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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 16-19Palmer Events Center -
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Courthouse Nights in Lockhart, Texas!
Don't miss the return of Courthouse Nights in Lockhart! Centered around the beautiful Caldwell County Courthouse lawn, the FREE and family-friendly live music series features an all-star lineup with Dale Watson, EZ Band, Deadeye, Rattlesnake Milk, and Simons Says. Held every third Friday of the month from April to August!Fri. Apr. 19, 7pm-10pmLockhart, Texas
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HONK!TX day one
Dozens of local, regional, and even international brass bands marauding through some of Austin finest parks filled with families, students, and Austin musicians might as well be called Pied Piper Fest for its loyalty among homegrown music freaks. Totally free and unfailingly funky, it’s only weird in that it doesn’t occur in every city from here to Manitoba. Ascending ATX crew Big Wy’s Brass Band – led by Chronicle senior ad rep Jerald Corder’s son Wyatt – can already be considered HONK!TX veterans.: “Our first honk experience was in 2015, when we were still seniors in high school and played at the Snack Bar on South Congress and in Pan Am Park as well,” writes in Wyatt. “We didn’t know what we were getting into, since we had never played a festival before, let alone a hippie DIY brass band festival. It was a real culture shock to how quirky people can be.”: Brass bands, too, seeing as Big Wy’s horn blowers were soon covering Dr. Dre classic “The Next Episode” for a small throng at Saturday’s main attraction in Adams Park (out back of Spider House), where crews round robin all the grass corners.: “I love hip-hop and rap, and have always tried to integrate that influence into Big Wy’s,” explains the trumpet-bearing bandleader. “HONK!TX is really special because every band is comprised of people that are playing music just for the love of it, and all of the volunteers working it are really down-to-earth people that are happy to help. I’d say for the first-time attendee to keep an open mind and mix and mingle with some of the most wackiest and genuine people in the world.”Fri., March 29, 6pm -
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Texas Relays
There will be students from across the country running around in circles and jumping long and high and often. At night people come out in droves and fill up Sixth Street enough to make SXSW crowds look like a stroll in the woods. (Not really, but kinda.)Wed.-Sat., March 27-30. $10-40. -
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Comedy
Ali Wong: The Milk and Money Tour
Of course you know her from those Netflix specials Baby Cobra and Hard Knock Wife, right? Or her appearances on Inside Amy Schumer and Black Box, yeah? Now the acclaimed comedian's bringing her humor and style to Austin's Bass – and we reckon it's a good idea to get tickets ASAP.Fri., March 29, 8:30pm. $39.50-75. -
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Carlos Mencia
Here's a chance to experience the mind of Mencia when it's embodied by that Mencia himself.March 28-30. Thu., 8pm; Fri.-Sat., 7:30 & 10pm. $25-30. -
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Co-Lab Projects Has Returned, Co-Lab Projects Has Fuckin' RETURNED!
But you knew that already, right? That Sean Gaulager's main curatorial project and long-missed gallery has finally made it through the grueling City of Austin permit process and all that rigmarole and is almost completely back to its former daunting schedule of exhibitions and community-based interactions and so on? In that Springdale General complex, no less. The current show, "Lines Composed During a Tour," featuring works by Sara Vanderbeek, Andy Coolquitt, Kristi Kongi, and Erin Curtis, and curated by Gaulager and Leslie Moody Castro, closes on Sat., March 30. Next up is Anika Cartterfield's "Grounded in Culver," which is opening on Sat., March 30, 5pm in the alternate Co-Lab venue at 5419 Glissman. And then, on April 6 – well, we'll be telling you about that soon enough. Shit is getting more real again; let's celebrate.Co-Lab, 1023 Springdale Ste. 1B -
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Theatre
Crime and Punishment
Performed in 90 minutes with only three actors, this award-winning adaptation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece "compresses all the tension and pathos of the novel into a powerful evening of theatre." Ryan Crowder, Ben Wolfe, and Chelsea Manasseri are directed by Jeremy Lee Cudd for Penfold Theatre. And – hey!Raskolnikov! – here's our review of the show.Through April 6. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 5pm. $15-30. -
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David Ball & That Carolina Sound
Warren & Marshall Hood help pay tribute to Uncle Walt’s Band.Fri., March 29, 8pm -
