Valentine's in Valentine

The annual Big Bend Brewing Co. Valentine's in Valentine early-bird tickets are now available for sale. Click on the link to purchase. bit.ly/1zguYnJ

Good Vibrations in Terlingua

Can't you just hear the fun? Uh Clem and Crystal Allbright play at the Starlight Theatre in Terlingua.. Photo by Jennifer Hogue Pena. Inside the Starlight or outside on The Porch, great music and good vibes always abound in South Brewster County.

Viva Big Bend Festival, July 24-27!

Make your plans NOW to attend the Viva Big Bend Festival later this month, taking place in Alpine, Marathon, Marfa and Fort Davis....and this year, the bonus shows at Lajitas on July 22 and 23!

Click HERE to purchase tickets!!
Click here for the schedule, July 24-27!

Viva Terlingua Fest!

Mark your calendar for a mid-August festival at the gateway to Big Bend, the Viva Terlingua Fest!  Scheduled all day for Thursday, August 14-Sunday, August 17 for the fun, as there will be music, film and visual arts at the Lajitas Golf Resort and the Starlight Theatre! 

Interested in entering your song, film or artwork?  Click on this link for more information!



From the festival organizers post on our calendar of events:  "There are two screening locations, one in Lajitas and one in Terlingua. The Flat Rock Theatre in Lajitas is set up as a small traditional movie theatre. There’s even a popcorn machine in the lobby. The Starlight Theatre has been the site of several indie film premieres—there is a screen that hangs at the back of the stage, PA system, and a full-service restaurant and bar.

Flat Rock Theatre, Lajitas

Enter your short film (less than 65 minutes) in the contest to win cash and prizes. The judges will be looking at your story and how well you tell it. You can submit your film digitally or on DVD. If you make the semi-finals and we screen your film, you’ll need to provide a DVD.

There are several art galleries in Terlingua and Lajitas, and the Starlight Theatre hosts regular art openings and photograph exhibits. That’s where the semi-finalists work will be displayed.
Terlingua has a thriving music scene. The Starlight Theatre and Lajitas Resort have hosted Alejandro Escovedo, Joe Ely, Restless Kelly, Butch Hancock, Greezy Wheels, Steve Fromholtz, Rambling Jack Elliot, and many others.
Enter your song in the songwriting by sending us an MP3 or CD. The level of production is up to you. Our judges will be focusing on the song. Do your lyrics tell your story? Does the melody fit that story? Semi-finalists will have the opportunity to present their songs live on stage at the Festival.
- See more at: http://texasmountaintrail.com/events/terlingualajitas-viva-terlingua-fest#sthash.Ral7u8G7.dpuf

There are two screening locations, one in Lajitas and one in Terlingua. The Flat Rock Theatre in Lajitas is set up as a small traditional movie theatre. There’s even a popcorn machine in the lobby. The Starlight Theatre has been the site of several indie film premieres—there is a screen that hangs at the back of the stage, PA system, and a full-service restaurant and bar.
Enter your short film (less than 65 minutes) in the contest to win cash and prizes. The judges will be looking at your story and how well you tell it. You can submit your film digitally or on DVD. If you make the semi-finals and we screen your film, you’ll need to provide a DVD.
There are several art galleries in Terlingua and Lajitas, and the Starlight Theatre hosts regular art openings and photograph exhibits. That’s where the semi-finalists work will be displayed.
Terlingua has a thriving music scene. The Starlight Theatre and Lajitas Resort have hosted Alejandro Escovedo, Joe Ely, Restless Kelly, Butch Hancock, Greezy Wheels, Steve Fromholtz, Rambling Jack Elliot, and many others.
Enter your song in the songwriting by sending us an MP3 or CD. The level of production is up to you. Our judges will be focusing on the song. Do your lyrics tell your story? Does the melody fit that story? Semi-finalists will have the opportunity to present their songs live on stage at the Festival.
- See more at: http://texasmountaintrail.com/events/terlingualajitas-viva-terlingua-fest#sthash.Ral7u8G7.dpuf

There are several art galleries in Terlingua and Lajitas, and the Starlight Theatre hosts regular art openings and photograph exhibits. That’s where the semi-finalists work will be displayed.

