36th Annual Fiddlers' Frolics April 20-23.HALLETTSVILLE, Texas Hallettsville is a city in Lavaca County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,345 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Lavaca CountyGR6. -- Legendary Texas musicians and world class barbecue combine with small town hospitality for the premier spring festival in South Central Texas, a memorable, family experience of Texas heritage, within a short drive of major metropolitan areas. The Texas State Championship Fiddlers' Frolics in Hallettsville, Texas on April 20-23 is marking its 36th year, and with over $20,000 in prizes will draw the world's best fiddlers, while master cooks compete in the Texas State Championship Sausage and Barbecue Cook-Off. Past competitors include Mark O'Connor, Jim "Texas Shorty short·y also short·ie Informal n. pl. short·ies 1. A person short in stature. 2. A thing of less than average size, length, extension, or duration. adj. " Chancellor, Asleep at the Wheel's Ricky Turpin, Nashville Grammy-winner Larry Franklin, Ray Price's fiddler Dale Morris, and six-time National Champion Roberta Rast. "This festival has something to entertain everyone in the family," stated Kenneth Henneke, co-chairman of the Fiddlers' Frolics. "If you come for the day or come for the weekend, you will be treated to the best music, food and friendship that Texas has to offer." Friday is "Cajun and Bluegrass bluegrass, any species of the large and widely distributed genus Poa, chiefly range and pasture grasses of economic importance in temperate and cool regions. In general, bluegrasses are perennial with fine-leaved foliage that is bluish green in some species. Fun Night." "Hickory Hill" (a bluegrass band from east Texas), "Fiddling Frenchie Burke" (Cajun), and "Wilfred Chevis and the Texas Zydeco zydeco (zī`dĭkō'), American musical form originating among the African-American Creoles of Louisiana. Drawing on elements of traditional Cajun music as well as jazz, country and western, and blues, it is characterized by French lyrics, Band" will entertain inside the Knights of Columbus Knights of Columbus, American Roman Catholic society for men, founded (1882) at New Haven, Conn. (where its headquarters are still located), by Father Michael J. McGivney. Hall, while Cajun cooks prepare crawfish crawfish: see crayfish. , gumbo, and red beans and rice Red beans and rice is an emblematic dish of Louisiana Creole cuisine (not originally of Cajun cuisine), traditionally made on Mondays with red beans, vegetables (onion and celery), spices (thyme, cayenne pepper, and bay leaf), and pork bones left over from Sunday dinner, cooked on the covered pavilion. The music competition heats up on Saturday with youngsters, seniors and some of the country's best-known performing and recording fiddlers competing with tunes and the "Texas-style" of fiddling that has been handed down over generations. The fiddling competition will take place inside the K.C. Hall, while Wilfred Chevis provides free Cajun/Zydeco entertainment outside on the pavilion, surrounded by the colorful set-ups of the teams competing in the sausage, beans and barbecue contest. Saturday night is high energy for all, with a Battle Dance featuring "The Emotions" and "Rhythm of the Road." On Sunday, the contest peaks as Texans battle amongst themselves to see who will win the title of Texas State Champion Fiddler. That morning Daniel Jasek will join the likes of Johnny Gimble, Eck Robertson, Benny Thomasson, Red Steeley and Major Franklin in the Texas Fiddlers Hall of Fame. Fiddlers' Frolics has non-fiddling things to do as well. You can shop for a treasure at the arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. show. If the kids get restless, they can find hours of fun at the Heart of Texas Carnival featuring rides and amusements for children of all ages. Tickets are an affordable $8.00 to see all three performers on Friday night, $7.00 each day for the fiddle contest on Saturday and on Sunday, and $10.00 for the dance on Saturday night. Parking is free. Hallettsville is centrally located between Houston and San Antonio and between Victoria and La Grange, about 90 miles southeast of Austin. Its picturesque town square and one hundred year old courthouse mark it as the county seat of Lavaca County, which is also home to the Shiner shiner: see minnow. shiner Any of several small freshwater fishes (genera Notemigonus and Notropis, family Cyprinidae). The common shiner (Notropis cornutus) is a blue and silver minnow up to 8 in. (20 cm) long. brewery, historic painted churches, a strong Czech-German heritage, and particularly on Fiddler's Frolics weekend, good music, good food and good fun. See www.fiddlersfrolics.org for more information. |
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