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Gather round boys and girls and let me tell you a tale of old Sixth Street. Once upon a time, Austin s avenue of debauchery and bad decisions hosted more than just shot bars. You could stagger down the street on any given night and stumble into a motley assortment of watering holes dedicated to live music. Alongside venues booking cowpunk, rock and our city s signature blues, Flamingo Cantina opened in 1991 as Austin s home for reggae music. These days, it s one of the few remaining venues committed to programming original live music on Austin s central tourist strip. After closing when the pandemic began 14 months ago, the club will reopen for its long-running midweek residency, Dreadneck Wednesday, on May 15. Lake party reggae outfit Mau Mau Chaplains will serve irie vibes with a side of Austin weird while Winton s Kitchen dishes up Jamaican food in the back. There will be a $5 cover at the door. ....
WASHINGTON The arts in Austin, from the performing arts and live music clubs to at least one museum, are poised to get relief from the pandemic that has left the cultural world without audiences or much income. A new $16 billion federal grant program swung into gear last week, nearly a month after an initial start was derailed when the system crashed on the day it opened. “Things are in a very good place now,” Elisbeth Challener, managing director of Zach Theatre, said of the restart. “Fingers and toes crossed.” The Zach is applying for $2.6 million in funding after having had to lay off or furlough more than 80% of its staff and seeing a 60% decline in revenue in 2020, compared with 2019. ....
Despite lengthy discussion last year, Austin City Council did not allocate exclusive funding from the first federal stimulus, the CARES package, for local music venues. New COVID-19 relief from Washington incoming, Austin s music entities begin to queue up. Music Makes Austin and the Austin Music Commission submitted budget proposals to the city earlier this month. Both request over $20 million to support Austin s music economy from the federal American Rescue Plan and Cody Cowan, who also leads the Red River Cultural District association, said that the MMA and AMC requests aligned coincidentally. Alongside disaster assistance, both plans also mention release of the long-discussed ....
Art by Zeke Barbaro / Getty Images (Photos by David Brendan Hall and John Anderson) Only 13% of eligible voters cast a ballot in early voting for the upcoming May 1 special election. That s actually a robust turnout for a special election, but still pretty piddling numbers. I get it. Post-Trump, maybe there s been a tiny, take-the-foot-off-the-gas feeling when it comes to civic engagement? And this election is undeniably a weird one. It s on a Saturday, for starters. It doesn t have a face to it; these are ideas we re voting on, not politicians. And I for one can never keep straight which proposition is which, including the quirkily worded Democracy Dollars one (Prop H) and the one that wants to recriminalize being homeless (Prop B). I did suggest to our News team they might come up with a fun mnemonic, a catchy jingle, to help readers keep all these propositions straight, but funnily enough our news team is pretty busy just reporting the news. I recommend ....
Denny Freeman, who helped give rise to Austin’s blues scene in the 1970s playing with Stevie Ray Vaughan and later became the touring guitarist in Bob Dylan’s band, died Sunday after being diagnosed with abdominal cancer last month. He was 76. Born Aug. 7, 1944, in Orlando, Fla., Freeman grew up in Dallas, playing in a high school band called the Corals before moving to Austin in 1970. Freeman and Vaughan soon were playing together with singer Paul Ray and others in a group called the Cobras at venues including the One Knite and Soap Creek Saloon. They were part of a wave of musicians who arrived here around that time, including guitarist Jimmie Vaughan (Stevie’s older brother), singers Angela Strehli and Lou Ann Barton and University of Texas student Clifford Antone, who eventually opened a downtown nightclub that became the community’s mecca. ....