Session 2000
Effective: March 24, 2000
SENATE RESOLUTION No. 1831
A� Resolution congratulating and commending Bob Edwards.
� � � WHEREAS,� Bob Edwards, a retired Salina music teacher, has been
inducted into the Western Swing Society Hall of Fame located in Sacre-
mento, California; and

� � � WHEREAS,� Western swing, like jazz, is recognized as one of Amer-
ica's unique music styles and could be called Nashville's version of jazz.
Bob Wells is credited with founding western swing music in the 1930's.
Like jazz, western swing relies on improvization and a heavy rhythm but
with the melody being carried by fiddles and steel guitars instead of trum-
pets and saxophones; and

� � � WHEREAS,� Bob Edwards, who spent 26 years teaching classical mu-
sic in Salina public schools and is a well known classical musician, was
introduced to western swing when a radio station talked him into filling
in with a western swing group: Now, therefore,

� � � Be it resolved by the Senate of the State of Kansas:�That we congrat-
ulate and commend Bob Edwards upon his induction into the Western
Swing Society Hall of Fame; and

� � � Be it further resolved:�That the Secretary of the Senate be directed
to provide four enrolled copies of this resolution to Senator Vidricksen.

� � � Senate Resolution No. 1831 was sponsored by Senator Ben E. Vidricksen.