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BILLY MATA

WESTERN MUSIC ARTIST

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BIO

With over 40 years of music making, Billy Mata & The Texas Tradition bring their
authentic Western Swing to dancehalls all across Texas, with true traditional
country music. Billy started his recording career in the 1970’s, singing
Billboard charted, Top 40 Country music. He has been named Academy of Western
Artists Western Swing Vocalist of the Year three times and has received the
Academy’s Entertainer of the Year Award.

Billy’s career jump started as a featured singer with Tommy Morrell and the Time
Warp Top Hands on Larry Scott’s syndicated radio show, The Lincoln County Cowboy
Symposium of the Air. That lead to guest appearances with the Texas Playboys
featuring Tommy Allsup and Leon Rausch. From there, Billy was invited to perform
at the West Texas Western Swing Festival in Snyder, Texas and following that, at
the Lincoln County Cowboy Symposium in Ruidoso, New Mexico, where now he is
invited to entertain annually. He has gone on to become the heir apparent to the
Bob Wills tradition as the Voice of Western Swing.

True to his Texas heritage, Billy insisted on recording his 1998 album Keepin’
The Tradition: A Tribute to My Hero’s, with his own stage band to properly
perform the music he truly prefers - real Bob Will’s Western Swing and
Traditional Country. His instincts proved true, with the album winning multiple
awards and his music getting further radio exposure. By the time his two
subsequent albums (Traditionally Yours in 2004 and Domino Effect ‘Featuring
Grammy Award winner Floyd Domino’ in 2006) were released, Billy was a radio hit.
Billy Mata & The Texas Tradition has enjoyed regular rotation on SIRIUS/XM’s
Willies Roadhouse and worldwide traditional country radio stations.

In 2008 This is Tommy Duncan, Volume One was released. The first of a Trilogy
Tribute to the ‘Voice of Western Swing’, it includes guest appearances by
historic patriarch/creators of the Western Swing phenomenon. Designed to bring
attention back to the Bob Wills vocalist, Tommy Duncan, who lived in the shadow
of the king, the album was awarded the 2009 Western Swing Album of the Year by
the Academy of Western Artists.

This is Tommy Duncan, Volume Two, featuring the years of Tommy Duncan’s own
band, was released in the Spring of 2011, continuing the Trilogy.

In 2012, just one year after Volume Two was released, Billy released By Request,
a special collection of the most asked for Western Swing and Traditional Country
Honky Tonk Dancehall songs at Billy Mata live performances.

This is Tommy Duncan, Volume Three, was release this past January 2018. This is
the final chapter, covering Tommy Duncan’s return to Bob Wills and his Texas
Playboys. This is Tommy Duncan, The Trilogy is now complete.

In February 2018, Ms. Penny Gilley, host of the Penny Gilley Show (airs on
RFDTV), invited Billy for a taping on her television show. This appearance,
taped at the historic Lil’ Red’s Longhorn Saloon in the equally historic
district of the Fort Worth Stockyards, is to air later this year.

Billy Mata was handpicked by Lion of Texas Entertainment, who produced the
theater show, For The Good Times, A Tribute to Ray Price. Billy performed many
of Ray Price’s classics to eager audiences. The cast included past Cherokee
Cowboys, Dave Alexander, Kristi Kalyn and Penny Gilley. The show toured many
Texas towns and was an immediate success with rave reviews.

Billy Mata and The Texas Tradition’s music is not just limited to Texas. The
band has performed throughout the United States, Canada and Europe.

The Texas Tradition is a handpicked collection of professional musicians from a
wide area of Texas who are gathered together by their common interest in Western
swing and the opportunity to play with the best of the best. They play like
family. Together, they aren’t just another “human jukebox” on the stage. When
they play, it’s natural and fun. Bob Wills knew how to do this. Tommy Duncan
knew it. Billy Mata knows it. The audience gets the reward of it.


