1305 W. Oltorf
Austin, TX 78704
at
The ABGB
Thursday,
March
03
Show 5:00PM
Join us at ABGB for a night of music and celebration as Beyond the Grade raises awareness and donations for their non-profit after-school music program. The evening will include performances by Quiet Company, Guy Forsyth, the Beyond the Grade student bands and more. There will be great raffle prizes! The evening will provide the perfect atmosphere for families, friends, and community to enjoy and support some of our favorite Austin music legends and usher in our up-and-coming young artists! $10 suggested donation at the door.
Come celebrate with us!
Beyond the Grade’s mission is to keep music alive in our Austin schools by providing after-school music programs to at-risk students at no cost. Our staff of professional educators and musicians is dedicated to giving students real musical training and experience through rock band clubs, group guitar lessons,
group drum lessons and more. Since their involvement in AISD and other surrounding Austin schools, Beyond the Grade staff members have seen, first hand, the impact that this program has had on their students, as well as their families and communities.
More information about Beyond the Grade’s
mission, as well as a list of program needs and an opportunity to donate, can be found at beyondthegrade.org.
Email inquiries at: info@beyondthegrade.org
Quiet Company
Through the release of three LPs and endless touring, the Austin, Texas band Quiet Company has been making a name for themselves nationally with their energetic live shows and their anthemic, dynamic, indie rock which critics have called a mix of The Beatles, Death Cab for Cutie, Arcade Fire and Weezer. They’ve gained a huge fanbase while gathering praise from The New York Times, TIME, NPR, Last Call with Carson Daly, Paste Magazine, Houston Chronicle, Austin Chronicle and more.
Quiet Company won Rock Band of the Year during SXSW 2014, adding to their
previous 10 Austin Music Awards including Band of the Year, Album of the Year, Rock Band of the Year, Indie Band of the Year and Song of the Year, all won on the strength of their 2011 release We Are All Where We Belong.
After the success of their 2013 album re-release, A Dead Man on My Back: Shine Honesty Revisited, Quiet Company was featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered” and chosen to be a Red Bull Sound Select Artist, all of which rekindled interest in We Are All Where We Belong and shot the album to #7 on the iTunes Rock charts nearly 2 years after its release.
After an amazing year on the road which included festival sets at NXNE, CMJ, ACL Fest and more, Quiet Company kicked off 2014 in the studio to write and record their highly anticipated 4th full length Transgressor, their most explosive and exposed collection of songs to date. Recorded in 14 intense days of live tracking at Orb Recording Studios in Austin, the band captured a guitar-driven larger-than-life sound with Matt Noveskey (Blue October) producing and the legendary Tim Palmer (U2, Pearl Jam, The Cure) mixing. Frontman Taylor Muse’s characteristically introspective writing style is in full force as he tells tales of love, despair, pain, and redemption, reflecting on his marriage, from burgeoning young love to a relationship tested through time.
With its soaring guitars and throbbing bass lines drawing comparisons to Foo Fighters, Pavement and Manchester Orchestra, Quiet Company’s Transgressor will be leading the way as rock makes a return to form.
Guy Forsyth Band
Austin’s Guy Forsyth Band -dazzling live shows and rich Americana roots sound. Forsyth (vocals, acoustic, electric & slide guitar, harmonica, ukulele, singing saw) incorporates a unique mixture of styles and his sound is at once polished, raw, compelling and irresistibly rump-shaking. Forsyth brought his skills as a stellar live performer to help found and eventually drive to international acclaim the theatrical acoustic group The Asylum Street Spankers.