Austin —  The lineup for the 2012 Texas Community Music Festival already features a big number of new faces, new sounds and new musical styles.

Bamako Airlines, making their first TCMF appearance in 2012

As of this posting, only 10 weekend sets remain open.  Saturday, April 21, is fully booked already.

If you’re interested in participating in this year’s Seventh Annual festival, please contact us immediately to schedule your band or ensemble.

We have only limited performance opportunities and we would hate for anybody, especially our longtime performers, to be shut out of this year’s program.

Check the schedule page and email us ASAP.

Thanks and keep your chops warm!

Austin — The Texas Community Music Festival is proud to announce that four weeknight shows have been added to the 2012 festival schedule.

The Seventh Annual TCMF will now include Monday and Tuesday, April 23-24, and Monday and Tuesday, April 30-May 1.

All performances will be held at Central Market North.

Last year’s weeknights at Central Market were very well attended and featured some fabulous performances.  This year we expect even greater things.  So if your group hasn’t signed up to perform at the 2012 TCMF,  check the schedule and send us an email at info@tcmfestival.com.

Though we’re still about five months out, the schedule is already beginning to fill up.  So don’t miss your set!

TCMF and the Austin Civic Wind Ensemble want to express our deep gratitude to Central Market and booking guru Sean Hopper for their hospitality.  Without them, there would never have been a TCMF, let alone a seventh one!  THANKS folks!

Austin —  This year’s festival will move a week earlier, to the weekend of April 21-22 and 28-29 at Central Market North.

These dates are TENTATIVE, and as you know, we’ll be adding weeknights and possibly other venues as we get closer to the event.

So you  have NO excuse for being shut out in 2012.

Also, with this much advanced lead time, we ask that all musical organizations consider helping us produce, promote and sponsor this event.  Each year, TCMF grows, musically and in terms of attendance.  We are ready to take some new strides forward and would like the entire community to be represented in this long-term endeavor.  (I guess SEVEN years is a long-term venture!)

Thanks to the groups who have already requested dates.  We’ll be beginning that process in a few weeks.

Meanwhile, PLEASE contact us with your suggestions for content, promotion, etc.  The Texas Community of Musicians has a great stage and now we need to hear your loud voices!

Lone Star Swing Syndicate kicks off 2011 Mother's Day at the TCMF.

AUSTIN —  In Sunday night’s closing set, Maestro Robert Laguna of the Austin Civic Wind Ensemble reminded the crowd that a concert band that didn’t play a march, didn’t love their mothers.  Sunday, ACWE kicked off with a Sousa march to honor all the Mothers, and capped off a great Mother’s Day of music at Central Market.

The program opened with the Lone Star Swing Syndicate playing, what else, but swing music.  Next was an hour of classical music – including an original composition – by the Hill Country Winds woodwind octet.

Bobby Davis and the Austin Jazz Band performed next, followed by NAJO, which featured a sweet father-daughter vocal duet, along with some hot jazz.

And ACWE closed the show, just as it had opened TCMF a week before.

The Sixth Annual TCMF continues Monday and Tuesday at Central Market North and concludes Wednesday at the Farmer’s Market at the Park at The Triangle.  Check the Schedule page for more information.