HIGHLIGHTS


HIGHLIGHTS

LONGEVITY

For over 35 years, Bily Mata has been performing. His band, The Texas Tradition,
professional Texas musicians, joined to play with the best of the best. Three
are past their 20th year and one in his 25th year with the band. They play like
family - all energy, heart, spirit, natural and fun, the way it should be. Billy
Mata, the Ambassador of Western Swing is a reference to the genre. When Western
Swing struggled, Billy kept the rich roots of this Texas music alive with one
hell of a lot of persistence, perseverance, and commitment to carry on this
tradition in its true form inspired by the masters of the style. He’s done so by
honoring historic icons who mentored many who followed.

TOURING

Billy Mata and the Texas Tradition’s USA touring includes New Mexico,
California, Oklahoma, Idaho, Wyoming, Tennessee, Texas. Promoting the genre, the
band took a concert tour to Poland and has also toured Sweden and Canada. The
band’s featured participation in International Jazz Festivals include Sacramento
Jazz Jubilee, San Diego Jazz Festival, Victoria, British Columbia Hot Jazz
Festival, Sun Valley Jazz Festival in Idaho, the Annual Lincoln County Cowboy
Symposium in Ruidoso, New Mexico, and the Annual Best Little Cowboy Gathering In
Texas in La Grange, Texas.

AWARDS

2000 Academy of Western Artists (AWA) Western Swing Male Vocalist of The Year
2005 AWA Western Swing Male Vocalist of The Year 2005 AWA Entertainer of The
Year 2007 AWA Western Swing Male Vocalist of The Year 2007 AWA Western Swing
Group of The Year 2007 - Billy Mata received the largest number of nominations
of any artist 2008 Sacramento Western Swing Society Hall of Fame 2009 AWA
Western Swing Album of The Year - “This is Tommy Duncan, Volume One” 2010 Band
was inducted into the Texas Western Swing Hall of Fame 2010 Western Swing Hero
Award, Cowtown Society of Western Swing Ameripolitan Music Awards Best Male
Vocalist - Western Swing Nominee 2014, 2015, 2017 2016 Ameripolitan Music Awards
Western Swing Band of The Year 2016 AWA Western Swing Male Vocalist & Western
Swing Group Nominee Featured Artist and Band in the 2016 South by Southwest
documentary musical, “Honky Tonk Heaven,” named by Billboard Magazine as a Top 5
Must-See music film 2017 Western Swing Music Society of the Southwest Hall of
Fame Inductee Western Swing Hero Award - Cowtown Society of Western Swing 2018
Ameripolitan Awards Western Swing Male Vocalist winner 2018 AWA nominations for
Western Swing Male and Western Swing Album of the Year 2018 AWA Western Swing
Group of the Year 2019 AWA Western Swing Male Vocalist of the Year Nominee 2021
Texas Country Music Association Western Swing Band of the Year Nominee 2021 AWA
Western Swing Male of the Year Nominee 2021 AWA Western Swing Band of the Year
Nominee 2022 Featured Guest Artist on the Penny Gilley Show 2022 Featured Artist
and Band in the independent film "Ten In Texas" 2022 Texas Country Music
Association Western Swing Band of the Year Finalist Featured Artist in the
documentary film "The Birth and History of Western Swing" release date tbd. 2023
Texas Country Music Association Western Swing Band of the Year

QUOTES

"Billy Mata and his boys were creating a storm of interest and energy everywhere
they went. Take a group of musicians of this caliber of talent and add a front
man with a style that brings together the sophisticated swing of Nat Cole and
mix it with the dusty soul of Oklahoma and Texas you have a concoction that
brings a sense of joy and human contact that cannot be touched by today's
technology generated so-called music." - Billy Wilson, Sacramento Jazz Jubilee.
•••

"For 30 years, Billy Mata has been entertaining audiences and winning awards
with his ringing baritone. Add to that fiddle and pedal steel-guitar players of
jaw-dropping skill and classic tunes, and you’ve got a Texas-sized slice of
Western swing heaven." - Sacramento News Review
•••

