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Salvage Vangaurd Gala at Eponymous Garden
When Salvage Vanguard Theater throws a “gala,” don’t visualize women in glittery gowns, men dressed as penguins or stiff diners over stiff drinks. The longtime Austin warehouse theater group raises money in the same way it presents performances: Without a scintilla of affectation.
Gricelda Silva and Jacob Trussell
Musicians and dancers performed at the Eponymous Garden, the guest-residence-and-events cluster of bungalows, set around a renovated farm house on Garden Street in East Austin. Aromatic snacks were arrayed behind the kitchen; traditional sidecar cocktails were served out by the old “stables.”
But my reason for attending were the fascinating people, among them Garden co-owner and consummate cabaret artist Sterling Price-McKinney (also my former landlord at the Garden). So many other talented artists to catch up with: Cyndi Williams, Joey Hood, Gabriel Luna, Paul Soileau, Luke Savisky, Jenny Larson, Josh Meyer, Adrienne Mishler, Matt Hislope, Westen Borghesi, and so forth.
Luke Savisky, Margery Segal and Jason Phelps
Yet big surprise was the return of Jason Phelps and Margery Segal, two signal Austin artists from the 1990s. They now live in Travis Heights after a long sojourn in Vermont. We welcome them back with wide, open arms. In some ways, the circle was never broken.
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