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Jacob and Jordan Hackett (above)
are Clear Fork.
The leader of the Matt Day
Band is a Burleson native who
lives in Rio Vista and has been
playing music for about 16
years. He’s adept on bass, drums
and guitar.
He started writing songs,
formed a band and won a singer/songwriter contest sponsored
by 92.1 FM, where he then
regularly performed live on the
morning show. Recently teamed
with lead guitarist Jeremy Vanderburg and other musicians,
Day is working on a CD project
and plays acoustic gigs around
the Metroplex. The band’s music has many influences from a
rock ‘n’ roll background to a
strong country upbringing that
create a music style all its own.
Jeremy Vanderburg, 26, is a
Joshua native who’s been playing guitar for about three years.
His musical influences range
from Metallica to Ragweed.
Bob Bone fiddles for Stampede Band.
Johnny Johnson leads the
Memory Makers.
ing and lead vocals includes his
granddaughter and fellow fiddler,
7-year-old Jessica Sell.
Stampede Band has Bob Bone on
fiddle, Albert Tally on steel guitar,
Dick Bridges on bass and lead vocals, Leonard Hill on drums and
Truman Hudson on guitar and vocals.
Bluegrass is a father-daughter duo
of Justine and Justine Blakely.
They’ve been touring festivals and
coffee shops for six years, with Justine on banjo and Justin on fiddle,
mandolin and guitar. For their Peach
Festival debut, the Springtown natives
promise a little bluegrass, some alternative
rock, some folk and a unique sound.
Danielle Reed is a Boyd High School
honor student who sings and plays rhythm
guitar and fiddle. Her CD is called Danielle Reed: My Country.
Chandler Bennett earned her nickname, Little
Miss Dyna-Mite, with a passionate voice.
(Above) Gerald Ray is lead guitar for
Cowboy Country.
Tommy Hughes brings his band to Peach Festival.
Matt Day
Peach Festival’s main stage
is at the corner of Palo Pinto
and South Waco streets, in the
First Baptist Church parking
lot.
Dorothy Glenn has a reputation for assembling exceptional shows featuring the
finest of local performers.
Little Miss Dyna-Mite
Chandler Bennett and her
band get things started. The
8-year-old from Mansfield
has a voice that earned her
third-place in the Colgate
Country Showdown and got
her gigs with Charlie Pride,
Sonny Burgess and Johnnie
High’s Country Music Revue.
Jacob and Jordan Hackett
of Plainview bring Clear
Fork to the stage next with
some Bob Wills western
swing. Their family spends
part of their annual vacation
at Peach Festival because
they love its tradition and its
audiences love the boys’
fiddle and guitar.
Cowboy Country Band
has Gerald Ray on lead guitar and vocals, Ray Austin
on steel guitar, Tony Guidroz
on drums and vocals, and
James Glenn on bass. Special guest Ryan Guidroz sits
in on drums. The 12-yearold Stephenville kid comes
to Peach Festival each year
with his dad, just to help the
band.
Johnny Johnson and the
Memory Makers Band performs traditional country
music and gospel. They’ve
made a CD called Angels
Don’t Lie, which is No. 2 on
the Power Source Magazine
and Western Swing top 10.
Texas Best features Durwood Strube on lead vocals
and rhythm guitar, Larry
Reed on vocals and sax,
Teddy Driskill on lead guitar, Lanney Butler on bass
and special guest Neil Butler
(Strube’s grandson) on bass
and vocals.
The Band formed around
Tommy Hughes’ fiddle play-
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