AFTM • P.O. Box 49608 • Austin, TX 78765
AFTM • P.O. Box 49608 • Austin, TX 78765
THE AFTM MIDWINTER FESTIVAL is set for Saturday afternoon and evening January 23, 2010 at the Dougherty Arts Center, 1110 Barton Springs Road, Austin, Texas. The doors will open at 11:50 a.m. If you like great traditional music by talented local bands, this is the place to be. We've got a top-notch lineup of bands, many workshops and delicious food. You'll hear a smorgasbord of music from the U.S. and around the world!
Break out of the winter doldrums, hear some fantastic music and attend a broad array of workshops at no additional charge. The bands and workshop leaders are donating their time and talent to support the Austin Friends of Traditional Music. Please come out and give us your support!
| Noon | Bucolics Anonymous | Thom the World Poet does poetry of Thomas Hardy along with the great music of Bucolics Anonymous |
| 12:30 | Balkan Singers | a cappella and instrumental Balkan music with a third coast twist |
| 1:00 | Billy Bright and Chojo Jacques | a fresh interpretation of classic fiddle and mandolin tunes and quirky originals with a virtuosic and engaging stage show that audiences and promoters have described as transcendent, hilarious, and one of a kind. They released Texacali Blues in 2009, and have a new release scheduled for spring 2010. Find out more at http://www.reverbnation.com/chojojacquesandbillybright |
| 2:00 | Austin Banjo Club | plays great four string banjo music from the early part of the twentieth century; 1900 through1930, the heyday of the banjo. You'll hear tunes such as "Five Foot Two", "Somebody Stole My Gal" and "Alabama Jubilee" |
| 2:30 | Rains & Keane | are a violin and guitar duet featuring Pete Keane on the guitar and vocals and Howard Rains on the violin and mandolin playing old southern songs and melodies including blues, rags, breakdowns, waltzes and various other musical entertainments for dancing or afternoon socials |
| 3:00 | Raising Jane | great Celtic harmony singing accompanied by fiddle, guitar and whistle will take you across the Atlantic and back to a time of elves, fairies, broken love and hopeful dreams |
| 4:00 | Slavadillo | Is an outstanding authentic international folk and dance band, specializing in Macedonian, Bulgarian, and Russian music. Austin's Balkan dance band for 25 years! Don Weeda is joined in his Eastern European folk music quest by Anne Alexander, Kathleen McDonagh, and Mike Revesz. Sonia Seeman also regularly performs with the group. |
| 5:00 | Steelhead Stringband | Hot fiddling and great picking from this cranking old-time Appalachian string band |
| 6:00 | Inside Out Steel Band | Rhythmic and melodic, this steel drum band will awe you. Like many musical traditions in the Western Hemisphere, the history of the Steel Drum is a merging of elements from a variety of cultures. The inhabitants of Trinidad and Tobago, home of the steel drum, have ancestral roots from Europe (England and France), Africa, India, China, other islands in the Caribbean, and Latin America (primarily Venezuela) |
| 7:00 | Dan & Christy Foster | Airtight harmony ballad singing by two long time mainstays of the Austin old-time music scene |
| 7:30 | Sacred Harp | There's no harp in Sacred Harp singing -- no instruments at all. Just the power of voices belting out raw and powerful four-part harmony so solid you can almost walk on it. The origin of the music goes back centuries -- first in England, then in colonial New England, then the music migrated south, where it took root. The Austin Area Sacred Harp Singers began in 1985 with Gaylon Powell, a fifth generation Sacred Harp singer, teaching the shape-note singing method to newcomers. |
| 8:00 | Manuel Cowboy Donley | A composer, arranger, and performer, Donley is considered a pioneer of Tejano music. Donley was born in Durango, Mexico in 1928. He moved to Austin with his family at the age of seven and took an early interest in music, following the lead of his father, a classically trained violinist who once played with the Durango Symphony. Over the years, Manuel has written music and arrangements for several movies, including Remember the Alamo in 1954, Los Imigrantes in the late Seventies, and local filmmaker Hector Galan's Los Mineros in the Eighties |
| 9:00 | Side Men for Hire | Hot Bluegrass from an assortment of some of the best local musicians around - tight picking and fiddling with the high lonesome sound! |
Admission prices are:
| Regular Admission | $15 |
| AFTM Members | $12 |
| Student w/ID, 19 or older | $7 |
| Seniors - 65 or older | $7 |
| Student 12 - 18 | $5 |