Views & Brews: Understanding Violence in Search of Peace
Coming up at our next Views and Brews at The Cactus Cafe this Tuesday at 6, it’s Understanding Violence in Search of Peace. Join KUT’s Rebecca McInroy along with writer and the Executive Director of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Yousef Munayyer, and economist James K. Galbraith to talk about understanding how violence is... Read More »
Open Mic with Kacy Crowley
SIGN UP: 7:30pm Performances: 8pm Cactus Cafe is an ALL ages venue! Open Mic is back with our Hostess Kacy Crowley!! Sign up is promptly at 7:30pm and performances are 8pm to 10pm. Event dates
Open Mic with Kacy Crowley
SIGN UP: 7:30pm Performances: 8pm Cactus Cafe is an ALL ages venue! Open Mic is back with our Hostess Kacy Crowley!! Sign up is promptly at 7:30pm and performances are 8pm to 10pm. Event dates
Joe Ely
Doors: 8pm Show: 8:30pm $40.00 in advance and day of show Guest: Miles Zuniga Panhandle Rambler is Joe Ely back home, returned to the always dusty, perpetually windy, generally arid, frequently smoldering, and seemingly barren landscape around Lubbock where he grew up and first began playing music. A place that has hosted generations of... Read More »
Brandon Luedtke with Graham Weber and special guest Willie Carlisle
Doors: 8pm Show: 8:30pm General Admission: $12.00 advance & $15.00 at the door "Brandon Luedtke hails from Texas, and began writing songs when he was twelve and was given his first guitar. He was born in Dallas and raised due east in the smallest county in the state, but has also resided in Nebraska for a few years and New York City a... Read More »
Views & Brews
Coming up at our next Views and Brews this Tuesday at 6 pm, It’s “Undocumented, Illegal, Unauthorized: Immigration and Trump’s America.” Join Rebecca McInroy, along with Guest host NPR’s John Burnett, Joy Diaz of The Texas Standard, UT Law professor Denise Gilman, and ACC Student and “Dreamer” Cynthia Zapata, to talk... Read More »
Views & Brews
Coming up at our next Views and Brews at The Cactus Cafe this Tuesday at 6 pm, we'll ask the question What is a Woman? Join KUT's Rebecca McInroy along with Taisia Kitaiskaia and Katy Horan author and illustrator of the new book Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers; and poet Florinda Bryant, to take a look at what... Read More »
John Fullbright (Late Show)
This is the Late Show. Doors: 9:00pm Show: 9:30pm General Admission: $25.00 in advance and $30.00 day of show. That plainspoken approach is part of what’s fueled the young Oklahoman’s remarkable rise. It was just two years ago that Fullbright released his debut studio album, ‘From The Ground Up’ to a swarm of critical acclaim. The... Read More »
John Fullbright (Early Show)
This is the Early Show. Doors: 6:30pm Show: 7pm General Admission: $25.00 in advance and $30.00 day of show. That plainspoken approach is part of what’s fueled the young Oklahoman’s remarkable rise. It was just two years ago that Fullbright released his debut studio album, ‘From The Ground Up’ to a swarm of critical acclaim. The LA... Read More »
Views & Brews
Coming up at our Views and Brews this Tuesday at 6pm it’s “The Psychology of Uncertainty." Join KUT’s Rebecca McInroy along with Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke, to ask: how can we make sense of tragedy, and how can we prepare ourselves emotionally and psychologically for the unpredictable? Views and Brews is... Read More »
Views & Brews
Doors 5:30pm Show 6pm Coming up at our next Views and Brews at this Tuesday at 6 pm it’s “The Problem With Power: How The Office of President of The United States Is Set Up To Fail." Join KUT’s Rebecca McInroy along with Jeremi Suri author of The Impossible Presidency, and the eminent economist James K. Galbraith to talk... Read More »
Austin Classical Guitar: Staff Show
Doors: 7:30pm Show: 8pm General Admission: $10.00 Staff Cactus Show!! An Austin tradition, join Matt Hinsley and the ACG staff as we entertain you with guitars and other instruments, quiz you with arcane and sometimes embarrassing trivia about each other, laugh together, and celebrate the joy the season. Staff Cactus comes but once a... Read More »