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Dance
Grimm Tales
In this new, full-length work, Ballet Austin's Stephen Mills explores the dark underpinnings of fairytales to bring you the odd and vivid beauty of the lessons they impart, the social contexts they inform. Inspired by the visual art of Natalie Frank, with music composed (and performed live!) by Graham Reynolds, the world premiere of Grimm Tales will leave you unsettled, unafraid, and undeniably hungry for more.March 29-31. Fri.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 3pm. $15-89. -
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Grupo Fantasma (album release), Tomar & the FCs, Bourgeois Mystics [outside]
“I, too, am America,” wrote Langston Hughes, and Grupo Fantasma echoes the sentiment on American Music Vol. VII. Proving cumbia every bit as American as apple empanadas, the seventh album from the near-20-year vets finds the brassy Austin ninepiece mixing funk, salsa, merengue y más, more sophisticated than ever. Soul providers Tomar & the FCs – whose frontman joins Ozomatli, Locos Por Juana, and Jaime Ospina of Superfónicos as LP guests – open in support along with art-funk weirdos Bourgeois Mystics.Fri., March 29, 9pm -
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Hickoids (35th anniversary show), Loco Gringos, Mean Motor Scooter, 10 Foot Rooster
Cow punks blow out candles on the cow patties.Fri., March 29, 7:30pm -
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Leon Nights II: A tribute to Leon Russell benefiting SIMS
Brews-and-tunes fixture ABGB reprises last year’s wildly popular tribute to late Okie songman Leon Russell just a mile from his erstwhile stomping grounds: the Armadillo World HQ. Benefiting the SIMS Foundation, the hootenanny stars Chili Cold Blood frontman Doug Strahan leading a 13-piece band through the pianist’s dense discography with a cavalcade of guest vocalists, including Johnny Dango, Billy Broome, and Lucas Hudgins.Fri., March 29, 8pm -
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Classical Music
March Moderns: Songs For Muska
Grammy-award winning vocal ensemble Conspirare returns to its festival roots with March Moderns, here performing Jocelyn Hagen's masterpiece that unites music and poetry written by young Afghan women and is scored for choir, violin, cello, and harp.Fri., March 29, 8pm. $20-65. -
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Min(d)ing the Gap: Queer & Gendered Labor in Institutional Voids
UT’s annual WGS Graduate Student Conference discussing and dissecting queerness and feminism in labor. Keynote from E. Patrick Johnson – chair of the Department of African American Studies and Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University.Fri., March 29, 8:30am-6:30pm. Free.UT campus, Gordon-White Building, 210 W. 24th -
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North American Space Ritual day one w/ Alan Davey's Ace of Spades (Motörhead tribute), Spaceseed, 3rd Ear Experience, ST 37
South by Southwest dominates spring in Austin, but March also hosts a mini festival of a very distinct bent. Organized by Athens, Ga., superfan Matt Callen, North American Space Ritual 2019 presents members of Hawkwind and related acts for two days of space rock mania, including former ’wind bassist Alan Davey and his Motörhead tribute band Ace of Spades, Austin’s own ST 37, and more. Most significantly, the event boasts headliners Moonhawks, a mothership tribute starring Davey, ex-Hawkwind saxophonist/Space Ritual principal Nik Turner, and science fiction author and ’wind collaborator Michael Moorcock.: “Those guys are the spirit of Hawkwind from the days we would rather do a free benefit gig than take a paid TV gig,” the British-born, Bastrop-based Moorcock emails. “I loved the feeling of those good times – the best of the Sixties and Seventies ethic – [with] a strong sense of equality between band and audience. Very similar to the Grateful Dead gigs.”: Moorcock, who’s been a musician since the Fifties, became acquainted with Hawkwind “pretty much from the start,” his most collaborative project being 1975’s Warrior on the Edge of Time.: “I went into the studio and performed some of the material I’d do onstage when [Hawkwind leader Bob Calvert] couldn’t do it. It took me half a day, one take for each number.”: Saturday’s Moonhawks show will be Moorcock’s last live performance: “I’m in my 80th year and I have serious neuropathy, so can only play harmonica, but I bet I can belt out a few of my favorites – like ‘Sonic Attack’!”: Read the full Michael Moorcock Q&A at austinchronicle.com/daily/music.Fri., March 29, 6pm -
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Classical Music
One Ounce Opera: Fresh Squeezed Ounce of Opera
The progressive vocal powerhouses of OOO present their fourth 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. Recommended: 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.Through March 31. Fri.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 2pm. $20-25 (free on March 24). -
