Come enjoy an evening of music with sets from Honey Made (headliner), Big Sky Collective and Blue Tongue. Doors open at 7:30 PM, and advance tickets cost $12 and tickets at the door will cost $15. This is an all ages show!
Launched last year by Travis County Assistant D.A. Denise Hernandez, Chingona Fest begins Friday at Studio ATX with networking event Poderosa Pláticas. Saturday then stacks Austin Music Award winners the Tiarra Girls, Oakland cumbia and Afro-Latin firecrackers La Misa Negra, and ATX Selena tribute Bidi Bidi Banda. Mariachis, DJs, and vendors accompany. The afterparty follows at Native Hostel, 10pm.
Cathartic experimental duo Being Dead packs spunky rock creativity into a 7-inch on Austin Town Hall, offering Cody Dosier and Juli Keller’s crunchy cohesion on the Fame Money Death by Drive By EP. Slick noise troupe Blood rallies behind Tim O’Brien’s croon, Daphne Tunes presents Santiago Dietche’s soothing pop streams, Chronophage packs sprightly post-punk, and Batty Jr. amplify folk eccentricity.
In their first local club shows since 2016, New Jersey’s premier string band gives die-hards a double dose at the Scoot Inn. Following the recent death of founding multi-
instrumentalist Andy Goessling, the bluegrass-informed sextet, formed in 2001, continues to thrive off the endearing songwriting of Todd Sheaffer. Kindred psych-folk locals the Deer support.