The Camino Crankie Suite will be performed at Jordan-Bachman Pioneer Farms in Austin on May 21 at 11AM and 1:30PM.
El Camino Real de los Tejas Crankie Suite is an epic low-tech expedition across time and Texas. Brian Beattie tells the story in song while Valerie Fowler cranks the plot along in their home-made crankie box, an early form of panorama storytelling. Valerie’s extra-natural depictions of historic places and people in Texas meld with Brian’s “Billy Gibbons meets Mr. Rogers” musical stylings to create a dream-like atmosphere that carries you, song by song, forward and backward through time. Yet all the while, it’s simply a trip from the Rio Grande to San Antonio, Austin, Nacogdoches and beyond and it’s all along that storied road, El Camino Real de los Tejas.