Views & Brews
Jazz and The Art of Responding, join KUT’s Rebecca McInroy along with rabbi and jazz historian Neil Blumofe, and a live jazz quintet for a night of great conversation and live music. Through the music of Miles Davis, Abbey Lincoln, Charles Mingus, and others we’ll explore what the tradition of call and response in jazz can teach... Read More »
Open Mic with Kacy Crowley
SIGN UP: 7:30pm Performances: 8pm Cactus Cafe is an ALL ages venue! Open Mic is back with our Hostess Kacy Crowley!! Sign up is promptly at 7:30pm and performances are 8pm to 10pm. Event dates
Josh T. Pearson & Jonathan Terrell
Doors: 8pm Show: 8:30pm General Admission: $12.00 Join us for an amazing evening featuring two of the best Texas songwriters around! Josh T. Pearson: Originally from Texas, Josh T. Pearson formed the short-lived phenomenon that was Lift to Experience, who released one sprawling masterpiece, 2001's The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads, before... Read More »
Cactus Cafe Open Mic
SIGN UP: 7:30pm Performances: 8pm Cactus Cafe is an ALL ages venue! Open Mic is back with our Hostess Kacy Crowley!! Sign up is promptly at 7:30pm and performances are 8pm to 10pm. Event dates
The Sanco Loop
Doors: 8pm Show: 8:30pm General Admission: $10.00 Record Release Show! “The Sanco Loop is the latest musical incarnation of Austin native, Peter Wagner. The record is made up of fuzzed-out acoustic guitar, atmospheric pedal steel, Rhodes, synthesizers, looped drum beats, and Wagner’s surprisingly wide-ranging voice. If James Blake... Read More »
Christina Cavazos
Doors: 8pm Show: 8:30pm General Admission: $8.00 Austin singer-songwriter Christina Cavazos just turned 17, but she’s been dedicated to making music for as long as she can remember. Her musical maturity is fully evident on her second EP, Cold, released in Feb., 2017. Showcasing her clear soprano and accomplished songwriting, producer... Read More »
Griffin House
Doors: 8pm Show: 8:30pm General Admission: $20.00 in advance and $25.00 day of show. It is a true, and nowadays rare, musician who writes lyrics so vulnerable and authentic that an audience is irrevocably captured by the powerful experience of sharing the journey. An album that is essentially an autobiographical account of personal... Read More »
American Dreamer & Misimplicity
Doors: 7pm Show: 7:30pm General Admission: $15.00 American Dreamer: Comprised of three classical musicians and two former rockers, Austin orchestral folk ensemble American Dreamer has over 30 years of collective music school experience. Members can be found performing with the Austin Symphony Orchestra and teaching at the University of... Read More »
Wednesday Night Jazz Meeting with Rabbi Neil Blumofe
Admission is free! Doors open at 7 p.m., show begins at 7:30 p.m. In the intimate, inviting setting of the Cactus Cafe, engage with Austin’s leading jazz musicians in an evening of conversation and music. We will explore the lives and development of various jazz artists and through their music and address various important topics of our... Read More »
Views & Brews
Coming up on our next Views and Brews at The Cactus Cafe this Tuesday at 6, it’s The Past, Present, and Future of Investigative Journalism. Join KUT’s Rebecca McInroy along with investigative reporters Lise Olsen, Neena Satija, and Alain Stephens to talk about the history of investigative journalism in the US and the opportunities and... Read More »
Tyler Jordan
Doors: 8pm Show: 8:30pm General Admission: $5.00 Guest: Alabama Deathwalk Tyler Jordan is a crafter of feeling, awordsmith piecing together the most uncomfortable truths into bold declarations of triumph. Hailing from Austin, Texas, Tyler is a former founding member of the locally-loved band, The Gents, and now fronts his current project,... Read More »
Frances Luke Accord
Doors: 7:30pm Show: 8pm General Admission: $10.00 in advance and $12.00 at the door Guest: Johnny Zachman "Frances Luke Accord are the definition of lean-in music." - Joni Deutsch, NPR's Mountain Stage “Frances Luke Accord are some of our very favorite musicians, songwriters, and people. We couldn’t recommend their debut LP,... Read More »
Lilly Hiatt
