Austin Conspiracy of Performing Songwriters brings it all back home.

Psst! Have you heard about the Austin Conspiracy? The singer/songwriter collective has carved out a respected place on the national folk music scene. 15 member acts have elevated themselves by sending out tours, showcasing at national conferences and winning songwriting contests across the country. Now, Conspirators are bringing it all back home. Starting Dec 28, at Austin's venerable Waterloo Ice House, they're launching a series of showcases in Austin, Houston and San Antonio. Businesses can book the group to provide talent for events along with ancilliary advertising support, design and distribution.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Alton Rex

'AUSTIN CONSPIRACY' GOES PUBLIC DECEMBER 28

     Pssst! Have you heard about the Austin Conspiracy? For four years, the singer-songwriter collective has carved out a respected place on the national folk music scene. Its 15 member acts have been lifting themselves up by their own bootstraps: sending out tours, showcasing at national conferences and winning songwriting contests across the country. They've developed an online retail presence, a series of weekly rotating gigs at various venues, and a booking agency.
     Now, the Austin Conspirators are bringing it all back home. Starting December 28, at Austin's venerable Waterloo Ice House, they're launching a series of showcases in Austin, Houston and San Antonio. Lone Star listeners can sample a bulging buffet of Austin songwriting,
from hard-edged rock'n'roll and Latino country-folk to mellow ballads and side-splitting satire.
     Part of the concert proceeds will help pay for the Conspiracy's trip to Nashville, Feb. 6-9, for the 15th International Folk Alliance conference. The Conspiracy showcases its members at the event, which brings together booking agents, venue owners and media people from across North America. Besides these showcases, members raise funds by staging concerts around the state.
     Corporations or businesses interested in booking the Austin Conspiracy to provide live original music for events in the State of Texas should contact Alton Rex at altonrex@io.com. The Conspiracy can produce shows 2 to 6 hours in length with a variety of musical styles for exceptionally reasonable rates. The various artists styles include caberet, country, pop/folk rockers, topical satirists, and more. The talents of the group are collectively broad enough to cover any need from classical to hard rock to show tunes. They can also manage all ancilliary support activities such as sound reinforcement, radio & print advertising design and placement, and/or distribution.

AUSTIN
Saturday, December 28, 9 p.m. to midnight
Waterloo Ice House, 6th & Lamar
Lineup: Alton Rex, Kerry Polk, The Therapy Sisters, Edge City

Friday, January 24, 7 p.m.
Live Oak Coffeehouse, Live Oak Unitarian Church, 12310 RR 620N
http://www.liveoakuu.org/coffee/index.htm
Lineup: Steve Brooks, Jan Seides, Todd Hoke, Alton Rex, Steve Hopkins,
Jeffrye Tveraas

SAN ANTONIO
Saturday, January 4, 7 p.m.
The International Folk Culture Center
Our Lady of the Lake University, 411 S.W. 24th Street
www.ifcchouseconcerts.com
Lineup: Danny Santos, Edge City, Jeffrye Tveraas, Steve Brooks, Jan
Seides

HOUSTON
Saturday, January 18, 9:30 p.m.
DanElectro's Guitar Bar, 1031 E. 24th St.
http://home.swbell.net/daselin/danelectro/
Lineup: Steve Brooks, Steve Hopkins, Jan Seides, Jeff Tveraas

Founded in 1999, with the motto, "Conspiring to make great music" the Austin Conspiracy of Performing Songwriters includes the following current member acts: Steve Brooks, Edge City, Kerry Grombacher, Todd Hoke, Dave Hooper, Steve Hopkins, Kerry Polk, Alton Rex, Marilyn Rucker, Paul Edward Sanchez, Danny Santos, Jan Seides, Doug Clark Steiger, The Therapy Sisters and Jeffrye Tveraas. For more information, go to www.austinconspiracy.com.