The Rock Room Concert Series is a songwriter series held in the intimate 55-seat Rock Room in west Austin. The Rock Room has high ceilings, rock walls, arched entries, chandeliers, and great sound - a tremendous songwriter room, with the intimacy of a house concert and the formality of a small theater, and with a full bar and plenty of parking.

Upcoming in The Rock Room:

April 19 - Caroline Herring
A distinctive and lyrical voice of Southern folk
$25

June 7 - Greg Jacobs

June 28 - Eric Taylor

August 17 - Irene Kelley

September 7 - TBA

October 4 - Terri Hendrix & Lloyd Maines

November 8 - Beth Wood

Contact Steve Stagner at barbedwiremusic@earthlink.net for more information and reservations.

Barbed Wire Productions is the producer of the Telluride Americana Music Weekend, presented every summer in Telluride, Colorado's Sheridan Opera House. The Sheridan is a jewel - a restored, century-old theater with seating for 240 people. The 2013 event is scheduled for July 17-20, 2013. Three-day passes with reserved seating for the three nights in the Opera House are now on sale at www.sheridanoperahouse.com . Go to the site and click on "Tickets."

Scheduled to appear:

Tift Merritt
Hayes Carll
The Wagoneers
John Fullbright
Eric Brace & Peter Cooper
Lincoln Durham
Greg Trooper

This mini-festival has been called "summer camp for Americana music." During the daytime - mountain biking, hiking, rafting, golf and other activities in cool temperatures at 9,000 feet. During the evenings - music. All in a majestic small town located in a box canyon in the high Rocky Mountains.
Artists from previous years include Joe Ely, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Reckless Kelly, The Band of Heathens, Jimmy LaFave, Slaid Cleaves, Shake Russell & Michael Hearne, Eric Bibb, Irene Kelley, Greg Trooper, Kevin Welch, Walt Wilkins, Jason Eady, Sam Baker, Shannon Whitworth, Rod Picott and Amanda Shires, The Greencards, Radney Foster, Bruce Robison, Charlie Robison, The Trishas, Carrie Elkin & Danny Schmidt, Red Molly, and others.

For more information, including sponsorhip opportunities, visit the event website below.