📣 Texas Tech Students 📣 Did you know that you are entitled to a free ticket for all of our shows? 🎟️ Bring your valid TTU student ID to the Student Union Building (1502 Akron Ave) east info desk - right at the ATM machines - and claim your free ticket anytime between now and the show! 🎟️ Join us next week for the first concert of our 18th season.
American Patchwork Quartet (APQ) is on a mission to reclaim the immigrant soul of American Roots Music. Comprised of four highly acclaimed artists, APQ showcases the dynamic diversity of contemporary culture by reimagining timeless songs from America's past. APQ, led by multi-Grammy award-winning guitarist/vocalist Clay Ross, binds timeless American folk songs with jazz sophistication, country twang, West African hypnotics, and East Asian ornamentation. APQ's sound is a masterful confluence of tradition and innovation, transcending culture, politics, and ideology.
WHAT: American Patchwork Quartet Folk /Jazz / Country / East Asian Fusion Celebrating the Human Experience
WHEN: November 14th (Thr), 2024; 7:00-8:30 PM (no intermission)
WHERE: Allen Theatre, Student Union Building, 1502 Akron on the Texas Tech campus
TIX: $20 GA at 8067702000; free for TTU students with valid IDs
MORE: www.presidentialseries.ttu.edu
🎶 American Patchwork Quartet 🎶
Folk /Jazz / East Asian Fusion Celebrating the Human Experience
American Patchwork Quartet (APQ) is on a mission to reclaim the immigrant soul of American Roots Music. Join them on the Texas Tech University campus for their special Texas debut!
WHEN: November 14th (Thu), 2024; 7:00-8:30 PM (no intermission)
WHERE: Allen Theatre, Student Union Building, 1502 Akron on the Texas Tech campus
TIX: $20 GA https://shorturl.at/bLBpA / free for TTU students with valid IDs
MORE: www.presidentialseries.ttu.edu
David Byrne: Reasons to be Cheerful
A Presentation for Tumultuous Times
In 2019, David Byrne—known for being the face of rock band Talking Heads and for his diverse solo work—announced a venture called Reasons to be Cheerful, a project that calls itself “part magazine, part therapy session, part blueprint for a better world.” Through Byrne’s non-profit organization, Arbutus, Reasons to be Cheerful (RTBC) aims toward fulfilling this sensibility, applying it now to the future of our world. Through stories of hope, RTBC seeks to provide inspiration to those who want to know how the world can be better and how we can be part of that change.
Join us on the Texas Tech University campus Oct. 16th for a panel discussion with David Byrne & guests. Tix ($20 GA) and details are available at https://rb.gy/n3ut8b (free for TTU students with valid IDs).
Learn about the upcoming 18th year of continued culture-making tradition!
October 16, 2024 (Wed) – David Byrne: Reasons to be Cheerful
- A Tonic for Tumultuous Times / An Evening of Presentation
November 14 , 2024 (Thr) – American Patchwork Quartet
- Folk-Country/Jazz/East Asian Fusion Celebrating the Human Experience
February 20, 2025 (Thr) – MOMIX: Alice / Fall Down the Rabbit Hole
- Modern Dance Inspired by Alice in Wonderland
April 18, 2025 (Fri) – 11th Lubbock Lights: The Hometown Boys
- Lubbock’s Premiere Conjunto Band / Tejano Music Awards
⏰ WHEN: All events are held 7-8:30 PM (no intermission)
🌍 WHERE: All shows take place in the Texas Tech University Student Union Building's Allen Theatre (1502 Akron Ave)
🚘 PARKING: Parking for patrons is available at no cost in the vicinity (R7 & R11) north and south of the SUB.
🎟️ TIX: Season passes ($65) and general admission ($20-$23) are available at https://rb.gy/n3ut8b or 806.770.2000. Free student tix are available 30 days before each event at the SUB east info desk/Allen Theatre box office wile supplies last. Make sure to bring your valid TTU ID to claim yours!
📣 Students 📣 Our usual free student ticket offer is now live for our upcoming concert! Join us for The First Lady of Texas Blues: Angela Strehli's concert April 18th 7:00 PM in the Student Union Building (1502 Akron)! Claim your free tickets at the SUB east info desk anytime between now and the show. Bring your valid TTU IDs to the desk right next to the Allen Theatre and snag your tickets to celebrate our annual Lubbock Lights festival with us! 🎶
10th Lubbock Lights / Angela Strehli: The First Lady of Texas Blues
The annual Lubbock Lights festival celebrates the musical heritage of the South Plains by highlighting singer-songwriters from our region. The honored musicians consider themselves greatly influenced by the musical traditions of West Texas and look at their musical predecessors such as Buddy Holly and Mac Davis to locate their roots and transport their heritage to today’s times. Lubbock-born Angela Strehli is the perfect singer-songwriter to continue our festival and celebrate its 10th anniversary. The First Lady of Texas Blues is an avid blues historian who helped build the Austin blues scene of the 1980’s by helping manage the legendary Antone’s club and record label. Listen to her new album Ace of Blues and other, well-known blues songs on the Allen Theatre stage on the TTU campus!
