The Austin Banjo Club will be making their fifth appearance in the Texas Community Music Festival. Come see them Saturday, April 20 at 4:00pm, at Central Market North.   The Austin Banjo Club has been playing traditional banjo music in and around Austin for more than a quarter century. Many Central Texas folks have heard us play on 6th street during Victorian Christmas, at a nursing or retirement home, at a church, at a wedding,…

The Republic of Texas Big Band is one of the groups who have played all eight TCMFs.  They will be performing Saturday, April 20 at 2:45pm, at Central Market North.   The Republic of Texas Big Band is a collection of professional people, several of whom actually earn a living as musicians of one kind of another. It is a community band, meaning it started as a group of people who loved big band music…

The Austin Jazz band, a longtime member of the TCMF family, will be performing Sunday, April 21 at 4:00pm, at Central Market North.     The Austin Jazz Band is a diverse group of twenty professional and amateur Austin Jazz Musicians who share a love for contemporary big band music.The band was formed in 1993 by Bobby Davis, The AJB musical director, and trumpeter and co-founder Steve Fleckman, an Austin based attorney. The intent of…