HippyKritz Music and More in Abilene Texas

Good afternoon folks.  I am happy to announce several new developments that we are really excited about here at HippyKritz Music.  First of all, our buddy Kirk House is in Austin today auditioning for American Idol!!  Kirk won the local competition at the Mall of Abilene recently and gets to do the Austin audition without [...]

Good morning HippyKritterz, hope all are well.  Several things to talk about this morning.  First, as I mentioned in our previous blog we have some really capable instructors in house and we are going to add another lesson room which will be dedicated to drum lessons.  Our fearless Eric (Anderson Percussive Services and the Tony Barker [...]

Happy Monday all!!  Well the good Lord has blessed us with another beautiful day and I am exited about the new week here at HippyKritz and am still jazzed about the Shed Session we had here last Saturday!!  Kathryn and I want to thank everybody who brought in their musical talent and participated in this [...]

Good evening HippyKritterz!!  To all of my faithful blog readers, my appologies for not writing in such a long time.  I am happy to announce that things have been so busy at HippyKritz that I have not had much time lately for blogging.  Several things have been keeping me plenty busy lately.  We are setting [...]

Good morning all, hope everyone is well.  My buddy David came in the store the other day and we  started talking about our adventures in the Awesome Cooper Band that occured about 23 years ago, but that still seem like yesterday, lol.  A little background, when I was at Jackson Elementary School here in Abilene, [...]

Good morning all, hope everyone is well.  We have been so busy lately at the coolest music store in existence that I have neglected my blogging duties.  Apologies are in order to my loyal blog fans, lol.  First I need to mention the Drum Shed Session last Saturday.  It was an awesome thing to have [...]

Hey all!!  Just had a good visit with our buddy Alvin from Harvest Studios here in Abilene.  He was telling us about an event called a drum shed that he is involved in and HippyKritz is going to host one on May 1st starting at 3pm.  After hearing what it is and who all are [...]

Greetings HippyKritterz!!  I was just standing by our awesome cymbal tree and I looked out the front door and noticed one of my best friends in this world getting out of her car and coming in to see my beautiful wife and me.  Shirley is one of the most wonderful people the good Lord has [...]

Hey all!!  Hope everyone is having a great day and ready for the weekend.  I am happy to report that Art Walk was a great success last night.  Me and my buddy Eric got the oppertunity to play at Monk’s Coffee Shop and we started the night with my old standby “Kenny in D”  after that [...]

Hey all!!  Hope everyone is having a great week, we sure are having a great one here.  For those of you who are tired of hearing about my constants rants about my effects set-up, this should be the last one.  I have officially fallen in love with the Line6 XTlive unit!!  I was planning on [...]