"I’ve forever told Billy Mata that if they make a movie about Tommy Duncan, he
is the guy to play the part! He looks like Tommy Duncan, he acts like Tommy and
he sings like Tommy.
Billy consistently has a great Western Swing Band that plays here at the Broken
Spoke, one that LOOKS like a professional Western Swing band is suppose to look.
Just like Bob Wills, who had his band dressed ‘Western, I appreciate that Billy
has his band dressed in Western attire. Billy’s voice is so good! Not only can
he sing Western Swing and country, but he also sings the old popular tunes from
back in the 40’s, 50’s & 60’s. My wife, Annetta and I ALWAYS look forward to
when Billy Mata plays at the Broken Spoke. I book Billy Mata here at the Spoke
as often as I can because I know I am always going to have a darn good crowd,
the way it should be! Thank you so much Billy Mata!" - James White, owner,
Broken Spoke, Best Honky-Tonk in Texas, Austin, Texas
•••

“Billy Mata is the Ambassador of Western Swing music. Billy Mata and The Texas
Tradition are traditional country and western swing music at it’s best, and in
the true tradition of country and western swing greats, Tommy Duncan and Bob
Wills. It is always a joy and we have always been pleased to bring Billy Mata
and The Texas Tradition to one of our theatre show productions. We. as well as,
our audiences are always pleased with their performance and impressed with their
appearance. The Texas Tradition Band is a great group of musicians and they are
all gentlemen with a Texas size personality and great musical talent. Ray Price
was always pleased to have Billy Mata and The Texas Tradition as a part of our
Ray Price Shows. Billy Mata and The Texas Tradition are at the top of our list
for great country and western swing music.” - Betty and Gene Wolf/Sharity
Productions


DISCOGRAPHY

KEEPIN THE TRADITION - A TRIBUTE TO MY HEROS

1998

TRADITIONALLY YOURS

2004

A mix of Western Swing and Traditional Country with occasional smooth ballads
and pop jazz tunes.

"DOMINO EFFECT"

2006

Features Grammy winning piano man Floyd Domino, a founding member of Asleep At
The Wheel.

THIS IS TOMMY DUNCAN VOL. 1

In 2008 This Is Tommy Duncan, Volume One (featuring the big band years) was
released. The first of an historic Trilogy Tribute to the ‘Voice of Western
Swing,' it includes guest appearances by historic patriarch/creators of the
Western Swing phenomenon.

THIS IS TOMMY DUNCAN VOL. 2

This Is Tommy Duncan, Volume Two " (featuring the years of Tommy Duncan's own
band) was released in 2011 continuing the Trilogy." Volume Three is planned for
future release and will cover Tommy Duncans return to Bob Wills and his Texas
Playboys.

BY REQUEST

"By Request", 2012, is a special collection of the most asked for Western Swing
and Traditional Country Honky Tonk Dancehall songs at Billy Mata live
performances -- recorded in the studio -- By Request!

SELF WRITTEN

Tally Ho
Going Back to San Antonio
Domino Effect


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OUR SPONSORS


GIVCO, INC.

Wayne Givens, an avid fan of Billy and the Texas Tradition, is a proud sponsor
of the Duncan Trilogy.

Wayne says: "Billy has the finest voice in the state. He really knows how to
keep the Tradition of Texas Music going. Strong!"

22133 Old Nacogdoches Rd • New Braunfels, TX 78132
Phone: (210) 325-5186


BGM STUDIOS

Billy Mata & The Texas Tradition proudly display the Academy of Western Artist
(AWA) Western Swing Album of the Year Will Rogers Award for This Is Tommy
Duncan, Volume 1.

Recording Engineer Bill Green welcomes Tommy Duncan's brother, Glynn Duncan and
Glynn's son, Larry Duncan, to the studio for Glynn's part in Volume Two of the
Tommy Duncan trilogy.

BGM NETWORK
2411 NE Loop 410, Suite 132 San Antonio, TX 78217
210-654-8773
www.bgmnetwork.com


WESTERN SWING, OFFICIAL MUSIC OF TEXAS


Special thanks to Butch & Paula Jungmann


DR. WM. CURTIS COGBURN

Doctor of Chiropratic
1724 BI-35E, Pearsall, TX 78061
Phone: 800-541-7804

19432 Davis St., Lytle, TX 78052
830-772-3839


WESTERN CLUB

9524 Highway 6 Loop South
Navasota TX 77868
Phone: 936-825-9070

Special Thanks to Donna Sue, and Helene Terrell Kawolsky


CONTACT


FOR ALL BOOKINGS:

Brenda Ullevig

brendaullevig@yahoo.com

830-534-3569

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BIO

Billy Mata & the Texas Tradition is known for startling audiences - and other
musicians - with a 'different' kind of country music. Mata's band recreates the
original tradition of Western Swing. They thrive in the unique tradition of
historic Texas Dancehalls that provide real, danceable, country music for the
whole family, from kids to grandpa.

