Alabama once sang, “If you’re gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band.” The Quebe Sisters Band has taken that to heart, and then some. All three sisters — Grace, 26, Sophia, 24, and Hulda, 21 — play the fiddle in this Western swing group.
They do have a guitarist, Joey McKenzie, and a bass player, Gavin Kelso, to round out the sound. But the sisters never considered splitting up into different instruments, as so many family bands do.
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