Sunday, March 4, 2012

A Concert for George at Uncle Billy's Rooftop

On Saturday March 17th from noon to 6 p.m., Uncle Billy's Rooftop and Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine presents "A Concert for George," a benefit for the George Kinney Medical Fund.

Kinney was the leader of the Austin psychedelic band The Golden Dawn, whose 1968 album Power Plant is recognized as a classic of the genre. The band were friends and labelmates of The 13th Floor Elevators. He went on to release a solo album, After the Fall in 1999 and Texas Medicine with The New Riders of the Golden Dawn in 2006.

12 pm: Hans Frank El Gallo
12:40 pm: Lone Star Hippie
1:20 pm: Jesse Sublett
2 pm: The Higher State
3 pm: The Texas Garage Project

4 pm: Shiva's Headband
5 pm: George Kinney and the New Riders of the Golden Dawn

See George unplugged on Thursday evening at Uncle Billy's Brew & Que Barton Springs: