Texas Arts & Music Festival

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Texas Arts and Music Festival free Saturday night concert features a line-up of Texas-based bands and locals as well as out-of-town guests. This public concert is a crowd favorite during a weekend filled with free public events October 16 – 18. Recognized as the 2025 "Visit Brenham Tourism Partner of the Year", this will be the festival's 11th year celebrating and promoting Texas artists, craftspeople, and music in Historic Downtown Brenham, Texas. The weekend free events kick off on Friday, October 16 with a Juried Art Show highlighting local visual artists and hosted by Brenham Heritage Museum, 105 S. Market Street. Saturday and Sunday's festival events fill downtown Brenham with two public art mural installations, an Art Village with local art and crafts and food trucks. Live music kicks off at 4pm on Saturday with The Guzzlers and Henry Invisible. At 8pm on Saturday, festival headliners and San Antonio's native sons, The Last Bandoleros, fill downtown Brenham with their unique Tex Flex sound which is a mix of Rock, Pop, Country and Latin flavor. Find the music line-up and entire festival schedule at TexasArtsAndMusicFestival.com. The Last Bandoleros are headlining this year's festival. The trio, known for impressive harmonies, has opened for Sting, The Marvericks, Los Lobos, and Dwight Yoakum. They describe their sound, a mix of Rock, Pop, Country and Latin flavor, as "TexFlex," the name of their critically acclaimed albums Tex Flex and Tex Flex Folklórico. Their Live from Texas album reached #6 on the iTunes album chart after a 2020 performance on ABC's Good Morning America, and the group performed on GMA again in 2022. The group won the Premio Tejano Mundial award for "Crossover Song of the Year" twice, for "Maldita" (2020) and "Vamos A Bailar" (2022). In 2022 Tex Flex Folklórico was ranked #5 on the Houston Chronicle's 10 Albums of 2022. The Tex Flex tour started in 2022 and took the band all through the US and a tour of Europe ending at Stagecoach music festival in 2023. In 2024, The Last Bandoleros appeared in the movie Say A Little Prayer, produced by Edward James Olmos and starring Luis Fonsi.