Hot Jams & Cold Showers : Scenes from the Kerrville Folk Festival [Paperback]

Dyanne Fry Cortez (Author), David Amram (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2000

This memoir concerns the internationally renowned Kerrville Folk Festival, which will celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2011. Stories in the book are drawn from the authorÂ’s personal experience as a festival spectator, staff volunteer, and participant in the all-night campfire "jams." Includes a map of the festival campground and 50 black and white photographs.

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About the Author

A longtime journalist, Dyanne Fry Cortez has written on Texas culture and characters since 1979. Her work has appeared in Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine, Texas Hill Country View, The Austin Chronicle, The Good Life, and Enchanted Rock. She was one of fifty-five authors featured in an international anthology on cross-cultural romance, published in Switzerland as CupidÂ’s Wild Arrows (Bergli Books, 1993) and in the United States as Breaking Convention with Intercultural Romances (The Crossing Press, 1995).

Product Details

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: Dos Puertas Pub (June 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970018908
• ISBN-13: 978-0970018908
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,105,124 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Enjoyment, October 28, 2000

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This review is from: Hot Jams & Cold Showers : Scenes from the Kerrville Folk Festival (Paperback)

If you have ever been to the Kerville Folk Festival, "Hot Jams & Cold Showers will take you back. If you have never had the experience of Kerville, it will give you a glimpse of what you are missing. Dyanne Fry Cortez has taken her years of Kerville experience and put it a book to be read by all. The Main Stage, Ballad Tree on Chapel Hill, camp fires, love and loss are all to be found in "Hot Jams & Cold Showers".

The heart touching story of Antler Dave, how Kerville was blessed with him for a very short time and the legend he left behind, which still lives today each time the festival anthem "Heal in the Wisdom" is sung. The story of Eric and Peggy, and and how Dyanne met her husband Javier, all make this book to be read for pure enjoyment.