# Event Details - **Event Name**: A Night of Fabulously Creative Friends Playing Original Music - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 24 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Wed, 24 Jun, 2026 at 09:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join us for a fabulous eveningAbout this EventDoors 6:30Show 7pm$15 in advance$20 at the doorKatie O. Brings a rare kind of musical presence, equal parts velvet voice, soulful musicianship, and radiant spirit. With roots in jazz and a deep calling into devotional kirtan, she accompanies herself on harmonium and has become known in Austin for creating powerful, heart-opening musical experiences that feel somewhere between concert, meditation, and communal uplift. When Katie O opens one of these variety shows, she invites the audience into a warm, user-friendly, interactive call-and-response, part song circle, part joyful awakening, gently dissolving the line between performer and crowd and setting a generous, spirited tone for everything that follows.Ben Livingston - Your host, is an Austin artist, songmaker, performer, traveler, occasional writer, accidental actor, environmental rabble-rouser, and cheerful dabbler in things he has no business attempting. Often described as a Renaissance man, he prefers to think of himself as vibrantly curious, easily distracted by interesting projects, and more inclined to ask forgiveness than permission. The Austin Chronicle called him “a true original,” while a European music magazine compared him to the intelligent, opinionated, and occasionally wacky troubadours of West Texas, a comparison he accepts with deep gratitude and lingering disbelief.When he’s not in his art studio fixing his wife’s toaster, he can usually be found at Barton Springs Pool holding court, swimming, writing an underwater gossip column about it for Austin Free Press or trying to save the place with SOS. He remains suspicious of pretension, fond of a good chorus, and grateful to still be invited anywhere with a live microphone. https://www.benlivingston.com/projectsmarc czo "i am not only anti capitalist but also anti capitalization i never imply any one word is more important than the other he describes himself as a man without a plan a canal or even a palindrome he s been described by others as a thinking man s daniel johnston and he often claims at least when in his cups that he writes like bob dylan wishes he could now.“ Marc is by far the hardest working songwriter at Barton Springs and always draws the Cactus open mic crowds in like moths to fire!Jimi Teasdale looks like one of those quietly essential Austin lifers, the kind woven into the fabric rather than standing on top of it. He has been writing, playing, recording, and producing music with different bands in Austin for over 40 years.He's been playing guitar with the long-running Coffee Sergeants for over 15 years, as well as fronting the country-beergrass outfit Bonneville County Pine Box, for over 20.He claims he’s “kind of a mess and loves Ben, dearly.❤️” Together they share the prestigious title of Meyer’s Mountain Men, a distinction built on over fifty years of friendship and questionable decision-making. https://bonnevillecountypinebox.com/homeJeff “Baje” Ragsdale has lived the kind of musical life most songwriters would make up if they thought they could get away with it. He’s busked the streets and metro stations of London, Paris, Geneva and beyond. Performed on Italian television with friends in Siena, Italy. A decade later, took his ‘traveling troubadour’ tradition playing throughout Nepal and in Kathmandu with Ben Livingston as The Annapurna Rounders, as well as opening up, back on this side of the world, for Terry Allen and Joe Ely. He’s played with the great Edith Frost, jammed with Boz Scaggs, David Bromberg, and Jerry Jeff Walker, and was one of four people present at the birth of Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band. He also washed dishes one Saturday morning at the original Saxon Pub, perhaps the finest credential of all. https://www.instagram.com/bajejeff/Shelby Dems is one of those maddeningly gifted Austinites who makes impossible things look easy. A violinist with the Austin Symphony Orchestra and beloved teacher of students ages 5 to 75, she fills the Cactus Cafe open mic with a looping one-woman orchestra built before your eyes from equal parts virtuosity, vulnerability, and stagecraft. Damn, Shelby.In recent years, she has expanded into songwriting, guitar, and that crazy live-looping thing, releasing a full-length album, a solo EP, and a collaboration with her twin sister as Twins Duet Better. Her songs are fearless, soulful, and deeply human, and her generosity toward fellow artists has made her a quiet force in Austin’s music community.Follow along at https://www.instagram.com/violin.shelby/Bill Browder has been making Texas music since Lyndon Johnson was president, and over the years has quietly become one of those formidable Austin musicians other musicians know about. A founding spirit of Denim and a