Doors: 8pm Show: 8:30pm General Admission: $12.00 advance and $15.00 at the door. Called “one of the finest songwriters in the Americana universe” (Rolling Stone), Lilly Hiatt delivers sharply witty, brutally frank, and musically adventurous songs with her unique style of 90s alt-rock meets modern roots. Her new album,Trinity Lane,... Read More »
Cactus Cafe Open Mic
SIGN UP: 7:30pm Performances: 8pm Cactus Cafe is an ALL ages venue! Open Mic is back with our Hostess Kacy Crowley!! Sign up is promptly at 7:30pm and performances are 8pm to 10pm. Event dates
Roselit Bone
Doors: 8pm Show: 8:30pm General Admission: $10.00 in advance and $12.00 at the door It’s hard to listen to Roselit Bone’s upcoming release, Blister Steel, without creating movies in your head, without bleak and beautiful images invading your consciousness. It’s a deeply immersive record – one that leaves you changed. A native of... Read More »
Ralph White & Aaron Blount (from Knife in the Water)
Doors: 8pm Show: 8:30pm General Admission: $5.00 advance and $8.00 at the door Ralph White has been playing music and touring now for over 40 years. In the 90s he played fiddle in the cow-punk/bluegrass band The Bad Livers. His solo music is influenced by country, blues, and Appalachian and West African folksongs. He switches between... Read More »
Adam Levy & Anthony da Costa
Doors: 8pm Show: 8:30pm General Admission: $12.00 in advance and $15.00 at the door. Special Guest: Jaimee Harris Neighbors is the first collaborative recording from Adam Levy & Anthony da Costa. Friends who have admired each other’s work for many years, Adam and Anthony had never played a note of music together before the session... Read More »
Dawn & Hawkes
Doors: 8pm Show: 8:30pm General Admission: $10.00 in advance and $15.00 at the door. Miranda Dawn and Chris Hawkes met when he crossed an Austin barroom floor and asked her to dance. The first time they sang together their voices and guitars combined into a sound Texas Monthly calls "undeniably intimate". Dawn, an Austin native... Read More »
Cactus Cafe Open Mic
SIGN UP: 7:30pm Performances: 8pm Open Mic is back with our Hostess Kacy Crowley!! Sign up is promptly at 7:30pm and performances are 8pm to 10pm. Event dates
Stuart Burns
Doors: 7pm Show: 7:30pm General Admission: $10.00 Stuart Burns has performed and composed for more than fifty years. He began playing during the Great Folk Revival in 1960. A native of New York, he traveled to New Orleans, the Caribbean, and California, where he met his musical mentor, the legendary Rolf Cahn. In 1980, after hearing the... Read More »
Shawnee Kilgore
Doors: 8pm Show: 8:30pm General Admission: $12.00 in advance and $15.00 at the door. Shawnee Kilgore Back to Eden vinyl release show with full band and special guests. Shawnee Kilgore is an Austin, TX singer-songwriter living a crowd-funding fairy tale. In 2014, Shawnee launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund her fourth solo album, A... Read More »
Jennifer Knapp
Doors: 8pm Show: 8:30pm General Admission: $15.00 in advance and $18.00 day of show Jennifer Knapp has experienced enough chaos and turmoil in her life that she could write about it on every album. Instead, she made Love Comes Back Around, a collection of songs that focus on what really matters. Produced by Viktor Krauss, Knapp’s... Read More »
Jet or Not Management Showcase Featuring: Cory Reinisch of Harvest Thieves, Belcurve, Mike Schoenfeld
Doors: 8pm Show: 8:30pm General Admission: $5.00 in advance and $8.00 at the door Cory Reinisch/Harvest Thieves: www.harvestthieves.com “Reinisch and his four bandmates wear their love for classic American roots music on their sleeves. They confidently churn out versions of classics from the Neil Young and Doug Sahm songbooks. [Their... Read More »
Dan Navarro
Doors: 8pm Show: 8:30pm General Admission: $15.00 For over thirty years, Dan Navarro has written, sung, played and acted his way through a rich and varied career...It was as a songwriter that Dan Navarro started his career, mostly in collaboration with Eric Lowen, for artists as diverse as Pat Benatar (the Grammy-nominated classic “We... Read More »
Views & Brews: The Hook!
