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 roll 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 loosing 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 Monthly Blues Jams on the first Tuesday of each month. 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, the third Tuesday of each month at Antone’s. See our Events page for details.
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.
Society News:
ABS is pleased to announce our participation in the Bob Bullock Museum's summer music series. We will help kick off the season with an awesome Blues concert and harmonica instruction.
Music Under the Star kicks off its sixth season of FREE evening concerts, exhibits, and family fun at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum on Friday, July 10th, from 6 - 9 PM.
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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 |
The Austin Blues Society is looking for new Board members and we would like to hear from qualified candidates who are interested. The positions we need to fill are Secretary and Treasurer, experience in these fields is desired. If you are interested please send email with an explanation of your interests and qualifications to board_candidate@austinbluessociety.org