cornerstone of The Lost Austin Band, he’s the kind of seasoned player-songwriter with deep roots and real chops, his work running through Denim, Austin All Stars, Duck Soup, Sons of Slim, and the proud long tail of Texas music history. Singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist, mandolin picker, lap steel whisperer, and certified old hand, Bill carries himself with the easy authority of a man who’s forgotten more music than most folks ever learn. In 1977, he stepped onto the national stage with Denim performing the second season of Austin City Limits. You can find that episode in the Austin Music Hall of Fame from back when Austin music was still being invented in real time. https://www.discogs.com/artist/2401630-Bill-Browder?srsltid=AfmBOoqpFsaTNUr5dRGyvL7sSzB0Hp_oKEPVTwGKBebJzoS2aV065bHfAmber Blue is an Austin-raised songwriter and second-generation children’s musician whose songs are built for kids, but charm the hell out of the grownups in the room. Raised on the road with her family band, Mr. Johnny and Friends, she spent her childhood bringing interactive music to festivals, parades, libraries, schools, and theaters across Central Texas. Today she performs solo, with family and friends, occasionally gracing the Cactus Cafe open mic with her strikingly adorable appearances. Her songs range from story-driven ballads and rhyming cowboy tunes to toddler ukulele numbers and butterfly medleys that gently turn audiences into choirs. Amber has claimed that playing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” for 15 minutes a day to her corn plants raises its yield by 25%! “You can hire me for your next birthday. I’ll even waive the balloon twisting fee.”Here she is..www.amberbluemusic.comMilford SoundThomas Shaw has long been one of Austin’s secret weapons, a musician with serious command of the keyboard, a deep compositional mind, and exacting standards that make everyone around him play taller. Through Mount Pressmore, he drew praise from KUTX, Relix, BLURT, and others for “jaw-dropping chops,” sophisticated writing, and a sound that invited comparisons to Steely Dan and Frank Zappa. As Shaw once described one of his own records, it “removes a beating heart from its ribcage, stomps on it in compound time, and folds the remains into a sonic tapestry of alienation and anxiety.”Now comes Milford Sound. Shaw asks a great deal of himself and those around him, and clearly pursues a very high bar. This reporter sat in on a recent rehearsal, got so carried away he grabbed a microphone and testified like a wild hyena in heat. A fair and measured assessment of a band that already sounds tight, alive, and deeply musical, a band working hard, listening hard, and locking into something special.This reporter sat in on a recent rehearsal, got so carried away he grabbed a microphone and testified like a wild hyena in heat.A fair and measured assessment. https://pressmorerecords.com/ - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/austin/a-night-of-fabulously-creative-friends-playing-original-music/100001989145366337 - **Event Categories**: music, entertainment, art, kids, open-mic, performances, live-music, festivals, meditation, concerts, sports, health-wellness, theatre, literary-art, parades, bhajan-jamming, workshops - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Age Limit: all_ages - Duration: 2 hours - Location: Captain Quack's Soundspace - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 19.76, max: 19.76, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Austin - **state**: TX - **country**: United States - **location**: Captain Quack's Soundspace - **lat**: 30.2179233 - **long**: -97.7964896 - **full address**: Captain Quack's Soundspace, 5326 Menchaca Road, Austin, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: A Night of Fabulously Creative Friends Playing Original Music - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/4d633207f260e7300df8eae4c916fcec2ea95e268fd09196d4a651fd5e20a8c6-rimg-w1200-h675-dc010101-gmir.jpg?v=1778833766 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is A Night of Fabulously Creative Friends Playing Original Music being held? - **A:** A Night of Fabulously Creative Friends Playing Original Music takes place on Wed, 24 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Wed, 24 Jun, 2026 at 09:00 pm at Captain Quack's Soundspace, 5326 Menchaca Road, Austin, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing A Night of Fabulously Creative Friends Playing Original Music? - **A:** A Night of Fabulously Creative Friends Playing Original Music is organized by Captain Quackenbush's Coffeehouse. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** A Night of Fabulously Creative Friends Playing Original Music is ideal for live music fans, concert-goers, and anyone who enjoys unforgettable performances from their favorite artists in an electric live atmosphere. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Austin, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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