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Austin Sunday, April 1 Events
Zilker Garden Festival
This annual festival heralds the start of the gardening season for many
Austin-area gardeners and has something for every member of the family.
Location:Zilker Botanical Garden. Call 512-394-0205 for more info. Event ID:4/1
The Grind Extreme Water Sports & Music Festival
This event will feature professional wake boarders competing in a rail jam for
major awards, along with live music by over 6 alternative rock bands, great
food, graphite artist exhibits, custom boat accessories by numerous vendors,
wakeboard accessories, wakeboard instructional sessions, a showcase of the
latest wake board boats, and much more. Location: Congress Ave. & MLK across
from Texas State History Museum. Call 512-441-9015 for more info.
Bluebonnet Blues & Arts Festival
Head to Marble Falls for three days of blues music and art from more than 50
artists. Traditional Tejano Cajun Gospel Blues Pianorama. Paint the Town plein
air competition and auction. Art Vendors. Crawfish, Gumbo, Fajitas, Beer, Wine,
Sodas, Water. Kids Craft Tent. Location: Main Street in Marble Falls, TX. Call
830-798-1041 for more info. Event ID:4/2
Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival
The best Texas and nationally known chefs and wineries pair their best culinary
creations and fruits of the vine at a variety of venues ranging from an exotic
game ranch to an outdoor festival in the park. Location: Four Seasons, Driskill
Hotel and other locations. Call 512-249-6300 for more info. Event ID:4/1
Dance Repertory Theatre: Ways to Get There
UT Dance Repertory Theatre faculty, graduate students and guest artists present
Ways to Get There, an evening of world premieres in new dance and
dance-for-the-camera. Movement... one means to an end. Location: B. Iden Payne
Theatre. Call 512-471-1444 for more info. Event ID:4/1
The American Twenties
The exhibition explores race, religion, capitalism, love and modernism in the
decade immediately following World War I through contemporary literature and
art. Location: Harry Ransom Center. Call 512-471-8944 for more info. Event
ID:7/29
Power to the People: The Electrification of Rural Texas
Walk into a world before television, computers, the i-pod, even refrigerators
and running water. The exhibit, Power to the People: The Electrification of
Rural Texas, is a unique story of one of the most dramatic events in Texas
history. Rural Texas in the 1930s was still in the dark as electric lines hadn’t
penetrated the beautiful, but rugged Texas Hill Country. Location: LBJ Library
and Museum. Open Daily 9-5 (except Christmas) Free Admission. id:5.2.07
Bat Watching
The 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats that live beneath the Congress Avenue
Bridge take flight in a mass exodus each night at dusk. Located at Congress Ave.
& Cesar Chavez St. Austin, TX 78704.