Join us for some live Irish music in a session-style environment! Grab a drink and watch the session players perform traditional Irish songs. For more information, check out their Facebook group - Lockhart Irish Session

It’s First Friday, which means we have a great show for you! Join us for fan-favorites Rock Bottom String Band, joined by Los Gatos 512!

Rock Bottom String Band’s mission is to make every show more than spectator and performer– they want our audience to feel as much a part of the show as if they were on stage themselves. For RBSB music is about making connections and growing communities and they bring that passion to our performance every time they play. Their many influences include bluegrass, folk, and americana flavored with punk, metal, and traditional roots.

Los Gatos 512 is a five piece Latin ensemble from San Marcos that serves all your favorite Cumbia, Salsa, Bachata, Latin Pop y MÀS!

Doors at 8, show at 9 | $10

It’s time for our November Open Mic Night! Come sing a song, follow along with our flash fiction prompts, read a poem, tell some jokes, or anything else!

Sign-ups start at 7 and fill up fast, so make sure you don’t miss out.

We strongly enforce performance time limits so we can get as many people on stage as possible and don’t have to cut anyone off the list. Please be courteous and enthusiastic towards all performers. Everyone belongs on our stage.

Flash Fiction Prompts: TBD

Come by around 7 to sign up on the day of the event!

Join us for some live Irish music in a session-style environment! Grab a drink and watch the session players perform traditional Irish songs. For more information, check out their Facebook group - Lockhart Irish Session

Join us for a night of beautiful music!

Saturday November 9th at 8pm • $10 cover [doors at 7pm]

On the heels of her stunning new album release, Not Lost, Jennifer Jane Niceley and her mystical country quartet are traveling the back roads to the best haunts that remain. With her transcendent songs and enigmatic band, it can be hard for heady folks to “genrify” and classify the sound; for those who’d rather float away on the frequency, this music is a balm to the soul. Featuring Feathered Mason on baritone guitar, Jason Goforth on pedal steel and ambient harmonica, Clint Mullican on electric bass and Robert Crawford on Drums. 

LASSO are a collective of trans-dimensional multi-instrumentalists based on planet Earth in the city of Austin, TX, testing the limits of both spacetime and genre with psychedelic gusto. Their 2022 eponymous debut orbits somewhere at the astronomical midpoint of German experimentalists Tangerine Dream and honky tonk legend Hank Williams. LASSO deliver a rocking twang drenched in psychedelic shimmer, launching your favorite dusty beer joint clean through the stratosphere on a venture to uncharted galaxies with Lone Star in hand.

November 1st! Steep Cats present TWO sets of Neil Young & Crazy Horse ✨@lockhart_artsandcraft ✨

It’s been 5 months since @themcats_atx have played a show and this is going to be super special 🖤 They’ll be playing the hits and deep cuts all coming from the albums…𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘕𝘰𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, 𝘖𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩, 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘍𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘈𝘸𝘢𝘺, 𝘛𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵, 𝘙𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘕𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘴 and 𝘡𝘶𝘮𝘢.

This will be a busy weekend in Lockhart so Rach and Rhodes will be selling presale tix for this event!

$15 - doors at 7pm

This is going to be magic you won’t want to miss! Promise you that.

It’s time for our October Open Mic Night! Come sing a spooky song, follow along with our spooky flash fiction prompts, read a spooky poem, tell some jokes, or anything else (spooky, obvs)!

Sign-ups start at 7 and fill up fast, so make sure you don’t miss out.

We strongly enforce performance time limits so we can get as many people on stage as possible and don’t have to cut anyone off the list. Please be courteous and enthusiastic towards all performers. Everyone belongs on our stage.

Flash Fiction Prompts: TBD

Come by around 7 to sign up on the day of the event!

RITA BLISS - Rita Bliss is a folk musician from Rochester, New York and is now based in Austin Texas. Though a Rust Belt native, Rita’s melodies are rooted in familiar old-time banjo sounds that evoke travels along the backroads of the South. Influenced by John Prine, Joni Mitchell, and Nanci Griffith, Rita’s songwriting weaves together timeless love stories with long drives, porch gatherings, and letters between loved ones. The love stories are unabashedly queer, the porch gatherings are sometimes rowdy, and the conversations often touch on true-to-life mental health challenges.

Rita is releasing two singles from her debut solo album, "Peaches and Apple Pies," in May and June of 2024. Produced by Grammy-nominated musician Dom Fisher, the album will feature "Drive You to Kentucky", "The Best Bar in Texas", and "Two Dollar Bill" with a release date of July, 2024. She'll be making stops in Dallas, St. Louis, Chicago, and Nashville this spring and can otherwise be found in and around Austin.

