Flamingo Cantina

SkaParty! Los Kurados, Metanoia, BLOWCOMOTION
2019-09-20 21:00 - 2019-09-21 02:00 (America/Chicago) | Flamingo Cantina, 515 East 6th Street, Austin, TX, 78701, United States
On Friday, September 20th be ready to jump around! Flamingo Cantina is hosting a ska party!
9:30-10:30 BLOWCOMOTION
11-12 Metanoia
12:30-1:30 Los Kurados
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*BLOWCOMOTION is a brand-new giant BRASS BAND and brass band WORKSHOP – welcoming adult players of all levels, even total beginners! https://www.facebook.com/blowcomotion/
*Metanoia is a Latin/ska/fusion group from Houston with an energetic female lead singer and a raucous horn section. https://www.facebook.com/SoundsLikeMetanoia/
*Los Kurados is the only Austin band playing ska in Espanol. They will make you jump! The band often incites a friendly mosh pit or crazy congo line in front of the stage. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Los-Kurados/358116840936103?fref=ts

Reggae Jamdown
2019-09-19 21:00 - 2019-09-20 02:00, 2019-09-12 21:00 - 2019-09-13 02:00, 2019-09-05 21:00 - 2019-09-06 02:00, 2019-08-29 21:00 - 2019-08-30 02:00, 2019-08-15 21:00 - 2019-08-16 02:00, 2019-08-08 21:00 - 2019-08-09 02:00, 2019-08-01 21:00 - 2019-08-02 02:00
Come out to the Flam Can for a night of Reggae selections and live music. Jah Bill and Dngr host and select tunes throughout the night. At 10:00pm we open the stage to the ReggaeJam 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)

NO COVER: Dreadneck Night with The Mau Mau Chaplains
2019-09-18 21:00 - 2019-09-19 02:00, 2019-09-11 21:00 - 2019-09-12 02:00, 2019-09-04 21:00 - 2019-09-05 02:00, 2019-08-28 21:00 - 2019-08-29 02:00, 2019-08-21 21:00 - 2019-08-22 02:00, 2019-08-14 21:00 - 2019-08-15 02:00
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 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.

"Check The Rhyme” ATX HipHop Showcase
2019-09-14 21:00 - 2019-09-15 02:00
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Ages 21+ Welcome
$5 Pre-Sales, $10 Day Of Show

Doors @ 9pm

DJ Notion in the mix
all night starting at 9:15pm
10pm King Souul
10:20pm Zayytee
10:40pm Drew Imani
11pm Ty-C
11:20pm Salus Herb
11:50pm MC Righteous
12:25pm Loonar

Clinton Fearon, Cas Haley
2019-09-13 21:00 - 2019-09-14 02:00
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Doors open at 9 p.m. Cas Haley opens the show; ages 18 and up are welcome.

Clinton Fearon is a composer, songwriter, singer and player of instruments since his early teens, and a professional since the age of 19.
He was born in Jamaica and become the bassist, vocalist and lyricist for the mythic Gladiators, as well as a session musician for Coxsonne Dodd in Studio One and Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s at Black Ark, two of the main producers on the island at this time. He also composed some everlasting bass lines for well-known artists like Yabby You, Jimmy Riley, Max Romeo, Junior Byles and many others.
After leaving Jamaica 1987, Clinton Fearon start a new career from Seattle. With other musicians of the Gladiators, he decided to stay in the US and to found The Defenders. The band built a nice following in the Northwest. After five years the band split and Clinton Fearon formed the Boogie Brown Band with local musicians in 1993.
Clinton Fearon recorded eight albums with Boogie Brown Band and two albums in solo acoustic.
Each song of Clinton Fearon is a strong message coming from the heart of a man who dedicates his life to help a better world to come. With chiselled music and poetic lyrics, he opens reggae to a wider audience who simply loves his beautiful songs.

