{"id":105177,"date":"2025-12-30T18:14:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/105177\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T18:14:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:14:32","slug":"free-week-to-provide-free-music-performances-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/105177\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Week to provide free music performances in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN\u00a0\u2014 A week of free performances is coming to the Live Music Capital of the World.<\/p>\n<p>Free Week takes place on Jan. 9 and 10 in Austin\u2019s Red River Cultural District, featuring music from Almost Heaven, Blacktooth, Candy Riot, Dopez, Lauren Lakis, Easyrider and many more.<\/p>\n<p>The event began in 2003 at the concert venue Emo\u2019s as a way \u201cto keep clubs\u2019 lights on and staff working during the slower winter months,\u201d according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/redriverculturaldistrict.org\/free-week\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cultural district\u2019s website<\/a>. In 2025, Free Week resulted in over $30,000 of profit for performing musicians and over $200,000 in direct local economic investment, the website reported.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the full list of participating venues:<\/p>\n<p>Chess Club<br \/>\nElysium<br \/>\nEmpire Control Room and Garage<br \/>\nFlamingo Cantina<br \/>\nFeels So Good<br \/>\nKingdom<br \/>\nMarlow<br \/>\nPelon\u2019s Tex Mex<br \/>\nThe 13th Floor<br \/>\nthe Sidebar<br \/>\nStubb\u2019s<br \/>\nSwan Dive<br \/>\nValhalla<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN\u00a0\u2014 A week of free performances is coming to the Live Music Capital of the World. Free Week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[16878,132,134,133,5604,2777,30432,278,27],"class_list":["post-105177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-app-latest-entertainment-stories","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-what-you-need-to-know","tag-entertainment","tag-hannah-maguire","tag-music","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}