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Armadillo Christmas Bazaar

The 2023 Armadillo Christmas Bazaar is arriving! This 48th annual vibrant and immersive fine art and music festival has stood the test of time as Austin’s premier destination for high quality art, live music, and artisan gifts for the holiday season. Complete details and ticket info available online.

Dec. 15-23
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Palmer Events Center
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Western Wonderland

The City of Dripping Springs is bringing the sparkle this holiday season! Western Wonderland consists of an ice rink, holiday trail of lights, and weekend holiday markets. They will also be hosting special events and appreciation days throughout the month. Complete details, including hours, ticket sales, and an event calendar are available online.

Dec. 8 - Jan. 7
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Dripping Springs Ranch Park Event Center

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ABC Kite Fest

This is one of Austin's most beloved family-friendly traditions, with activities all day: a kite contest and showcase, a children's activity area, a pet zone, and MossFest, a children's music concert sponsored by the Moss Pieratt Foundation. New this year, store-bought kites are allowed in all seven contest categories, including Most Unusual and Largest Kite. Get ready to soar into spring!

Sat., April 1, 10am-5pm. Free; VIP tix available.
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Zilker Park

Music

Celebration of life for Glen "Spot" Lockett w/ Up Around the Sun, Gary Lindsey & the Pleasure Tide, Doc Grauzer

The morning of March 4, 2023, the world lost one of its primary sources of color, joy, wonder, whimsy, and absolute substance. Glen Michael Lockett – better known by his nom de disc SPOT (entirely capitalized, with a dot in the middle of the “O” when handwritten) – moved on from this plane at age 72 at Morningside Healthcare in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, following a lengthy battle with fibrosis. You could almost feel the oxygen leave Austin as the news spread. He spent the first half of the Eighties building the sound of American hardcore punk via his groundbreaking production work for Black Flag and every other band signed by SST Records – including Hüsker Dü, Minutemen, Descendents, and Meat Puppets – plus Misfits and our own flagship punk acts the Big Boys and the Dicks.: Then SPOT moved to Austin – where he not only showed the Hickoids and the entire Rabid Cat Records roster how to use the recording studio, especially the Offenders and Texas Instruments – but became a celebrated local character of many years’ standing. Saturday afternoon, all locals who loved SPOT gather at Sagebrush to remember his facility with seemingly every instrument ever designed, including a few he invented (i.e., the “fidola,” a viola played like a fiddle); his idiosyncratic sense of humor and whimsy; and his wide-ranging interests, musical and otherwise. The celebration will feature performances from Doc Grauzer on Irish harp, Gary Lindsey & the Pleasure Tide, and the old-timey musical stylings of Tim Kerr and Jerry Hagins aka Up Around the Sun.

Sat., April 1, 4pm. Free.

Sagebrush
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Sports

Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays

The 95th running of the Texas Relays brings thousands of athletes and spectators to Austin for four days of track and field events. Fans can attend free on Wednesday and Thursday, but tickets are required Friday and Saturday. Attendees, please note the stadium has a clear bag policy.

Wed.-Sat., March 29-April 1. $25-40, all-meet tickets; $18-28 for Fri. & Sat. meets.
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Mike A. Myers Stadium
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HONK!TX

This big band bonanza is a nonprofit community festival bringing dozens of artists to perform in public spaces, dissolving the line between crowd and performers. Find them at Central Machine Works Friday, Mueller Lake Park Saturday, and Pan Am Park Sunday. Get more lineup details in our Music listings.

March 31-April 2. Fri., 6-10pm; Sat., noon-7pm; Sun., noon-5pm. Free.
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Central Machine Works, 4824 E. Cesar Chavez; Mueller Lake Park, 4550 Mueller Blvd.; Pan Am Park, 2100 E. Third
Music

Urban Music Festival w/ Stokley, Zapp, Lyfe Jennings, Arrested Development, Chrisette Michele, Adina Howard, Michel 'Le, Changing Faces, Sunshine Anderson, Don Diego

Every spring, Festival, Texas – aka Austin – sprouts music convergences more plentiful than bluebonnets, but don’t snooze on the local sleeper: Urban Cultural Fest. Annually, the state capital’s dwindling Black population shows up en masse to hype both legacy acts and modern crooners and swooners. Electro G-funk pioneers who popularized the talk box, Zapp still stars two of the four Troutman bros who founded a band Ice Cube once cited as his window into hip-hop via “More Bounce to the Ounce.” A big ol’ stack warms them up: Stokley, Lyfe Jennings, Chrisette Michele, Adina Howard, Michel’le, Changing Faces, Don Diego, and Sunshine Anderson.

