Austin Gets Ready to Get Funky at FUNKFEST III Nov 21 & 22 at The Parish!
With a line up of world class Funkmeisters, the third annual FunkFest has become a signature event in this music town. "This is a way to totally submerge yourself in the funk experience"..."It is a time to let your hair down and truly enjoy the music vibe - not just funk but soul, jazz and boogaloo!" FunkFest is about the late night shows that happen during the New Orleans Jazz Festival. We aim to showcase the musicians and their side projects as a festival in of itself. Musicians at FunkFest III are from Galactic, Greyboy Allstars, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe and more!

The Stanton Moore (drums/Galactic) Trio featuring Robert Walter (B3) and Grammy Nominated Will Bernard (guitar) will kick off the festival with the Greyhounds to open on Friday Nov 21st. The Nov 22 headliners include Bonerama (New Orleans) and ON THE ONE (San Diego) along with a showcase of Austin's finest funk and soul bands to include: Flyjack, Uncle Bruno, T Bird and The Breaks. Topaz and other special guests will grace the stage over the weekend. WATCH FOR A SPECIAL SUPER JAM on Sat Nov 22nd where some very special surprise guests will perform.

"Hey my fellow drumming community!

I am an Austinite and am proud Austin will host PASIC.

I hope to run into many of you good cats.


I will be gigging mostly in downtown Austin:

TUESDAY -
@ Elephant Room (315 Congress Ave btw 3rd & 4th st - downtown)
jazz w/ saxophonist Tony Campise 9:30pm-1:30am

WEDNESDAY -
@ Cannoli Joe's Italian
4715 US Hwy 290 West
cannolijoes. com
jazz, brazilian w/ vocalist Sarah Temple 6-9pm

AND
@ 121 Bar (5th st and Brazos - downtown)
rock, funk & crazy w/ guitarist Ady Hernandez's 80H Project 10:30pm-2am

THURSDAY -
@ 121 Bar (5th st and Brazos - downtown)
w/ MY BAND (jazz/funk) - BRANNEN TEMPLE GROUP 10:30pm-2am

FRIDAY -
@ Elephant Room (315 Congress Ave btw 3rd & 4th st - downtown)
jazz, brazilian w/ vocalist Sarah Temple 6-8pm

SATURDAY -
@ Romeo's Italian
500 Barton Springs Rd (downtown)
jazz, brazilian w/ vocalist Sarah Temple 6-9pm

SUNDAY -
@ Lambert's (2nd St and Guadelupe - downtown)
jazz w/
Brannen Temple - drums
Red Young - Hammond B3 organ
Ephraim Owens - trumpet

I hope to see you around!"

I am sending this to a selected number of local members of the Austin community with whom I have corresponded regarding our upcoming lecture at St. Edwards University, The Ragsdale Center's Mabee Ballroom B, on Tuesday evening from 6:30-8:30 p.m. This event is being hosted in conjunction with the Society of American Archivists "Archives Week" events, which this year focus on music-related archival activities under the rubric "Archives City Limits." Austin has a uniquely vibrant music culture, and we believe jazz plays a key role here, alongside all the other musical forms that fill the city's venues nightly. The donation of 2300 jazz LPs from the 1920s-1950s, by Edward N. Meyer, a teacher of the History of Jazz, affords us an opportunity to focus on some particular highlights. Edward Meyer will speak Tuesday evening, and will be followed by Michael Tarabulski, the founder and former chief archivist of the Center for International Jazz Collections at the University of Idaho. Between the two of them, we hope we can appeal to a wide range of interests, from the novice music collector or jazz enthusiast to the highly technically-inclined archivist or music historian. One of my own objectives in this pursuit is to encourage and define a local jazz community, the community not just of audience members at an average Elephant Room evening's entertainment, but people involved in the music in a cross-section of interest. Everyone I am sending this too fits that description, and I hope to meet you if at all possible. If not, please know that I hope that perhaps some later opportunity might arise to do so, since I believe this lecture event is the start of building a jazz consciousness in the city, not its endpoint. Thank you, and to those of you who have offered help, guidance, encouragement, etc., thanks even more. Brian C. McNerney Graduate Student, University of Texas at Austin School of Information Intern and Jazz Digitization Project Coordinator, St. Edwards University