For the Sake of the Song

For the Sake of the Song is a celebration, a showcase, a gathering of Austin songwriters. It's an excuse to get together, to create community, to center our lives on song, on sharing, on story. It's a South Austin City Limits for Songwriters. A dream evening for songwriter/host Matthew Payne. There will be two back-to-back Songwriters-in-the-Round performances, with four songwriters in each round. Songwriters include Nathan Hamilton, Jake Farr, Claudia Gibson, Philip Gibbs, Caroline Sears, Preston Hester, and John Wheeler. Each of them represents the magic of our city, the magic of song. They are each vital parts of the Austin songwriting community, a community which stretches back in a long tradition. They play vast halls throughout our city, to large crowds, and also keep the light on in the time-honored humble bars of our city when there's just a few folks hangin around. They are the voices at our festivals, in other bands, in our coffeeshops, our clubs, our galleries, our house concerts, jams, and song circles. As Townes Van Zandt says, songwriters like these, they all just have to sing "for the sake of the song." Come on out for a night of Song from Austin's own!AR

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Captain Quackenbush's Coffeehouse, 5326 Menchaca Road, Austin, United States