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…

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…

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 Trilogy Clarinet trio of Marble Falls and continued with a return engagement by the Austin Banjo Club.  The energy on…

AUSTIN — The second big week of the Sixth Annual Texas Community Music Festival kicks off at 10:15 Saturday morning at Central Market North with the Hill Country Clarinet Trio of Marble Falls — the first of what promises to be yet another day of great performances on the Patio. Wednesday, TCMF made its inaugural appearance at the Farmer’s Market at the Park at the Triangle, with performances by the New Austin Polka Band (yes,…