Live music returns to Long Center lawn with free summer concert series Summer wouldn t be summer in Austin without live music on the Long Center lawn. If you’re desperate for some live local music, the Long Center for the Performing Arts invites you to drop in on its socially distanced outdoor summer concert series. Inspired by popular and free outdoor live-music shows like the treasured Blues on the Green series that became tradition for Austin music lovers throughout the years, the Long Center’s 16-show free concert series, The Drop-In Driven by Subaru, aims to “honor and refresh that tradition” by showcasing live music from a diverse lineup of Austin’s well-loved and emerging musicians all summer long.
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This spring the Long Center is encouraging Good Vibes Only with a free streaming concert series featuring established and emerging Austin talent.
According to a news release, the series will evoke the groovy feel of a 1960s variety show while highlighting the work of independent Austin artists.
The series kicks off Feb 10 with a performance from Sun June and continues through April 7 with sets from Sweet Spirit, Montopolis, Datura and Scott Strickland.
The Long Center s newly appointed vice president of programs and community outreach, Bobby Garza, said he hopes the series, filmed in the center s Rollins Studio, will transform into a fully-immersive variety show experience as we bring Good Vibes Only live as soon as it’s safe to do so.”
Bobby Garza
With vaccines and federal relief funds on the way, Garza talks lingering uncertainties for the live music space in 2021.
When the concert business shut down last March,
Bobby Garza abruptly shifted from putting on live events to tearing them down his company, Austin-based Forefront Networks, had to cancel the California food-and-music festival Yountville Live later that month. In early April, his life changed even more dramatically: Forefront furloughed 30% of its staff, including him.
As part of
Billboard s efforts to best cover the coronavirus pandemic and its impacts on the music industry, we will be speaking with Garza, a 43-year-old former Forefront creative team leader who used to be general manager of festival producer Transmission Events, every other week to chronicle his experience throughout the crisis. As of early January, he is now vice president of programs and community outreach at the Long Center, a performing-arts facility in Austin. (Read the
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