(All photos by Steve Levine) Nearly five years have passed since Brittany Howard last graced an Austin stage. Her appearance closing the Austin Blues Festival on Sunday night revealed an artist in a much different[…]
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Preview: Austin Blues Festival lineup features 30 Grammys and a Guy you might know
(2023 photo courtesy of Austin Blues Festival) Before it gets hotter than it should be for an outdoor music festival, the 2024 Austin Blues Festival is offering a hot lineup boasting 30 Grammys, including a[…]
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Old Settler’s recap: “Hippie festival” offers four days of people and performers being themselves
A riddle: If you’re watching a Tejano band play Jimi Hendrix’s “Foxy Lady” at an Americana music festival, where are you? It’s got to be the 2022 Old Settler’s Music Festival, the Austin area’s longest[…]
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Old Settler’s Music Festival day 1, after dark: When the music stops … it doesn’t
(CAMP BANJO, TILMON, TEXAS) – New Orleans-based chanteuse Maggie Belle crooned her last note close to midnight on the opening day of the 2022 Old Settler’s Music Festival. The lights went down, her five-piece band[…]
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