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630 robert steel | 8 jack wilson | 915 aly tadros | 1030 matt the electrician | 12 the blue hit

$10

the blue hit

matt the electrician

ryan harkrider

Mark Jungers 630-830 | Eddy Hobizal Band 9 | James Hyland and the Joint Chiefs 10:15 | Ryan Harkrider 12

Early show added: Savannah Berry at 630p

Our gift to you.  Talented and beautiful women.  Doors at 6p.

Suzanna Choffel, photo by Stevan Alcala

tis the season to feed the hungry.

tonight: bring a couple of cans o food for the capital area food bank and we’ll buy you a drink

also: spencer gibb, the coveters and taber maine round out some great music.

doors at 8, show at 9

Mauricio Callejas is a troubadour from El Salvador. Mauricio sings, with beautiful lyrics, about daily lifes, stories that happen right before our eyes.
He relased his second solo album “Magico” in 2009 in Austin TX, produced by Stephen Doster and features several renowned Austin artists like Joel Guzmán, Alex Coke and Michael Ramos. His first CD “Cosas de la Calle” was released in El Salvador in 2002.
Mauricio left his country and moved to Austin in July 2002 to continue his studies and pursue a professional career in songwriting and recording.
During his more than 20-year career, Mauricio Callejas, has performed in different venues in Latin America, the United States and Canada.
He is the founder of the first songwriter directory of Central America, www.centroamericanto.com and produces a weekly radio program that is broadcasted from different radio stations around the world.

The Belleville Outfit + Warren Hood and the Goods bring in the New Year.  Get your tickets  here.  Champage + Party Favors provided.

Fingers flying at breathtaking speed, original tunes that feel familiar at first but go beyond extraordinary, heart and brains behind dynamic performances: It’s an uncompromising musical journey the members of MilkDrive are on.

July 29, 2009
“The band’s guitar lines and riffs are full of energy…” via Austin360.com

August 21, 2009
“The funky tones…keep you grooving and…keep you grinning.” via examiner.com

If one searches for heart and passion with their musical taste look no further than Soul Track Mind. Blending 60′s and 70′s soul and r&b with flares of jazz, blues, funk, and modern dance beat, the young dynamic group of eight can deliver a unique knockout punch.

The “Cadillac of girl bands,” Sis Deville w/ Shelley King, Carolyn Wonderland, Floramay Holliday (guitar & vocals), Sarah Brown (bass) & Lisa Pankratz (drums), they’re not so much a girl band as a supergroup of Austin’s finest musicians.

Charlie Faye first made a name for herself in her hometown of New York, playing with her band, The Jerks, and touring as a sidewoman with Dan Zanes and Friends. Now based out of Austin, TX, Charlie recently released a new record, Wilson St. — named after the street in South Austin where the album’s songs were written on her old beat up Gibson guitar. Currently, Charlie is on a very creative and unconventional tour — living and playing in 10 different towns over 10 months. In each city, Charlie is forming a new band and recording a new song with local musicians. “I don’t want to just skim the surface of the country, going from one place to the next, night after night,” says Charlie, “If music gives me the chance to travel, I want to take the time to actually get to know each town, and the people who live there.”

Part of the many assembling for our weekly World Music Night brought to you by Bemba Entertainment and KUT.org

Brought together by violinist James Anderson in late 2009, The Austin Piazzolla Quintet brings to life the intense and passionate music of new tango composer Astor Piazzolla. This powerful, beautiful, sensual, and often controversial music is, according to cellist Yo Yo Ma, “everything you could want in music.” A blend of Tango, Jazz, Classical, and World music comes together to create the sounds of the one and only Astor Piazzolla. Through these five talented performers, Piazzolla’s music comes alive, as it was meant to be heard, in the heart of Texas and the “Live Music Capitol of the World” – Austin. Available for clubs, restaurants, dances, theaters, parties, festivals, and other events.

photo by john grubbs

Miranda Dawn‘s original poppin’ blues, soul, and funk tunes & a horn section that will literally blow you away. Delivered by an all star lineup which combines members of the Belleville Outfit, Tbird and the Breaks, and the Marshall Ford Swing Band.

Noon-5p Foodways Texas

7p Tony Lucca | Jay Nash | Matt Duke

915p The Selfless Season CD release

1045 Eagle Pritchard Murray Band

12 The Bus Stop Stallions

The Greyhounds (of JJ Grey & Mofro) 12

Dertybird 11

Black Bone Child 10

These Mad Dogs of Glory 9

Doors 8 | $10

photo by Sandy Carson

8p doors/9p show.  Also performing: The Lusitania, The 71s, Bryce Clifford and Co

$12 at the door.  $11.99 with a mustache.

