Welcome to the Austin Blues Society Web Site
We hope you will join us in promoting the Blues in Central Texas. If you are reading this, we probably already share a love of Blues music. Hopefully we can also share membership in our Blues Society! Our goal, with the help of blues musicians and fans like you, is to promote and educate about blues music, one of America’s oldest and most important musical genres.
Clifford Antone played a huge role in providing a vibrant Blues talent pool and working gigs for many Blues artists in Austin for the past 3 decades. In the wake of losing Clifford, a group of loving friends who admired his great contribution to the Blues community felt compelled to roll up their sleeves and set the wheels in motion to organize the Austin Blues Society. They held a successful kickoff event completed all the legal ground work for starting a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and nursed the first official Austin Blues Society through it's Freshman year.
On the coat-tales of their success and hard work, the current incarnation of the board and volunteers have worked very hard to produce an amazing number of successful events and programs in our sophomore year. We've been able to stoke the Central Texas Blues Music scene with several monthly ABS sponsored events and provide monetary contributions through our fundraising events to several deserving not-profit community organizations including the Capitol Area Food Bank, and Music For Literacy Foundation.
Blues music has always been a community-based music, and we want to help our Central Texas Blues community stay in touch and grow with the music. We invite you to attend the ABS Blues Jams. Open to all Blues musicians. All ages are welcome! If you’d like to listen to some great Blues artists, attend one of our Blues Showcase events. See the schedule below.
Jams: Here's the latest on our Jams and locations.
Sunday's at First Down & Stassney is now canceled
Monday's at Antone's starts up again on June 21st. There will be
a new cover policy. ABS Members will pay $3, non-members $5,
and if your a Jammer there is NO COVER. That's right, if your
gonna play, you don't pay!
Wednesday's a new ABS Jam will be held at Weirdo's on North
Mopac and Parmer Lane on the 2nd & 4th Wednesdays of the
month.There is no cover for this event.
Please feel free to get in touch with us with any questions or suggestions you may have.
We invite individuals and businesses to apply for membership.
July 5th: NO JAM - Happy 4th of July!
July 12th: ABS Jam at Antones. Doors at 7pm, show/jam 8pm to midnight. Hosted by The Jimi Lee Band
July 14th: ABS Jam at Weirdo's. TIme - 7pm to 10pm. Host TBA
July 19th: ABS Jam at Antones. Doors at 7pm, show/jam 8pm to midnight. Hosted by Jeff and The Jumptones
July 26th: ABS Jam at Antones. Doors at 7pm, show./jam 8pm to midnight. Hosted by Kindred's Kombo
July 28th: ABS Jam at Weirdo's. TIme - 7pm to 10pm. Host TBA
Spread the word- now you can purchase 1 or 3 year Austin Blues Society memberships with a credit or debit card on the ABS web site! Visit the ABS Membership page to renew or join the Austin Blues Society |
