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for Fri., April 6

  • Affordable Art Fair Austin

    Affordable Art Fair Austin will launch in May 2024, showcasing original contemporary artworks ranging between $100 to $10,000. Welcoming a whole host of local, national and international exhibitors, their spectacular first edition is set to be unmissable!
    May 16-19  
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    Palmer Events Center

  • Laundry & Bourbon with Lonestar

    Laundry and Bourbon with Lonestar, two companion one act plays set in backyards of a small Texas town. Three ladies come together to talk about their life's ups and downs. Lonestar follows the life of three small town boys and the events that have shaped them. Both shows give us highs & lows with humor spread around, for good measure.
    Apr. 19-May 5  
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    Navasota Theatre Alliance
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  • Music

    HONK!TX

    Now in its eighth year, this gathering of community brass bands exudes the affirmative brio of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in the cinematic adaptation to Thirties Broadway musical Babes in Arms. For three days, a grassroots collective of musicians and volunteers turns the streets and parks of Austin into a show everyone can attend. That easy accessibility and openness makes HonkTX! an ideal post-South by Southwest palate cleanser.: Some 24 bands perform starting Friday night in Mueller Lake Park. 2018’s lineup includes favorites like local black-and-yellow noisemakers Minor Mishap Marching Band, camouflage funk from Fort Sam Houston’s Biohazard Brass Band, and Somerville, Mass., standard-bearers Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society, which started the world’s first Honk festival in 2006.: Santiago, Chile’s Banda Rim Bam Bum is the farthest-flung of this year’s bands. Founded in 2009, the multidextrous group numbering into the 20s plays covers and originals spanning the gamut from jazz and cumbia to Andean rhythms like Tinku and San Juanito. Founding trombonist Alexis Cornejo says there are bands with a similar formation in Santiago, but the others typically play to dancers in religious settings.: “Playing on the street is an artistic and political action,” Cornejo says. “We take the music of this private context and make it public.”: Banda Rim Bam Bum’s skills in composition and arrangement make for a remarkably intricate sound. Cornejo notes that all members study music at some level, with many serving as teachers.: “We put our energy into the sound,” explains Cornejo. “We try to give well-played music to the people where the harmony builds in a collective way, as if each of us were a finger of a pianist.”: See the full schedule at honktx.org
    Fri., April 6, 6pm
    Mueller Lake Park Outdoor Amphitheater

  • Community

    Sports

    Round Rock Express

    The Express start their season with five against the Memphis Redbirds. Earl Campbell throws out the first pitch on opening night followed by postgame fireworks. After Saturday's game the Spazmatics will perform.
    Mon., April 9, 7:05pm. $7-16.  
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    Dell Diamond

  • Arts

    Comedy

    Altercation Comedy: Carina Magyar

    You think, what? That we're recommending this show because Magyar sometimes writes for the Chronicle? Citizen, you must be some kind of clueless if you think that – because anybody who's seen her onstage knows that the woman is fucking hilarious. And your host JT Habersaat's got Rob Gagnon, Andrew Horneman, and English Matt featuring, besides. It's a definite win for comedy lovers among the kung fu-inflected caffeine tonight.
    Fri., April 6, 7:30pm. $10.
    Kick Butt Coffee

  • Arts

    Dance

    Austin Dance Festival

    Here's a vibrant array of modern dance showcases by professional local, state, national, and international artists in the heart of Austin over one kinetic weekend. During the three-day festival, take a master class, watch dance on film, participate in a community pop-up dance, listen to artist interviews, and check out the next generation of dancers in the Youth Edition Concert.
    April 6-8. Fri.-Sun., times vary; see website for details. Prices vary.  
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    Locations vary

  • Music

    Bruno Furlan, Doseph

    Bruno Furlan’s tech-house productions converted French hip-house disciples Amine Edge & Dance, and Dirtybird Records’ Barclay Crenshaw followed suit. The Brazilian producer arrives at Ethics in the wake of the venue’s management changeover and announcement of Dirtybird’s BBQ in May.
    Fri., April 6, 9pm
    Ethics Music Lounge

  • Arts

    Theatre

    con flama

    Salvage Vanguard Theater presents Sharon Bridgforth's lyrical drama, set in Los Angeles in the 1940s-1970s, that offers a glimpse of a black gurl's coming-of-age, through ancestral passages and her family history. Directed by Florinda Bryant.
    Through April 7. Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm. $10.  
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    Dougherty Arts Center

