Empowering Local Musicians and Building Careers

Born and raised outside of the small town of Richland Center, Wisconsin, Eric Tessmer began playing at a young age

It is legend that a blistering Jackie Venson guitar solo knocked Pluto straight out of planetary existence.

Kinky Machine makes postmodern garage juju. It’s smart. It hits hard. And its got a backbeat like a bulldozer.

Mobley – Cutting vocals in the woods behind his college dorm.

Sarah Sharp is a multiple Austin Music Award winning songwriter and Jazz singer.

A pillar of the Austin music scene, musical psychonauts The Bright Light Social Hour have won 6 SXSW Austin Music Awards, performed at Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits Festivals, opened for Aerosmith and headlined the legendary Stubbs BBQ outdoor stage multiple times.

With the sort of ingenuity you might expect to come out of Austin, TX, The Deer encompasses the innovation of the modern indie-folk revival and the cross-pollination of Austin’s diverse music scene.

People ask Warren Hood a lot of questions at the end of a show – what was the name of that song you played – it sounded like Stephane Grappelli maybe, right after the Doug Sahm cover? How did you learn to play fiddle like that? Are you playing anywhere else this week? How old are you?

Whiskey Shivers isn’t just the five of us on stage, it’s everybody in the room,” Fitzgerald says.

Dan Dyer writes songs with heart. His signature sound melds together soul, folk, and country to reveal music full of a storyteller’s lyricism, a rambler’s travails, and enough self-awareness to keep it honest.

Austin-based, Alabama-raised singer/songwriter Nakia has a heart that beats to the rhythms of Muscle Shoals soul, pumping blood infused with Stax funk to cells lined with Chicago blues grooves.

Austin’s Bee Caves exists in between the layers of American music, showing a range as impressive and diverse as to blur the lines that divide rock, electronica, psychedelic noise and timeless Americana.

An 8-piece outfit formed ten years ago by members of Grammy Award-winning Latin revival orchestra Grupo Fantasma, Brownout has evolved into a musical force all its own.

To attempt to put Calliope Musicals in a specific category would yield a variety of labels; a psychedelic folk band, an experimental art collective, or even a high energy, circus-esque performance group.

Carson McHone is an alt-country/americana songwriter from Austin, Texas.

Dana Falconberry suffuses the majesty of nature in the orchestral pop-folk she elegantly crafts in Leelanau, her inaugural release for Oakland’ Antenna Farm Records.