A Concert for George at Uncle Billy's Rooftop

On Saturday March 17th from noon to 6 p.m., Uncle Billy's Rooftop and Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine presents "A Concert for George," a benefit for the George Kinney Medical Fund.

Kinney was the leader of the Austin psychedelic band The Golden Dawn, whose 1968 album Power Plant is recognized as a classic of the genre. The band were friends and labelmates of The 13th Floor Elevators. He went on to release a solo album, After the Fall in 1999 and Texas Medicine with The New Riders of the Golden Dawn in 2006.

12 pm: Hans Frank El Gallo
12:40 pm: Lone Star Hippie
1:20 pm: Jesse Sublett
2 pm: The Higher State
3 pm: The Texas Garage Project
4 pm: Shiva's Headband
5 pm: George Kinney and the New Riders of the Golden Dawn

See George unplugged on Thursday evening at Uncle Billy's Brew & Que Barton Springs:

Forever Changes and The Texas Garage Project at the Highball July 17th

Sunday night's "Texas English II: Plague of the Zombies" at The Highball was a rousing success (Chase Hamblin and the boys from Picture Book blew the doors off the place, and my co-workers from Uncle Billy's Lake Travis put the bar sales through the roof), and Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine will return to the swanky ballroom and bowling emporium on July 17 with a killer double bill featuring Austin's ultimate Arthur Lee and Love tribute Forever Changes and the debut appearance of The Texas Garage Project: