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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

  • 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 16-19  
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    Palmer Events Center
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    Theatre

    Once There Were Six Seasons

    Glass Half Full Theatre's award-winning production returns as a three-part interactive experience that invites audiences to travel the globe and explore humankind’s impact on climate change: Step onstage with the puppeteers to observe ecosystems from the Americas, Africa, India, Asia, and the Arctic and watch as the tiny humans and animals struggle against drought, flood, heat, and violent storms. This complex spectacle is directed by Caroline Reck and Gricelda Silva, features original choreography by Kelly Hasandras, and – listen, it's a true marvel of narrative and object manipulation and will delight you endlessly, even as its global implications send a little chill down your spine. See our full review right here.
    Through May 4. Fri., 8pm; Sat., 2 & 7pm; Mon., 7pm. $12-30.  
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    Dougherty Arts Center

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    Theatre

    Severe Weather Warning

    Theatre en Bloc presents Austin-based playwright Elizabeth Doss' newest stagework, in which four lifelong friends on a weekend getaway deal with "a night of chaos inside and severe weather outside." Directed by Jenny Lavery, featuring Kacy Samiee, Leslie McDonel, Giselle Marie Munoz, and Charlotte Gulezian.
    April 25-May 2. Wed.-Sun., 8pm. $15 and up.  
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    Long Center for the Performing Arts

  • Music

    Tribu Baharú, Kiko Villamizar

    Bogotá’s Tribu Baharú fuses the coastal sounds of Afro-Colombian champeta with the rolling guitar of Congolese soukous and bits of Caribbean calypso and West African highlife. The deluge of diasporic sounds crafts an intoxicating cocktail tailor-made for dance floors. Local Colombian folk songbird Kiko Villamizar opens the show with a shot of Aguas Frías.
    Fri., April 26, 9pm
    Flamingo Cantina

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    Sports

    Austin Bold FC

    Vs. Real Monarchs SLC.
    Fri., April 26, 7:30pm. $15-40.  
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    Bold Stadium, 9201 Circuit of the Americas Blvd.

  • Food

    Food Events

    Austin Food & Wine Festival

    Oh, it's just the biggest deal in the annual lineup of food events, that's all. Featuring the best chefs and sommeliers and other culinary talent from Austin and Texas and beyond – Andrew Zimmern, FFS! And, OMG, Nancy Silverton! – so many industry professionals, and all of them dishing up the sort of groceries that you might encounter in your most delicious haute-cuisine dreams. Dinners, banquets, pourings and pairings, picnics and palaver, workshops and wonderment – this three-day cornucopia of much of what makes life worth living has got it all. See website for details, and the pages of your Austin Chronicle for continued coverage.
    Fri.-Sun., April 26-28. $250-625.  
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  • Arts

    Dance

    Ballet East: Bajo de Luna

    Here's a fine two-night festival of dance, featuring Ballet East's own Folklorico Dance Group, Mariachi Cocula, Melissa Villareal, Chamacos Dance Company, and more. See website for details.
    Fri.-Sat., April 26-27, 7:30pm. Donations accepted.
    2100 E. Third

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    Nightlife & Parties

    Bearded Lady

    You aren’t ready for all this facial hair. From beard grooming to beard queens, and all the lip hair in between. Hosted by Austin International Drag Foundation and the Austin Facial Hair Club.
    Fri., April 26, 7-11pm  
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    The Iron Bear

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    Theatre

    BedPost Confessions: Kiss & Tell

    Stories told here explore themes of sexuality, gender identity, dating, marriage, masturbation, break-ups, health, and more. "Whether the performers are funny, informative, fictional, thoughtful, embarrassing, raunchy, heart-warming, political, or completely personal, the audience receives their stories with love and returns the favor by sharing their own." This month's show features Nell Seiler, Brooke Elise Axtell, Jade Fusco, and Holly Lorka – with your hosts, Miranda Wylie and Sadie Smythe. Bonus: DJ Chorizo Funk.
    Wed.-Fri., April 24-26, 8pm. $25 ($20, in advance).  
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    The North Door

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    Visual Arts

    Big Medium: Unity of Opposites

    This show, curated by Coka Treviño, features artists Blasto and Ernesto Walker exploring nature and how humans decide to interact with it. "Inspired by alchemy, technology, and numbers, Blasto focuses on earth, the visible and tangible; Walker on the invisible, immaterial and divine."
    Through May 18
    Canopy

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    Dance

    Collexiónes: Aztlan Short Stories

    The Aztlan Dance Company presents a theatrical dance performance featuring storytelling that shares the expressions, reflections, and imaginations of Austin’s Latino/Xicano experience. Fusing contemporary dance with tradition, Collexiónes is a collection of works that imagines the future today.
    April 26-28. Fri.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 4pm. $16-20.  
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  • Music

