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1 Oct 2009Calling All Music Fans! It’s ACL Festival time again! October 2-4, 2009, will bring 65,000 music fans a day to beautiful 350 acre Zilker Park located at 2100 Barton Springs Rd. near downtown Austin. The festival also is projected to inject some $30 million into the city’s economy! Who says music doesn’t pay? Austin City [...]
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21 Sep 2009The Old Pecan Street Festival is celebrating its 31st year downtown on 6th Street. Great art (250 exibitions), local handcrafts, festival food, and over 80 acts on five stages to take in all in two days! Whew! There will be plenty of fun to be had for the kids, too. From a petting zoo to [...]
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19 Sep 2009Have you visited historic Gruene, Tx. lately? Do you love antiques and collectibles and hidden little towns that just take your breath away? Well, if you haven’t been to this charming little hill country town located on the beautiful Guadalupe River, hop in the car for a trip back in time to this delightful litte [...]
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27 Mar 2009Austin, Tx.–Home of the most incredible blending of cutting edge technology, indie films, music, and (mayhem this past week anyway!) The week of March 18-22 brought over 1800 music performances to eighty stages all around Austin! Yep, 1800! If you didn’t get to see any of the SXSW music, don’t despair…Direct TV is broadcasting the highlights of most performances beginning [...]
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15 Feb 2009The Cactus Cafe located in the student union at the University of Texas is a sparkling diamond in Austin’s crown as the “Live Music Capital of the World”! This month, the Cactus is celebrating its 30th Anniversary! If you haven’t been there yet, you are missing out on a venue which feels more like a [...]
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18 Dec 2008The 2008 Armadillo Christmas Bazaar is under way in downtown Austin at the Austin Convention Center…If you love live music and you love to shop, then whatever you do, get yourself downtown and don’t miss this terrific event! It runs from Dec. 12-24th! For a mere $3 during the day and $6 on evenings and week-ends, [...]
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27 Sep 2008The 2008 Austin City Limits Music Festival has begun at beautiful Zilker Park in downtown Austin! And if you love live music, then this incredible festival with its 130 bands, eight stages, and a variety of music that ranges from gospel to country to rock to blues to world beat to reggae, etc. is one [...]
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19 Sep 2008If you haven’t heard about KGSR’s (Radio 107.1) www.kgsr.com free Thursday night concerts at the Shady Grove in Austin, Tx., then you have been missing some incredible music. The “Unplugged at the Grove” concert series begins in April and runs through Sept. 25th this year. You still have time to make next week’s concert which will [...]
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7 Sep 200806-every-day1We know that Austin is weird…in fact, we love to be known as “weird”. As in “Keep Austin Weird” (which to Austinites means original, funky,eclectic, etc). But we are also “batty” for those little creatures of the night (no, I am not speaking of all the cool musicians out there). I am [...]
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