From Country to Blues, Check Out These Austin-Area April Music Festival Lineups

Peruse new 2024 plans from Eclipse Utopia, Two Step Inn, and more

"...the lineups for the spring, another buzzing Central Texas music festival season. From blues- and country-specific roundups to eclectic,..."

Nov. 17, 2023 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Mini Music Fests Abound in This Week's Crucial Concerts

Country, hip-hop, pop, and more shows worth the cover

"...Cattle Country Music Festival..."

April 12, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

America's Ethnic Music Mantle

"...photograph by Wendy Weeks..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

How Green Is the Music?

Festivals, bands, and musicians seek environmental harmony

"...Yorke is in harmony with an emerging movement among musicians, as they plug into a new era of consciousness..."

April 20, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Hill Country Happenings

As the Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival approaches, Virginia B. Wood sets the table.

"...run a "Food and Wine Guide to the Hill Country" as a showcase of our favorite places in the..."

April 4, 2003 Food Feature

Lavender Love

Blanco celebrates its essence with a brand-new festival

"...The Texas Hill Country resembles countries surrounding the Mediterranean more all the time...."

May 13, 2005 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Off the Record

Barreling down the Big State Festival and going to 11 with the Paul Green School of Rock Music

"...the Fox Sunday night lineup, the inaugural Big State Festival, settling in the Texas World Speedway in Bryan-College Station,..."

Oct. 5, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

Day Trips & Beyond: January Events Roundup

Nature, history, and more to explore in 2023

"...celebration of our state parks; there’s also a Renaissance festival in Kerrville, Lunar New Year festivities in Grand Prairie..."

Jan. 4, 2023 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

The Best Things We Saw at Oblivion Access 2023: Earth, BEAK>, GEL, and More

Highlights from year two of the underground Austin music festival

"...Access marked a new high for the homegrown heavy music festival...."

June 19, 2023 Music Post by Wayne Lim

Day Trips & Beyond: May Events Roundup

Warm up for summer with frozen margs and fests around Texas

"...of Lake Buchanan northwest of Austin in 1975. From cattle ranching families, the couple had discovered on a trip..."

May 1, 2025 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: September Events Roundup

Historic hotels, hummingbirds, and highways

"...Friday night, stop by for the Far West Texas Cattle Co. Burger Night. Oct. 12, John Prine Appreciation Night,..."

Sept. 6, 2024 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: August Events Roundup

Sweet sheep, Lonesome Dove peeks, and more to see around the state

"...Louisiana campus, the city is known for its food, music, and art. Its Mardi Gras Festival is one of..."

Aug. 1, 2024 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: November Events Roundup

Baby Buc-ee's, a bonfire ban, and bluebonnet planting top our fall news

"...who constructed nine temporary temples at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert and other sculptures around the..."

Nov. 1, 2024 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: August Events Roundup

Tons of Texas travel news for the dog days of summer

"...Maverick, the Texas iconoclast who refused to brand his cattle, have opened a new distillery, brewery, and restaurant a..."

Aug. 1, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Hissing Fits

Bryan Mealer sinks his teeth into the 1999 Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup.

"...Snake Charmer, the token beauty queen of the snake festival. Young, beautiful girls from all over the state vie..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Features Feature by Bryan Mealer

Blame It on the Bossa Nova

"...illustration by Nathan Jensen..."

July 2, 1999 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Willie Nelson’s Luck Ranch Partners with Austin’s Regenerative Ag Experts TerraPurezza

The new farm plans include Texas sunflowers and hungry pigs

"...serves as the venue for the annual Luck Reunion music festival. Nelson, a co-founder of Farm Aid, is a..."

July 21, 2020 Food Post by Lina Fisher

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...of July Picnic, the annual concert hosted by the country music icon since 1973, is going to New Jersey..."

March 29, 2024 News Feature

The Lizards of Aus

'Never an Adult Moment' With Austin's Veteran Bluegrass Pranksters

"...near and dear to them. Instead, these crazy bluegrass musicians have managed to stay sane for just over 20..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Day Trips

"...Attic. It is the Smithsonian Institution of the Hill Country. Mixed with the piles of antique telephones, sewing machines,..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Queer Comedy, a Goth Market, and More Community Events

Recommended happenings for your calendar's approval

"...artists stretching genres from punk to lounge, rock to country, all located within a North Austin hangout? Well. Yeah...."

March 15, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Larry & Joe Bring Songs of Deliverance to Carrie Rodriguez’s Laboratorio

North Carolina duo play Paramount Stateside on April 30

"...Previewed by this writer at Knoxville’s Big Ears Festival last month, the musical duo heads to Austin, on..."

April 14, 2023 Music Post by John Job

Day Trips

"...Originally called Paleface Park after the cattle ranch that once covered the area, the name was..."

May 9, 1997 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: September Travel Updates

Go the social distance

"...The ranch, which still exists, was the first permanent cattle operation in the Texas Panhandle. The Armstrong County Museum..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Postmarks

VanScoy on Wrong Track

"...unleashing of our hatred and violence sent a tiny country back to the stone age, killed more than two..."

April 10, 1998 Column

In Person

Roger Gathman, Belinda Acosta, and Maria Hong recap three of the Texas Book Festival's finest panels.

"...Saturday's Texas Book Festival panel on Nature was "sold-out" -- so many people..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

In Person

Roger Gathman, Belinda Acosta, and Maria Hong recap three of the Texas Book Festival's finest panels.

"...Saturday's Texas Book Festival panel on Nature was "sold-out" -- so many people..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

TikTok Talents, Metal Gods and Comedy Provocateurs Added as SXSW Keynotes and Speakers

With a week to go, the fest expands its speaker and podcast list

"...set? Well, throw that draft calendar out, as the festival (running March 11-20) has unveiled a whole extra slate..."

March 1, 2022 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Dancing About Architecture

The Next Best Thing!

"...new instrumental tracks without him) for the Heineken Summer Music Festival in Beijing on May 15 and dates with..."

May 7, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...freight depot, an Amarillo hotel that was home to cattle and oil barons of the 1920s, and a Houston..."

Sept. 1, 2006 News Feature

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