The 37th Annual Fire Station Festival on Sunday, October 23 honors and celebrates the partnership between the fire station and the Hyde Park Neighborhood Association, the effectiveness of citizen involvement, and those who provide great service within the neighborhood. Historically, Hyde Park’s fire station has been saved twice by neighborhood heroes!

Come together and celebrate with a parade beginning at Shipe Park! Hyde Park Bar & Grill will be providing light snacks for this event, alongside other great sponsors at Hyde Park Fire Station.  Click here to visit the Fire Station Festival’s website for more information.

3:30 – 4:00 - Gather at Shipe Park

4:00 - Parade to Fire Station

4:30 - Festivities at the Fire Station. Prizes awarded for Adult, Child and Pet costume.

6:00 - Festival ends

In House of Hits, Andy Bradley and Roger Wood chronicle the fascinating history of Gold Star/SugarHill, telling a story that effectively covers the postwar popular music industry.  Artists from Lightin’ Hopkins to Beyonce recorded there.

We’ll have Andy Bradley and Roger Wood on hand at the party and it’s anybody’s guess as to who else, since they know every musician that ever set foot in Texas!!!

Come meet the authors, have a snack, buy a book to benefit SIMS Foundation, and hear a juicy story or two…

NEW!  Profits from books sales will benefit SIMS Foundation for Austin musicians!

House of Hits chronicles Houston's music powerhouse Sugarhill Studios

HOUSE OF HITS – Meet the Authors Party
Hyde Park Bar & Grill
4206 Duval (original, central location)
Austin, TX 78751
512-48-3168

Aug 18, 5-7pm

Complementary hors d’oeuvres, cash bar at happy hour prices

ABOUT HOUSE OF HITS

Founded in a working-class neighborhood in southeast Houston in 1941, Gold Star/SugarHill Recording Studios is a major independent studio that has produced a multitude of influential hit records in an astonishingly diverse range of genres. Its roster of recorded musicians includes Lightnin’ Hopkins, George Jones, Willie Nelson, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Junior Parker, Clifton Chenier, Sir Douglas Quintet, 13th Floor Elevators, Freddy Fender, Kinky Friedman, Ray Benson, Guy Clark, Lucinda Williams, Beyoncé and Destiny’s Child, and many, many more.

Bradley and Wood describe how Houston’s lack of zoning ordinances allowed founder Bill Quinn’s house studio to grow into a large studio complex, just as SugarHill’s willingness to transcend musical boundaries transformed it into of one of the most storied recording enterprises in America. The authors offer behind-the-scenes accounts of numerous hit recordings, spiced with anecdotes from studio insiders and musicians who recorded at SugarHill. Bradley and Wood also place significant emphasis on the role of technology in shaping the music and the evolution of the music business. They include in-depth biographies of regional stars and analysis of the various styles of music they represent, as well as a list of all of Gold Star/SugarHill’s recordings that made the Billboard charts and extensive selected historical discographies of the studio’s recordings.

When stuff like devastating oil spills happens, do you find yourself fantasizing about having unlimited funds, super-duper scientific smarts, weaponry expertise, and international connections so you could go fix the problem while giving the perpetrators their due?

Meet Bwana Doc, international environmental pirate, the man who does what it takes to end the destruction of our planet!

Bwana Doc is one bad-a** environmentalist

The creation of author/ biologist / entrepreneur / UT prof D.R. Schneider, Bwana Doc is James Bond, millionaire Bruce Wayne, and Captain Morgan all rolled into one.   And he’s on a mission to save the earth.

(In real life, Bwana Doc’s creator is a real-life environmental hero.   His company, Micro-Bac Int’l, uses microbes to eat up crude oil.  His Facebook public profile here and his enviro-blog here.)

We’re hosting a book signing for Bwana Doc’s first published adventure, SAVING THE WHALES on Wed, June 30.

Now here’s the gospel truth about this event:  it was planned before the Oil Spill.   But,  as the plot — or perhaps we should say the Gulf — thickens, the need to do something about the worst environmental catastrophe in the US has become excruciatingly clear.

This event will benefit two environmental organizations: The Audubon Society and REEF.

About the book:

Hyde Park Fork has read it and says it’s a real page-turner.

Not only is it a satisfying high adventure story with an underlying good cause, it also [spoiler alert] features Hyde Park Bar & Grill in the story.

(While HPB&G is undoubtedly an internationally-known destination, our appearance in the book is largely because the author is a devotee of our Duval Street location.)

You’ll get a signed book in return for a donation to the Audubon Society and/or REEF, a grass-roots organization that seeks to conserve marine ecosystems, and we’ll have something cool for those who correctly answer trivia questions about the book.

Book Signing for SAVING THE WHALES, A BWANA DOC ADVENTURE

Hyde Park Bar & Grill, central – 4206 Duval

June 30

Time:  5 to 7pm

Complementary hors d’oeuvres, cash bar at happy hour prices

Minimum $10 donation (feel free to give more!) to the Audubon Society and/or REEF gets you a signed book, not to mention the satisfaction of knowing you’re doing something to help correct the worst environmental episode in US history.

Hyde Park Bar & Grill prizes for those who answer our Bwana Doc trivia questions correctly, so get the book by clicking here and start reading!

What Salsa Does Willie Like?

Come taste Willie Nelson’s favorite salsa recipe — and a handful of favorites from other Austin City Limits stars — at the author’s reception for Music In The Kitchen author Glenda Facemire at our Duval location on Wed, Apr 28, 4:30 to 6:30pm.

Music In The Kitchen, recipes from Austin City Limits artists

Complementary hors d’eouvres, cash bar.

Buy an autographed copy – a portion of proceeds go to KLRU!

Published by UT Press.

Music in the Kitchen

Author’s Reception, Wed, May 5  4:30 – 6:30pm