Bass Concert Hall Austin Event Tickets – Austin Is The Entertainment Capital Of The Lone Star State!
Austin may be the state capital of Texas, but don’t expect to encounter a stuffy city when you come to visit. After all, the city’s motto is “Keep Austin Weird!” Austin is known for being Texas’ creative hub, and the city is bursting with local musicians, artists, chefs and entrepreneurs. The landscape of Austin even deviates from the typically flat land found in Texas, as Austin is the gateway to Texas Hill Country. Austin earns its title as the Live Music Capital of the World by staging the popular Austin City Limits Music Festival each year and boasting over 200 music venues.
Go Longhorns! The University of Texas at Austin is located just north of downtown Austin, and the University’s Texas Performing Arts Center boasts multiple venues in one! Bass Concert Hall is the flagship theatre of Texas Performing Arts and is the largest in Austin, with seating for a whopping 2,900 patrons. The Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Concert Hall was completed in 1981 and has hosted Broadway performances as well as nationally touring musicians and bands and comedians.
Resident E! Entertainment Television funny lady Chelsea Handler will be stopping by Bass Concert Hall for a pair of performances on April 16. The talk show host (of her very own Chelsea Lately on E!), standup comedian and author will be visiting Austin while on tour in support of her third book, Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang.
Handler’s previous two books, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands (2005) and 2008′s Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea, were smash successes and her third is poised to follow in their footsteps. Why settle for watching Handler on Chelsea Lately when you can get Bass Concert Hall Austin event tickets from StubHub.com to see her live!
If your sides aren’t still hurting from laughing with Chelsea Handler, head to Dell Hall at Austin’s Long Center for the Performing Arts to see author David Sedaris on April 27. Known for his self-deprecating humor and dry wit, Sedaris has released a stream of New York Times Best Sellers, like Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000), Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004) and When You Are Engulfed in Flames (2008). Sedaris has been nominated for three Grammys for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album. His most recent live effort is David Sedaris: Live For Your Listening Pleasure (2009), but you can’t miss your chance to see this Greek-American humorist when he stops in Austin!
Comedy is great and all, but you can’t come to Austin without seeing some live music, and Stubb’s is one of Austin’s most legendary live music venues. Texan C.B. Stubbenfield opened Stubb’s Bar-B-Que once he returned home to Texas after the Korean War, and he passed away in 1995, at which point the Austin venue opened in his honor. Coheed and Cambria will join the long list of artists that have performed at Stubb’s when the progressive rock outfit takes the stage at the Austin venue on April 28. Coheed and Cambria’s latest album, Year of the Black Rainbow, arrives on April 13, so expect to hear a batch of new songs live!
