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The Kerrville Folk Festival is 54 years old this month and still going strong.

The legendary Robert Johnson recorded about half of his songs in San Antonio at the Gunter Hotel.

The winner of the 2026 Tiny Desk Contest is revealed by NPR Music's Bobby Carter. It's the 12th time that an unsigned musical artist has won the nationwide challenge.

The brothers and their parents were taken into federal custody earlier this year during a required immigration check-in. The story caught the ear of a country music icon.

Now an official Fiesta event, La Semana Alegre brings a two-day music festival to Hemisfair, headlined by A Flock of Seagulls and Girl in a Coma.

The Wimberley native, who also plays in Big Thief, grew up swapping songs at the Kerrville Folk Festival.

Before making her upcoming sixth album, the country star returned to her small-town Texas home and discovered the power of in-between spaces. "I found a lot of clarity there," she says.

Members of Congress intervened in a bipartisan effort to secure the release of three brothers from McAllen who were detained with their parents after a routine immigration check-in.

The Vox organist helped shape the sound of South Texas as a founding member of the Sir Douglas Quintet and later the Texas Tornados.

"Right now, in an environment that's so cruel and highly polarized, we need kindness and we need friendship and we need neighbors," says Erik Sanden of longtime San Antonio band, Buttercup. Their new album, Send More Yellow, is here to bring you all of that and more.