News:

Redd Volkaert and the Western Flyers (GoodTimes Santa Cruz)
Volkaert will be joining the Western Flyers, led by western swing master Joey McKenzie on guitar and vocals, fiddle champion Ridge Roberts, and acclaimed upright jazz bassist Matthew Mefford.

Virginia Commission of the Arts: Redd Volkaert Trio and Quartet
Redd’s adopted home state includes Redd Volkaert as part its roster of touring musical artists.

The Guitar Store Interview (w Andy Ellis)
Telecaster wizard Redd Volkaert blends classic honky-tonk with hillbilly jazz and Texas blues to create one of today’s most compelling guitar voices.

PBS – The Life of a Musician, April 2024
Watch Redd, interviewed by Brandon Lee Adams, talk about his musical journey from British Columbia to Virginia, with stops from the Canadian Rockies, Los Angeles, Nashville, and Austin.

Virginia Living: March 2024
With a twangy six-string intro, they launch into a sauntering rendition of Willie Nelson’s 1961 classic, “Hello Walls”—and the crowd comes alive.

The Roanoker: Guitarist-In-Chief, September/October 2021
Volkaert initially kept his destination a secret. Then rumors surfaced in early-2020 about a new trio and an impending Thursday night residency at the Floyd Country Store.

FLOYD COUNTRY STORE, AUGUST 2020
Join us for an evening of live music every other Thursday with guitarist Redd Volkaert. The music is free and takes place from 6:00-8:00pm.

TRUETONE LOUNGE, JANUARY 2020
In the latest installment of the Truetone Lounge, Redd Volkaert shares with us his journey from the bars of Vancouver, Canada, to the stages with Merle Haggard, to his Grammy win for his work with Brad Paisley.

SAVING COUNTRY MUSIC, DECEMBER 2019
End of an Era: Redd Volkaert Takes His Final Bow in Austin.

CRAWDADDY, JANUARY 2009
Redd Volkaert is a master of the Telecaster with an impressive resume that includes fronting the superstar hillbilly band the Twangbangers with Bill Kirchen and Dallas Wayne.

ALLMUSIC, 2008
If you really miss Danny Gatton, then discovering a Telecaster slinger like Redd Volkaert is one of the few things that can assuage the abiding grief just a little bit.

LOWELL SUN, JULY 2008
You’re overworked. Redd’s sausage-like fingers strangle your neck over and over, wringing out, in a 20-second solo, more quality licks than 10 ice cream stands.

AUSTIN CHRONICLE, JANUARY 2007
Redd won the best electric guitarist in Austin award again this year, two in a row.

AUSTIN360.COM, AUGUST 2005
It was a ’58 model of Fender’s first electric solid-body guitar and this was around 1970 or ’71. The precursor of the legendary Telecaster had a white ash body with a white pickguard, a tiny coffee stain on the case but no wear on the guitar; the lacquer was still on the neck.

ROCKY MOUNT TELEGRAM, AUGUST 2005
Coming up near Vancouver, B.C., the Volkaert boy was . . . he doesn’t want to say poor, exactly, he just never wanted a lot of stuff. But when his dad came home with a Fender Esquire, that the kid wanted.

VINTAGE GUITAR MAGAZINE, JUNE 2005
Anybody who’s paid any attention to guitarists in the past decade or so won’t be too surprised when I say what a nice album this is. Redd, as many of you probably already know, is a genial-looking fellow who resembles a leprechaun and plays the living hell out of a Telecaster.

AUSTIN CHRONICLE, APRIL 2001
When Leo Fender dreamed up the Telecaster electric guitar back in ’49 or so, it’s doubtful he knew what uses it would be put to, especially in the hands of someone like Redd Volkaert. The local Telecaster master is all over the guitar like grease on a pork chop, quoting jazz, country, blues, and Western swing as effortlessly as turning on the lights in the living room.

NPR.ORG, JUNE 2001
A 1953 Fender Telecaster guitar has a distinctive twang, and when it’s in the hands of guitar master Redd Volkaert, you can imagine yourself in a Country & Western bar as the waitress makes her rounds for last call.

AUSTIN CHRONICLE, NOVEMBER 2000
Not too many things from 1953 are much good today. Hell, in our throwaway culture, few things from back then are even still around.