LowFuzz Supports Veterans for Natural Rights + FREE REGGAE PARTY! The Contrabandits, Eyes on Zion
2019-09-07 21:00 - 2019-09-08 02:00
7PM: LoFuzz Supports Veterans For Natural Rights (Free & Open to Public)
Veterans for Natural Rights is a veteran ran organization supporting LIBERTY for all and we are moving into Texas!!! Join us for our official launch party during YALCON Austin weekend and help support the Texas Veterans for Medical Marijuana movement. We will have guest speakers, live music, and some killer door prizes so come on out and join us!!
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FREE REGGAE PARTY TO FOLLOW with The Contrabandits (12AM) and Eyes on Zion (10PM)

FREE REGGAE PARTY! Pocketsettas, Music4Life
2019-09-06 21:00 - 2019-09-07 02:00
Join us for a night of roots reggae with Pocketsettas and Music4Life!
Pocketsettas – Midnight
Music4Life – 10PM

**Be part of filming Flamingo’s history!**

The Meditations, The Contrabandits, DJ Jah Bill
2019-08-31 21:00 - 2019-09-01 02:00
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Ages 18+ Welcome, $12 Advance tickets available til 6pm day of show.
Opening support by Austin’s own; The Contrabandits!
** THE MEDITATIONS **
As part of the foundation of reggae music, Ansel “Meditation” Cridland has over forty years producing, writing, arranging, and performing for fans all over the world. As leader of the legendary trio(The Meditations) Ansel and his fellow band members performed at the historical ONE LOVE PEACE CONCERT, held April, 22nd 1978, at the request of Bob Marley. Legends like Jimmy Cliff, Sly and Robbie, Philip Smart, Willie Lindo and Gregory Isaac are a few of the people that Ansel has worked with. These contributions have sculpted the sound of Roots Rock Reggae over the years. Making The Meditations a fundamental and essential part of reggae music.
Over the past few years Ansel (who has produced all of The Meditations’ albums excluding three) have been the only remaining original member of The Meditations to continue touring. Accompanying him for almost 10 years, as background vocalist are Laury Webb(who is also featured on The Good Of Man album) and DaddyLion Chandell. Together, they’ve been touring the United States performing for massive crowds at venues like the Red Rock Amphitheater twice in seven years. And returning in 2013, to celebrate Reggae On The River 30th year anniversary. A festival first opened by The Meditations and The Itals.
Criss crossing the United States year after year, embarking on journeys over waters to Africa in an attempt to quench the thirst for Meditations Music. On January 29, 2010 Ansel performed for exhilarated fans at The Parker Place(in Abidjan, Ivory Coast), which due to the demand, resulted in being two events instead of one. This amazing experience produced a great live album, titled Ansel Meditations Live In Africa. This album is of legendary proportions to say the least. Its Roots Reggae at its finest. Its raw and filled with uncut material, capturing a monumental moment in time.
There’s most definitely a thirst for Roots Rock Reggae and that authentic Meditations sound. It’s by no means new but it’s growing in volume with every generation. The love is overwhelming and it’s an inspiring experience to see The Meditations live.

Roleros Cosmicos, Souvenir Atomico , Huerta Culture
2019-08-30 21:00 - 2019-08-31 02:00
On Friday August 30th Souvenir Atomico (from Tamaulipas, Mexico) will bring their special blend of punk, ska, and surf to Flamingo Cantina! Austin’s own Huerta Culture will open, playing a mix of cumbia and reggae, and Roleros Cosmicos will keep the party going late with their reggae en Espanol!

9:30-10:30 Huerta Culture
11-12 Souvenir Atomico
12:30-1:30 Roleros Cosmicos
*Huerta Culture mixes cumbia, ska, reggae, hip-hop, blues, rock, and balkan influences to create a sound that has been dubbed ‘psichocumbia’… Songs in English, Spanish, and Quechua (an indigenous language of Bolivia)
*Souvenir Atomico (from Tamaulipas, Mexico) plays a mixture of punk, rock, surf, ska, and dub! The music reflects the courage and energy of a people tired of political corruption.

