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Headliners are listed first, opening bands last. Times listed are when the opening band starts. Austin.com strives to be accurate in times and cover charges, but don’t sue us if we’re a couple bucks off. Tonight's recommendations are marked with our pick.
The Amsterdam
Rick Busby’s Songwriter Stage
6:00 / No Cover
Singer-Songwriter
Antone’s
Eric Tessmer
8:30 / All Ages
Texas Blues
Six-string slinger Eric Tessmer captures the energy of SRV and runs with it.
Artz Rib House
Shelley King
7:30 / No Cover / All Ages
Folk Rock
Singer-songwriter with vocal prowess that’ll stick more than a plate of ribs.
Austin Moose Lodge #1735
Lonesome Dave Fisher
9:00 / $3 / All Ages
Country, Rockabilly
Approaches full greaser rockabilly status, but can’t abandon good ‘ol country long enough to reach it. In the end, it’s a perfect blend of honky tonk.
Austin’s Pizza
Natalie Zoe Jazz Trio
8:00 / All Ages
Jazz
Accomplished musician turned jazz vocalist, whose sung with the Taj Mahal, Warren Zevon, And David Allen Coe. Now that’s a palette.
B.D. Riley’s Irish Pub
Brent Adair
Broken Spoke
Dale Watson, Tony Harrison
8:30
Country
It would be hard to call yourself an Austinite if you haven’t been to your share of Dale shows. The leather-clad country icon croons, ladies swoon, fellas dig the twangy guitar.
 Cactus Café
George Kahumoko, Dennis Kamakah, Richard Ho’opi’i
8:00 / $20 / All Ages
Hawaiian Slack Key
While twenty bucks is on the steep end, how often does a trio of Hawaiian slack key masters pay visit to Austin? If you’re unfamiliar with the style of guitar playing, it is beautiful, exotic, energetic, and wholly distinct. Slack key players utilize a variety of untraditional tunings to create completely different instruments of the otherwise standard six string guitar.
Chain Drive
Amanda Pearcy, Trio del Rio, Raised by Pandas
9:00 / No Cover
Acoustic Pop
Raised by Pandas is the performing name for happy folkster Anthony Salerno.
Continental Club (happy hour)
Elana James & Erik Hokkanen
6:30 / No Cover
Roots
So far, this is the only happy hour for this duo scheduled so jump on it. Expect some twin fiddles as Elana James (of Hot Club of Cowtown) is joined by fiddle madman Erik Hokknaen. The multi-instrumentalist Hokkanen will surely pick up his guitar, where he is equally mad.
Continental Club
James McMurtry, Jon Dee Graham
10:00 / $7
Roots Rock, Americana
Americana laureate James McMurtry is back in town to cap this legendary weeknight roots rock double bill, mixing acerbic social commentary, quaint storytelling, and gritty Crazy Horse rock. Graham kicks the night off with his gravelly-voiced, grungy guitared dirge through Americana.
Continental Club Gallery
Trube, Farrell, & Sniz
10:00 / No Cover
Funk, Jazz, Soul
Three cats: organ, guitar drums. Think classic Blue Note grooves and you’re on to it. The perfect lounge for the perfect lounge music.
Cuba Libre
Cadaques
8:00 / Free
Latin, Jazz, World
If Al Dimeola grew up in Latin America, that’s what Cadaques sounds like. Smoldering Nuevo Flamenco, that’s another way to put it.
Dolce Vita
Joey DeLago
Donn’s Depot
Frank & The Station Masters
Piano, Pop
9:30 / No Cover
Eddie V’s Edgewater Grille
Kat Edmonson
7:00 / No Cover
Jazz
Singular jazz singer Kat Edmonson should attract fans of Norah Jones with her brand new release, Take Me To the Sky.
Elephant Room (happy hour)
Jazz Pharaohs
6:00 / No Cover
Jazz Pharaohs weekly happy hour is easily the best regular jazz gig in town. Toe tappin’ jazz from the pre-bop era.
Elephant Room
Megasaurus Big Band
9:30 / No Cover
Big Band, Jazz
Flamingo Cantina
Banda Ôxe, Don Chani
9:30 / $5
Brazilian, Reggae
Band Ôxe’s sound is rooted in the percussion of their native Northeast Brazilian folk traditions, adding upbeat energy from influences ranging from pop, reggae, and rock. The interplay between folkloric sounds and modern rock stretches the perceptions of Brazilian music.
