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With over fifteen years of touring to date, The Quebe Sisters have delivered their authentic triple fiddle and three-part harmony sound to the concert halls and festivals of North America, Europe, and Russia.
Grace, Sophia, and Hulda Quebe front an innovative Progressive Western Swing band of archtop guitar, upright bass, fiddles and sibling harmony. The Dallas-based five-piece presents a unique Americana blend of Western Swing, Jazz-influenced Swing, Country, Texas-Style Fiddling, and Western music.
“We differentiate our music as ‘Progressive Western Swing’ from simply ‘Western Swing’ because we aren’t trying to sound just like Bob Wills,” Grace Quebe explains. “Instead, we continue his vision, playing the style he pioneered in an authentic way by incorporating new genres and songs, interpreting them using our own unique voice through Country instrumentation.”
The band’s stripped-down acoustic instrumentation breathes new life into seasoned sounds once found in Texas dance halls and honky-tonks. Grace continues, “To us, preserving the tradition of Western Swing isn’t about keeping something alive like a relic. Western Swing has always been about innovation.”
Innovation has led the sisters to channel the musical connection between danceability and emotiveness, combining old sounds with new feelings and old feelings with new sounds. It’s not nostalgia that drives the band as purveyors of Western Swing, but the aspiration to take the music back to its roots and sustain the spirit of Swing.
Combine the musical stylings of The Mills Brothers, Ray Price, Count Basie, Willie Nelson, and you have none other than The Quebe Sisters.
Among a long list of pickers, storytellers, and shredders, the collective influences of Jesse Schaefer, Tanner Evans, Sarah Dossey and Billy Satterwhite of Indian & the Jones (I&TJ) might surprise you.
Officially formed out of a happenstance meeting, the idea of I&TJ was truly took shape when Evans and Schaefer attended an intimate performance by Mandolin Orange at SXSW music festival in the Spring of 2015. In the midst of hearing the band for one of the first times, Evans leaned over to Schaefer and said, “We should do this.” That was the beginning of the story that very soon included Dossey, a pop artist and banjo-player whom they had met on literally the same weekend, and only a couple years later included Billy Satterwhite, an improvisational bass player.
Since that first meeting, I&TJ’s sound has developed into something that surprises even them. They may have set out to learn and create bluegrass music, but overtime, the influence of classic folk and country songwriters like Lyle Lovett, Roger Miller, WIllie Nelson, and Randy Newman, as well as modern artists like Crooked Still, Milk Carton Kids, (in addition to Mandolin Orange) have begun to creep in and shape the way the 4 members of I&TJ approach songwriting. Schaefer and Dossey’s experience and love of pop music, Evans’ deeper well of Bluegrass and fiddle tune knowledge and Satterwhite’s undeniable jazz chops create a perfect storm of songs that are simultaneously hooky and classic.
In the fall of 2017, the group was honored by the City of Austin Arts and Entertainment commission, who declared October 19, 2017 as Indian & the Jones Day in Austin, TX.
Later, in 2018, Evans, Schaefer, and Dossey took these songs to one of the most prolific recording studios in the world, Blue Rock, located only a few miles down the road from their homebase in Austin. Working with producer Patrick Conway, the band was able to spend an entire week surrounded by juniper trees and limestone, completely submerged in the creation of music. Following this time of deep creativity, the band returned home having tracked over 15 songs, 10 of which made their debut to the world as their first record as a band, Texas, in November 2019.