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  • Carnival Entertainment Auditions

    Are you ready to choose fun and take your music career to the next level?! If so, then fill out your application for the opportunity to audition live in Austin. If they feel you may be a good fit for Carnival Entertainment, they will send you an invitation to audition live. Click on the link to apply!
    Tues. Apr. 23  
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  • Beatles Full Moon Concert in the Dark

    On the April Full Moon, come set intentions and indulge in the mesmerizing allure of live acoustic music performed by world-class musicians, surrounded by the warm glow of candlelight. Its a different kind of concert, that begins and ends in darkness, with music and a poem or two surrounding and soothing you. Audience members will be given the choice of bringing their own yoga mats and/or pillows to gaze at the shadows on the ceiling. A circle of chairs will be provided.
    Tues. Apr. 23, 8pm-9pm  
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    ATX Unplugged
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    Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers

    It’s been quite a life for Wadada Leo Smith. Within the last few months alone, the 75-year-old trumpeter/composer and AACM veteran has garnered Best Jazz Artist, Best Trumpeter, and Best Jazz Album of the Year (for America’s National Parks) in Downbeat Magazine’s 65th annual Critics Poll. He was also voted 2017 Musician of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association. In the wake of these accolades, the Mississippi native returns to Austin via Epistrophy Arts to play the first portion of his spectacular magnum opus, Ten Freedom Summers, a 2013 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Music. The multimedia project, a deeply moving Civil Rights tribute, comprises 24 compositions being divided among performances in Austin, Houston, New Orleans, and Tuscaloosa. The complete project performed in this manner also constitutes a first for Smith. Inspired by playwright August Wilson’s 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle, Smith cites Duke Ellington as a musical influence. “Most important for me was Black, Brown and Beige from the Forties and ‘Reminiscing in Tempo,’ a revolutionary piece from the Thirties,” states Smith. “It wasn’t just a protest, but a vision of how to employ an orchestra that rhythmically references a theme. Also important is Anthony Davis’ [opera] The Life and Times of Malcolm X and the extended works of Anthony Braxton and Cecil Taylor.” Smith performs in his Golden Quartet configuration, with pianist Anthony Davis, bassist John Lindberg, and drummer Pheeroan Aklaff, in addition to the chamber ensemble RedKoral Quartet and video artist Jesse Gilbert. “I write for these groups like I always have, where the added creative elements actually expand the psychological and emotional reality of the piece,” he explains. “By expansion, it offers a true concept of how the musicians’ kinetic energy connects together onstage with the audience and the performance space to create something unique.”
    Thu., Oct. 12, 8pm 
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    Boyd Vance Theatre at the Carver Museum

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    Austin City Limits TV taping w/ Herbie Hancock

    Thu., Oct. 12
    ACL Live at the Moody Theater

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    Manilla Road

    Brutal conundrum arose at Chaos in Tejas 2013 when Absu’s black metal maelstrom scorched Red 7 inside while Manilla Road’s classic U.S. NWOBHM killed outdoors. The late-Seventies-issue Wichita, Kan., burlies still led by Mark “The Shark” Shelton put on an epic set, their millennial reunion still yielding rejuvenation. September’s To Kill a King reanimates bellicose medieval drama with trademark bearishness.
    Thu., Oct. 12, 8pm 
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    Barracuda

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    Beat Juice feat. Low End Theory 11 Year Anniversary w/ Daddy Kev, Nobody, Gaslamp Killer, D-Styles, Eliot Lipp, soundfounder

    L.A.’s weekly experimental hip-hop event Low End Theory reigns institutional. Event promoter/Alpha Pup label head Daddy Kev joins California alternative hip-hop producer the Gaslamp Killer, resident Low End producer/DJs Nobody and D-Styles. Beat Juice resident Eliot Lipp dropped schizophrenic Skywave in June, and fellow Juicer/producer Soundfounder co-founded Exploded Drawing.
    Thu., Oct. 12, 8pm 
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    Empire Control Room & Garage
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