Terlingua has a thriving music scene. The Starlight Theatre and Lajitas Resort have hosted Alejandro Escovedo, Joe Ely, Restless Kelly, Butch Hancock, Greezy Wheels, Steve Fromholtz, Rambling Jack Elliot, and many others.

Enter your song in the songwriting by sending us an MP3 or CD. The level of production is up to you. Our judges will be focusing on the song. Do your lyrics tell your story? Does the melody fit that story? Semi-finalists will have the opportunity to present their songs live on stage at the Festival."

Click here to purchase tickets online!

Viva Big Bend is coming up soon!

For the first time, there will be shows in Lajitas as well as Alpine, Fort Davis, Marfa and Marathon! Get your tickets now!

Visit the Viva Big Bend website for information on tickets, shows and venues! 

Sound Speed Marker at Ballroom Marfa

Remnant of the movie set from Giant!
Photograph from the exhibition Sound Speed Marker
at Ballroom Marfa

From our friends at Ballroom Marfa

Sound Speed Marker
Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler
28 February 2014 – 31 July 2014

Opening: 28 February, 6–8pm
With tacos by Fat Lyle’s and beer by Big Bend Brewing Company


Also:  

The Tish Hinojosa Band
As part of the Sound Speed Marker opening weekend
March 1, 2014 | 8 pm
USO Building, Marfa, Texas
Free

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Ballroom Marfa is pleased to present Sound Speed Marker by Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler. The three video installations and related photographs, covering a span of five years of work, explore film’s relationship to place and the traces that movie making leaves behind. The exhibition includes the premiere of Giant (2014), a work commissioned by Ballroom Marfa. The exhibition will be on view at Ballroom Marfa until July 31, 2014 and will be accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue to be published in December 2014. Sound Speed Marker will travel to the Irish Museum of Modern Art in December 2014 and the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston in May 2015.

Grand Paris Texas (2009) considers the physical and social space of a dead movie theater, a forgotten song and the inhabitants of a small town. The Grand Theater, an abandoned, pigeon-filled movie theater in downtown Paris, serves as the protagonist in a narrative that explores Paris as a meta-location constructed through celluloid and soundtrack. Grand Paris Texas connects three seminal movies of the Southwest: Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas (1984), Bruce Beresford’s Tender Mercies (1983), and King Baggot’s classic silent film, Tumbleweeds (1925).

In Movie Mountain (Méliès) (2011), Hubbard/Birchler explore the site of a mountain in the Chihuahuan Desert near the town of Sierra Blanca. The project generates several narrative strands that interweave memory and forgetting. Movie Mountain (Méliès) features a script-writing cowboy as well as local residents whose relatives performed in an original silent picture filmed at the mountain. The project also encounters a possible link between Movie Mountain and Gaston Méliès, the brother of famous filmmaker George Méliès.

Giant (2014) interweaves signs of life and vistas of a decaying movie set built outside of Marfa: the Reata mansion from the 1956 Warner Bros. film, Giant starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean. After filming was completed the three-sided facade was left behind in the landscape. Hubbard/Birchler explore the skeletal remains of the set as seasons change, day turns to night and parts of the structure swing and fall off. Scenes of a film crew recording the current conditions are juxtaposed with a Warner Bros. office in 1955, where a secretary types up the location contract for the motion picture that has yet to be created.

Teresa Hubbard, born in Dublin, Ireland 1965 and Alexander Birchler, born in Baden, Switzerland 1962 have been working collaboratively in video, photography and sculpture since 1990. Their work is held in numerous private and public collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D. C.; Kunstmuseum Basel; Kunsthaus Zurich; Modern Art Museum Fort Worth; Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Yokohama Museum of Art and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. Work in this exhibition appears courtesy of Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York and Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin.

