NEWS
2019
The Rivard Report (San Antonio): “Texas Dance Hall Business No Waltz in the Park, But SA Keeps a Few Kicking” (June 6, 2019)
Los Angeles Times (California): “Column One: Texas once had 1,000 dance halls. Now there’s a rush to save those that remain” (June 4, 2019)
Texas Highways: “This June’s Texas Dance Hall Tour Showcases DFW Halls” (May 29, 2019)
NPR Marketplace: “Weddings are helping save historic Texas dance halls” (April 26, 2019)
Texas Monthly: “The Texanist: Are There Any Decent Dance Halls Left?” (April 1, 2019)
KWTX-TV News Ten (Waco): “Declining Numbers Threaten Texas Dance Halls” (February 5, 2019)
Texas Co-Op Power: “Hail the Halls” (February 2019)
2018
Fox 7 (Austin): “Preserving Texas Dance Halls,” May 7, 2018
Houstonia Magazine: “Lone Star Beer Wants to Preserve the Dance Halls of Texas,” March 20, 2018
USA Today: “Dance Hall Days: Texas Preserves a Treasured Tradition,” September 25, 2017
Antique Archaeology: “Texas Dance Halls: Two-Steppin’ Through Time,” June 23, 2017
KVUE.com (ABC-TV Austin, Texas): “Historic Texas Dance Hall Hits the Market on EBay,” June 6, 2017
Preservation Magazine: “How Asleep At The Wheel is Helping Save Texas’ Dance Halls,” April 27, 2017
Revitalization News: “Restoration of Historic 1894 Dance Hall Revives Downtown Schulenberg, Texas,” May 15, 2017
Austin Monthly: “Ray Benson’s on a Mission to Save Texas Dance Halls,” March 13, 2017
Victoria Advocate: “Dance Hall Observes 10th Anniversary of Destructive Fire,” January 13, 2017
Texas Monthly: “How the Two-Step Can Save Historic Texas Dance Halls,” January 2017
National Geographic: “Doing the Texas Shuffle,” January 4, 2016
Houston Chronicle: “Today’s Cypress Squeezes Out Fabled Dance Hall,” January 2, 2016
Dallas Morning News: “Dim the Lights,” December 22, 2015
Focus On The Backroads: “Help Rescue Historic Texas Dance Halls,” November 29, 2015
CBS Morning News: “Could It Be Last Calls for Texas’ Dance Halls?” June 27, 2015
Country Living Magazine: “Save the Texas Dance Halls!” June 16, 2015
KERA-TV, Dallas: “Texas Dance Halls are Dying, Preservation Group Says,” April 6, 2015
Associated Press/Billboard: “Old Texas Dance Halls Decaying, But Some Won’t Let Them Fade,” print, April 6, 2015
Associated Press/Texas Public Radio: “Old Texas Dance Halls Decaying, But Some Won’t Let Them Fade,” audio, April 5, 2015
Texas Public Radio, “Texas Dance Hall Memories: Icons Of Music & Culture Are Fading Away,” August 15, 2014 (originally produced 2009)
My San Antonio: “Texas’ Historic Dance Halls Declining,” August 7, 2014
National Public Radio: “Saving Texas Dance Halls, One Two-Step at a Time,” January 4, 2010
Texas Society of Architects: “Texas Dance Halls,” August 30, 2013
Texas Monthly: “Come Together: A Cultural Tour of Texas Dance Halls,” August 2013
Austin Chronicle: “Day Trips: Austin County Boasts the Most Multi-Sided, German-Style Community Halls in Texas,” March 5, 2010
Texas Escapes: “Dance Halls in Texas,” March 11, 2010
Texas Monthly: “Step Right Up,” December 2009
BOOKS
Dance Halls and Last Calls:
A History of Texas Country Music
By Geronimo Treviño, III
Republic of Texas Press
Texas Dance Halls: A Two-Step Circuit
By Gail Folkins
Photographs by J. Marcus Weekley
Texas Tech University Press
Dance Halls of Central Texas
Kevin Alter, Editor
Photographs by Krista Whitson
University of Texas Press
Dance Ya’ll, Dance
By Kelly Bennett
Illustrated by Terri Murphy
Bright Sky Press
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