calif.
April 26-27, Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival, Santa Clarita, Calif.
April 28, Coffee Gallery Backstage, Altadena, Calif.
May 3, Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Meeting, Omaha, Neb.
May 10, Open Door Coffee House, Arlington, Texas
May 17, 5th Annual Texas Steak Cook-off & Beef Symposium, Hico, Texas
June 6, Botanic Gardens, Fort Worth (FW Symphony Concerts in the Gardens Series)
June 7, Texas Scottish Festival & Highland Games, Arlington
June 20, Old Town Burleson, Burleson Summer Music Series
June 27, Rio Grande Zoo, Albuquerque, N.M. (Zoo Music Series)
July 11-13, 70th National Folk Festival, Butte, Mont.
August 16, Roots Music Series, Fredericksburg, Texas
September 26-27, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis
September 29-October 18, State Fair of Texas, Dallas (shows every day)
October 24-25, Red Steagall’s Cowboy Gathering & Western Swing Festival, Fort Worth
November 7, 14th Annual Heber City Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Heber City, Utah

Interview times are available as well as press kits.
To listen to MP3s and to download hi-res images and more, visit:
http://www.mcguckinpr.com/mcguckin/quebe_sisters/quebe.htm
Also see www.quebesistersband.com.

Contact: McGuckin Entertainment PR
Heidi Labensart, 512.478.0578; heidi@mcguckinpr.com
Jill McGuckin, 512.217.9404; jill@mcguckinpr.com

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Artist Information
Bio
Fact Sheet

Press Release:
Feb. 29 2008
Jan. 18 2008
Jul. 18, 2007

Press Coverage:
Maverick
April, 2008
Austin 360
Mar. 15, 2008
Forth Worth Star-Telegram
Mar. 9, 2008
Gearwire
Feb. 5, 2008
Daily Texan
Oct. 8, 2007
Austin American Statesman
Aug. 11, 2007