Hello Quebe Sisters fans! Due to renovation delays at the Iron Horse, the show on Sunday, May 15th has been moved to the new live venue The Drake in Amherst, located at 44 N. Pleasant Street (across Amity St. from the Amherst Cinema). You have already been refunded for your Iron Horse ticket by now and it should show up on your credit card shortly. You will need to buy a new ticket to attend as it is a separate business. The ticket link is below. We do encourage you to come please... for the Quebes! For humanity! The venue is very cool and just celebrated its grand opening weekend with shows from Regina Carter and Loudon Wainwright among others. There is an option to purchase "premier" tickets for $5 more that will seat you at a a cocktail table in the first four rows. The rest of the seats are in rows (no tables). It's an intimate venue. No bad seats. There's a full bar but no food so maybe visit an Amherst restaurant before the show. Doors at 6. Quebes at 7PM. GET NEW TICKETS HERE: https://thirdrow.live/shop/quebe-sisters/ Any questions please email iheg.help@gmail.com
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.