Events - 15 Apr 16
Blue Lapis Light Aerial Dance Classes
Blue Lapis Light, Austin TX01/18/2016 - 06/1/2016 | 10:00 am - 9:00 pm
We offer aerial silk classes to our community and visiting artists. Throughout the year, our dance classes provide a unique challenge and offer a creative way for students to develop strength and grace while exploring aerial movement.
Blue Lapis Light also offers aerial workshops for colleges, high schools and community organizations. These workshops are uniquely designed for every project, providing an exceptional dance experience for all participants. We can host master classes at our studio or visit your location to conduct site-specific work.
Jan Heaton's "The Market"
Davis Gallery, Austin TX03/5/2016 - 04/16/2016 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
A daily obsession with living healthy, what we eat, where our food comes from, and how it is grown and prepared has provided the focus for her current series, The Market. For the past three years Jan hasbeen working on a collection that has grown to over 150 paintings, inspired by regular visits to the farmers’ markets in Austin. Initially she painted small studies on 4 x 4″ squares of heavy Fabriano cotton paper. The tiny watercolors were used as a reference for the larger paintings that followed. She looked to the market as a model for returning to the fresh fruits and vegetables her family cultivated in their small Detroit backyard garden. She also sought out with curiosity the mysterious varieties of watermelon radishes, maroon carrots, fennel, oyster mushrooms, and golden beets that were not familiar to their family crop – ever mindful of the seeds, the patterns, and the process that eventually bring these edible organic treasures to the table. Her objective is to capture not only what she observed but to isolate, simplify and glorify the produce, recording the essence of a fruit or vegetable with the evocative and sensuous forms always revealed in nature. Heaton’s desire is that her artwork will allow the observer to see a familiar form with a unique perspective.
CALLIOPE MUSICALS ANNOUNCE ALBUM RELEASE APRIL 15 WITH MEGA PARTY EXTRAVAGANZA
Central Presbyterian Church, Austin Texas04/15/2016 - 04/16/2016 | 8:00 pm - 2:00 am
Austin’s premier psychedelic folk band Calliope Musicals are overjoyed to announce the release of their highly anticipated debut album, Time Owes You Nothing on Friday, April 15, 2016. The release party will be at Central Presbyterian Church located at 200 E 8th St., Austin, Texas 78701. Doors are at 7:30 p.m. and the party starts at 8 p.m. In true Calliope Musicals fashion, the evening will be filled with music, confetti, costumes, dancing, hugging and much more. Tickets and more information will available soon at: http://www.calliopemusicals.com/.
In a recent review of their performance at Austin City Limits Music Festival this past year, Billboard said “The sextet’s bubbly brand of pop-rock (think a more authentically hippied-out Grouplove) holds up — the crowd swells significantly as passersby get sucked into the genuinely good vibes of songs…”
Calliope Musicals fill in their folksy roots with a mix of vibraphone, tribal drums, bass, lead guitar and explosive vocals. A preview track “What My Eyes Found” from the album can be streamed here. The track Listing for Time Owes You Nothing is as follows:
- 1604
- Echo of the Whoos
- Sink or Swim
- Happy, Sandy Baby
- Potting Daisies
- What My Eyes Found
- Swim or Sink
- Tiny White Moths
- Velveteen
- Letters
- Morning Ground
- Be (Morning Ground pt. 2)
Hailing from Austin, Texas, Calliope Musicals is a six-person musical tribe that includes Carrie Fussell (vocals), Matt Roth (guitar), Craig Finkelstein (vibraphone), Josh Bickley (drums), Andrew Vizzone (bass) and Chris Webb (lead guitar). Recorded at Fairfax Studios during a month-long stay in California, Time Owes You Nothing is the first LP from Calliope Musicals. The album was produced by Kevin Augunas (Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Cold War Kids), mixed and engineered by Gavin Paddock and Andy Dalton and mastered by Pete Lyman (Pat Benatar, Jason Isbell, Banks, Ben Harper).
“The album is colored with excessive amounts of Jesus Christ Superstar,” said Carrie Fussell, lead singer. “What came out is an album that inspires us and one that we hope will inspire others to push boundaries and be their favorite version of themselves.” “Our music centers around a certain energy more than a certain style,” the perpetually barefoot Fussell says. “We’ll do rock, then dance-y disco, then some slow sit-down [songs]. At the end of the day, it feels like the music revolves around imagination and adventure more than it does a specific type of music.”
Pre-order Calliope Musical’s album here: www.pledgemusic.com/calliopemusicals
Field Guide
The Off Center, Austin Texas04/15/2016 | 8:00 pm - 9:15 pm
Rude Mechs is proud to present the second draft of Field Guide, a new play that asks you to understand life the way a bird book tells you how to name the different species.
