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…

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…

AUSTIN — The second week of the Texas Community Music Festival kicked off Saturday with a blaze of jazz licks, crooners, R&B fun, banjos, clarinets and African drumming as the Sixth Annual TCMF drew what could be its largest single day crowd ever at Central Market. The day kicked off with a set by the…