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Arts & Culture
QueerTowne
Let Mase Kerwick, Laura de la Fuente, and Javier Ungo put the queer back in your comedy – no laugh tracks insight.Last Fridays, 7pm. $5. -
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Visual Arts
Recspec Gallery: Exquisite Corpse
Here's one final exhibition for Recspec's current digs, before the whole Flatbed complex is shut down and everyone scatters to, like, the four winds. So they're having several of the best local artists who've shown at the gallery return to cover every wall in the place with their connecting artwork. Featuring work by Tim Kerr, Annie Alonzi, Thor Harris, Alanna Loosen, Lance McMahan, Lindsay Eyth, Mike Combs, Polly Morwood, Annalise Gratovich, Katie Cowden, and many more.Through March 30 -
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Dance
Tapestry: The Souls of Our Feet III
See the likes of Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, and Ginger Rogers return to life in a backdrop of tap-dancing Hollywood classics, as well as contemporary choreography set to the jazz standards of Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, and others.March 28-31. Thu.-Fri., 8pm; Sat., 2 & 8pm; Sun., 2pm. $35 and up. -
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Urban Music Fest day one
Austin’s 14th annual Urban Music Fest stacks 17 acts. Chicago soulstress and reality TV star Syleena Johnson, daughter of blues great Syl Johnson, asks what happens when things fall down on Friday. New Jack Swing legacy act Blackstreet and Mint Condition singer Stokley Williams headline both days, respectively. www.urbanmusicfest.com.Fri., March 29, 3pm -
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Theatre
UTNT: Three Shitty Sons
Oh holy shit – stop the presses! This presentation of the 2019 UT New Theatre program is written by Hannah Kenah, which fact suggests that, if you were gonna see just one of these UTNT shows, then this new Kenah work is the one to attend. Oh, and the "disheveled comedy" is "an homage to Our Town's theatrical examinations of life and afterlife" and is directed by Mason Rosenthal.March 28-29, 31, 7:30pm; March 30, 2pm. $15-26. -
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Comedy
Zahid Dewji
This East-African Indian comic from Houston was a semifinalist at the Seattle International Comedy Competition, a finalist at Comcast's Trial By Laughter, and, we're suspecting a bona fide first-place winner on the Velveeta Room stage tonight.Fri., March 29, 9pm. $10. -
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Film
Special Screenings
Alita: Battle Angel: Passport to Iron City
Explore the setting of Robert Rodriguez's new film, the post-apocalyptic, gritty, refuse-filled Iron City. You'll interact with city residents, earn credits for completing puzzles and challenges, experiment with the technology, and uncover hidden clues. The film opens Feb. 14.Jan. 29-March 31. Daily, 2-10pm. $25.1901 E. 51st -
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Theatre
A Doll’s House, Part 2
Alrighty, then! FronteraFest’s over, Ken Webster’s been making theatre in Austin for 40 years, and now, here’s the latest from Hyde Park Theatre: It’s Lucas Hnath’s highly modern sequel to Henrik Ibsen’s classic, in which Nora must return 15 years after her dramatic exit to face all she left behind. This long-awaited continuation is directed by that award-winning Webster and features Katherine Catmull, Tom Green, Sarah Chong Harmer, and Cyndi Williams.Through March 30. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $23-27 (pay what you can, Thursdays). -
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Comedy
A Herald To the Harold
The Harold is a unique improv format that explores connections and human emotion in a very distinct way. This show brings you three improv troupes – with three variations on that format. It's fast, it's funny, it's up Close and personal.Fri.-Sat., March 29-30, 8pm. $15. -
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Visual Arts
AARC: Let the Colors Speak
Rashmi Thakur and Supriya Kharod, both born in India and both proud Austinites now, document their individual journeys through watercolor and acrylic paintings, depicting the colorful traditions, vibrant life, and diverse culture found in the two communities they love.Through March 30 -
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Above the Seven Circles, HateWaker, Envy the Dead, The Decay in Me
Fri., March 29, 9pm -
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Visual Arts
AgavePrint: How Life Is
Graham Dickie’s photographs of hip-hop in rural Southeast Louisiana approach Southern rap with "a grassroots, humanistic perspective, focusing on aspiring artists and how their music relates to their communities and everyday lives."Through March 29
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