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
Austin — The Ninth Annual Texas Community Music Festival kicks off Saturday, April 12, at Central Market North, 4001 N. Lamar, in Austin. And if you’re a fan of the classics, jazz and especially Afro-beat music, you’ve just GOTTA be there with us! Saturday’s kickoff show begins at 11am with a program by the Austin Civic Wind Ensemble, host of the Texas Community Music Festival and the oldest community band in Austin. The rest of the…
AUSTIN — The ninth annual Texas Community Music Festival (TCMF) will be held April 12-27, 2014, at Central Market North in Austin, and will feature Texas’s most diverse lineup of musical performers presented this year. Ranging in size from single performers to ensembles of 70 pieces or more, and running the musical gamut from classical to rock to jazz to world beat and everything in between, TCMF IX truly has something for everybody’s musical taste.…