It is part of Ballroom Marfa’s mission to enable artwork that would be impossible to realize elsewhere. This project — with its roots in the landscape that we call home — brings Hubbard/Birchler’s trilogy to a close, and clarifies Ballroom Marfa’s role as an organization committed to commissioning new work.

See these events on our Texas Mountain Trail calendar, HERE.

Viva Big Bend Tickets on Sale Now!

Early Bird tickets are now on sale for the VIVA Big Bend music festival set for July 24-27, 2014!

Click HERE to purchase yours!

And put another terrific festival on your calendar, the VIVA Big Bend Food Festival, April 10-12, 2014.  Details to be available soon!

Monica Pope cooking class at last year's Viva Big Bend
Food Festival at Padre's in Marfa

RIDE FOR READING in Fort Davis today!
Meet at the Fort Davis Chamber of Commerce at 11 am with your bicycle, helmet and a bookbag or backpack.  We'll ride to the elementary school together!

Click on image for a closer view!

And in Terlingua on Friday!
Meet at Big Bend Resorts and Adventures at 11 am with your bicycle, helmet and a bookback or backpack!  We'll ride to the elementary school as a group!

Love Classical Music and Want to Learn More?

Yesterday, we asked you the "save the date" for the Trappings of Texas exhibition put on by our friends at the Museum of the Big Bend on the campus of Sul Ross State University in Alpine.  Today, it is our pleasure to share one of their extended learning opportunities, an opportunities for Classical Music lovers!

CLASSICAL MUSIC FOR MUSIC LOVERS II

THURSDAY EVENINGS – 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.

January 16 – February 20, 2014

Sul Ross State University, Alpine, Texas

Fine Arts Building, Room 200

Sponsored by the Museum of the Big Bend, this six-week course taught by Mr. David Oesper, students will listen to and explore orchestral and chamber music from 1900 to the present.  This course is especially well suited to anyone who loves music but has not had much exposure to classical music.  This introductory course is designed to enhance listening enjoyment and ability, and to provide interesting insights into the lives and times of a number of extraordinarily talented composers.  No previous musical study or knowledge required.  For adults and high school students.

$50/ Person.

A portion of your registration fee supports the museum’s dynamic program of exhibitions and public outreach.

Contact Noemi Acosta at 432.837.8143 or nacosta@sulross.edu for more information and to register!

Vintage Songs from the 20s, 30s, 40s!!

Everyone is invited on December 26th to a fun holiday party at Eve's Garden Organic B&B in Marathon!  (Eve's Garden just became one of our Texas Mountain Trail cycle-friendly hotel properties, and is an exciting and gracious place for a holiday party!)

The Paper Moon ShinersDuo--who specialize in vintage songs and originals inspired by the 20's, 30's, and 40's--will play a few tunes. Eve's Garden invites you to beer on tap (awesome Big Bend Brewery!) and they'll have a few snacks, it's also a pot luck, bring along any left over holiday treats you have. If you don't have time to bring anything, come and socialize! All Welcome!

Click here to see the event listing on our Texas Mountain Trail web calendar.

Hear some of their music samples on THIS page!

Eve's Garden Organic B&B in Marathon!

You're invited to a fun holiday party at Eve's Garden Organic B&B in Marathon, TX. The Paper Moon Shiners Duo--who specialize in vintage songs and originals inspired by the 20's, 30's, and 40's--will play a few tunes. Eve's Garden invites you to beer on tap (awesome Big Bend Brewery!) and we'll have a few snacks, it's also a pot luck, bring along any left over holiday treats you have. If you don't have time to bring anything, just come and socialize! All Welcome!

- See more at: http://texasmountaintrail.com/events/open-house-live-music-01#sthash.K2xcsYjQ.dpuf