AUSTIN MUSIC AWARDS

The 28th annual AUSTIN MUSIC AWARDS returns to the Austin Music Hall at 7:55pm sharp on Saturday March 20! Geoff Muldaur & the Texas Sheiks; Sarah Jarosz; the Explosives with Peter Lewis and Stu Cook; Will Sexton & Friends; Mother Falcon; Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears and more at the All Star Soul Jam! KGSR's ANDY LANGER returns as MC and the winners that are turning up in this year's poll ... oh my!

PETE TOWNSEND OF THE WHO performed with Ian McLagan & the Bump Band at the Austin Music Awards Wednesday, March 14, 2007. What a way to celebrate our 25th anniversary show!


THE AUSTIN MUSIC AWARDS is Austin's biggest local event celebrating the winners of the annual Austin Chronicle Music Poll. Past performers include Lyle Lovett, Roky Erickson; Okervill River; the Judy's; Roy Head; Ian McLagan & the Bump Band with Pete Townsend; Barbara Kooyman; The Tex Mex Experience; Jimmie Vaughan; Bobby Whitlock; Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Doug Sahm, James Cotton, John Cale, Spoon, Bob Schneider, the Gourds, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Pinetop Perkins, Townes Van Zandt, Lucinda Williams, Eric Johnson, Los Lonely Boys, Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez, the Texas Trumpets, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, the Greencards, Chili Cold Blood, Billy Joe Shaver, Miss Lavelle White, Charlie Robison, Alejandro Escovedo, Guitars a Go-Go with 3 Balls of Fire's Burnin' Mike Vernon, Jerry Cole, & George Tomsco, Trish Murphy, Sixpence None the Richer, Cluan, the Joe Ely Band, Sixteen Deluxe, Ed Hall, Steven Fromholz, Ruthie Foster, Vallejo, Van Wilks, Reckless Kelly, Anna Egge, Charlie Sexton, Two Nice Girls, the Big Boys, Tia Carerra, the Damnations, the Explosives, Super Girls, Jimmie Vaughan, Don Walser's Pure Texas Band, Jon Dee Graham, 86ed, the Resentments, Kinky Friedman, Tosca Strings, 8 1/2 Souvenirs, Bruce Robison, Class of '78, Eliza Gilkyson, the True Believers, Wayne Hancock, Daniel Johnston, Too Many Girls, Sara Hickman, Ian Moore, Jo Carol Pierce, Will Sexton, the Hole in the Wall Gang, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Lou Ann Barton, Asleep at the Wheel, Meg Hentges, David Garza, the Asylum Street Spankers, Hardcore Country with James White and Alvin Crow, Slaid Cleaves, Patricia Vonne, the Texas Tornados, Kelly Willis, Ian Moore, Monte Warden, Kacy Crowley, Martin Banks, Johnny Gimble, Abra Moore, the Snobs, and oh yeah, lots more.
The AUSTIN MUSIC AWARDS is directed by MARGARET MOSER for THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE and is co-presented by SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST. ..