TCMF News
Austin – The 2022 Texas Community Music Festival opens (at long last) on Friday, April 22, at 5:30pm at Central Market North, with Woot Talley and the Box, followed by Rhythm Congress. After two frustrating years off (and three attempted schedules), we’re delighted to be back at Central Market to continue this longstanding community music show. Check out of 2022 performance schedule and make plans to share in this joyful reunion! If you’re playing, please…
AUSTIN – Texas Community Music Festival 15 kicks off – at long last – on Friday, April 22, 2022 at Central Market North. We’re so excited to be doing this again and proud of the fact that our entire schedule booked up in less than 2 days. We are looking forward to getting back together with our extended music family. While many of us have been rehearsing and gigging for a while now, there are…
Honestly, we’ve been postponing, cancelling, fretting, grumbling and waiting for so long, we’ve forgotten what version we’re on! Actually, this is our THIRD attempt at TCMF 15, but that does no justice to the misery our whole community has suffered at the hand of the COVID-19 Pandemic. But we’re set for April 22-May 1, 2022 at Central Market. We’re now accepting applications for a more streamlined schedule. Our festival will wrap earlier each night, so…
Austin — The FIFTEENTH annual Texas Community Music Festival was scheduled to kick off tonight and run through May 3. Thanks to COVID-19, that was not possible. And thankfully, we were able to reschedule TCMF for August 21-30. BUT… if we were making music today, we’d get to hear three great bands, the Ephemerals, Bubba Coletrane and the Train Wrecks and Rhythm Congress. In 2019, Rhythm Congress had a special guest performer, our own Ms.…
TWO DECADES OF TCMF!
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Join us for the 21st 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.
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