*Roleros Cosmicos, plays original Latin reggae with a variety of styles and influences.

KALEICOFEST
2019-08-24 21:00 - 2019-08-25 02:00
Kaleidoscopes
Mama Duke
Drew Imani
Kiydrah
DJ Mickey T

Come hungry! Food with Grace Aguilar

Idiginis
2019-08-23 21:00 - 2019-08-24 02:00

Capleton, Roots from the Clay, DJ Jah Bill
2019-08-22 21:00 - 2019-08-23 02:00
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Advance sales stop at 6 p.m. day of show. Remaining tickets will be available at the door, cash only.

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When Capleton first burst on the scene in the late 1980s, the dancehall was a very different place than it is today. Slackness and gun talk were the order of the day. This bright promising newcomer announced his arrival with a string of hit songs from “Bumbo Red” to “Number One on the Look Good Chart” and “Lotion Man.” Everything he touched hit the sound-good charts, and the youthful artist with the nimble vocabulary and hardcore voice quickly established himself as one of dancehall‚s most reliable hitmakers. But even he could not have predicted that eleven years later, at the start of the new millennium, he would be dancehall’s ruling voice.
“I think the people dem see say me really deserve that because of the amount of years me put in,” Capleton says, “and we never really bow and we still hold the faith. We stand up for whatever we a say. Yeah and we really work for it. And them say by your works, a so you get your pay. The people them see the amount of fight me face and the whole heap of accusation. And me still never give up”
When he dropped the tune “Alms House” in 1992, Capleton established himself as more than an entertainer but as a guiding light of righteousness through music. “United we stand and divided we fall,” he sang for the benefit of his fans and dancehall comrades. “Nuff of them nah go know themself till them back against the wall.” A few years later he came back with yet another antidote to the clashing and rivlary that had taken hold of the dancehall business. “Music is a mission,” he reminded his fellow artists, “not a competition. Some man use the music to cause confusion.” The path of this dancehall Prophet was clearly established in 1994 with a string of songs that declared his newfound faith in Rastafari. “INI sight up the light and see say really, yunno, Rasta is real,” he recalls. “founder of the world, because Rasta did come set the trend. Y‚unnerstand. Rasta is life.”
The first words of his mega-hit “Dis The Trinity” made it plain that the DJ had experienced some kind of revelation. “I was once lost but now I‚m found,” he stated, “Selassie I live every time.” Capleton became a strong advocate of the teaching of the Jamaican National Hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and advocate of universal black repatriation. “Babylon rewarded us with hatred for our love,” he declares. “They taught us to rape, steal and kill. For instance, they stole our literature and taught it back to us in a different manner so as to infiltrate our minds with foolishness and other misconceptions. Now we as black men do not see ourselves as prince and prophets, but as punks and guys. Our women do not see themselves as queens, princesses or empresses anymore, but as harlots and concubines.” The only solution, as Bob Marley advocated, is to emancipate oneself from mental slavery.
“Over the years INI as a nation and a people, them no really teach INI nuttin‚ bout INI black self. You know I mean? Them teach INI them give we European philosophy. So INI and some other youths a try emerge now, we ask certain question and we ask fi certain things. Caw we know say an institute, or in a college, or in a certain organization we need we Ethiopian curriculum, we need the black man thing. We need to know about weself. Becaw the prophet Marcus Garvey did show we say, A nation without no knowledge of them own history is like a tree without a root. And if you don‚t know where you‚re coming from, you‚re not gonna know where you‚re going.”

Even as he uplifts the black race, Capleton always makes a point of clarifying that he does not seek to alienate any race. “We are not being racial nor prejudiced star,” he says. “Becaw we know Jah is for everyone. But where history and prophesy in concerned, that is our witness and we have to be ourself, and we cannot hide from the truth. Caw we woulda be a traitor and a sellout to ourself. And you cannot sell out yourself.”

