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The Texas Community Music Festival is proud to announce that the five dates scheduled for HEB Central Market North are now almost gone  We are still looking for one group to fill the early evening spot on Sunday, May 2.

We still have a number of evening performance opportunities available at historic Scholz Garten, in the biergarten.  It’s a fabulous venue for medium to smaller groups, bands and ensembles and over the years has been the site of some of the most memorable performances in Festival history.  Who could forget the set turned in by the Marcus Graf Funk Collective in 2008, or the Austin Banjo Club strumming away through a cloudburst in 2007 … without batting an eye, the show went on!

And of course, performances each year by the likes of the Austin Wonder Brass, New Austin Polka Band, NAJO, El Grupo Lunes and, of course, The Wurst Band.

Each year the Scholz crowds get bigger and this year, we’re making it more possible than ever to perform in this storied downtown Austin venue.

Contact us at info@tcmfestival.com if you’d like to perform or would like an additional gig during the festival.  We’ll hook you up!

NEWS FLASH!  Thanks to your swift response and the generosity of our hosts and sponsors at Scholz Garten, another evening of performance has been added to the schedule for the Fifth Annual Texas Community Music Festival!

We will now be booking performers to play in the biergarten at Scholz’s on Monday May 3.  Please check the SCHEDULE page for availabilities.

The Scholz Garten biergarten is a fabulous downtown Austin venue.  Groups up to 16 can perform on stage and up to about 30 can perform in front of the stage on the main garten floor.  Over the years, some of the most memorable TCMF performances have taken place at Scholz Garten and we expect no less this year.

If your band is interested in a second performance or if you play with a band that may have been unable to book at Central Market, please contact us at info@tcmfestival.com and book a set at Scholz Garten during the 2010 Texas Community Festival!

Folks, we’re excited by the fact that this will be the biggest and best TCMF ever!

NEWS FLASH — The Fifth Annual Texas Community Music Festival, April 23-May 6, 2010 in Austin, will provide the greatest number of performance opportunities in the history of the Festival.  However, the schedule is filling up faster than anyone imagined.

If you’ve played TCMF before, you know how much fun and enjoyment your bandmates and the appreciative audiences receive from your performances at Central Market and Scholz Garten.  That’s why so many of our longtime performers keep coming back year after year .   If you haven’t played TCMF in the past, now’s the time to book a performance before they’re all gone!  

Check the SCHEDULE page to see the available times that remain.  We’re down to a precious few openings at Central Market North and have totally filled one of the nights at Scholz Garten — which is a perfect venue for smaller ensembles, jazz bands, polka, dixieland, rock, latin — anything that goes well with cool spring nights and cold beer!  

We will try to make more times and dates available, but not until we fill the existing schedule.

CALLING ALL BLOGGERS!

On another note, we’re looking for a blog entry from each of the first four years of the Texas Community Music Festival to feature on this site.  If you played TCMF in 2006, 2007, 2008 or 2009 — or if you were here for it– please contact us at info@tcmfestival.com.  We’d love to preserve our history through your eyes and ears…