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At 11am on a Monday, at the corner of Guadalupe and Dean Keeton, it s quiet.
UT classes remain predominantly virtual, so a lot fewer students mill about. There s still enough, however, to stop and gawk when a white van emblazoned
Austin Music Awards Winner Wagon pulls up honking.
A bow-tied
Kevin Curtin then hops out with a wireless mic to deliver the award for Best Radio Personality to
Laurie Gallardo. I was like, Those people are [coming] to kill me! laughed the deejay afterward about the windshield tassels and spare tire strapped on top of Curtin s former Houston PD van.
Austin Music Awards, held at the
Moody Theater on March 11, turned out to be the final show I attended in 2020. That also proved the last time I dressed up with a tiny purse, saw those friends you only run into at shows, and went out on the patio to talk shit about Austin music. While the 40th annual
Austin Music Poll can t account for such nuances, it addresses the ongoing pandemic head-on.
Detailed last week in The Austin Music Poll Got COVID-19, (Music, Jan. 8), the ballot winnowed down to 20 categories and the
Hall of Fame as spearheaded by the coronavirus-specific new categories including Best Livestreaming Artist, Best 2020-Themed Song, and Musician Who Went Above & Beyond. As evidenced by passionate emails for broadening the Best Online Series category, the Poll and the Austin Music Awards they bestow still mean a lot locally after four long decades. A body of 600 homegrown music professionals helped determine the multiple-choice nominees, now online at vote.austinchr
Facebook/YouTube, Monday 18, 6:30pm
Martin Luther King Jr. Day makes for a memorable cleanup project in CenTex this year. An obelisk celebrating the Confederate Army and a headstone commemorating 22nd governor of Texas and Confederate Army Officer Joseph Sayers on the Bastrop County courthouse lawn call for relocation (or worse), so with $28,000 of $50,000 raised for the endeavor, a who s who of song activists livestream on Monday to bring home the remaining $22,000. Huge headliners Natalie Maines and the Chicks lead a burning pack of ATX singer-songwriters including James McMurtry, Eliza Gilkyson, David Ramirez, BettySoo, and others, alongside veteran Americana favorite Dar Williams, and more. Then, local reps Akina Adderley, Ruthie Foster, and Ray Prim wrap it all in roots soul and gospel. All monies benefit the Bastrop County Monument Relocation Committee. –
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