Flamingo Cantina

NO COVER: Reggae Jamdown
2017-10-12 21:00 - 2017-10-13 02:00, 2017-09-07 21:00 - 2017-09-08 02:00 (America/Chicago) | Flamingo Cantina, 515 East 6th Street, Austin, TX, 78701, United States
Come out to the Flam Can for a night of Reggae selections and live music. Jah Bill and Dngr will be hosting and selecting tunes throughout the night. Around 10:00pm we will open up the stage to the Reggae Jam performance. All who wish to play should show up early and sign up with the DJs. Have a couple classic songs in mind you would like to play. (Backline provided).
If you’re looking to come play music, meet other musicians in the scene or just listen and hold a vibe…..you will find it here.

NO COVER: Dreadneck Night with The Mau Mau Chaplains
2017-10-11 21:00 - 2017-10-12 02:00, 2017-10-04 21:00 - 2017-10-05 02:00, 2017-09-27 21:00 - 2017-09-28 02:00, 2017-09-20 21:00 - 2017-09-21 02:00, 2017-09-13 21:00 - 2017-09-14 02:00
Every Wednesday!
Winston’s Kitchen will be open and cooking up Jamaican food in the back!
Every Wednesday, Mau Mau Chaplains hold services for the massive, laying down some of the best live reggae you’re eva gonna see. These guys have been playing together for years and know a thing or two about about putting on a show to remember. …music to feed the soul and Winston’s Caribbean food to fill the belly.
NEVER a cover and ALWAYS good vibes.

Black Uhuru, Onesty, DJ Jah Bill
2017-10-10 21:00 - 2017-10-11 02:00
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LINEUP:
Onesty 9:45PM
Black Uhuru 10:15
Come hungry, Winston’s Caribbean kitchen will be open!
This show is 18+
Derrick “Duckie” Simpson the “Gong Gong Gullie” is the founder and leader for reggae’s BLACK UHURU. Although going through numerous lead singers and musicians they have remained to be one of the most recognized and prolific reggae band for over 50 years.
The roots of BLACK UHURU were formed in Kingston Jamaica’s Waterhouse district also known as “Firehouse” in the early 60′s. Though considered to be one of Jamaica’s toughest neighborhoods it’s home to several other reggae singers and musicians. It was where Duckie Simpson grew up and learned to sing from boyhood friends Winston “Pipe” Matthews and Lloyd “Bread” McDonald of Wailing Souls and Bob Marley. He recorded four tracks with Wailing Souls before forming his own group.
BLACK UHURU’s long success has allowed them to become ambassadors of reggae while earning several achievements in the music industry. With 14 full length albums, 7 instrumental dub albums, and 4 live albums they have the highest record sales in reggae music behind Bob Marley. The album Red was voted #23 for Rolling Stone’s list of “100 Greatest Albums of the 1980′s. Aside from winning the first reggae grammy they have been nominated 5 more times. They are the only reggae group to have won the Diamond Awards of Excellence in 1994.
Despite all of BLACK UHURU’s change of different singers and musicians the one thing that has always remained is Derrick “Duckie” Simpson. Much respect to a legendary figure for Reggae Music. The group is presently working on releasing a new album soon to come. It features Duckie on lead.

Salt Water Slide, The Contrabandits
2017-10-07 21:00 - 2017-10-08 02:00

Jaguares Tribute Show
2017-10-06 21:00 - 2017-10-07 02:00
A Tribute show to the Jaguares, Bunbury and special appearance by Cesar “El Vampiro” Lopez from the Jaguares, Monoplasma.

Kelly Hafner, The Sextones, A Tiger Lily
2017-10-05 21:00 - 2017-10-06 02:00

The Skatalites, Phineas Gage
2017-09-30 21:00 - 2017-10-01 02:00
PURHCASE TICKETS HERE

The Skatalites, Micah Shalom & the Babylonians, Shashamani Sound
2017-09-29 21:00 - 2017-09-30 02:00
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Kwamevi & Proof Of Life
2017-09-28 21:00 - 2017-09-29 02:00

Lion Heights with Fyah Sthar
2017-09-23 21:00 - 2017-09-24 02:00
Outcasts of the mainstream, Lion Heights follows in the footsteps of Jamaican legends such as Dennis Brown, Gregory Isaacs, and the great Bob Marley to deliver a seemingly forgotten message of love, unity, and equal rights through the return of conscious reggae music.
After years of working as both live and session musicians for Chicago’s reggae elders, the result is a young group with a new soul and old roots.

