Blurt ACL-Band Of Horses Show TONIGHT
09/27/2008
BOH, McMurtry rocking Austin for a good cause.
By Blurt Staff
As you may have heard by now, BLURT is at Austin City Limits this weekend, with our roving band of reporters making the rounds and posing the hard-hitting questions of the day to musicians we trip over, er, encounter. Keep your eyes peeled for the official BLURT boogie van - just look for the lime-green day-glo paint job and the custom bong smokestack protruding from the rear portion of the roof. But don't forget the rules, kids: don't bother knockin' if the van be a-rockin,' if you catch our drift.
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Meanwhile, of course, tonight in downtown Austin BLURT will be rockin' a whole ‘nother set of ‘tude. That's when THE BLURT LAUNCH PARTY, featuring Band of Horses, goes down at The Parish Room. Tickets sold out in under two hours after tickets went on sale last week.
"We thought we put together a pretty good lineup for the BLURT LAUNCH PARTY, but this far and away exceeded even our own high expectations," says BLURT Editor-in-Chief and Founder Scott Crawford. "I think everyone who was lucky enough to get a ticket will be in for a real special night."
Doors will open at 10:30 p.m. following the conclusion of the day's music at the 2008 Austin City Limits Music Festival. Famed BLURT blogger James McMurtry and the Heartless Bastards are slated to open with music beginning at 11 p.m. A portion of the proceeds from the concert will benefit the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians, a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide access to affordable healthcare for Austin's low-income, uninsured working musicians. For more information, please visit: http://www.healthallianceforaustinmusicians.org.
"For those of you who weren't able to get a ticket today, there may be a small quantity of tickets made available the day of the show, so look for updates on BLURT-ONLINE.COM next week and check in at the Parish Room box office a few hours before the doors open," says BLURT Associate Editor Andy Tennille. "We're also going to be giving away some tickets at BLURT-ONLINE.COM and through some of the local radio stations in Austin, so keep your eyes peeled and your wits about you."
About HAAM
Health Alliance for Austin Musicians was founded in April 2005 when the Seton Family of Hospitals and St. David's Community Health Foundation Leadership joined forces with The SIMS Foundation to provide medical, dental, and mental health care to the city's hard-working, low-income musicians. More than 1,200 musicians, most 35 and younger, have been serviced. For more information, please visit: http://www.healthallianceforaustinmusicians.org.
About BLURT
Brought to you by the creative team behind the lauded HARP Magazine (called "America's best music magazine" by NPR's Bob Boilen and "the best music magazine in the country and the one that musicians always read" by Foo Fighter Dave Grohl), BLURT's digital magazine raises the bar for modern music and entertainment magazines by combining insightful features, irreverent interviews, relentless reviews, and first-class design standards while the site contains provocative blogs, exclusive videos and countless reviews and MP3s. Visit us at http://www.BLURT-ONLINE.COM.
Links
http://www.healthallianceforaustinmusicians.org/
http://www.myspace.com/bandofhorses
www.christopherwilsonphoto.com
For more information, contact:
Scott Crawford
Editor-in-Chief, BLURT
Andy Tennille
Associate Editor, BLURT
