Live Music: Tea Merchants

The best Celtic Irish group you will see in Central TX. This trio will make you get up and do a jig.

Bock, Barbeque, & the Blues: 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: Left of Sunday Afternoon

This is a Darin Layne Jason Mckenzie guitar/tabla inspired world music trio. Their new CD is great, taking the listener on an exotic journey to India, middle east and many points in-between.

Live Music: Charles Thibodeaux & the Austin Cajun Aces

The Austin Cajun Aces has that authentic Cajun dance sound. Sounds of that tough life of the farms and bayous yet that upbeat and happy sound that represents the The Joy of Life –Les Joire de Vivre. Their repertoire consists of many of the older songs of Iry LeJeune, Nathan Abshire, Dewey Balfa, Lawrence Walker, Amadee Ardoin, Canray Fontenot, Andrew Cormier and many other Cajun and Creole Masters. You are sure to “Pass a Good Time” when you come out and enjoy their music.

Live Music: Leeann Atherton

Leeann's musical suitcase is full of twang, soul, gospel, and blues. Her full moon barn dance concerts are legendary. She just might be the official or unofficial queen of South Austin twang culture.

Live Music: David Webb Trio

A great jazz pianist leading a great trio.

Bock, Barbeque, & 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 beers, 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: James Hyland

James Hyland spent many years playing all over South Austin and the U.S. playing with the South Austin Jug Band. Now he is out on his own playing his own brand of Americana.

Live Music: Akina Adderley

Akina Adderley & the Vintage Playboys is an Austin Soul band whose unique sound blends elements of Rock, Funk, and old-school R&B. Front person/vocalist Akina lights up the stage as "the little woman with the big voice." Granddaughter of jazz trumpet great Nat Adderley, great niece of jazz saxophone legend "Cannonball" Adderley and daughter of Nat Adderley, Jr. (producer/pianist/band leader for Luther Van Dross), Akina brings a distinguished musical pedigree to the Vintage Playboys, who are a tight group of seasoned players from an eclectic musical background.

Live Music: Riff Riders

Western Swing group lead by the legendary guitarist Rick McRae.

Live Music: Sarah Dinan

A woman of remarkable talent, Sarah has a natural aptitude and appreciation for folk music and sings in a variety of languages including French, Breton, Spanish and both Irish and Scots Gaelic. Her love of music and storytelling is evident in her performance and her voice has been described by both critics and audiences as breathtaking, crystal clear, angelic, beautiful and enchanting.

Bock, Barbeque, & the Blues: Mike Milligan & the Alter Boyz

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. Mike Milligan and The Altar Boyz describe their unique sound as "Texas Blues with Louisiana Attitude". This is what happened when they combined their ethnic mixture of original sounds.

Live Music: Long Star Swing

Western swing super group. This band has an Ace in the Hole.

Live Music: Rumbullion

Parisian Cafe music.

Live Music: Ruby James

Ruby James sits comfortably in the space between darkness & light. Her sultry (and mesmerizing) vocals bring her universal tales of love, loss and redemption to life, while her rugged sensuality, which bravely masks a wearied vulnerability, opens the coldest of hearts. Her forthcoming album "Happy Now" (produced by Charlie Sexton, co-produced by Will Sexton) is a stunning follow up to 2008's "Desert Rose."

Live Music: Rattletree Trio

A true one of a kind group playing African Zimbabwe marimba music. Band leader Joel Laviolette learned the style first hand from African Zimbabwe Marimba masters while living in Zimbabwe, Africa. There he absorbed the style, meaning, and spirituality of this ancient yet modern music. A Central Market favorite!

Live Music: Christine Albert

A true chanteuse, Christine Albert has a beautiful voice made for singing French love songs. Christine has brought together her love of Texas with her French roots and has come up with a sound that is part rustic Texas but smooth and sophisticated as an April Parisian night.

Live Music: Phil Brown Trio

Jimi Hendrix birthday tribute concert. Phil Brown released a critically acclaimed album of Hendrix's songs in 2006 receiving rave reviews. He has taken the songs from the first two Hendrix albums and plays them how Jimi himself might have played them if he were alive today. Mr. Brown slows the songs down a little and makes them mellow, melodic and more soulful.

Live Music: Floyd Domino Trio

Floyd Domino brought home his second Grammy Award in 2000 for his featured work with Asleep at the Wheel. Floyd Domino has recorded and performed with Merle Haggard, George Strait, The Texas Playboys, Waylon Jennings, jazz guitarist Herb Ellis, Kelly Willis, Bruce Robison, Monte Warden, Don Walser and others. His boogie-woogie styling is known to audiences around the world.