Mata started his recording career in the 1970's singing Billboard charted, Top
40 Country music. However, in the 1990’s he declared his passion, what he calls
"real country music." Beginning with his 1998 (third) album release, Keepin' The
Tradition: A Tribute To My Heroes, Billy insisted on recording with his own
stage band to properly perform the music he truly prefers: real Bob Wills
Western Swing and Traditional Country. "It's from the rich roots of Texas music,
inspired by the masters of the style who thrived when Texas music nationally
rivaled Nashville music on the radio," Billy says. The result was awards and new
radio exposure. He kept his music on the radio with two subsequent CD album
releases; Traditionally Yours, Billy Mata in 2004 and Domino Effect in 2006 with
Grammy award winner, Floyd Domino.

Billy Mata is a Texas music scene veteran with over a quarter-century of making
music with his own Texas Western Swing Hall Of Fame band, The Texas Tradition.
Two-time Academy Of Western Artists Western Swing Vocalist of the Year and
winner of the Academy's Entertainer Of The Year award, Billy Mata delivers
authentic Western Swing and true traditional country music. Mata's career jump
started as a featured singer with Tommy Morrell and and the Time Warp Top Hands
on Larry Scott's syndicated radio show, The Lincoln County Cowboy Symposium Of
The Air. That lead to guest appearances with the Texas Playboys featuring Tommy
Allsup and Leon Rausch. From there Billy was invited to perform at the West
Texas Western Swing Festival in Snyder, Texas and following that, at the Lincoln
County Cowboy Symposium in Ruidoso, New Mexico where now he is invited to
entertain annually. He has gone on to become the heir apparent to the Bob Wills
tradition as the Voice of Western Swing.

"Billy Mata and his boys were creating a storm of interest and energy everywhere
they went. Take a group of musicians of this caliber of talent and add a front
man with a style that brings together the sophisticated swing of Nat Cole and
mix it with the dusty soul of Oklahoma and Texas you have a concoction that
brings a sense of joy and human contact that cannot be touched by today's
technology generated so-called music." - Billy Wilson, Sacramento Jazz Jubilee.

"For 30 years, Billy Mata has been entertaining audiences and winning awards
with his ringing baritone. Add to that fiddle and pedal steel-guitar players of
jaw-dropping skill and classic tunes, and you’ve got a Texas-sized slice of
Western swing heaven." - Sacramento News Review

Billy Mata & the Texas Tradition has enjoyed regular rotation on SIRIUS/XM's
Willies Place and worldwide traditional country radio stations. Mata's CD album
releases, "Keepin' The Tradition", "Traditionally Yours, Billy Mata", and
"Domino Effect" are a mix of Western Swing and Traditional Country with
occasional smooth ballads and pop jazz tunes. "Domino Effect" features Grammy
winning piano man Floyd Domino, a founding member of Asleep At The Wheel.

In 2008 This Is Tommy Duncan, Volume One (featuring the big band years) was
released. The first of an historic Trilogy Tribute to the ‘Voice of Western
Swing,' it includes guest appearances by historic patriarch/creators of the
Western Swing phenomenon. Designed to bring attention back to the Bob Wills
vocalist who lived in the shadow of the king, the CD was awarded the 2009
Western Swing Album of the Year by the Academy of Western Artists.

This Is Tommy Duncan, Volume Two " (featuring the years of Tommy Duncan's own
band) was released in the Spring of 2011 continuing the Trilogy." Volume Three
is planned for future release and will cover Tommy Duncan's return to Bob Wills
and his Texas Playboys.

"By Request" is a special collection of the most asked for Western Swing and
Traditional Country Honky Tonk Dancehall songs at Billy Mata live performances
-- recorded in the studio -- By Request!

In January 2018, This Is Tommy Duncan: The Trilogy, was completed and released.
Volume 3 features the early 1960's, when Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan were
reunited.