Contributed Photo
Promotional picture from the 2004 Legends of Texas Swing Music Festival. Alex Dormont was the music director for the event, which was held at the Alamo Movie Set at the Reimers place on Hamilton Pool Rd and benefited the Pound House. From left, cowboy reenactor Ralph Daniel of Dripping Springs, Terry Hale (bass), Dormont (fiddle), Johnny Gimble (fiddle) and Rick McRae (guitar).
Dripping Springs, News
Alex Dormont is a local Dripping Springs legend of Texas swing
DRIPPING SPRINGS — When it comes to community, you’d be hard-pressed to find someone more embedded in the culture and recent history of Dripping Springs than Alex Dormont. As someone once mentioned, “When anyone in this town learned to play music, Alex was no doubt one of their first teachers.”