Austin — The Texas Community Music Festival is proud to announce that four weeknight shows have been added to the 2012 festival schedule. The Seventh Annual TCMF will now include Monday and Tuesday, April 23-24, and Monday and Tuesday, April 30-May 1. All performances will be held at Central Market North. Last year’s weeknights at Central Market were very well attended and featured some fabulous performances.  This year we expect even greater things.  So if…

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…