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Hot Summer, Cool Jazz Concert

Get ready, Austin! This summer is heating up with the coolest jazz event of the year! The Women in Jazz Association, Inc. presents the Hot Summer, Cool Jazz Concert — an unforgettable night of smooth grooves, sizzling rhythms, and world-class talent – featuring Pamela Hart, Yansa Samada Band, Kyle Turner with special guest Joe Carmouche!

Sat. June 14, 6pm
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Wilco

At the end of a weird and difficult year comes a genuinely special balm: three straight nights of one of the few still-operational rock bands of their generation whose catalog could justify such a residency. Billed as “An Evening With Wilco,” these sets are precisely what their increasingly aged fan base craves: seats, no repeat songs from night to night, and no opener. Expect anything from their 1990s post-alt-country days to the Aughts-defining Yankee Hotel Foxtrot to jams off their most recent collections – their 13th album Cousin and the recent follow-up EP, an energetic six-songer called Hot Sun Cool Shroud. Expect tight songcraft, guitar pyrotechnics and head honcho Jeff Tweedy’s classic, bein’-there voice. – Joe Gross

Fri., Dec. 6, 8pm
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ACL Live at the Moody Theater
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Tomar & the FCs

A calendar such as C-Boy’s December run waits maybe all year for a month like this. Not because the South Congress speakeasy sister to the Continental Club doesn‘t curate modern roots year-round. Once the hustle & bustle of roadshows die down, locals finally reconnect with homegrown heavyweights including soul sovereigns Tomar & the FCs. Alt (and queer) icon Tina Schlieske the night prior to this two-night run and Strat champ Jimmie Vaughan on New Year’s bookend 2024’s exit here, but only Tomar Williams will evoke Otis Redding. Throaty grit from the frontman and brass-fed R&B from the FCs jolts particularly deep and pulpy during the holiday season. “Merry Christmas, Baby.” – Raoul Hernandez

Fri., Dec. 6, 11:30pm. $15 cover (21+).

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Twas the Night Before: An Austin Gay Men’s Chorus Holiday Concert

While being in any church gives me flashbacks to my first holy communion – they do not shell out for good wine at Catholic churches! – the Austin Gay Men’s Chorus will always class up the joint. This year, they’re revamping seasonal favorites with their signature choral flair and inviting you to “a night of musical storytelling that will guide you through the heart of winter while honoring the stories and experiences that make our community so vibrant.” Friday and Saturday feature a pre-show mixer with festive cock/mocktails & food, and Sunday promises the same but at a matinee hour. – James Scott

Dec. 6-8

First Baptist Church of Austin
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Graham Reynolds

In the grand Christmas tradition of weird holiday music, composer, provocateur, and experimentalist Graham Reynolds has already savaged holiday music a half dozen times, taking your beloved favorites and turning them into moody, depression-triggering nightmares. He’s at it again for the seventh year, ready to curdle your eggnog, crumple your presents, and crack your candy canes. Reynolds usually ropes in guests from the Austin jazz scene to join the anti-fun; for this show, he’ll be accompanied by vibraphone sorceress Carolyn Trowbridge (Coke/Michel Sextet, the Azmaris). Watch one of Austin’s maverick geniuses jingle your bells in all the wrong ways. – Michael Toland

Fri., Dec. 6, 8pm
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Rollins Studio Theatre at the Long Center