It’s almost something out of a movie — a local band enters a “Battle of the Bands” competition, wins and is catapulted to fame and success. While it’s obviously not quite that easy or fast, ...

The City of Highland Park will allow alcohol sales at the Bitter Jester band competitions in June for the first time since the Friday evening events were started more than a dozen years ago. The ...

As Kendyl Dent was finishing up his shift at work, he received a call from a friend telling him to check his e-mail. Dent, a clarinet player in the Texas Tech Goin' Band's Court Jesters, was informed ...

A marriage of doo-wop, pop and soul, the music of the Royal Jesters is the embodiment of the fabled San Antonio sound of the 1960s and early ’70s. At its heart, the vibrato tones of a Lowrey organ ...

We’re psyched to introduce our new weekly series, riding coattails on a hashtag trend and throwing back to San Antonio’s rich musical history. Let’s tip off with the Royal Jesters, a San Antonio soul ...