So much to do in the ATX...

If you are looking for Cinco de Mayo parties this weekend, here is a small list of cool things to do this week! 

Events thru 5 de Mayo... + a bonus...

Thursday 4/30/09

Threadgill's World HQ - Joel Guzman's birthday bash

Shady Grove - Unplugged w/ Ryan Bingham (not Latino music, but a packed house!)

 

Friday 5/01/09

Gibson Guitar Showroom w/ Vallejo & Los Bad Apples

Central Market North - Cienfuegos

Driskill Hotel - Rosie Flores

Fiesta Gardens - Gary Hobbs, A.T. Boyz, Da Krazy Pimps

Austin Music Hall - Death Cab for Cutie (again not Latino, but packed!)

 

Saturday 5/02/09

6th street - Pecan Street Festival

Cheapo's Disc - Tito & Tarantula

Copa Bar - Funk Brasil, David Dos Santos

Fiesta Gardens - AJ Castillo, Grupo Mazz

Waterloo Park - Woofstock ( not Cinco related, but weird!)

 

Sunday 5/03/09

Pecan Street Festival

Fiesta Gardens - Santiago Jimenez, Johnny DeGollado

Emo's - Tito & Tarantula

 

Monday 5/04/09

Lucky Lounge - Haydn Vitera

Guero's - Trio Indio

 

Tuesday 5/05/09

CINCO DE MAYO parties at all the Mexican restaurants!

Cinco De Mayo block party 2nd Street area

Lucky Lounge - Boombox

Emo's - Pinata Protest

Beauty Bar- EZ Action Cinco party

Cinco De Mayo drink specials at Eddie V's & Roaring Fork

 

Wednesday 05/06/09

Republic Park - Los Lonely Boys

Friday already??

Spring is in the air in the A-TX!  Lotsa choices on things to do this weekend!  Happy Easter or eatser if yer hungry and remember..."We're not made of sugar!" so don't be scared of the rain...it'll pass!

Today Friday 4/10... Free noon show at City Hall w/ Sahara Smith;

Vivian Girls at Mohawk, James McMurtry at Threadgill's, Split Lip Rayfield at Antones, Patricia Vonne and Charanga Cakewalk at the Continental Club, Grand Champeen at Creekside, Band of Heathens at Gruene Hall, Carolyn Wonderland at Nutty Brown, Ray Primm & Lisa Tingle at One2One, Broken Teeth at Room 710, and Soncache at El Sol y La Luna!

Saturday 4/11...I always like catching Redd Volkaert free at 3pm at the Continental Club, check it out and you will understand why!!  Also during the day...check out the funky chicken coop tour! (www.fccooptour.blogspot.com )  Later on...Kinks Hoot Night at Ruta Maya, Billy Harvey at the Amsterdam, Eric Tessmer at BD Riley's, Ray Benson at the Elephant Room!!? is he doing a new Texas swing jazz thing I don't know about?, Mau Mau Chaplains at Flamingo, Blue October at Stubbs for another sold out show, The Brew, The Eggmen at Jovitas, Seth Walker at Momo's, Pat Green at Nutty Brown, Afrofreque at Lambert's, Grady, Honky, Dixie Witch at Room 710 and of course...What a Saturday night...'cuz it's a Del Castillo CD release party at Antones, so look out, you have been warned!!

Sunday 4/12...Happy Easter!

Heads up...all the cool brunch spots will be packed!! Of course in the daytime I like Dale Watson at Ginny's, but you already know that by now, right??  There is a cool benefit for the Diabetes Association at the Continental Club so check out the "Hey, Loretta! Pie Social" with Rosie Flores, Brennan Leigh, Mike Barfield, Ted Roddy and many more, Mitch Watkins is at the Elephant Room, Mariachi Relamago at Nuevo Leon, The Durdens at Stubb's, DJ Kurupt at Red Fez, The Resentments at the Saxon Pub, Jane Bond at Roadhouse Rags and....

Morrissey will hit the stage at the Bass Concert Hall to help ya endure the cloudy, rainy weekend.       

Beyond the live music...be warned the Alamo Drafthouse might slip another World Premiere past you like they did with Star Trek last Monday!! 

Get ready...next week is the Texas Hill Country Wine and Food Festival, so get ready from Thursday the 16th thru Sunday the 19th!

Fo' Mo' info :  http://www.texaswineandfood.org/

  

What's so Cool about Austin?

People always ask me why I am always raving about living in Austin, Texas and I always try to describe all the options of cool, fun things to do!  This weekend is a spectacular case of "fun in the sun" because Spring has definitely arrived in the ATX! 

(also keep in mind that if you like sports...the Texas Relays are going on at UT!)

 

So, today here are a few options for Friday April 3rd, 2009:

T-Bird and the Breaks at the City Hall Plaza, free at noon;

Alvin Crow at Broken Spoke; Carrie Rodriguez at the Cactus Cafe;

Robyn Hitchcock at Antones; Los Bad Apples at Jovita's; Lil'Cap'n Travis at Continental Club; 

Guy Forsyth at Nutty Brown; Vallejo at Threadgill's; AJ Castillo, Joe Bravo, The Tortila Factory at H&H Ballroom; Blaze at Lamberts; Yonder Mountain String Band at Stubb's...oh and do not forget the Southern Sirens at Aces Lounge!!

Saturday April 4th, 2009:

WAR at the Louisiana Swamp Thing all day at MLK & Congress; 40 Acres Fest at UT; Boyz II Men, Cameo and more at the Urban Music Fest at Auditorium Shores; Gary Clark Jr. at Antones; Redd Volkaert free at three at the Continental Club, then at night go back for the Derailers; Mama Sweet at Momo's; WC Clark at the Saxon Pub; Slightly Stoopid at Stubb's; and for some sports action...Lightweight Lightning Boxing at the Erwin Center!!

Sunday April 5th, 2009:

THE BOSS...aka Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band at the Erwin Center!!!

The Riverboat Gamblers, The Black & White Years and Red Jumpsuit Apparatus at The Grind at MLK & Congress;  Heybale and Jon Dee Graham at the Continental Club; James Speer at the Elephant Room; Jerry Jeff Walker at the Gruene Hall; Ephraim Owens & Brannene Temple at Lambert's; Mariachi Relampago at Nuevo Leon; The Way It Is Fest at RED7; DJ Kurupt at Red Fez; The Resentments at the Saxon Pub; and of course...my favorite Sunday afternoon free show...Chicken Shit Bingo with Dale Watson at Ginny's Little Longhorn Saloon!!

Some of these events are free, and some might have a cover, so please doublecheck before you leave your house!!

Have Fun!!!

-A.D. in the A-TX!!