Doors: 5:30pm Event: 6pm Coming up at our next Views and Brews at the Cactus Cafe this Tuesday at 6, it’s a story of the most influential movie never made, The Hook! Join KUT’s Rebecca McInroy along with Dr. Charlotte Canning and a cast of players to talk about the relationship between Arthur Miller and Elia Kazan, Blacklisting in... Read More »
Cactus Cafe Open Mic
SIGN UP: 7:30pm Performances: 8pm Open Mic is back with our Hostess Kacy Crowley!! Sign up is promptly at 7:30pm and performances are 8pm to 10pm. Come be apart of a great Cactus tradition! Event... Read More »
Cactus Cafe Open Mic
SIGN UP: 7:30pm Performances: 8pm Open Mic is back with our Hostess Kacy Crowley!! Sign up is promptly at 7:30pm and performances are 8pm to 10pm. Come be apart of a great Cactus tradition! Event... Read More »
Cactus Cafe Open Mic
SIGN UP: 7:30pm Performances: 8pm Open Mic is back with our Hostess Kacy Crowley!! Sign up is promptly at 7:30pm and performances are 8pm to 10pm. Come be apart of a great Cactus tradition! Event... Read More »
Cactus Cafe Open Mic
SIGN UP: 7:30pm Performances: 8pm Open Mic is back with our Hostess Kacy Crowley!! Sign up is promptly at 7:30pm and performances are 8pm to 10pm. Come be apart of a great Cactus tradition! Event... Read More »
Cactus Cafe Open Mic
SIGN UP: 7:30pm Performances: 8pm Open Mic is back with our Hostess Kacy Crowley!! Sign up is promptly at 7:30pm and performances are 8pm to 10pm. Come be apart of a great Cactus tradition! Event... Read More »
Cactus Cafe Open Mic
SIGN UP: 7:30pm Performances: 8pm Open Mic is back with our Hostess Kacy Crowley!! Sign up is promptly at 7:30pm and performances are 8pm to 10pm. Come be apart of a great Cactus tradition! Event... Read More »
Cactus Cafe Open Mic
SIGN UP: 7:30pm Performances: 8pm Open Mic is back with our Hostess Kacy Crowley!! Sign up is promptly at 7:30pm and performances are 8pm to 10pm. Come be apart of a great Cactus tradition! Event... Read More »
Austin Classical Guitar: MUSIC, RECORDING, DREAM: ERIC SLAVIN, MARK CRUZ
Doors: 7:30pm Show: 8pm General Admission: $10.00 San Marcos-based composer and guitarist Mark Cruz is one of our favorite local artists. Among his many distinctions, Mark is a multi-year winner of ACG’s annual Composition Competition, including the most recent contest! The show opens with the Classical Cactus debut of Eric Slavin, who... Read More »
Views & Brews 6pm
Coming up at Views and Brews at the Cactus Cafe this Tuesday it’s 2 shows with KUT’s 2 Guys on Your Head, celebrating one great book! Join KUT’s Rebecca McInroy in conversation at either 6pm or 8pm with Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke to talk about their new book Brain Briefs: Answers to the Most (and Least) Pressing Questions About... Read More »
Austin Classical Guitar: ACG Staff Night
Doors: 7:30pm Show: 8pm General Admission: $10.00 It’s becoming an annual rite of fall! Join us at the Cactus for the third edition of ACG Staff Night, featuring trivia, prizes, and performances from members of the Austin Classical Guitar team, along with tasty snacks courtesy of our friends at Primizie. Don’t miss it! Event... Read More »
Austin Classical Guitar: Stephen Krishnan & Joseph Palmer
Doors: 7:30pm Show: 8pm General Admission: $10.00 He’s back! We are thrilled that Stephen Krishnan, one of the most sensitive and communicative players we know, has moved back to Austin after several years of graduate school at USC. Welcome Stephen back for his special return to the Cactus Cafe stage. Then at 9 pm, ACG Community... Read More »
Views & Brews
Doors 5:30 Show 6pm RSVP does NOT Guarantee Admission. First Come, First served! Coming up at our next Views and Brews it’s KUT in collaboration with The Warfield Center for African and African American Studies for an evening with artists Angelbert Metoyer and Saul Williams. Join KUT’s Rebecca McInroy as Williams and Metoyer share... Read More »
Tom Russell