Roots from the Clay is a roots reggae band consisting of Jamaican musical duo Jermaine ‘Songo’ Wilson drummer extraordinaire and singer Aria Morgan-Wilson former solo artist based in Houston, Texas

Dubbest, Bum Lucky
2019-08-17 21:00 - 2019-08-18 02:00
THIS SHOW IS 18+
Since 2009, Dubbest has been forging its own path through the heavily forested reggae landscape, expertly infusing roots traditionalism with a refreshing improvisational savvy that calls to mind not only the studio experimentation of pioneering dub producers Osbourne “King Tubby” Ruddock and Lee “Scratch” Perry but also the real-time exploration of jam bands like the Grateful Dead and Phish. As friends in high school, guitarist Andrew MacKenzie, singer/melodica player Ryan Thaxter , bassist Sean Craffey, guitarist Cory Mahoney, and drummer Kyle Hancock shared a love of pop-punk and ska, bonding over bands like Black Flag, until they caught wind of Augustus Pablo’s 1974 dub classic Ital Dub. This was the gamechanger that set the stage for their current musical approach: using introspective, spacious bass and drum grooves to anchor a thickly-textured interplay of instruments, vocals, and timbres. With their third album, Light Flashes, Dubbest is poised for national recognition.

Central Texas Reggae Party! Featuring Lion Heights, DJ Jah Bill
2019-08-16 21:00 - 2019-08-17 02:00

Ojos Rojos, Isistren
2019-08-10 21:00 - 2019-08-11 02:00

Hail Marley! Patois
2019-08-09 21:00 - 2019-08-10 02:00
Hail Marley! is a 5 piece Bob Marley Tribute Band from Austin, Texas that plays songs spanning Marley‘s entire recording career.
Lineup includes:
Michael Hale (lead vocals)
Claude McCann (keyboards & backing vocals)
Fumi Sugawara (guitar)
Dwayne “D Madness” Jackson (drums & backing vocals)
Rudolph Aaron Eccles (bass)

NO COVER: Dreadneck Night with The Mau Mau Chaplains feat. Lion Heights + NORML Meeting
2019-08-07 20:00 - 2019-08-08 02:00
NORML MEETING @ 8PM: OPEN TO PUBLICTexas NORML is the Austin Chapter of NORML and works to reform cannabis law reform in Texas.
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 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.

Live Wyya, Lionhead feat Aimann Raad
2019-08-03 21:00 - 2019-08-04 02:00
COVER: $8 at door

The Live Wyya Band is tremendously popular within their native Jamaica and is also one of reggae music’s most selected international band of emissaries. Their songs boast a varied list of music that spells determination and an extreme source of self-development. These songs have granted them the ability to culturally promote passion and emotion all over the world. Live Wyya is a Roots Rock Reggae group of high inspiration, whose aims and objectives are to teach and educate the populous through music.
The group was founded and formed in December of 1999 by Carl “C-Wyya” Edwards (bass guitarist) and Arnaldo Bolt (drummer). The group comprises members: Chadian Munroe (keyboardist), Jerome “Jay Wyya” Smickle (lead vocalist), Kirk “Oneil” Gayle (keyboardist), and Michael “Colgate” Downer (lead guitarist). All players of instruments sing harmony vocals.

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Taj Weekes, Lakandon
2019-08-02 21:00 - 2019-08-03 02:00
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Taj Weekes & Adowa unite a vibrant diversity of sounds with thoughtful, lush arrangements and a finely honed penchant for telling poetic tales of hardship and hope. “I don’t sit down and write socially conscious songs. I write songs about where I place my focus,” Weekes explains. “I grew up listening to the power of the music, the lyrical content. That’s what matters to me.” Though long hailed by reggae fans, Weekes defies simple genre formulas. His intuitive, intense songwriting ties together the many threads of his Caribbean heritage and honors his unflagging engagement with the world as a musician, philanthropist, and lecturer.
Reggae/dub artists Lakandon opens the show!