    David Lee Garza y Los Musicales, La Tropa F

    Ben White nightclub hosts big-time Tejano twofer.
    Fri., April 26, 8pm
    OK Corral

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    Classical Music

    Gorintō: A New Music Sensory Experience

    This is an intimate evening-length multisensory piece for five sound artists. The audience gathers in a circle centered in the space and is encouraged to lie down on a collection of pillows and rugs to experience a series of projections on a surface hung from the ceiling while the atmospheric music is played. "It's part soundscape, part classicist composition, part sound bath, and part ASMR dream," says the program's composer Drew Silverman, who's enlisted the talents of Adam Bedell, Jessica Eley, Claude McCan, and Fumihito Sugawara to help him bright this beauty into being. "Wait, there are only 35 listeners allowed in for each performance?" says your editor, "please save us a space!"
    Thu.-Sat., April 25-27, 7pm. $5-20.  
    Make Your Reservations Now
    Ground Floor Theatre

  • Music

    Josh Denslow book release party w/ the Octopus Project (DJ set), Marmalakes, Bill Baird, Borrisokane, Major Major Major, Andy, Thor & Friends

    Drummer and acclaimed short storyteller drops Not Everyone Is Special with readings by Owen Egerton and Rachel Heng.
    Fri., April 26, 9:30pm
    Cheer Up Charlies

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    Classical Music

    La Follia: Herd of Harpsichords

    Yes, this popular event (it's the eight annual outing!) features a veritable herd of those plucky instruments, and tonight we can look forward to special guest Anton Nel leading J.S. Bach's complete Concertos for Two and Three Harpsichords with String Orchestra. Bonus: KMFA's Dianne Donovan will be there to give you the background on these delightful works.
    April 26-27. Fri., 7pm; Sat., 3pm. $10-30.  
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    Redeemer Presbyterian Church

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    Comedy

    Moontower Comedy & Oddity Fest

    Good gods, y'all, there's a panoply of nationally renowned comedians swarming all over Downtown and beyond next weekend, setting fire to stages and slaying audiences in those styles that have so endeared them to stand-up aficionados everywhere. Jenny Slate! Nick Offerman! Nate Bargatze! Hari Kondabolu! Amanda Seales! And more and more and more. The Paramount on Congress is the epicenter for this eighth annual takeover of Austin, but, really, it's a citywide deal and you should check that Moontower website for an almost overwhelming flood of details. Note: The fest is almost sold out already, but the Satellite Badge that's still available will get you into the 50+ shows hosted in those satellite theatres or will "grant you access to the main acts in seats that have a suboptimal view."
    Wed.-Sat., April 24-27  
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    Paramount Theatre

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    Theatre

    Not Every Mountain

    The Rude Mechs' acclaimed geodynamic masterwork returns to Austin! This newest iteration of the show that "invites you to watch the collective effort of making and unmaking a series of interlocking mountain ranges using string, cardboard, magnets, and an octahedral scissor lift" is 1) being held over from Fusebox Festival, and 2) fortified not only with (implied) amounts of feldspar and chert but also an onstage performance by Peter Stopschinski. Recommended!
    April 24-28. Wed.-Fri., 8pm; Sat., 2pm; Sun., 8pm. $5-35.  
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    Motion Media Arts Center

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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.
    ColdTowne Theater

  • Music

    Smino, Earthgang, Phoelix

    Smino (Christopher Smith Jr.), originally from St. Louis, skates on soulful instrumentation as he juggles flows with infectious melody.
    Fri., April 26, 9pm
    Emo's

  • Music

    TCMF 2019 w/ Rhythm Congress, the 512 Four Saxophone Quartet, Bubba Coletrane & the Train Wrecks (5:30)

    Running 10 days, the 13th annual TCMF socializes Austin music like few homegrown so-called festivals. “From traditional bierhaus music to full-sized orchestras; from Middle Eastern belly dancers to Scottish pipe and drums,” they boast, to which we add polka, jazz, and Dixieland. Seventy acts include notable headliners Johnny Degollado, Paul Klemperer, and Dead Music Capital Band. 5:30-9pm weeknights and 11am–9pm weekends, free.
    Fri., April 26
    Central Market North

  • Music

    Third anniversary party w/ True Widow, Crypt Trip

    Denizens of deep South Austin endorse Little Darlin’s tree-shaded patio stage. The three-day event kicks off with heavy Dallas hypnotists True Widow and stoner/twang San Marcos trio Crypt Trip on Friday.
    Fri., April 26, 8pm
    The Little Darlin'

  • Music

    Victor Wooten & the Wooten Woods Experience [garage]

    Five-time Grammy-winning bassist and one of Béla Fleck’s original Flecktones.
    Fri., April 26, 9pm
    Empire Control Room & Garage
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