Bock, BBQ, & the Blues: The Texas Eastside Kings

Every Wednesday the Café is offering a recession-proof evening of entertainment. Mouth-watering barbecue café specials, $2.00 Shiner pints, and blues from local legends The Texas Eastside Kings. This band has been a main-stay at Central Market for years. The longest running band to play our cafe. The soul, the heart-felt emotion and talent this group brings is why they have been the back-up band for T-Bone Walker, B.B. King, Amos Milburn, Guitar Slim and Lightnin' Hopkins. They are a story book of Texas African-American blues history.

Live Music: Thad Beckman

Beckman plays an engaging blend of folk, singer-songwriter and blues music. Not everyone can pull off such a combination, but Beckman has chops, writing talent, a big personality and a bag full of true stories which all dovetail for a cool show.

Live Music: Combo Mahalo

This group plays an Hawaiian style called Hapa Haloe which is wide spread and continues to be felt today. Country and Western Swing are direct descendants from this Hawaiian style. The Hawaiian lap steel guitar used in country music day opened the day for every electric instrument since. In the tradition of this great exotic Island music, Combo Mahalo has taken the calling to carry it's message.

Bock, BBQ & the Blues: Rob Roy Parnell

Every Wednesday the Café is offering a recession-proof evening of entertainment. Mouth-watering barbecue café specials, $2.00 Shiner pints, and blues from local legends. Rob Roy delivers a winning and sterling set of roadhouse blues a la Delbert McClinton that travels through the range of Texas styles and modes with the assurance of a new crown prince of the scene.

Live Music: Long Star Swing

Jazz, blues, and early country music make up the musical style of Long Star Swing. This western swing group has some of the finest musicians in Texas among its ranks. This group holds the mantle high and embodies what is unique and pure about the true Texas sound that came to be known as Western Swing.

Live Music: Lost & Nameless Orchestra

A unique mix of Appalachian Mountain music, Celtic fiddle tunes, and singer-songwriter folk. This band will make you want to keep up and do a jig. A Central Market favorite!

Bock, BBQ, & the Blues: John Gaar & Michael Cross

Every Wednesday the Café is offering a recession-proof evening of entertainment. Mouth-watering barbecue café specials, $2.00 Shiner pints, and blues from local legends. The duo is a bluesy, funky, soulful, southern roots music mixture. John & Mike both bring powerful & complimentary vocals and harmonies AND amazing acoustic guitar chops to this newly formed duo. Already a crowd-pleasin’ act, you’ll hear radio-ready original songs as well as fresh takes on new-sounding cover songs! You’ve seen John play with Malford Milligan, Miss Lavelle White, and more, as well as with his own band the Hopeful Souls, while you’ve seen Mike with Linda Flores, Duck Soup, The Big Time, Rusty Wier, and Joe Forlini.

Live Music: Danny Brooks

Listening to Danny Brooks is like driving out of Memphis, TN on a sunny Saturday morning into the Mississippi Delta listening to WDIA. It's one of those things where time stands still. A dash of Eddie Hinton, Solomon Burke, Rev. James Cleveland and Howlin' Wolf are all ingredients in Danny's soulful musical stew.

Live Music: T.Jarrod Bonta

Longtime Austin pianist T Jarrod Bonta plays a mix of western swing, jazz & Americana classics. Having played with many Austin western swing greats like Cornell Hurd and Jim Stringer, Bonta's trio is a delightfully swinging jazz affair that's an impressive showcase for Bonta's stylistic versatility and impressive chops.

Bock, BBQ, & the Blues: Jimi Lee Band

Every Wednesday the Café is offering a recession-proof evening of entertainment. Mouth-watering barbecue café specials, $2.00 Shiner pints, and blues from local legends. The Jimi Lee Band is a blues R & B super group of veteran players fronted by the award winning harmonic virtuoso Jimi Lee.

Live Music: Bruce James Soultet

There’s something magical about a piano played with feeling. Bruce James provides that emotion on the keys and pairs it with an almost spiritual voice. Bruce James "has one foot deeply rooted in southern gospel and soul music and the other planted solidly in Tom Waits and the Flaming Lips. His music actually says something.

Live Music: Fat Man & Little Boy: The Atomic Duo

Fat Man & Little Boy: the Atomic Duo,” the latest project from Bad Livers founder Mark Rubin featuring the hot mandolin and plaintive vocals of young Silas Lowe. This release marks Rubin’s first foray into American folk music since the last Bad Livers CD almost a decade ago, and is the first recording he has made as a singer and guitarist. Inspired by the great “Brother” vocal duets and string bands of the Depression era and formed on a dare, Rubin and Lowe have in a very short time risen to the vanguard of the emerging re-interest in acoustic roots Americana in their home of Austin TX.

Bock, BBQ, & the Blues: The Blues Specialists

Every Wednesday the Café is offering a recession-proof evening of entertainment. Mouth-watering barbecue café specials, $2.00 Shiner pints, and blues from local legends. The Blues Specialists is an Austin, TX based band established by two of Austin's Blues legends TD Bell and Erbie Bowser (both deceased). The band has been in existance for 20 years and have performed in numerous concerts, special events, private parties, weddings, and clubs through out the US and abroad. The current makeup of the band includes original bandmember/bandleader Mel Davis (vocals, harmonica, sax), son of TD Bell Lawrence Bell (keyboards), Rob Richardson (guitar), Weldon Gentry (drums) and Russell Shores (bass). The style of music is traditional Texas jump blues with a tinge of jazz. The roots of the music center around T-Bone Walker who influenced TD Bell and is cousin to Mel Davis. The Band plays every Friday at the Continental Club in Austin during happy hour (ie., 6:30 - 8:30pm) and presents blues sets which are very unique to the Austin blues scene.