Austin Songwriter Circle

For the Sake of the Song is a free community event, a celebration of song, and a showcase of incredible local songwriters by the Austin Songwriting Circle. It’s an excuse to get together, to create community, to center our lives on Song, on sharing, on story. It’s a South Austin City Limits for Songwriters. A dream evening for songwriter/host Matthew Payne. There will be two back-to-back Songwriters-in-the-Round performances, with several songwriters in each round.

For the May event, we have the amazing Grace Rowland, HalleyAnna Finlay, Rita Bliss, Lily Dabbs, and Amethyst Jonquille. Each of these songwriters are vital parts of the hill country songwriting community, a community which stretches back in a long tradition. They play vast halls throughout our city, to large crowds, and also keep the light on in the time-honored humble bars and buildings of our city when there’s just a few folks hangin around. They are the voices at our festivals, in our coffeeshops, our clubs, our galleries, our house concerts, jams, and song circles. They are out there on the road when they’re not here at home. As our guiding song spirit, Townes Van Zandt says, songwriters like these, they all just have to sing “for the sake of the song.”

Come on out for a free night of Song from the Austin Songwriter Circle! Pay as you are able. All donations go directly to songwriters and our sound engineer.