Doors: 7:30pm Show: 8:00pm General Admission: $25.00 in advance $30 at the door Tom Russell has recorded thirty five high acclaimed records, published five books which include: 120 Songs of Tom Russell, Tough Company - Letters with Charles Bukowski, Blue Horse Red Desert: the Art of Tom Russell, Blodsport a crime novel published by... Read More »
The Austin Lounge Lizards
Doors: 8pm Show: 8:30pm General Admission: $20.00 The Austin Lounge Lizards are arguably the perfect pairing of their hometown’s moniker, “Music Capital of the World,” and its motto: “Keep Austin Weird.” For 33 years, the Lizards have been spoofing the topics American families try to avoid at the Thanksgiving table; subjects... Read More »
Billy Crockett
Doors: 8pm Show: 8:30pm General Admission: $20.00 in advance and $22.00 at the door. CD RELEASE SHOW! Billy Crockett is a performing songwriter, music producer, recording artist, and the creative director of Blue Rock Studio Wimberley, Texas. He has recorded eleven solo albums and toured internationally. His songs have been acclaimed by... Read More »
John Fullbright
Doors: 8pm Show: 8:30pm General Admission: $25.00 advance and $30.00 at the door Special Guest: Jacob Tovar That plainspoken approach is part of what’s fueled the young Oklahoman’s remarkable rise. It was just two years ago that Fullbright released his debut studio album, ‘From The Ground Up’ to a swarm of critical acclaim. The... Read More »
Views & Brews
Doors 5:30pm Show 6pm RSVP does not guarantee admission, first come first served. Coming up at our next Views and Brew it’s a special live recording of the KUT podcast The Secret Ingredient. Join KUT’s Rebecca McInroy along hosts of The Secret Ingredient, Raj Patel and Tom Philpott, as they talk with guests Edwin Marty, the... Read More »
Darden Smith
Doors: 8pm Show: 8:30pm General Admission: $20.00 Darden Smith is an Austin-based singer-songwriter who redefines what it means to be a musician. With fourteen critically acclaimed albums in a career that spans almost three decades, Smith continues to write and tour across the US and Europe along with exploring new and innovative ways to... Read More »
Dawn & Hawkes
Doors: 8pm Show: 8:30pm General Admission: $10.00 in advance $15.00 day of show Opener: TBD Miranda Dawn and Chris Hawkes first met in 2010 when he crossed an Austin barroom floor and asked her to dance. A modest beginning became an undeniable attraction the first time they sang together. Hawkes, a recording producer and touring... Read More »
NPR Tiny Desk Concert On The Road
This event is invitation-only. Click this link to request your invitation. More than 6,000 unsigned bands and artists entered NPR Music’s 2016 Tiny Desk Contest, our search to find a great undiscovered talent to perform at the most famous desk in music. Our judges picked one winner — violinist Gaelynn Lea — but in the process, we... Read More »
MilkDrive
Doors: 8pm Show: 8:30pm General Admission: $15.00 Brian Beken-Fiddle, Mandolin, Guitar, Lead vocals Dennis Ludiker-Mandolin, Fiddle, Harmony vocals Noah Jeffries-Guitar, Fiddle, Mandolin, Harmony vocals Jesse Dalton-Double Bass, Harmony vocals While most bands point solidly to one member on fiddle, another on mandolin and so on, such... Read More »
Wednesday Night Jazz Meeting with Rabbi Neil Blumofe
Admission is free! Doors open at 7 p.m., show begins at 7:30 p.m. In the intimate, inviting setting of the Cactus Cafe, engage with Austin’s leading jazz musicians in an evening of conversation and music. We will explore the lives and development of various jazz artists and through their music and address various important topics of our... Read More »
Belcurve with Carry Illinois
Doors: 8pm Show: 8:30pm General Admission: $10.00 Belcurve is your dark, eerie, sweet, sarcastic, bright, witchy, tender, cruel lover. At its heart, Belcurve is the melding of Sarah Castro’s unique brand of lyrics vocal range and melodies with Matt Parmenter’s lifelong mission to wring the strangest sounds out of even stranger gear... Read More »
