Garrett T. Capps and Santiago Jimenez Jr. at Lonesome Rose, Sept. 10 Credit: Katelyn Earhart
The Lonesome Rose is celebrating seven years on San Antonio’s St. Mary’s Strip with a four-day music festival featuring performances by Texas and local acts playing anything from country and Tejano to indie, psych-folk and beyond.
SA soul purveyors Eddie & The Valiants and Chavela will kick things off Thursday with a free show. Combined, the two acts continue our city’s storied tradition as an epicenter of brown-eyed or Chicano soul. Now-legendary acts such as Sunny Ozuna and The Royal Jesters helped lay the foundation for what’s known locally as the West Side Sound.
Friday’s show will feature the intoxicating Western grooves of Rattlesnake Milk. Originally from the Texas Panhandle, the band is now based in Austin, and if August’s packed-to-the-gills Gruene Hall show is any indication, they’re about to blow up.
Rattlesnake Milk is joined on Friday’s lineup by cosmic cowboy and Lonesome Rose co-owner Garrett T. Capps and his band of deep-space desperados, NASA Country. Tickets to Friday’s show are $20 advance or $25 at the door, and they’re almost sold out, according to organizers.
Saturday’s gig will feature Summer Dean, a Fort Worth country singer-songwriter known to put on one hell of a show that’s both honky tonkin’ and full of confessional storytelling. But Dean’s ability to put on a show may meet its match with the bill’s inclusion of Alamo City rowdies Los Juanos, who bring their own undeniable blend of indie and Tejano to the bill.
Legendary accordion player Santiago Jimenez Jr. will round out Saturday night’s lineup, underscoring its high-energy Tex-Mex flavor. If their forces combined won’t pack the dance floor and get bodies moving, we don’t know what will. Tickets for Saturday’s performance run $10 in advance and $15 at the door.
The festival closes out on Sunday with yet another free show featuring local indie dream-pop act Elnuh, El Paso psych-folk group Doom Well and San Antonio jangle-pop collective Heavy Love.
The wide range of musical offerings this weekend showcases the niche the Lonesome Rose has carved out for itself in San Antonio — a honky tonk where cowboys and weirdos mingle. Everything from the twang of pedal steel to harsh, experimental noise rock has graced its stage under the every-watchful papier-mâché head of Capps, whose eclectic tastes bridge these many influences.
Though Lonesome Rose is just now getting the seven-year itch, it’s been cheekily referring to itself as the “oldest honky tonk on the St. Mary’s Strip” for some time now.
May the road go on forever and the party never end.
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