Flipnotics Coffeespace
Pastor Cory
9:00 / All Ages
Folk
Good ole folk and storytelling songwriting.
Giddy Ups (early)
Jane Bond & Will Knaak
5:00 / No Cover
Spirited roots rocker Jane Bond holds this weekly residency at spacious South Austin honky tonk with Will Knaak.
Giddy Ups
Open Blues Jam
8:30 / No Cover
Blues
This might be a good blues jam to show up to. ‘Cause coming up next…
Ginny’s Little Longhorn
Roger Wallace
9:00 / No Cover
Country
Wallace coaxes dancers out of their seats with a resonating country voice.
House Wine
Chris Corsbie
8:00 / No Cover
Key Bar
Jukebox Heroes
7:00
Acoustic Covers
Acoustic trio covering classic rock, Motown, and a bit of ‘80s rock.
Las Palomas
Art Kidd, Terry Hale, Rick McRae, Javier Chaparro
7:00 / All Ages
Jazz
Mexican restaurant serves some jazz and a bit of twang on Wednesdays too. Terry Hale has played bass with George Strait’s Ace in the Hole band for more than 30 years. Probably were he met guitarist Rick McRae, a jazz maestro who did a short stint with Strait as well.
Lucky Lounge (happy hour)
Mobley, The Banters, Both Feet
10:00 / No Cover
Pop
Happy, bouncy pop of The Banters approaches twee, but without endless da-da-da-das.
Mean-Eyed Cat
Deuce Coupe
8:00
Momo’s (early)
Jack Valen, Nathan Hubble
7:00 / $5
Momo’s
Dan Dyer
10:00 / $7
Soul, Rock
Dan Dyer’s piano-led, soulful musicscape draws on Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and modern jam poppines to reach incredible heights.
Nuno’s on Sixth
Clay Jeffrey
8:00 / No Cover
Blues, Country
A trip around the fretboard through a country/blues amalgam and a Monte Montgomery style of hybrid pop with a more notable lean to Americana.
One 2 One Bar
80H Project, Ray Primm
9:00
Parmer Lane Tavern
Pete Benz
9:00
Country
Straight-up, George Strait-style country.
Patsy’s Cowgirl Café
Texcentric Radio Hour
7:30 / No Cover
Part theater, part country concert in the Eshter’s Follies spirit.
Reale’s Pizza
“Frankly” Singing w/ Ken Kruse
6:30
Lounge
Weekly session singing tunes made famous by the Chairman of the Board.
Red Fez
Atash
10:00 / No Cover
World, Afro-beat, Persian
The eight members come from almost as many countries and the music touches many, many more. Get yourself a hookah at the corner booth and let your imagination go with the flow.
Ruta Maya
Cienfuegos
9:00 / $5 / All Ages
Latin, Cuban
The perfectly exquisite Cuban sounds start at 9. But come earlier (7:30) and a salsa lesson is included with the cover. Good thing; you’ll want to dance all night long.
Saxon Pub (happy hour)
Bo Porter
6:00 / No Cover
Country, Twangabilly
Revved up versions of classic classic-country.
Saxon Pub
Monte Montgomery
8:00 / $10
Rock
Monte Montgomery’s fretwork is typically described as mind blowing, or crazy difficult. He combines deft finger picking with advanced chording that gets guitar nuts goin’ nuts.
Saxon Pub (later)
Steven Ray Will, James Hyland
10:00 / $5-$7
Americana
James Hyland (10:00, $7), of South Austin Jug Band fame, shows his new efforts in the wake of SAJB’s parting. Steven Ray Will (typically fronting the Salingers) caps the night with rootsy Americana rock (midnight, $5).
Sherlock’s Baker St. Pub
Radiostar
Speakeasy
The Brew
9:00
Latin, Flamenco, Jazz
A quick salsa lesson primer and away we go. The Brew comprise impeccable talented musicianship with an energetic flair.
Stubb’s (inside)
Sleeperstar, Stars Go Dim, Jillian Edwards
10:00 / No Cover Texas Bar & Grill
Acoustic Open Mic
Waterloo Ice House 38th Street
Ptarmigan
7:00 / All Ages
Z’Tejas
Stephen Doster, Will Sexton, and Bill Carter
6:30 / Free
Roots Rock, Singer Songwriter
In the bar side of the popular restaurant, the weekly gig showcases brilliant songwriting and musicianship. Doster and Sexton have played together for years, and it shows. Even the off-the-cuff nuances are seamless.
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