NEWS
2020
Travel Texas: “Texas Dance Hall Preservation raises over $250,000 for Dance Hall Relief” (December 2020)
Authentic Texan: “Struggling to Survive: Texas Dance Halls Need Your Help!” (December 2020)
Good Day Austin: “Texas Dance Hall Preservation talks about saving Texas dance halls” (Nov. 4, 2020)
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
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