Sat., April 1, noon
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Auditorium Shores
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Visual Arts

50th Anniversary of the Austintatious Mural

Celebrate 50 years of Austin’s “first” mural – the Austintatious 23rd Street Mural in the People’s Renaissance Market. On April first – no foolin', citizen, this is for real! – they'll activate a website all about the mural, featuring 10 short films on the people, places, and collective culture that made our city special in the first place. And then, IRL, there'll be a group photo at the mural at noon, and the party will continue at TexPopATX (1516 S. Lamar) amid live music from the Uranium Savages and Big Mon at 7:09pm. Suggestion: Bring a lawn chair!

Sat., April 1, noon. Free.
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23rd & Guadalupe
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Dance

A Hair Can Split the Difference

BLiPSWiTCH presents their seventh original evening-length work, a performance that situates itself and the audience within the realm of feminine agency. 13 dancers will visualize themes of strength, self-actualization, and unapologetic fallibility that mirror the work of equine-facilitated physiotherapist Linda Kohanov. Through mythological and historical representations of the horse and the feminine, this work indulges in the analogy of these two species moving through the world. Original score performed live by Cajun artist Kelli Jones and Austin musicians Josh Kavanaugh and Zack Wiggs.

Wed.-Sun., March 29-April 2, 7pm. $25 and up.
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The Long Time
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Theatre

Ain’t Too Proud

This new Broadway musical follows the Temptations’ extraordinary journey from the streets of Detroit to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, showing how their signature dance moves and silky-smooth harmonies earned them an amazing 42 Top 10 hits (with 14 reaching No. 1). Yeah, you know those hits. Come hear them now, spectacularly!

Through April 2. Tue.-Fri., 8pm; Sat., 2 & 8pm; Sun., 1 & 7pm. $30 and up.
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Bass Concert Hall
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April Pooches Day

Adoption fees will be waived at the animal shelter all day, and a special showcase from noon to 2pm will let you meet your mutt match on the lawn outside. Austin Public Library will also be on hand to help folks get a library card and check out materials to learn about pet care, training, and more.

Sat., April 1, 11am-7pm
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Austin Animal Center
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Austin Edible Book Festival

The Austin Edible Book Festival returns for its 20th year of literary and culinary hijinks, showcasing a sweet array of serious fun, as local bibliophiles create edible books to compete for prizes and glory. Visitors will vote in categories ranging from “most book-like” to “least appetizing.” Note: Donations of canned food and nonperishables will be welcomed for local food banks.

Sat., April 1, 2-4pm

Baker Center
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Dance

Ballet Austin: Light / The Holocaust & Humanity Project

Illuminated through the powerful story of Holocaust survivor Naomi Warren (1920-2016), Stephen Mills’ Light / The Holocaust & Humanity Project takes the audience on a journey that shares Naomi’s story, told through the lens of dance, a contemporary ballet that follows her path from rich culture and traditions to utter dehumanization.

March 31-April 2. Fri.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 3pm. Free.
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Long Center for the Performing Arts
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Classical Music

Conspirare: The Muse Speaks

Featuring the voices of Conspirare, with Sandy Yamamoto (violin), Daniel Kopp (cello), and Carla McElhaney performing works of unity and belonging – including Alex Berko's "Sacred Place," an ecological service inspired: by traditional Jewish mourning rituals.

March 31-April 1. Fri., 8pm; Sat., 4pm. $30-75.
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St. Martin's Lutheran Church
Food

Food Events

Fierce Whiskers: Smoke + Mash Release Party

The excellent distillery hosts a release party for their new carbon-neutral rye batch, created in collaboration with Smoke + Mash founder Robert Jacob Lerma. The party will feature bites from James Beard-nominated Ernest Servantes (of Burnt Bean Co), Leonard Botello IV (of Truth BBQ), and more.

