What we do:
We seek to document the history of Tejano and Conjunto music in the musician’s own words through exclusive in-depth, intimate recorded interviews, complemented by an exploration of the artist’s own catalog.
Other areas of our work include an online playlist, lyrics database, our searchable/browsable catalog, and a calendar featuring listings for the Tejano and Conjunto music events in Austin.
In our hearts, we are music fans. We love to play music for people to enjoy. Whether it’s at an event or online, we are doing what makes us happy.
Here’s a little about each of us…
Frank, Baldomero “El Parrandero”
Frank, aka Baldomero “El Parrandero”
With over a decade of experience of dj-ing weddings, parties and quinceañeras, Frank’s knowledge of music is pretty impressive. While he loves all types of music and is a huge Springsteen fan, Frank’s passion is for conjunto and classic tejano, especially Mr. Si Señor, Ruben Naranjo.
Frank is the heart and soul of Rancho Alegre. Whether he is interviewing legendary conjunto and tejano artists like Ramon Ayala or Chano Cadena, or planning a festival, he is always thinking of bigger, better ways to preserve and promote the music he loves. He is a native of Austin, Texas.
Piper “La Guera”
Piper “La Guera”
While Frank has the vision, Piper has the tools to make it a reality. She does everything technical and creative at Rancho Alegre. It could be graphic design, a new service on the website, promotion and marketing, engineering sound from an interview, networking on Facebook and Conjunto Is Life, writing a blog or music review, or something completely new and fresh, she makes it all happen.
Growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Piper knew in high school that Austin was where she belonged and that she wanted to be involved with the local music scene here. Though her first love was blues, conjunto and tejano have taken over her soul in the past couple of years. So much in fact, she refers to herself as a born-again Tejana. She’s living her dream with Rancho Alegre, and loves to share her bad jokes and passion for music with anyone who will listen.
Sweet Gaby
Gaby
Piper and Frank are great together, but they couldn’t do any of this without Gaby. Not only does she keep them both sane and well-fed, but she takes great pictures at each show and every interview. She’s a roadie, a photographer, a production assistant, you name it and she’s always there.
Good morning, I am trying to pick up my cd, that I was so lucky to win as a listener to Emilo’s brother who was in the station last week, but I need a physical address, when I was provided the address I was driving, all I know is off of Palmer, can someone assist me on this?? I need my CD…can’t wait!!! And thanks for giving Austin listeners the “real music”…
I’M LOOKING FOR SOME OLD MUSIC CD ,CASSETTE REALLY. THAT WANT LOS DOS GILBERTOS “TU CARCEL”.PLEASE REPLY NO LUCK ANY WHERE.I SAW ON YOUR SITE .YOU HAVE THEM LIVE IN McALLEN WITH THAT SONG.PLEASE HELP AND THANKS IN ADVANCE.
Hi Mary,
Thanks for writing and visiting our site. We will see what we can do for you. We love the 2G’s too!
Piper LeMoine
Rancho Alegre Radio
Just want to give a shout out to Rancho Alegre for putting us on your events calendar!
We’re a new live music venue in Austin and Saturdays will be our Tejano Night!
Jay Perez will be in town this Saturday and we are working on our next booking.
Let’s stay in touch!
Best-
Veronica
Ponderosa Live Marketing Team
You’re most welcome Veronica! I’m sorry for the late reply. I get a lot of spam comments and it takes me a while to weed through the Viagra and Louis Vuitton bullshit before I get to real comments.
I heard that your show went well and we wish you all nothing but the best. The more tejano clubs we have, the better. Thanks for joining the community.
Piper
I’m over due for another conjunto “fix”. You 3 are doing great things for Tejas and musica!!! Hope to see you 3 soon. Rick & Heather are helping spread the word southward about rancho alegre.
Congratulations on your efforts to keeping conjunto music alive. Your organization has similar goals and ideas as our non-profit organization. If I can be of any help or assistance in any efforts, please do not hestitate to write, call or ask..
Love you website.
Lupe Saenz, South Texas Conjunto Association
I am looking for a CD called – Christmas Around the World? Could you please help. Thank you.
Hi Lorna,
There are many CD’s by that title. For example, Putumayo has one at Amazon.com, or iTunes has a bunch of different ones.
Merry Christmas,
Piper – Rancho Alegre Radio