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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Choffel, Garza play AMF benefit
Suzanna Choffel and David Garza are playing a benefit Aug. 9 for the Austin Music Foundation, which provides education and career resources for local artists. The show’s at El Sol y La Luna from 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Don’t be surprized if Zanna and Dah-Veed don’t duet on traditional Spanish music, as they did recently at Momo’s.
The evening will include complimentary appetizers and beverages as well as a silent auction. Tickets are available at www.frontgatetickets.com for $35.00 each, with all proceeds benefiting Austin Music Foundation’s educational programs.
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DIVAS Electronic Music Fest coming to Expo Center
Promoters Massive Intent are hosting a rave (do they still call them that?) at the Travis County Expo Center Sept. 5 featuring all-female DJs, including Sandra Collins of Los Angeles, Austin’s Anjlkllr (pronounced “Angelkiller”) and bassmasters DJ Rap, Empress and many more.
Massive Intent produced last month’s successful Future Fest.
- The A-List: Future Fest at the Expo Center, 06.27.09
Get tickets online here.
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Local bands slam with ‘High School Musical’ star
As our friends at the Austinist reported this afternoon, local band The Daze will be featured in the upcoming teen flick “Bandslam” featuring “High School Musical” star Vanessa Hudgens. Also appearing in the film are local rappers (and July 360 concert series artists) Zeale 32 and Phranchyze. You can actually catch a couple seconds of Zeale rapping in this trailer at around 26 seconds, thankfully, before Vanessa Hudgens starts dropping her ska/rock thing.
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Better Than the Van happy hour at Beerland
How many times have you been to a club show by an out-of-town band where the singer asks if anyone in the audience can put up the band for a night? The Austin-based Better Than the Van handles such requests in advance. Thanks to tons of national press BTTV, co-founded by former touring musicians Todd Hansen and Scott Miller, is building a network of friendly couches and spare bedrooms all over the country, making the days of six in a motel room a thing of a past to many bands touring on a shoestring.
To find out more about this program, BTTV and Do512.com are hosting a happy hour event at Beerland on Thursday July 30 from 7- 9 p.m. There’s free Lone Star beer while it lasts and Quiet Company and Built By Snow will play sets.
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Wilco to play Farm Aid
With Farm Aid coming to the St. Louis suburbs this Oct. 4, Jeff Tweedy (from Belleville, IL, 40 miles from St. Lou) and Wilco have signed up to play with F.A. directors Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews. Tickets go on sale Saturday.
As long as they’re doing one-off shows in preparation of a fall tour, you’d think the band could swing down to Austin to take the recently vacated Oct. 2 headlining slot at ACL Fest. But on Monday, after word of the Beastie Boys cancellation, Emily Rosenblum of Wilco’s management said “as of right now, this is not possible” for Wilco to replace the Beasties. The band may already have plans to headline in Austin on its U.S. tour.
