The Festival of Texas Fiddling presents the best and most diverse array of Texas fiddle music anywhere, including Old Time, Country, Western Swing, Texas Style, and Texas-Mexican (Tejano), Creole, Texas-Polish, and Son Huasteco. Always the first weekend of December at historic and beautiful Twin Sisters Dance Hall in Blanco, the FTF features all day dancing,...
78 Special featuring Guy Forsyth, Will Webster, and Westen Boghesi. Westen Borghesi, who moved to Austin in 1999, founded the vaudevillian act White Ghost Shivers, specializing in pre-war music. He has performed with several bands and toured with Tuba Skinny, contributing to their album, Pyramid Strut. Borghesi is also involved in projects like Relevators and Joymakers and...
AFTM is hosting another World Music night at Batch Craft Beer & Kolaches on Manor Road. Come on out to hear some great music and support our community of musicians! 7:30 p.m. Don Weeda & Friends (Eastern Europe)8 p.m. Don't Messa with Vanessa (AFTM)8:30 p.m. Joel Laviolette & Friends (mbiras. Zimbabwe)9 p.m. Austin Chinese Opera...
Join us for the Spring String Band Showcase at Batch for an evening of wonderful music, good friends, and fine food and drink. Featuring the New Blue Buckskin Winchers, Black Lodge Buskers, 13th Street Serenaders, BYK, and the Two Goat String Band. Batch has awesome kolaches and great beer. These shows are a lot of...
Eternal Sounds of the Bansuri: Pandit Rakesh Chaurasia w/Pandit Gourisankar ICMCA proudly presents an extraordinary evening with Grammy Award-winning bansuri virtuoso, Pandit Rakesh Chaurasia. Join us for a captivating live concert in Austin, where the magic of Hindustani classical music comes alive through the soulful melodies of the Indian bamboo flute. Revered worldwide for his evocative performances and deep...
Join AFTM for another String Band Showcase at Batch, organized by Britt Irick. Featuring:
AFTM is hosting another World Music night at Batch Craft Beer & Kolaches Oddwood Brewing on Manor Road. Come on out to hear some great music and support our community of musicians! 7:30 p.m. The New Blue Buckskin Whinchers (AFTM)8 p.m. Eliot Stone (didgeridoo)8:30 p.m. Czech Melody Masters Trio9 p.m. Sari Andoni (oud) Batch got...
AFTM and CasaDB will be hosting Bruce Molsky for a house concert. RSVP HERE! On May 30th CasaDB will be hosting the great Bruce Molsky. This will be a first time collaboration with the Austin Friends of Traditional Music. Bruce will be playing in a covered outdoor space (sans fire pit for this warm weather performance). Those that follow...
AFTM is pleased to welcome Nokosee Fields for an intimate workshop and house concert at Ian Lee's Wildflower Music Studios in Wimberley, TX, on March 28. Check out this video of the Nokosee Fields Trio to see what is in store: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbaIRvHK4Wc To save your spot for the workshop and/or concert:email Ian Lee at ianleemusic8@gmail.com Workshop:...
The Songwriters Happy Hour at Hole in the Wall is hosted by our friend Ethan Azarian. The show on 5/20 will feature Rosebud (Rose, Robert, Nancy, Gary, and Tim) and the Dog Day Stringband (Britt, Aaron, Adam, and Rose). Brit Gilbert Jones - 6PMDog Day Stringband - 6:30PMRosebud - 7PMDog Day Stringband - 7:30PM
CasaDBs and AFTM welcome back Grammy Nominated Bruce Molsky for an evening of his incomparable playing! Taking advantage of Bruce's visit to Texas to teach at the Live Oak Fiddle Camp in Moulton, we'll bring him to Austin for night of his wonderful story telling and playing at the CasaDBs backyard concert space. RSVP here!...
Join AFTM for a night of music performances at Batch Craft Beer & Kolaches! Double Eagle String BandCharles Thibodeaux and Austin Cajun AcesLost PatternsElk River Dam Authority Double Eagle String Band is AFTM's longest established band, playing concerts in the past and annual square dances. Charles Thibodeaux and his Austin Cajun Aces is our longest running Cajun band...
