Old Settler’s Music Festival 2012

Jan 20, 2012 by Eggs

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Old Settler’s 2011 – photo by HashBrowns

Festival season is still a few months away, but now is the time of big decisions. Artist line-ups are dropping every single day, and with that we all have to figure out just where and when we’ll be traveling based on how good or bad the roster of bands are. Wakarusa just dropped their full list of bands, and it’s looking pretty nice, but another local festival was announced kind of under the radar. Old Settler’s Music Festival, which takes place south of Austin at the Salt Lick Pavilion, will feature a slew of great Rock, Americana and Bluegrass over the weekend of April 19-22. Headliners include indie folksters Iron & Wine, big-voiced singer songwriter Amos Lee, southern rockers Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit and newgrass champions Railroad Earth.

A bunch of other bands will also be making their way down to the 25th anniversary of the festival. Check out the full line-up after the jump.

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Wakarusa 2012, Full Line-up Announced

Jan 19, 2012 by Café Con Leche

Michael Franti & Spearhead @ Wakarusa

Earlier today, the final part of this year’s Wakarusa Camping and Music Festival line-up was released. One of the key names released today was The Avett Brothers (you know BOT’s HashBrowns is excited about that!) Making their comeback to Mulberry Mountain are also Slightly Stoopid and Ghostland Observatory.

The rest of the line-up released today includes Matisyahu, EOTO, and Perpetual Groove. You can find the complete line-up after the break. What do you think about it?

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Chris Gray Day In Photos

Jan 17, 2012 by Eggs

Chris Gray Day

This past Saturday, I headed down to the Main Street “Island” around 6 in the evening to enjoy some solid local music, hang out with a bunch of good friends and to help support my good buddy and boss at the Houston Press Chris Gray. I got there just in time for the start of Hayes Carll‘s set, who chose to perform stripped down with only an acoustic guitar and his voice box for a 45 minute romp of originals and covers. After Hayes finished up, we converged to the patio where we took over a table and started in on some good conversation. I jumped around inside Continental Club and Big Top to snap some pictures of Spain Colored Orange, Changoman, Electric Attitude and a host of other bands mostly playing a bunch of covers, but continually made it back out to our table of rotating cast members. After a while, we took to Big Top to catch great acoustic sets from both Benjamin Wesley and Joe Mathlete before the Wild Moccasins rained down their brand of indie dance pop on the growing crowd in the Continental Club. By the time Buxton hit the stage after the Moccasins, the crowd had surged, their energy being instantly transferred to the group onstage. They served as somewhat of a headliner that night, so it was fitting for them to round off their set with a cover of Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down” which was the perfect dedication to the man we were all celebrating that day.

I took a whole bunch of pictures from the event, which you can check out after the jump.

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Wakarusa 2012 Line-up Announcement, Part 2

Jan 12, 2012 by Café Con Leche

Grace Potter & The Nocturnals

The second part of the line-up announcement for this year’s Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival came earlier today. The additions include Primus, Umphrey’s McGee, Girl Talk and Fitz & the Tantrums.

The final announcement will be on the Jan. 19. Here’s the initial announcement, in case you missed it. Check out the list of additions to this year’s line-up after the break.

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Chris Gray Day

Jan 12, 2012 by Eggs

This upcoming Saturday, Houston’s first festival of the year is going to take place in the Main street compound of The Continental Club and Big Top Bar from 10 in the morning all the way until they close their doors at the end of the night. The festival is a benefit concert for my good buddy and boss at the Houston Press Chris Gray, who suffered a major heart attack back in late October, and is now dealing with a heap of growing medical bills. Gray has made it back to his full music loving self, and plans to return to his post come February, but for now we can celebrate his health with a walloping day of music this weekend. Tons of great bands have stepped up to play this event which Gray partially curated, including a recent addition of the one and only Hayes Carll who we caught not long ago at House of Blues.

The tickets are a minimum donation of $20, and you can pick those up either here or when you arrive at the door on Saturday. Remember to get there early to try and bid on one of several great auction items which will include signed pieces of merch from the likes of Willie Nelson, Wilco, Steve Earle, Local Natives and Charlie Louvin as well as a bunch of other great music related stuff.

It should be a great day of music which you can start planning with the full schedule that you’ll find after the jump.

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Wakarusa 2012 Initial Line-up Announcement

Jan 6, 2012 by Café Con Leche

Wakarusa 2011

Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival released yesterday the first of three rounds of line-up announcements for this year’s event. The line-up includes Pretty Lights, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Weir, Robinson, & Greene Acoustic Trio, and G. Love & Special Sauce.

This year’s event continues on Mulberry Mountain in Ozark, Arkansas and runs from May 31 to June 3.

Get your tickets pronto, friends. I’m already excited about this year.

The rest of the line-up will be announced on the festival’s facebook page on January 12 and 19.

Check out the complete list of artists after the break.

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