Starlighter, The Inverters, Sunglasses + Mushrooms, Low Key Saints, Deep Water Culture
2017-09-22 20:30 - 2017-09-23 02:00
9:00-9:40 // Deep Water Culture (SATX)
9:55-10:35 // Low Key Saints (ex Young Costello)
10:50-11:30 // Sunglasses and Mushrooms
11:45-12:30 // The Inverters
12:45-Close // Starlighter (ex Young Costello)

Brazilian Soul, DJ Vanessa la Bestia: FREE SHOW
2017-09-21 21:00 - 2017-09-22 02:00
Flamingo Cantina is hosting a FREE LATIN MUSIC SHOWCASE this Thursday. DJ Vanessa la Bestia starts at 9:30 and will play again in between sets. Brazilian Soul will play two energetic sets starting at 10:30. Don’t miss this!
*Brazilian Soul plays Brazilian dance music influenced by American soul, Afro-pop, MPB, samba, regaee and more. Paula Maya (vocals/ melódica); Sergio Yazbek (back vocals/ guitar); Marco Antonio Santos (bass); Bruno Vinezof (drums)

Afro*Fusion: Paa Kow, Continental Drift
2017-09-16 21:00 - 2017-09-17 02:00
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Paa Kow is an internationally renowned artist, drum set player and composer from Ghana, West Africa. Growing up in the small village of Enyan Denkyira near Cape Coast in Ghana, West Africa, Paa Kow began to play music and tour with his family’s concert band at a very early age. He has since grown to be widely recognized as one of the most remarkable drum set players to tour in Africa, Europe, and America. Paa Kow’s deep groove and prodigious talent reveal a unique ability to speak to listeners with his drums, inspiring a profound spiritual conversation. His songs are captivating and danceable and incorporate lyrics in his native language, Fante, as well as English. Paa Kow’s vision is to spread the music and culture of his homeland by touring the world with his Afro-Fusion orchestra. His third album “Cookpot” will be released in October of 2017.
Notable musicians he has shared the stage with include African greats: Amakye Dede, George Darko, Kojo Antwi, Nat Brew, Hugh Masekela, and Vusi Mahlasela, as well as American greats Victor Wooten, Brad Goode, John Gunther, Michael Kang, and many more.

Kabaka Pyramid, DJ Jah Bill
2017-09-15 21:00 - 2017-09-16 02:00
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September 15th, we are happy to welcome Kabaka Pyramid back to Flamingo Cantina! Doors open at 9PM, tickets are $15, 18+ with valid ID. Come hungry, Winston’s Caribbean kitchen will be open in the back.
Keron “Kabaka Pyramid” Salmon is a multi-talented artist and producer hailing from the streets of Kingston, Jamaica with a unique musical style blending the power, energy and melody of Reggae with the lyricism of Hip hop. He is based out of the Bebble Rock Music camp and through his liquid and hypnotizing delivery spreads the positive messages of spirituality and conscious evolution that forces you to listen.
Kabaka Pyramid unleashes his brand new video for “Can’t Breathe” – his first single from his forthcoming debut album Contraband executive produced by Damian Marley and distributed by Ghetto Youths International and Bebble Rock Music.
“Can’t Breathe,” available for stream and download, delivers a potent message on painful and stressful situations individuals face by living in a toxic system, literally and figuratively. Check it out below!

Hurricane Harvey Benefit
2017-09-10 21:00 - 2017-09-11 02:00
$5 suggested donation, all proceeds will go to The Salvation Army
Performances by:
Protextor
Tank
Sertified with Die Slo
Rumuzik
A.C.
Top Flights DJs + DJJ-Ro in the mix
Brought to you by Keep Austin Live, Hip Hop Mecca and Platypus Promotions

Los Kurados' Record Release Party with Roleros Cosmicos, DJ Vanessa La Bestia: FREE SHOW!
2017-09-09 21:00 - 2017-09-10 02:00

Holy Child, Hazard Hounds, Muvva Erff
2017-09-08 21:00 - 2017-09-09 02:00
LINEUP:
Muvva Erff 9:30-10:30
Hazard Hounds 11:00-12:00
Holy child 12:30-1:30

NO COVER: Dreadneck Night with The Mau Mau Chaplains + FOOD DRIVE
2017-09-06 21:00 - 2017-09-07 02:00
Tonight we will be taking collections for Central Texas Food Bank who is participating in the Hurricane Harvey relief effort. They are most in need of: ready-to-eat canned food that doesn’t need heating or a can opener, dry milk, fruit cups, peanut butter snack packs, small cereal boxes. Also canned food and boxed food for the pantry. Please bring these items to the club and we will deliver.
If you would like to donate to Central Texas Food Bank directly, you can do so HERE.
Every Wednesday, Mau Mau Chaplains hold services for the massive, laying down some of the best live reggae you’re eva gonna see. These guys have been playing together for years and know a thing or two about about putting on a show to remember. …music to feed the soul and Winston’s Caribbean food to fill the belly.
NEVER a cover and ALWAYS good vibes.
Winston’s Kitchen will be open and cooking up Jamaican food in the back!

