CALENDAR

january

JANUARY 18

McGonigel’s Mucky Duck

Wortham Theater Center (Brown Theater)

Aida, Houston Grand Opera

The New Yorker called her “One of America’s very best singer/ songwriters,” high praise indeed for the folk artist. She has released 10 studio albums during her career and authored four books including last year’s What I Found in a Thousand Towns.

JANUARY 26

JANUARY 28

White Oak Music Hall (Upstairs)

McGonigel’s Mucky Duck

Four-piece L.A. is known for their “punk wing-dong-gaze porn pop cop chop proto shoes progs clogs hogs fuzzy-wuzzy-soaked hugs and slugs” music. Got it?

A band made up of Texas music vets that helped launch the careers of artists such as Willie, Jerry Jeff, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark and more.

The Paranoyds, Surfbort

JANUARY 26

Flight + Fugue, KINETIC

JANUARY 27

Wortham Theater Center

JANUARY 31

JANUARY 30

Gulf Coast seafood and some of Texas's most delectable restaurants take center stage at the annual event.

Mark Morris Dance Group “Pepperland”, SPA

Warehouse Live

Y&T

JANUARY 26-FEBRUARY 9 Various Locations (Galveston)

JANUARY 30-31

JANUARY 29

The downtown cultural arts district comes alive at the 21st anniversary celebration of the anticipated event.

Restaurant Week

Only love and death will change all things. Set in ancient Egypt during the pinnacle of war, the captive princess falls in love with a conquering general and must choose between true love and loyalty to her country.

The unique tribute to the 50th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band comes with all the ingenuity, musicality, wit and humanity for which the company is known.

Founded in the early 1970's, (formerly known as Yesterday & Today) the group was one of the most requested hard rock support bands of the 1980's.

MATCH

Christina Pazsitzky

Revention Music Center

The Emmy-winning foursome brings a unique precise, and attention to detail. With uncanny, note-for-note live renditions of Beatles' classics they’re a huge hit. JANUARY 31

Black Pumas White Oak Music Hall (Downstairs)

The Age of Aquarius, River Oaks Chamber Orchestra

JANUARY 30-FEBRUARY 2

JANUARY 31 *

Rienzi

Jones Hall

House of Blues

The classic gets a reimagining when the orchestra explores the music of the 70’s, the 1770’s, 1870’s, and the 1970’s, that is.

More than 200 years after its premiere the bewitching “Allegretto” from the epic symphony speaks to the heart just as intently in a vast, brooding fashion.

The evening’s set, billed as “classics, past and present,” should be a treat for fans of the Grammy-winning blues guitarist.

JANUARY 31 *

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

Beethoven 7, Houston Symphony

Alley Theatre

Main Street Crossing (Tomball)

Hiromi

The pair of award-winning authors read passages from their respective memoirs, What You Have Heard is True, and In the Dream House.

They helped jumpstart America’s folk movement years ago with classic such as “Tom Dooley” and “Where Have All the Flowers Gone.”

Dosey Doe Big Barn (The Woodlands)

JANUARY 27

JANUARY 30

Internationally known for her virtuosity, energized performances and blending genres (post-bop, progressive rock, classical, fusion), she is a keyboard sensation.

Warehouse Live

McGonigel’s Mucky Duck

JANUARY 31

The New York rock band have been performing together since the mid 2000’s with hit songs such as “Go Big or Go Home” and “Believer.”

With singles such as, “Wait By The Line” and “Killin Me” she finds ways to keep it real through vulnerability and passion.

Warehouse Live

H O U S TO N H OT E L M A G A Z I N E

The Fab Four

The creative partnership between Grammywinning guitarist/producer Adrian Quesada and songwriter Eric Burton was voted Best New Band at the 2019 Austin Music Awards.

JANUARY 30

*Editor’s Choice

JANUARY 31

The stand-up artist, writer, TV personality and podcast host has two Netflix specials, “The Degenerates” and “Christina P: Mother Inferior.”

Improv

Carolyn Forché and Carmen Maria Machado, Imprint Series

American Authors, Magic Giant

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Lost Austin Band

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Dar Williams, Seth Glier

JANUARY 31-FEBRUARY 16

The Kingston Trio

Madeline Edwards

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Eric Johnson

JANUARY 31-FEBRUARY 16 *

A.D. Players at The George Theater

This new and timely adaptation of the classic movie, starring Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, still rings true today. THROUGH FEBUARY 26

Mapa Wiya (Your Map's Not Needed) The Menil Collection

Meaning “no map”, the exhibit’s title is drawn from a drawing by artist Kunmanara Williams, at the first showing of his work in an American art museum.