Austin — The Eighth Annual Texas Community Music Festival featured more great music Tuesday night at Central Market, with another diverse and exciting program. James Speer led off with a wonderful program of original music and excellent jazz keyboard work. Songwriter/singer Woot Talley and “the box” played a crowd pleasing set of original tunes which ranged from blues and Western swing to rock music reminiscent of the psychedelic movement of the “good old days.” The…

SPECIAL NOTE:  The festival will go on RAIN OR SHINE tonight.  If weather prevents us from staging on the patio, we will be performing on the Cafe deck. Austin — The Texas Community Music Festival continued delighting audiences Monday night with a trio of entertaining and musically diverse sets.  Highlights included: Katie Holmes Project – A fine trio consisting of fiddle, string bass and drums. They played their own arrangements as well as a variety…

Austin — The Texas Community Music Festival completed  what most would agree was the greatest weekend of community music ever presented Sunday night at Central Market, with an unusal turn of events, as an evening performance was brought to an somewhat abrupt halt when the next band on the program literally invaded the stage. (OK, maybe there was a little planning involved, but the audience was treated to a special moment!) The program featured a…