Movies
Go Behind the Music with three amazing music documentaries and discover homegrown film talent.
Free Movies
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Free Movies ⋆
Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan, Brothers in Blues
Friday, March 1 • 6pm
Texas Music Cafe
The story of Jimmie Vaughan and his younger brother Stevie Ray and their unbelievable rise from a small, frame house in Oak Cliff, Texas, to becoming guitar heroes, selling millions of records and playing alongside legendary rockers such as David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jackson Browne and Carlos Santana. Brothers in Blues is the only film, book or production to enjoy the full cooperation of Jimmie Vaughan and Eric Clapton. Using never-before-seen photos and Vaughan brothers’ family home movies this is the story of their rise from a working-class neighborhood to the top of the rock & roll pyramid, as told by their peers, Eric Clapton, Jackson Browne, Billy Gibbons, Nile Rodgers, Jimmie Vaughan and their bandmates and friends from their early days up to the pinnacle of their success. It also gives a history of the Oak Cliff and Austin music scenes that helped make their legacy possible.
The Quilt: A Living History of African American Music
Saturday, March 2 • 10 am
Texas Music Cafe
In the setting of the historic Carver Center in San Antonio, Texas, aunt and niece explore the history of African American music.
Aunt Cynthia, a music history buff, teaches her niece Lauren about music genres born and formed by African American history and culture. They cover music during the times of slavery, Negro Spirituals, Blues, Ragtime, Jazz, Harlem Renaissance, Gospel, Civil Rights movement, Soul and R&B, and Hip Hop. Aunt Cynthia inspires Lauren’s curiosity about history by making it relevant to music. She uses the layers of a quilt to explain how African American music of the past connects to contemporary music. Lauren feels empowered by making the music cultural connection throughout generations.
254 Filmmaker Showcase
TRAILER:
The Heart of Texas
The South Austin Moonlighters LIVE at the Texas Music Cafe
Shuteye
Saturday, March 2 • 1:15 pm
Texas Music Cafe
This one is for the locals!
Check out some Central Texas made short films and music videos, meet the filmmakers and celebrate the indie movie scene in Waco.
Free Event! Featuring…
Milton
Voice of the Common Man: the Lomax Legacy
The Central Standard
Good Boy, Craig
The Birth & History of Western Swing
Saturday, March 2 • 5 pm
Texas Music Cafe
Western swing, which got its start in the early 1930s in Fort Worth, combined black, white, rural, and urban influences in an intoxicating musical gumbo, with a spongelike ability to absorb a myriad of musical styles and transcend multiple ethnic boundaries. This groundbreaking film traces its origins, development, and legacy, utilizing original and contemporary voices.
Schedule subject to change