WHEN: Thursday, April 18, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM (no intermission)
WHERE: Allen Theatre, Student Union Bldg on the Texas Tech campus, 1502 Akron Ave, Lubbock, TX 79409.
TIX: $23 general admission at www.presidentialseries.ttu.edu; free for students with a valid TTU ID (claim your tickets at the SUB east info desk M-Fr 8-5)
PARKING: Parking is free in the immediate vicinity for the event. We greatly appreciate University Parking Services for their consideration of our patrons in agreeing to provide complimentary parking preceding our events. Parking lots that are available for complimentary use are R03 (the Library lot), R11 (the Band lot), R07 (the Administration Building lot), and R13 (the Visitor lot).
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Lubbock-born & raised blues singer and composer Angela Strehli Music has often been called the “first lady of Texas blues”. An avid student of the blues and a blues historian, she helped build the Austin blues scene in the 1980's with club owner Clifford Antone, Jimmie & Stevie Ray Vaughan, Kim Wilson and others. In addition to her o
📣 Students... you know the drill! Our usual free student ticket offer is now live for our upcoming concert. 🎟️ Catch the @thesuffers Febr. 28th 7:00 PM in the Student Union Building (1502 Akron) by claiming your free tickets at the SUB east info desk anytime between now and the show. Bring your valid TTU IDs to the desk right next to the Allen Theatre and snag your tickets to see the Houston-based Gulf Coast Soul band in a few short weeks! 🎶
Get ready for our spring semester opener: The Suffers!
WHAT: Soul/Jazz/R&B Cajun-Caribbean Fusion Band
WHEN: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 7:00 PM
WHERE: Allen Theatre Student Union Bldg, 1502 Akron Ave, Lubbock, TX 79409
TIX: $20 General Admission www.presidentialseries.ttu.edu ; free for students (present your TTU IDs at the Student Union Building east info desk anytime between now and the show for your tickets)
The Suffers are a Gulf Coast Soul band from Houston, Texas who bring elements of classic American Soul and Rock & Roll to crowds that love to dance. The band is Influenced by the environment around them -- Cajun, African American, Mexican, Caribbean -- and their music has taken them to the late-night TV stages of The Daily Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Late Show and more. The band's 3rd studio album It Starts with Love (2022) has truly set The Suffers free. Racism, misogyny, and the ugly underbelly of the music industry are all in the band's crosshairs on this record, but so are growth and evolution & self-acceptance. Heavy as it can get, the record leaves plenty of space to celebrate the beauty and ecstasy this world still has to offer. The Suffers revel in the multidimensional, multicultural possibilities of their take on soul in vividness and conviviality and are quickly becoming festival favorites across the nation and beyond.
“The Suffers embroiders a multidimensional groove with multicultural possibilities of their take on soul.”
-NPR on their 2nd 2018 album Everything Here
The Queen's Cartoonists - Two American Art Forms in One Show: Jazz & Animation
WHEN: Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM (no intermission)
WHERE: Allen Theatre, Student Union Bldg on the Texas Tech campus, 1502 Akron Ave, Lubbock, TX 79409. Parking is free in the immediate vicinity for the event.
TIX: $20 general admission at www.presidentialseries.ttu.edu; free for students with a valid TTU ID (claim your tickets at the SUB east info desk M-Fr 8-5)
Pulling from over 100 years of animation, The Queens Cartoonists' performances are perfectly synchronized to the films projected on stage. The band matches the energy of the cartoons, leading the audience through a world of virtuosic musicianship, multi-instrumental mayhem, and comedy. Inspired by the cross-roads of jazz, classical music, and cartoons, TQC features Jazz Age composers like Carl Stalling, Raymond Scott, and Duke Ellington, alongside classical giants Mozart, Rossini, and R. Strauss (to name just a few).
Since their inception in 2015, the band, hailing from as far away as Australia, Bulgaria, and Washington, D.C., now all reside in Queens, New York, and are a creative part of the New York jazz scene. The band has brought their unique concert experience to performing arts centers, clubs, and festivals all across the United States and Europe. The Queens Cartoonistss have opened for the New York Philharmonic and are the only artist in the 40-plus year history of the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City to sell out multiple all-ages shows. They have been featured in over 50 publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, NPR, Mashable, and featured on TV spots for Pix11 and Fox5.
