Image Credit: Jane Fischer, Austin Business Journal
Westgate Central Market has opened an in-store British pub called The Local in celebration of the summer Olympic Games. Enjoy British-style food created by Executive Chef John Maxwell and classic U.K. drinks while watching the Olympics on a television screen. Through August 12, Noon to 8 p.m.
Westgate Central Market 4477 S. Lamar Blvd. Austin, TX 78745 (512) 899-4300Celebrate the many diverse cultures of Austin at the Music and Culture Festival, June 9-10, 2012, at The Utopia Theater, School of Social Work Building, UT Austin. Saturday performances include Chinese traditional and fusion music and dance, Indian subcontinent traditional music, music from the British Isles, and Russian folk music. Sunday’s lineup includes Czech music and folk songs, Middle Eastern world music, Latin and South American music, and African traditional music. (See complete schedule below.) Free Admission. Park Free in Lot #12 on Martin Luther King between Trinity and San Jacinto, and walk one block north to the Social Work Building on San Jacinto Blvd.
Image Credit: Austin Chinese Arts Association
11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Chinese Traditional and Fusion Music and Dance – Austin Chinese Arts Association
1:45 – 3:00 p.m. Indian Subcontinent (India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh) Traditional Music featuring Ustad Amzad Rahman and Company
3:15 – 4:30 p.m. Irish, Welsh, Scottish, and English Music featuring The Blue Buckskin Winchers
4:45 – 6:00 p.m. Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, and Balkan Music featuring The Flying Balalaika Brothers
Image Credit: The Flying Balalaika Brothers
Noon – 1:30 p.m. Czech Music and Folk Songs featuring The Czech Melody Masters and the Austin Happy Czech Singers
1:45 – 3:00 p.m. Middle Eastern World Music (Turkey, Iraq, and Iran) featuring Atash
3:15 – 4:30 p.m. Latin and South American Music (Puerto Rico, Cuba, Brazil, Argentina, and Ecuador) featuring Zafra with Javier Jara
4:45 – 6:00 p.m. African Traditional Music featuring Zoumountchi
The Utopia Theater, School of Social Work Building The University of Texas at Austin 1925 San Jacinto Blvd. Austin, TX 78712The Music and Culture Festival is presented by the Texas Music Museum and co-sponsored by the School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin. This project is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division.
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Experience the music, games, and artistry of the Celtic Nations (Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Ireland, and England) at the Sherwood Forest Faire Celtic Festival and Highland Games. The festival includes over 100 performances per day across 20 performance spaces, 110 merchant booths, Celtic bands, competitive Scottish heavy athletics (Caber Toss, Stone Put, Hammer Throw), Irish dancing, history lectures, a harpist circle, family clans, bagpipe competitions, hand-made arts and crafts, and eats and ales. Admission.
Every Sunday in June and July from 1:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Free Admission
Texas Music Museum 1009 E. 11th Street Austin, Texas 78702June 5 Chinese Traditional and Fusion Music
June 12 West African Traditional Music
June 19 Latin and South American Music
June 26 German Traditional Music
July 3 Irish, Welsh, Scottish, and English Music
July 10 Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, and Balkan Music
July 17 Czech Music
July 24 Indian Subcontinent Traditional Music (India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh)
July 31 Native American Music and Mexican Music
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