Tag: Texas
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May Playlist: Once You’ve Loved Somebody, or The Dixie Chicks and How They Made Us
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to talk about a band. On the surface, this is a simple story of three Texas gals — a fiddler, a strings player, and a singer — who found each other and started making music. They released four albums, toured the world, ran into some hot water with…
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July Playlist: Swing Me Way Down South
As we’ve written before, music has a special ability to transport us to a time or a place. Turn on a specific song and we’re suddenly post-Homecoming Dance twirling around Scout’s kitchen or in Zelda’s old Volvo driving to one of many quick recall matches in the cold midwinter. The South in particular has a long musical…
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Come Hear the Music Play
Summer has been in the New York air this past week (something which, for many months, we wholeheartedly believed we’d never be able to say again). The sunshine and the palpable humidity have put us in mind of one of our favorite summertime, and Southern, activities: listening to music in the great outdoors. May is…
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Just Folks: Courtney Towner
Mondays on Zelda & Scout are all about you! In a series we call “Just Folks,” we talk to Southerners who have found their way to New York about where they’re from, where they are now, and what home means to them. This week we have Courtney Towner. Courtney hails from deep in the heart…
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Just Folks: Amy Charnock
Mondays on Zelda & Scout are all about you! In a series we call “Just Folks,” we talk to Southerners who have found their way to New York about where they’re from, where they are now, and what home means to them. Tell us your story here! This week we have Amy Charnock. This Texan…
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November Round Up, and an Announcement!
Hey Folks! Welcome to this month’s round-up. We hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving and are, like us, already entrenched in full-on holiday mode as December rolls around the bend. We both enjoyed very brief but lovely jaunts to our Old Kentucky Home for the holiday, and even if Zelda only spent 6 hours of…
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Just Folks: John Corrales
Mondays on Zelda & Scout are all about you! In a series we call “Just Folks,” we talk to Southerners who have found their way to New York about where they’re from, where they are now, and what home means to them. Tell us your story here! This week we have John Corrales. You can’t…
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Just Folks: Anita Badejo
Mondays on Zelda & Scout are all about you! In a series we call “Just Folks,” we talk to Southerners who have found their way to New York about where they’re from, where they are now, and what home means to them. Tell us your story here! This week we have Anita Badejo. A Nigerian-Hungarian…
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Ten Southern Instagrammers You Should Be Following
The South was basically made for Instagram: It’s beautiful, quirky, and colorful, and each city and town is bursting with personality, exuding its own specific sense of place. Here we have ten Instagrammers that capture the beauty and eccentricity of their particular corners of the South, creating a digital rainbow of its nooks and crannies…
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Just Folks: Stephanie Walker
Mondays on Zelda & Scout are all about you! In a series we call “Just Folks,” we talk to Southerners who have found their way to New York about where they’re from, where they are now, and what home means to them. This week we have the lovely Stephanie Walker! Steph hails from deep in…
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