Salt Water Slide, The Philosophers
2017-09-02 21:00 - 2017-09-03 02:00

Sammi & the Engine , Screemin' Sheelahs, Rainbow Queen
2017-09-01 21:00 - 2017-09-02 02:00
THIS SHOW IS 18+

Cool Vibes: Free Latin Summer Series with ¡ESSO! Afrojam Funkbeat, Billi
2017-08-31 21:00 - 2017-09-01 02:00
Cultural consciousness, unity and celebratory dance are the ideals behind multicultural musical outfit ¡ESSO! Afrojam Funkbeat. The Chicago based ensemble perform a unique interfusion of Afro-Latin inspired compositions and jams. Influenced by the global troubadours and subversive thinkers of an emerging counterculture in the 70s and 80s, the band pays homage to the traditional and progressive while taking their own step forward.
The rustic rhythms of Fela spiced with the textures of Fania blend with an improvisational ritual resembling the Funk Brothers; all from the streets that birthed house music. ¡ESSO! has experimental roots with live musicians setting the stage for soul singers, “coro” group singing, and poetic emcees. This platform has cemented into a diverse group finding an outlet at global street festivals and venues with an impassioned heart on its studied sleeve.
What began as the house band for a live music night in downtown Chicago became a full band performing on the city’s global music scene. The cast of rotating members, pieced together from various recording projects and bands, changed from month to month until a solid foundation settled to host special guests and members. Co-founders, Armando Pérez and Kevin Miller, spearhead the group with a singular vision in focus. Both, with notable Chicago bands, Jugo de Mango and Suena Latin Jazz, respectively, bring experience and structure to the group. Along with an energetic pool of Djs, producers, organizers and bands of equal ilk, ¡ESSO! (El Sonido Sonic Octopus) began playing shows with emerging local talent and established artists alike.
¡ESSO! has performed with Ozomatli, Natalia Lafourcade, Cafe Tacuba, Kinky, Amigos Invisibles, Saul Williams, Bomba Estereo and more.
Billii is an Indie Rock/Alt-Gaze/Art-Pup band, created by Emmi Chen in Austin, Texas, in 2014. After skinning her knees with Ornery Little Darlings, learning to fly solo, and taking a double gulp of some kinda nutty tea out in the Texas hill country, Emmi knew it was time to build a music machine. At the time with interests in the lives of Billie Holiday and Billy the Kid, Emmi added the ‘i’ of her own name and created Billii, which coincidentally has a sort of “party” meaning in a particular middle eastern language, but really it’s all about that “third i”. Now in 2017, after a 4 song EP and a Christmas single later, Billii consists of a 4 piece band, with Emmi Chen on vox and guitar, Dan Goebel on guitar, James Sargent on bass, and Stefan Benteler on drums, making Billii a well oiled machine with plans to record their first full length album in early 2018.

NO COVER: Dreadneck Night with The Mau Mau Chaplains + FOOD DRIVE
2017-08-30 21:00 - 2017-08-31 02:00
Tonight and next Wednesday we will be taking collections for Central Texas Food Bank who is participating in the Hurricane Harvey relief effort. They are most in need of: ready-to-eat canned food that doesn’t need heating or a can opener, dry milk, fruit cups, peanut butter snack packs, small cereal boxes. Also canned food and boxed food for the pantry. Please bring these items to the club and we will deliver.
If you would like to donate to Central Texas Food Bank directly, you can do so HERE.
Every Wednesday, Mau Mau Chaplains hold services for the massive, laying down some of the best live reggae you’re eva gonna see. These guys have been playing together for years and know a thing or two about about putting on a show to remember. …music to feed the soul and Winston’s Caribbean food to fill the belly.
NEVER a cover and ALWAYS good vibes.
Winston’s Kitchen will be open and cooking up Jamaican food in the back!

FREE REGGAE SHOW: Sullivan's Vessel
2017-08-26 21:00 - 2017-08-27 02:00

Big Sugar, Hail Marley
2017-08-25 21:00 - 2017-08-26 02:00

Cool Vibes: Free Latin Summer Series with SEFO, Diago y AntoniiTonn
2017-08-24 21:00 - 2017-08-25 02:00
Join us for our Latin Summer Series! All summer long we’re highlighting killer latin groups, spanning all types of genres. NO COVER.
SEFO is an independent guitarist, singer and songwriter from Madrid, Spain. He is the only musician of his generation to have been part of the last band of the amazing Spanish artist, Antonio Vega, who influenced him greatly. SEFO travels internationally through Central and South America as the lead guitarist for the international Grammy winner Franco De Vita. He has played in worldwide venues such as Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall in New York. His two albums: Escalada Horizontal and his newest release, Peligro de Extinción are both inspiring and unique. Two albums with Spanish rock songs greatly influenced by American rock and blues.
Diago y AntoniiTonn play Latin, Urbano, and Reggaeton.
