The Austin Chronicle is proud to announce the lineup for the Hot Sauce Festival, celebrating 28 years as the largest hot sauce festival in the world and benefiting the Central Texas Food Bank. This year we’re heating up the stage with performances by:
Little Joe y La Familia (3:30-4:20pm)
El Tule (2:30-3:10pm)
Altamesa (1:30-2:10pm)
Big Wy’s Brass Band (12:30-1:10pm)
Chulita Vinyl Club ATX (11:15am-12:10pm)
Sunday, August 26 at 11 AM – 5 PM
Fiesta Gardens
2101 Jesse E Segovia St, Austin, Texas 78702
Tickets –> https://www.austinchronicle.com/hot-sauce/
In addition to the live music performances, guests at the Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival will get to sample hundreds of hot sauces, from mild to SUPER hot varieties, and vote on their favorites. Be sure to stop by the hot sauce vendor booths for more samples, specialty sauces and peppers, cookbooks, and other fare. Hungry for more? Enjoy food from Eldorado Cafe, Garbo’s Lobster Truck, Emojis Grilled Cheese Bar, Fork in the Road, Amy’s Ice Creams, and Sun Garden Shaved Ice.
This family-friendly event is free to the public with a donation of three nonperishable food items or a $5 donation to Central Texas Food Bank. Sorry, but no dogs, coolers, or smoking allowed. Submissions for hot sauce entries are now open, so sign up today!
More about the performers:
During a more than 50-year performing and recording history, Little Joe y La Familia has become one of the top Tejano bands. Over the decades, the group has developed a unique disabled=”disabled”>country, blues, and rock & roll music. Little Joe y La Familia will headline the Hot Sauce Festival, and their performance will take place before the Hot Sauce Festival winners are announced onstage.
For the last 15 years, El Tule has been honing its unique sound combining influences of cumbia, merengue, salsa, reggae, and Afro-Latin in Austin. Their original music is about history, art, and culture, often focusing on legends and tales of the mystical.
Altamesa is a cosmic American and rock & roll band from Austin that mixes the production values of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and Big Star with the songwriting sensibilities of Neil Young and the Flying Burrito Brothers. Founded as a solo project in 2015 by singer, guitarist, and songwriter Evan Charles, the band has solidified its lineup to include as a permanent member Happen-Ins frontman, guitarist, and songwriter Sean Faires.
Big Wy’s Brass Band is a New Orleans-style brass and funk band based out of Austin. The band was originally formed in 2014 by Westlake High School students looking to have a good time. After a few jam sessions, Wyatt Corder (Big Wy) brought in other members to join the band. Since the band’s formation, Big Wy’s has enjoyed making music, both for themselves and for their audiences.
Chulita Vinyl Club is an all-girl all-vinyl club for self-identifying women of color, which launched in 2014, with the context of providing a space for empowerment and togetherness. In the Austin chapter they believe identity markers can sometimes be limiting, and while their priority is maintaining the mission of fostering a safe space for self-identifying women of color, they also aim their focus on highlighting those of mixed-heritage and those that identify as part of a marginalized community.