Join us for some live Irish music in a session-style environment! Grab a drink and watch the session players perform traditional Irish songs. For more information, check out their Facebook group - Lockhart Irish Session

It’s FIRST FRIDAY! You know what that means - according to tradition stated in the ancient lore, we have to throw an awesome show with Plum Creek Records!

This month we’re welcoming back one of our favorite bands of ALL TIME: Garrett T. Capps & NASA Country, along with Heavy Meddo and Half Dream!

GTC is a Bad mofo. He makes cowboy kraut with his band NASA Country & also lots of Tex-Mex rock n' roll. He is San Antonio’s resident cosmic country gonzo honky tonk weirdo freak. He is a national treasure in Holland. He can usually be found at The Lonesome Rose, the bar he owns in the city he was born in. foo.

Heavy Meddo enjoys long walks on the Faust tapes, some lingering fumes of a youthful infatuation with James Joyce, smattering of samples, loud guitar
(the ventures), postrock/postpunk/post-using-the-word-post, dusk nearby cubist castle, tape manipulation , collage in every sense

Half Dream is a rock n’ roll band based in Austin fronted by songwriter Paige Renée Berry (guitar, vocals), along with Laine Higgins (lead guitar), Wes Armstrong (drums) Mike Wade (bass), and Carrie Fussel (harmony vocals, texture). Formed in 2018, Half Dream began with the name and songs of Paige Renée Berry and changed their moniker to reflect the ethereal and collaborative nature of the sound. Paige Berry’s songwriting explores identity, overcoming trauma, & moving past fear. Floating melodies find punch in driving hooks that highlight vocal subtleties, landing somewhere between dream and tenuous reality. These songs were born from a love of storytelling, radical empathy, and unfiltered expression from artists like Joni Mitchell, Simon and Garfunkel, Helen Reddy, Liz Phair.

It’s time for our September Open Mic Night! Come sing a song, follow along with our flash fiction prompts, read a poem, tell some jokes, or anything else! Sign-ups start at 7 and fill up fast, so make sure you don’t miss out. We strongly enforce performance time limits so we can get as many people on stage as possible and don’t have to cut anyone off the list. Please be courteous and enthusiastic towards all performers. Everyone belongs on our stage.

Flash Fiction Prompts: TBD

Come by around 7 to sign up on the day of the event!

Join us and Plum Creek Records for a showcase benefitting HAAM, the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians!

HAAM has been working tirelessly for years to help provide health benefits for Austin and Austin-area musicians - they are truly doing the lord’s work.

6:30 - Tom’s Parents

7:00 - Newbold

7:30 - Wine Country

8:00 - Naomi Stinnett’s Lost Girls

Come on out, donate generously to HAAM, and watch this amazing set of local performers! Doors at 6pm

Join us for a night of that sweet, sweet rock & roll.

We’ve got everyone's favorite - Sploot, giving us those 90s/00s rock & roll vibes, plus Blackwülf, riff-rock outfit from Oakland, CA!

What distinguishes BLACKWÜLF from many of their contemporaries is a strong emphasis on “songs” rather than “sounds”, delivering a wide slab of listenable vintage-style heavy metal that draws its strengths from imaginative content and quality performance. We'll have earplugs, you bring your ears.

There is NO COVER for this show, so tip the hell out of your bands.

Join us on Wed Sep 18th for live music from Lockhart’s own Jim “Bear” Mugford and Ben White. It will be a night of melodic folk, story telling, and good vibes. See you there!

Join us for a night of surf tunes and Americana reggae rock!

Doors at 7pm, music at 8pm - $10 at the door

POI POUNDERS - The Poi Pounders are a 3 man Instrumental Band playing Surf, Rock n' Roll, Country, Blues and Polka!

AQUIFER - “South Austin band, Aquifer is a Reggae Americana Rock Band that has undergone a transition over the past year with new members infused into the group. Known for their unique blend of Reggae and Americana music, the band has been in the local Austin music scene for years. The recent additions to the band have added a new level of energy and excitement to their music.

The band's new lineup includes Curtis Rettenmaier on bass, Mike Ded on percussion, and Carolyn Subject on keys/vocals joining original band members Heath Ham on guitar/vocals, and Danny Kopack on drums. The result is an elevated sound that is both dynamic and layered. Aquifer continues to captivate local audiences with their catchy melodies, upbeat rhythms, and feel good lyrics. With a busy schedule and a growing fan base, Aquifer is quickly becoming a force to be reckoned with in the music industry.”

