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Additional support for educational programming provided by the Texas State History Museum Foundation. 5 ON OUR RADAR EVENTS Around Austin Austin’s exciting year-round events celebrate everything from live music and the arts to local foods and fun holiday happenings. Austin City Limits Music Festival 6 visitaustin.org Texas Book Festival Austin Oyster Festival For current details and dates, JMBLYA EAST AUSTIN STUDIO TOUR go to visitaustin.org/events or Circuit of The Americas™, jmblya.com Various Locations, east.bigmedium.org the event’s website. This one-day music festival showcases More than 70 Eastside studios open the most sought-after talent in hip-hop their doors for the public’s viewing and music today. purchasing pleasure. MUSIC LEVITATION AUSTIN CITY LIMITS MUSIC FESTIVAL Red River Cultural District, FUSEBOX FESTIVAL Zilker Park, aclfestival.com levitation-austin.com Various Locations, fuseboxfestival.com One of the country’s largest celebrations of Four days of live music in downtown Austin, A hybrid arts festival that champions music, this six-day festival includes 140+ featuring psychedelic light shows. adventurous works of art in theater, dance, musical acts over two weekends. film, music, literature, visual and culinary arts. OLD SETTLER’S MUSIC FESTIVAL AUSTIN REGGAE FEST Tilmon, oldsettlersmusicfest.org Auditorium Shores, austinreggaefest.com Central Texas’ signature music event features OUTSIDER FESTIVAL Reggae Fest features three days of reggae, Grammy-winning Americana, arts and crafts, Various Locations, outsiderfest.org along with more than 50 vendors selling food, camping, food and libations. This multidisciplinary art festival brings plus arts and crafts. together Austin’s LGBTQ community and WILLIE NELSON’S 4TH OF JULY PICNIC showcases film, performance art, music, visual AUSTIN URBAN MUSIC FESTIVAL ™ Circuit of The Americas , arts and more. Auditorium Shores, urbanmusicfest.com circuitoftheamericas.com More than 15,000 fans converge on This annual event features a star-studded Auditorium Shores for this festival celebrating lineup, headlined by Nelson himself, and a PECAN STREET FESTIVAL R&B, neo-soul and hip-hop music. fireworks display at the end of the night. (SPRING & FALL) Historic Sixth Street, pecanstreetfestival.org BLUES ON THE GREEN Musicians, food vendors, artists and crafters Zilker Park, acl-radio.com