Sat., April 1, noon-4pm. $38.

Fierce Whiskers Distillery
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LuluFest w/ Estrella All-Star Band ft. Su Terry, Suzi Stern, Peggy Stern, Alex Coke, Ryan Hagler, & Mike Gordon, Emily Gimble Trio, Margaret Slovak Trio (6:30)

With the motto “where the traditions meet the progressives, and all the leaders are women,” LuluFest invites women bandleaders to play whatever they like with whomever they like, though some form of improvisation is understandably required. Formerly known as the Wall Street Jazz Festival back when it was held in New York, LuluFest’s sixth Austin edition includes guitarist Margaret Slovak and her trio, former Asleep at the Wheel pianist Emily Gimble and her trio, and the Estrella All-Star Band co-led by soprano saxist Su Terry, singer Suzi Stern, and pianist/festival founder Peggy Stern.

Sat., April 1
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First Presbyterian Church
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Comedy

Lysistrata Comedy Festival

The Lysistrata Comedy Festival is a four-day women's comedy festival, featuring stand-up, improv, sketch, short films, and more. Join the hardworkin' ColdTowne crew to celebrate women and the power of their collective work, as these laughalicious ladies take over Austin for four days of nonstop comedy.

March 30-April 2. $25-150.
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ColdTowne Theater
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Dance

Metamorphosis Dance: The Red Shoes

Metamorphosis Dance premieres an original story ballet based on the Hans Christian Andersen classic.

March 31-April 1. Fri., 7:30pm; Sat., 2:30 & 7:30pm. $15-35.
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Dougherty Arts Center
Music

POSTPONED: UnoTheActivist, Tony Shhnow

Hailing from the birthplace of trap music, 27-year-old Tony Shhnow deserves some credit for the plugg subgenre’s resurgence in recent years. The Georgia-launched rapper uniquely transports flows typical of his hometown onto hazy production with captivating ease. His most recent release, November’s Plug Motivation, combines common plugg elements with a mixtape aesthetic befitting DatPiff’s heyday – complete with copious producer and DJ tags. Another 2022 tape, Reflexions, further proves he’s far from a one-trick pony, with highlights including his dominance over Zaytoven-esque keys on “Supernatural 2” and the “Foolish”-sampling “Days Get Cold.”

Sat., April 1, 6pm
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Come & Take It Live
Music

Rekt: DeVice Takeover w/ René LaVice, Airglo, DJ D.M.X., Alyssa Rose

The space formerly known as Cedar Street Courtyard continues its revamp with the first event of a new drum and bass monthly residency. DeVice Records kicks off with label head René LaVice as the main event.

Sat., April 1, 9pm
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The Courtyard ATX
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Sports

Round Rock Express

The Minor League Baseball team is back! Opening weekend vs. Albuquerque will include fireworks and cap and jersey giveaways, and Sunday is for the kids with pre- and postgame activities like train rides and running the bases.

March 31-April 2. Fri.-Sat., 7:05pm; Sun., 1:05pm
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Dell Diamond
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Sports

Texas Stars

Vs. San Jose Barracuda.

Fri.-Sat., March 31-April 1, 7pm
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H-E-B Center at Cedar Park
Arts

Visual Arts

UT School of Information: Algorithmic Assemblages: Do Machines Dream of Art?

This exhibition by Sylvia Morales and Holland Hopson features an algorithm-generated stream of artistic combinations based on randomized descriptions from the United States Library of Congress Subjects Index.

Closing reception: Thu., April 13, 12:30-1:30pm

1616 Guadalupe
Arts

Classical Music

World Piano Day Celebration

The Austin Chamber Ensemble will have three pianos onstage? Yes! And pianists Martha Mortensen Ahern, Stephen Burnaman, and Anthony Tobin will perform trios and solos, featuring Mozart's complete concerto for two pianos (K. 365), and works by Berlin, Liszt, Debussy, and Vivaldi.

Sat., April 1, 7:30pm. Donations accepted.
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Adam's Music House, 6007 Belfast