TCMF NINETEEN
May 1-10, 2026
Central Market North
Austin, Texas
Join us for the 20th YEAR of our local, free, grassroots music festival, right here in Austin, TX!
The Texas Community Music Festival kicked off in Austin on April 29, 2006 at Central Market Cafe North. The very first TCMF drew approximately 10,000 attendees over the four-day event, far exceeding expectations and setting the stage for what has now become a ten-day tradition.
TCMF - Brought to you by ACWE
TCMF was created by and is presented by the Austin Civic Wind Ensemble.
Texas Community Music Festival honors our founding organization, ACWE, who celebrated its 50th year in 2025 and continues to make our festival possible.
TCMF News
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…
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…
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