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Buckles and Spurs Festival: Music, Community, and Country Spirit in Houston · The Scene Projects

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  Welcome in to another exciting episode of the scene.
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  I'm your host Bubba Starts, and with me today is Tim Hazzi.
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  Tim is the founder of the Buckles and Spurs Music Festival in the great state of Texas.
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  Tim, welcome to the bus.
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  Thank you, man.
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  I appreciate it.
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  This is awesome, man.
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  I appreciate that you made this happen.
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  We're both visitors here to Nashville this weekend, and it just happened to time up
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  perfectly.
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  It it it worked it worked out well instead of having doing this over the Internet or Zoom
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  call.
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  Mean Which which is fine.
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  Right?
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  But when you can jump on jump on the tour bus formerly owned by George Jones and do it.
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  Right?
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  Man.
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  All the better.
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  It's amazing.
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  Just to be on the bus that the possum was on and living it just it's it's it's great.
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  Yeah, man.
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  And he absolutely loved this thing.
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  You can tell how much it meant to him.
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  We rode all the way down here from Wisconsin in this thing last night, man.
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  Incredible incredible run that we've been on.
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  One hell of a ride, I'm calling it.
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  Hey.
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  It's it it works.
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  That's what traveling's about.
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  We had the same thing going through Memphis.
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  So Awesome.
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  So tell us about the music festival.
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  Oh, man.
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  Well, hoping it's gonna be the largest music festival in the state of Texas once we get done
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  with it in June.
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  It's a Father's Day weekend.
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  60 bands over four days.
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  We got four themed days, which makes it nice because I don't know any other festival that
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  does that.
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  So what we're doing is on our Thursday, we're doing the new bands and up and comers, and
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  we're reaching out to a few few of them.
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  I really don't wanna say the names because we don't have the contracts yet, but let's just
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  say there there are some heavy hitters.
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  Friday is our country legends day, and we've been in contacts with Georgette Jones.
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  We've got the Jean Watson.
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  I'm sorry.
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  We reached out to Crystal Gale as one of our headliners, so we're hoping we can get in get
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  those in.
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  Saturday is gonna be our our today country, and we're working with Folds of Honor and Wounded
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  Warrior Project to raise raise money for wounded veterans for basically, our veterans
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  because they're they're under undervalued.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, we we know that here.
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  Obviously, we work with our nonprofit in South Dakota, Operation Combating Veteran Suicide.
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  So if there's room for more and and us to jump in there, I I'm sure we would love to do that.
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  We're gonna Special shout out to them as well.
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  We gotta take care of them because they don't they they've taken care of our country and
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  taken care of us.
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  We can't do what we're doing here.
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  We can't be here at the Opry with the Josie Awards along with the the great performers and
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  all that stuff and artists without them.
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  They give them our give us our freedom to be able to do this.
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  Yeah.
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  So we're doing that.
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  So we're hoping they're gonna bring in a couple couple ringers for us.
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  But it's Saturday is our today's country, and then Sunday is our our nineties country.
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  Awesome.
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  So we've got some we've got some pretty good good bands on there already.
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  We got, I mean, legends.
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  Who doesn't know Sons of the Pioneer?
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  Right.
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  I mean, we got them.
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  A good old Roy Rogers family was friends with Roy Rogers.
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  So it's like to be honored to have them to to be on stage with us too.
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  So
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  So how did the festival come about?
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  I mean, this does doesn't happen overnight.
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  So what was kind of the inspiration first, and then we'll kind of pick it up from there?
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  Well, there hasn't been a festival in in the Houston, Texas area for years.
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  The last festival that was tried was Astral World with Travis Scott, and that turned out to
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  be a deadly affair.
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  Yeah.
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  So no one wanted to attempt to do another festival within the within the Houston City
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  area.
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  But there's a need for it.
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  So the great great people or or good people find what the needs are and go for it.
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  Right.
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  So I decided, why not?
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  Everything's bigger in Texas.
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  People always tell me start small, then go go big.
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  With me, it's always been go big or go home.
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  So we've we figured out the structure.
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  We knew what genre we were gonna go for, and then we just figured what can we do to help the
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  community.
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  And it's not just about making the money.
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  It's about making the connections, meeting the people, and doing good.
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  And when we decided to work with with veterans, country music is huge supporters of the
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  veterans, of this country, and we're like, let's do it.
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  Yeah.
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  We reached out to Folds of Honor, reached out to Wounded Warrior Project and a few others.
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  Romans Warrior Project also, they have a traveling, memorial wall along with other
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  memorials on it, that go across the country.
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  So we reach out to them.
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  They said, hey.
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  We're on board.
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  Let's do this.
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  Now it's just the the growth.
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  Yeah.
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  And I'm gonna tell you what, I've got me and a team of five others that are doing this
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  festival.
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  I don't wish it on anyone else, man.
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  It it's it's you got the ups and you got the downs, but so far, everyone's been great and
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  and accepting, and the reception of it within the Houston area is is unreal.
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  So, I mean, it it's it's fun.
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  I enjoy it.
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  We're happy to hear that.
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  Well, we hope that we can turn you guys on to a lot of new country from the Midwest.
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  We're members of the Midwest Country Music Organization, not just with our podcast, but
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  with my band starts and ends as well.
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  So maybe we can make some things happen, and we can come down there and celebrate Father's Day
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  weekend and country music and our veterans all in one shot there at Buckles and Spurs Music
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  Festival.
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  Where can people find out more information about the fest and the lineup and all that good
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  stuff?
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  Well, you can go to bucklesandspursfest.com.
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  We're on social media.
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  We're on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook.
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  It's all under Buckles and Spurs Country Music Festival.
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  And we got we you can also go on ticketferry..com and search it for tickets.
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  Very reasonable price, man.
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  Four days for $300.
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  Right.
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  I mean, you cannot touch one of our headliners for that nowadays.
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  Ticket prices are so ridiculous.
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  Is gonna there be camping for it as well?
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  You guys camping on-site?
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  Okay.
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  We have camping on-site.
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  We're on a 195 acre horse ranch.
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  Awesome.
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  The festival grounds that we're actually working on is just about 50 acres.
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  We're using about another 50 for camping.
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  So we'll be having about 500 camp spots, VIP camp spots on-site.
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  Got room for the bus?
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  Bring it on the bus.
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  I I've got I've about 25 to 30 acres that's just for performers and buses.
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  Hey.
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  We'll get the possums bus in there.
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  Yeah.
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  We'll find some space for it.
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  Well, Tim, I appreciate you jumping on with us today and tell us about the festival.
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  We really look forward to working with you and promoting this festival.
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  As it gets closer to game time and as you're rolling out, any kind of announcements, make
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  sure you let us know as well.
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  For everyone else, make sure that you're checking out the website.
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  The lineup is gonna be finalized soon, I'm sure, with a lot of big announcements coming at
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  you.
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  So make sure that you're checking out that.
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  That's Buckles and Spurs Music Festival, and we will see you next time on the scene.