Alex Dupree: The Texas Doesn't Care Tour Kickoff$10 Adv / $12 DOS -

Doors at 7 / Show at 8

All Ages

Alex Dupree is a published poet and songwriter. He got his musical start in Austin, Texas before moving to California to study poetry at UC Irvine. During this time, songwriting was never far from his mind, and he continued to write and perform with multiple Los Angeles country bands. He has since returned to Texas, where he is again focused on his own music.

Despite a deep love for country music, Dupree’s songs never quite settle into that category, absorbing additional influences from the likes of Laurie Anderson, Arthur Russell, Bjork, and John Cale.

His 2022 album, Thieves, was produced by Michael Krassner (Califone, Simon Joyner, Boxhead Ensemble) and features Max Knouse, Aaron Stern, Stephen Hodges (Tom Waits, Mavis Staples), Buck Meek (Big Thief), as well as longtime collaborators Aisha Burns and Matt Matherne.

This fall, Dupree is undertaking an extensive tour of Texas in anticipation of the release of his album You Winsome, You Lonesome. A “Texas Edition” of the vinyl will be available on September 6th—exclusively via Bandcamp and in-person at shows—with a worldwide release set for November 8th.

This tour takes its name from the first single off of You Winsome, You Lonesome: “Texas Doesn’t Care.” Of the song, Dupree says, “I wrote it for my sister, but I ended up living the story myself. It's a song about coming home and the perverse comfort of knowing that, no matter what has happened, Texas will always welcome you back. Because Texas doesn’t care.”

You Winsome, You Lonesome is available for pre-order at TexasDoesntCare.com

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After circulating tapes during a few years of international touring and cultivating his following in Austin, David Longoria has recorded his debut studio album as Longriver: Of Seasons, a folk-animated meditation on time, death, and whispers of transcendence. Before Longriver, Longoria played with acts diverse as . . . And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead and Bill Baird, as well as producing records such as The Blue Dirt of Paradise. But his main operation was fronting his own multi-piece rock set, The Black, whose record Sun in the Day Moon at Night got “pretty damn close to the mythical ‘cosmic American music’ that GP was trying to pin down,” according to My Old Kentucky Blog. This record was indeed a production from the vibrant center of life and activity, and it earned Longoria a national audience. The work of Longriver, however, is quieter and operates in more intimate spaces and moments. Such work could be called a breather when it comes to speed, a temporary release from our culture of acceleration. Longriver’s poetic approach to music invites listeners to let their suffering be witnessed and touched.

Of Seasons is led by Longriver’s lyrical, Fahey-styled guitar picking, accompanied by upright bass and ambient organ, piano and cello. The first track places us on a boat and sets off on the odyssey of the record. “When the ark was building Noah, and I was sitting nowhere” is the refrain of the song, and Of Seasons is full of such mythic, existential lines that make you grateful the album includes liner notes. The next song, “Wasting Time,” is direct and demanding: “I open the book of wasting time, I point and click on wasting time, wherever I look I’m wasting time,” sung with a power that encourages listeners to see our insecurities honestly and collectively. If the lyrics touch anxieties and fears, the rhythmic strength of Longriver’s fingerstyle playing–informed by Skip James, Charlie Patton, and Townes Van Zandt–keep the record moving, deftly afloat. Longriver channels the more mystical resonances of pre-war blues in “The Way That It Is,” a song that deals with illness, aging, and delusion in a surprisingly supportive tone. This song, and less directly the album as a whole, addresses inevitability of pain, and how ineptly our culture deals with that pain, whether through religion, the cult of work, material wealth, or romantic love. “Kuku Ree,” the closing track, offers no definitive answers: “You do the best with what you know, and slowly you go to the truth,” through the dream-like nature of everyday life and death.

Of Seasons releases September 6th, 2019 from Hullabaloo records. It was recorded at King Electric Recording Co. in Austin, Texas, produced by Michael Pierce and mastered by JJ Golden at Golden Mastering. Musicians on the album include: Thor Harris (Swans, Bill Callahan, Shearwater), Sarah La Puerta (Tele Novella, Thor and Friends), Lindsey Verrill (Little Mazarn), Evan Joyce (Warm Sugar), Colin Gilmore, and Alan Schaefer.

Join us for some live Irish music in a session-style environment! Grab a drink and watch the session players perform traditional Irish songs. For more information, check out their Facebook group - Lockhart Irish Session

It’s time for our August Open Mic Night! Come sing a song, follow along with our flash fiction prompts, read a poem, tell some jokes, or anything else! Sign-ups start at 7 and fill up fast, so make sure you don’t miss out. We strongly enforce performance time limits so we can get as many people on stage as possible and don’t have to cut anyone off the list. Please be courteous and enthusiastic towards all performers. Everyone belongs on our stage.

