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The long-running artists market hosts a 3-day outdoor music and shopping event with performances from Jackie Venson, Shinyribs and more.

Plus, Future Front Market returns to Fair Market and more queer events this week

Cluck rainbow capitalism, keep your pink dollars in Austin’s queer community at these events

Just like that, national Pride Month is here and queer. Unlike last year, this summer is sashaying into our lives with a quickening sense of possibility: Our much-loved LGBTQmmunity celebrations are returning to their pre-pandemic traditions, like next weeks Austin Black Pride, while new events also flourish in the delightful forms of mini virtual film fests, thanks to the aGLIFF crew (see below), among other innovative ways. Its hard to describe how overwhelming (in a good way) it feels to ...

When a young Keith Galloway Jr. couldnt sit still in church, his mother suggested he take up a seat next to the pianist. That sage advice eventually led the Ft. Worth native to UT-Austins jazz program, where the keyboard maven finishes his sophomore year. His own solo musical outlet, KindKeith, a dreamy alternative R&B guise, debuted full-length bow Take What You Need last Friday in collaboration with longtime friend and co-producer Ian Salazar, who Galloway calls "Skinny." "With gospel mu...

Back in early March 2020, which feels like 100 years ago, the thriving Austin music industry felt the rumblings of a catastrophic event: the cancellation of South by Southwest (SXSW). It would be the first time in the 34-year history of the annual conference—once solely dedicated to music and now expanded to education, film, and interactive—that venues across the city would go dark. Faced with the implications of creating a superspreader event, as hundreds of thousands of people from dozens...