Doors 7  |  Dead Kenny Gs 8p  | Brownout (remix album release) 10p

$10 (tix avail at the door or at funkybatz.com)

Late show: Mazel Tov Cocktail Hour (Klezmer returns to the Mo!)

michael dillard 8  |  TISH HINOJOSA 9  |  SUZANNA CHOFFEL 1030  |  ukemi 12

$10

5 years ago to this very hour the band formed spontaneously in the women’s bathroom at Momo’s.  True story.  Ish.

Opening is Momo’s first act, James Hyland & The Joint Chiefs. Wisebird closing it down.

$18

UPDATE: After 4pm Friday, tix only available at Momo’s.  Doors open/tix available at 7pm.

Wednesday:  “The Last Waltz Revisited” is a homespun tribute to “The Band” and their legacy that changed the face of music. Visit Momo’s on Wednesday, November 24th to witness Drew Smith, Suzanna Choffel, Dan Dyer and other special guests do their very best impression of The Band, complete with dinner and a screening of The Last Waltz Revisited.

“Eight years of concerts… We gave our final concert, The Band’s final concert, and we called it The Last Waltz. Some friends showed up and helped us take it home. They weren’t just friends. They weren’t just friends who came in to say hello, you know what I mean? No. They were more than just friends. I feel they’re probably some of the greatest influences on music on a whole generation. We wanted it to be more than just a concert. We wanted it to be a celebration.”

Celebration of a beginning or an end?

“Beginning of the beginning of the end of the beginning.”

Bob Dylan………………………………………………………………………Jack Martin
Eric Clapton…………………………………………………………………David Jimenez
Van Morrison…………………………………………………………………..Drew Smith
Neil Young…………………………………………………………………….Jeremy Nail
Joni Mitchell………………………………………………………………Suzanna Choffel
Ronnie Hawkins…………………………………………………………….Jon Beckham
Paul Butterfield…………………………………………………………….Kurt McMahan
Muddy Waters……………………………………………………………….Michael Hale
Dr. John…………………………………………………………………………..Dan Dyer

and more….

Doors at 8p, show at 9p.  Tix avail here, chance to win tickets here

Fri Oct 29: Funkybatz Halloween Bash: Dead Kenny Gs, The Coveters, Topaz Funk Resurrection.  Costume prizes.  8p doors

Solidarity was on display Tuesday at the “Austin City Limits” studio on the University of Texas campus, when a host of movers and shakers in the Austin music business community announced the formation of Austin Music People. The nonprofit lobbying organization, which former Mayor Will Wynn called “a one-stop shop, a singular voice” for the local music community, is headed by Paul Oveisi, who owns Momo’s live music club and formerly led the Live Music Task Force created by the Austin City Council in 2008.

Onstage during the press conference were local club owners, including Steve Wertheimer of the Continental Club and James Moody of the Mohawk, Roland Swenson and Brent Grulke of South by Southwest, Charles Attal and Charlie Jones of C3 Presents, musicians Adrian Quesada of Grupo Fantasma and Suzanna Choffel, plus managers, booking agents, publicists and retailers. Many charter AMP members are competitors, joined in the mission to “protect and grow Austin’s music culture and economy,” said Oveisi.

AMP is a 501(c)(6), a tax-exempt business league required to advance a community and allowed to be politically active, “and we intend to do so,” said Oveisi.

Wynn said the goal is for AMP to do for the local music business community what the Austin Film Society does for the movie-making community.

Oveisi outlined a three-step plan to “obsessively organize and recruit” new members, to listen to community concerns and to “bolster our cause through lobbying efforts.” Oveisi’s task force recommended the creation of a city music department in 2008, but the City Council voted against that action and instead filled a single position of music program director, hiring Don Pitts. “At that time we, in the music community realized that we needed to organize,” said Oveisi. Directors of South by Southwest, C3 Presents and Transmission Entertainment were among the first aboard the new nonprofit venture.

Oveisi said one immediate AMP goal is to commission a new economic impact study, calling the currently used figure of $1 billion and 18,000 jobs “under represented.” Fans are encouraged to join at www.austinmusicpeople.org, where membership levels range from $1- $49 for fans to $1,000- $10,000 for businesses. “This isn’t just for promoters or club owners,” Oveisi said. “The ecosystem of Austin’s music scene includes everyone from bartenders to musicians.”

AMP plans to host a town hall meeting later this year.

For more information on the 501(c)(6) organization visit www.austinmusicpeople.org.

Rodolfo Gonzalez/American-Statesman photo

If everybody in Austin would do one or both of these Tuesday to support the best program helping our strongest cultural asset-Austin musicians:

1. Donate $10 by texting “AUSTIN” to 85944

2.  Visit and spend money at any of these locations.  5% of Tuesday’s sales go to HAAM

and yes, of course, Momo’s is a participating business.  Come check our World Music lineup sponsored by KUT and Bemba Entertainment.  5% of all sales go to HAAM.

Tickets now only available at the door.  Doors at 7pm sharp.