Explore LIVE Austin Music w Award Winning Austin Violinist

Explore LIVE Austin Music w Award Winning Austin Violinist

Explore LIVE Austin Music w/Award Winning Violinist Will Taylor

By Will Taylor

Date and time

Friday, January 10, 2025 · 5 - 9pm CST

Location

Radio Coffee

4204 Menchaca Rd Austin, TX 78704

About this event

  • 4 hours

As an Austin Music Award Winner and native, I’ll take you behind the scenes of the real Austin LIVE Music underground.

Austin has hundreds of clubs, but where’s the REAL Austin music scene?

I’ll take you there personally.

I grew up here & have played professionally for over 30 years, from rock and jazz clubs to opera.

We will visit several original Austin venues, sometimes even rubbing shoulders and chatting with artists I know personally, and I may even sit in to play a song or two if they twist my arm.

I'll also be your photographer taking professional pictures & selfies along the way so you can focus on experience while still having the photos to recall the magical night.

1) A Nature Rendezvous: The evening starts with a rendezvous at a secret gorgeous nature spot downtown. I'll play a little violin serenade just for you and we’ll talk about who we'll see during the tour & we'll get to know each other. You can bring a picnic if you like, I'll have blankets and yoga mats.

2) Austin LIVE Underground: We'll visit at least 2 of the best Austin music venues chosen by poling the group's preferences. It might be live jazz in an upstairs loft, two stepping at a Texas dance hall, or a bluegrass jam night.

We love working with companies and and have lots of experience hosting corporate team-building. Great for groups and company retreats.

There is a suggested donation of $30-50 for each person.

Cash or venmo at StringsAttached

Also paypal: improv.will@gmail.com

Sliding scale also accepted or volunteer as a trade to attend.

Organized by

Will Taylor

Violinist, composer and Austin Music Award winner Will Taylor has performed with Pearl Jam, Grammy winner Shawn Colvin, P-Diddy, Willie Nelson, Ronny Cox (Deliverance) and many more.

Two time Austin Music Award Winner, and Best of Austin Finalist in 2022

Will is the founder of Strings Attached in Austin, Texas.

When Pearl Jam came to Austin in October 2009 to record their live Austin City Limits Studio show that would be broadcast nationally, they choose to entrust the strings portion of the show to Will Taylor and Strings Attached.

Will Taylor has a musical proposition for you -- a playful, dignified, off-kilter idea that brings honor to Austin's identity as "The Live Music Capital of the World." It's a cool concept. But it's just a bit . . . different.

Imagine what might happen, suggests Taylor, if we took Austin's most popular singer-songwriters -- Abra Moore, or Jimmy LaFave, or Patrice Pike, or Ray Wylie Hubbard -- and let them perform, live, in a church? Then imagine if you paired those artists with acoustic "chamber" instruments -- cello, violin, viola, trumpet and hand drums -- and wrote new arrangements, adding dashes of jazz and classical music, that revealed new facets of their most beautiful or familiar songs?

Imagine what might happen if you dared to blur all these boundaries between pop music and jazz, between rock music and classical music, between the musical realm and the lyrical realm, between the honky-tonk and the church, and in the spirit of art and fun and experimentation, you reached out for something . . . transcendent?

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