No Idea Festival
No Idea
Festival 2025
- October 23 — Dallas
- October 24-26 — Austin
Dallas Program
Thursday, October 23
Tickets $15
Doors: 7pm
Music: 8pm
Music: 8pm
- Set 1 - Sherrie Zantea
- Set 2 - Aaron González + Joshua Cañate
- Set 3 - Fred Moten + Brandon López
Austin Program
Friday, October 24
Tickets $25
Doors: 7:30pm
Music: 8pm
Music: 8pm
- Set 1 - Brandon López + Michael Foster
- Set 2 - Fred Moten + Joe McPhee
- Set 3 - Richard Kamerman + Dromez
Saturday, October 25 (daytime)
Free show
Doors: 1:30pm
Music: 2pm
Music: 2pm
- Set 1 - Fred Moten (talk + performance)
Saturday, October 25 (evening)
Tickets $35
Doors: 7:30pm
Music: 8pm
Music: 8pm
- Set 1 - Joe McPhee + Christina Carter
- Set 2 - Fred Moten + Brandon López
- Set 3 - Juan García + Bhob Rainey (No Idea commission)
- Set 4 - Michael Foster + Richard Kamerman
- Closing - David Watson
Sunday, October 26
Tickets $0-$15+
Continuing our tradition of presenting music in idiosyncratic, distinctive spaces for our Sunday program, No Idea 2025 presents:
For Lenny
Conceived as a continuous piece winding through 3 distinct locations
in the Bouldin Creek neighborhood, For Lenny moves through 2
houses to a rugged, unconsidered patch of the Bouldin Creek Greenbelt.
The piece features a mixture of first-time duos, solos, and silence.
- 2pm start time
-
Set 1 -
Juan García
+
Michael Foster
(first-time duo)
Ben’s house - 1709 South 5th Street (map) -
Set 2 -
Bhob Rainey
Stella + Leon’s house - 1017-A West Milton Street (map) -
Set 3 -
David Watson
+
Rebecca Novak
(first-time duo)
That spot in the Greenbelt on S. 7th with the broken cross, kinda by Ralph’s old place…
— For Lenny is an homage to the 3-block radius where No Idea was conceived in 2003
This project is supported in part by the City of Austin Economic Development Department.
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