On Saturday (March 31), the folk music program on Marfa Public Radio will be an expanded two hours session, looking at Texas folk music. The radio program will recap Friday's afternoon session of the annual meeting of the West Texas Historical Association, held in Alpine, on the campus of Sul Ross State University.
Ross Burns, the KRTS host of I Hear America Singing and representing Sul Ross, will be joined, from Noon to 2pm, by Andy Wilkinson, of Texas Tech University. They will be recapping Friday's afternoon session, entitled "Texas Songbird, Honking Tenor Sax, and Geronimo’s Cadillac."
The presider for this session is Leland Turner, of Southwestern Oklahoma State University. The session begins with Ross Burns's presentation, "Carolyn Hester, Texas Songbird"; next is "Sneaky Pete: The West Texas Tenor Sax Stylings of Jimmy Seals," by Joe Specht, or McMurray University; and then "Important Texas Music: ‘Geronimo’s Cadillac’," with Andy Wilkinson.
Listen on Saturday at Noon to 2 PM for "a musical recap" of some of the papers delivered at the West Texas Historical Association's annual meeting.