  • Film

    Special Screenings

    In the Realm of the Senses (1976)

    Forbidden Colors: The Transgressions of Nagisa Ôshima: Ôshima's most controversial film explores the outer limits of sexual obsession in this story of an affair that reaches a point of no return. Be prepared to polish off all your critical theories having to do with castration anxiety and be overwhelmed by the exquisite beauty found among the graphic madness. This screening kicks off a new Austin Film Society retrospective of the Japanese filmmaker's work.
    Fri., April 6, 7:30pm  
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    AFS Cinema

  • Qmmunity

    Community

    Leather Pride in Texas 2018

    Three days of leather and its lovers. Complete with cocktail parties, drag shows, discussions, workshops, all kinds of parties to fit your preference, and more.
    Fri.-Sun., April 6-8. $45-85.  
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    Wingate Inn

  • Music

    Luna, Flaural

    Demonstrating to acolytes like Real Estate how it’s done, Nineties college radio staple Luna reunited in 2014 after a decade of dissolution. 2017’s A Sentimental Education still orbits the jangle psych of founding guitarist Dean Wareham’s seminal Galaxie 500 through a batch of carefully chosen covers from the Cure, Velvet Underground, Yes, and more. Flaural’s latest EP Over Imaginary Cigarettes travels a similar route out of Denver.
    Fri., April 6, 8:30pm
    3ten Austin City Limits Live

  • Music

    Mary Fahl formerly of October Project

    Fri., April 6, 8pm
    Cactus Cafe

  • Arts

    Classical Music

    One Ounce Opera: Fresh Squeezed Ounce of Opera

    The progressive vocal powerhouses of OOO present their third annual Fresh Squeezed Ounce concert in the intimate surroundings of the Museum of Human Achievement, with this year’s winning crop of micro-operas performed – beautifully – in English, featuring intriguing characters, unexpected stories, varied styles and colors. We nigh on raved about the goodness of last year's Fresh Squeezed Ounce and gladly recommend that you join director Julie Fiore and her company of glory for this showcase of new works. Note: Some of this material is, ah, definitely not for the kiddos, capisce? Bonus: Beverages from Tito's, Live Oak, and Whitestone.
    April 6-8. Fri.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 2pm. $20-25.  
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    Museum of Human Achievement

  • Music

    Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, GGOOLLDD

    British New Wave synth breakouts are still led by co-founders Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys.
    Fri., April 6, 8pm
    Emo's

  • Music

    Southern Culture on the Skids

    Beginning Thursday, almost three dozen acts soundtrack a cruise through 12 venues hosting the 17th annual Lonestar Round-up. Chicken shack fryers Southern Culture on the Skids man the Continental Club all week. Find the full schedule of events at www.lonestarroundup.com/schedule.
    April 3-7, 11:59pm
    Continental Club

  • Community

    Sports

    Texas Stars

    Only a few home games left in the regular season. Cheer on your squad while you can.
    Vs. Grand Rapids: Wed., April 11, 7:30pm. $22-58.  
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    H-E-B Center at Cedar Park

  • Qmmunity

    Community

    The Great Show!

    What's so great about it? Well Miss Fahrenheit hosts a night of variety cabaret with Chola Magnolia, Zane Zena, Sir Berkeley Feltwell, and much more! 18 and up welcome.
    Fri., April 6, 9pm. $11-$75.  
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    Elysium

  • Music

    The Wagoneers w/ Monte Warden, Ben Rodgers (6:00)

    First responders – APD, AFD, EMS – get in free to “Stout & High” homegrown country kick.
    Fri., April 6
    Broken Spoke

  • Music

    Tribute to Leon Russell

    Doug Strahan, Lucas Hudgins, Sarah Sharp, Christy Hays, Josh Buckley, Wild Bill, and more celebrate genius Okie.
    Fri., April 6, 8pm
    The Austin Beer Garden Brewing Co.

  • Music

    Xylouris White, Charalambides, Soft Healer

    During SXSW last month, Greek lutist George Xylouris and Australian drummer Jim White thrilled a modest but disproportionately rapturous crowd at the Parish with unmitigated shred. The stringer blurred his strum with speed folk, while the Dirty Three beatkeeper strafed jazz percussion across his kit. Only a mosh went missing. Houston avant-gardists Charalambides and local psych outfit Soft Healer support.
    Fri., April 6, 8pm
    Beerland
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