Their first album, Texas Fiddlers, a 2003 instrumental release, came out just a few years after their debut fiddle contest in Denton.
So we started doing lessons,” says Hulda. The fire in the belly of the Quebe Sisters came from a modest spark: “Our mom wanted us to have a musical experience and she always liked the violin. Their parents didn’t play instruments, or even records, when the girls were growing up. Hulda says she and her sisters were self-motivated from the start there was zero parental pressure to practice, tour or compete. The sisters won state and national championships, in solo and group categories, for four years running. But they were huge when the sisters were in elementary school in the early 2000s.
Quebe says Texas fiddle contests aren’t as big as they used to be. Think Bob Wills or, more recently, Ray Benson’s Asleep at the Wheel, whose members were early fans of the Quebes.ĭallas is now home, but the sisters grew up in Burleson, Texas, just outside Fort Worth. Still, audience members at the Quebe (pronounced “kway-be”) Sisters March 22 show at Stoughton Opera House will hear Mills Brothers-inspired harmonies that are equally exciting as their Texas fiddle technique.įor the uninitiated, Lone Star western swing music features a three-fiddle attack, fiddles that swoon and swirl above the rest of the band during dance number solos. “We started fiddling before we actually started singing,” Hulda says. It was the sisters’ early mastering of the western swing fiddle style that put them on the road. “We were never home enough to be in a regular church program,” says Hulda Quebe, speaking by phone to Isthmus. Fact is, when their peers were still in Sunday school, Hulda, Sophia and Grace Quebe were already touring. When three sisters from Texas sing together as well as the Quebes do, one might assume they started in church. Grace, Hulda and Sophia (from left) will soon be in the studio to record a new album.
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