The band performs regularly at sports events, festivals, fairs, and gatherings throughout the year.
The Texas Dixieland Band has been opening the season for the Texas Rangers since 1994, delighting fans for several hours before the start of the games. In addition the Texas Rangers, the Texas Dixieland Band plays for the Fort Worth Cats and the Dallas Stars.
The Texas Dixieland Band was one of the featured acts at the 2004 Breeders’ Cup World Thoroughbred Championship at Lone Star Park. The band has been playing at Lone Star Race Track since 1999.
The five piece band consists of trumpet, clarinet/sax, trombone, tuba and drums. Dan Evans, who toured with the Glen Miller band, plays trumpet, Jim Brimer, outstanding Dixieland Jazz musician, plays clarinet. Bill Allen, who leads the brass quintet Sounding Brass plays trombone. Scot Tignor, doctoral student at the University of North Texas, plays tuba, and Danny Boyer, who owns Central Communication Co., plays drums.
The jazz group repertoire includes all types of traditional Dixieland music including early jazz, blues, gospel, marches, ragtime, and swing. Many Dixieland songs are not well known by title or composer, but the melodies are very familiar to the audience. In fact many of the old sing-along songs were from the Dixieland era, songs like “Won’t You Come Home, Bill Bailey,” “When You’re Smiling”, and “Sweet Georgia Brown”. Other blues songs like “Basin Street” and “Tin Roof Blues” focused on the lifestyles of this period in our history. It is difficult to play a set without the audience requesting “When the Saints Go Marching In” and “Just a Closer Walk with Thee”. The Texas Dixieland Band stays true to the spirit and style of the music.
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