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Updated March 15, 2005

 

Release date March 14th -
Harvest Media Group welcomes you to their first annual SXSW Party. The festivities begin at 12 noon at the Parish, 214 East 6th Street Austin, TX with local acoustic folk rocker Tucker Livingston followed by a rising singer/songwriter by the name of Tyrone Wells from Los Angeles, CA. Just added to the bill is 2005 Grammy Winners, Tejano legend David Lee Garza producer Joel Guzman and vocalist Sarah Fox, who will bring a rare live performance. Following the Grammy Winners is singer/songwriter Alexi Murdoch, who is best known for his song in the movie Garden State and Ladder 49. Architects are closing the day festivities with their Kansas City based garage soul revival. Harvest Media is supplying everyone with plenty of beer and food throughout the day.

Published on Friday, March 4, 2005
Grammy winner is music to Valley ears
YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC
In case you missed it — and most of us did — the Yakima Valley's Grammy curse has finally been broken. At some point during the Feb. 13 broadcast of the annual music awards show, former Sunnyside resident and child prodigy accordion player Joel Guzman's name appeared for a brief second at the bottom of the screen — you know, where they list the winners who were announced at a ceremony prior to the event. Guzman, along with critically acclaimed bandmates David Lee Garza and Sunny Sauceda, took home the coveted bronze phonograph statuette in the "Best Tejano Album" category for their "Polkas, Gritos, y Acordeones" record. Guzman, who now lives in Texas, also produced the 10-track album. His win breaks a cursed streak of former and current Yakima Valley musicians who are repeatedly invited down the red carpet, but go away empty-handed. Over the years, soulful singer and 1971 Davis High School graduate Oleta Adams has earned four nominations, while the Black Lodge Singers, a powwow drum group out of White Swan, have three. Word of Guzman's acordeonista success finally trickled down to his old stomping grounds last week.

An article from Ramiro Burr, San Antonio Express News, March 4th -
Tejano as an American Art.