A one-day 2023 tryout doubled to two days of on-point blues-and-beyond curation in the second year of Austin Blues Festival .
Organized by the Antone’s team, the fest reincarnates the Waterloo Park shindig that nightclub founder Clifford Antone started in his name back in 1999. After a major park redesign a few years back created the Moody Amphitheater, which wound up being primarily booked by Live Nation, we’re especially grateful for the homegrown event’s expansion. Check out the Chronicle music team’s reviews from Austin Blues Festival below.
By 1992, when yours truly arrived in Austin as a twentysomething blues seeker, Buddy Guy had already transitioned from shredder to showman. Despite molten comeback and mainstream breakthrough, Louisiana guitarist George “Buddy” Guy spent more time onstage jawing and showboating than actually laying hands on that which Woody Guthrie once dubbed a fascist-eradicating machine.
Look no further for proof of the communal joys of dance music than Big Freedia, who describes her vocation on Instagram as “Bringing people together through the power of Ass.” That she did on Sunday, when she spent her Blues Fest set encouraging folks to throw it back. Apart from the curiously poppy 2023cut “$100 Bill,” Freedia mostly stuck to her OG New Orleans bounce tracks not found on Spotify – like “Rock Around the Clock,” “Y’all Get Back Now,” and, of course, “Azz Everywhere.
Austin Blues Festival Big Freedia Brittany Howard Buddy Guy Jimmie Vaughan Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas Sue Foley Waterloo Park
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