Flash Fiction Prompts: TBD

Come by around 7 to sign up on the day of the event!

Join us on Thursday for live music from Lockhart’s own Jim “Bear” Mugford and Ben White. It will be a night of melodic folk, story telling, and good vibes. See you there!

Don't sleep on Northern Soul Night next Saturday, August 17th! If you like soul music, this is YOUR. NIGHT. If you don't, then honestly I don't know what to tell you. What's Northern Soul music, you ask?

A music and dance movement that emerged in Northern England and the Midlands in the early 1970s. It developed from the British mod scene, based on a particular style of Black American soul music with a heavy beat and fast tempo (100 bpm and above).

We've got DJ Topper heading down from from the bright lights and big city of Austin to spin the best of his Northern Soul records with special guest DJ Lockhart’s own @djrobgordon!

No cover, it's going to be a night to remember!

Formed in 2014, Houston in the Blind instantly injected themselves into the Atlanta music scene. Their debut album, Limbs, was released in 2015 and quickly became an indie hit. It was featured on numerous Year-end Best of lists and saw the band tour around the country. This looked like the break band leader Charlie Garrett had been patiently waiting for. Wanting a change of scenery from his hometown of Athens, Georgia, Garrett and his wife decided to head west to Los Angeles. With all the positive momentum, Garrett thought it would be an easy sell to his bandmates, but that was not how things panned out. With Hide the Glow, Charlie reflects on how he got to the place he is now and the challenges he faced along the way.

Show starts at 8pm.

Join us for some live Irish music in a session-style environment! Grab a drink and watch the session players perform traditional Irish songs. For more information, check out their Facebook group - Lockhart Irish Session

RITA BLISS - Rita Bliss is a folk musician from Rochester, New York and is now based in Austin Texas. Though a Rust Belt native, Rita’s melodies are rooted in familiar old-time banjo sounds that evoke travels along the backroads of the South. Influenced by John Prine, Joni Mitchell, and Nanci Griffith, Rita’s songwriting weaves together timeless love stories with long drives, porch gatherings, and letters between loved ones. The love stories are unabashedly queer, the porch gatherings are sometimes rowdy, and the conversations often touch on true-to-life mental health challenges.

Rita is releasing two singles from her debut solo album, "Peaches and Apple Pies," in May and June of 2024. Produced by Grammy-nominated musician Dom Fisher, the album will feature "Drive You to Kentucky", "The Best Bar in Texas", and "Two Dollar Bill" with a release date of July, 2024. She'll be making stops in Dallas, St. Louis, Chicago, and Nashville this spring and can otherwise be found in and around Austin.

It’s time for July’s Open Mic Night! Come sing a song, follow along with our flash fiction prompts, read a poem, tell some jokes, or anything else! Sign-ups start at 7 and fill up fast, so make sure you don’t miss out. We strongly enforce performance time limits so we can get as many people on stage as possible and don’t have to cut anyone off the list. Please be courteous and enthusiastic towards all performers. Everyone belongs on our stage.

Flash Fiction Prompts: TBD

Come by around 7 to sign up on the day of the event!

Join us for some live Irish music in a session-style environment! Grab a drink and watch the session players perform traditional Irish songs. For more information, check out their Facebook group - Lockhart Irish Session

Join us on Thursday for live music from Lockhart’s own Jim “Bear” Mugford and Ben White. It will be a night of melodic folk, story telling, and good vibes. See you there!

Local singer/songwriter Charley Ramsay will be performing on the Arts and Craft stage. You don’t want to miss it!

A small-town Texas singer/songwriter, Charley Ramsay blends vintage Americana with modern pop production to create his unique sound.  His rustic storytelling explores life in a rapidly changing world, balancing wry societal observations with heartfelt confessions - all delivered with blues-style, country baritone vocals. After a 10-year stint of writing and performing in the Austin area with life-long friends, and since the release of his 2008 solo album ‘Catalyst,’ he has been committed to writing songs he thinks are good enough to share. He is happy to now call Lockhart home and is excited to be finishing up his new release coming out in February, featuring 9 new original songs.

No cover, show starts around 8pm

It’s time for Open Mic Night! Come sing a song, follow along with our flash fiction prompts, read a poem, tell some jokes, or anything else!

Flash Fiction Prompts: TBD

Come by around 7 to sign up on the day of the event!

It’s time for Open Mic Night! Come sing a song, follow along with our flash fiction prompts, read a poem, tell some jokes, or anything else!

Flash Fiction Prompts: TBD

Come by around 7 to sign up on the day of the event!