Texas Riverfest weekend kicks off at the Phoenix Saloon with a great afternoon and evening line-up of killer talent. Phoenix fave JUNIOR NASH gets thing going on the small stage from 4pm. Enjoy some classy country, blues and jazz guitar stylings from this (former Freddy Fender) guitar whizz supreme! Then from 6pm things move to the main stage for an early evening full band set from coolly assured and multi-talented Hill Country songman JESSE STRATTON, a classy master of ace originals and cool covers. Plangent songs of haunt and hope with a tough and tender voice that hooks, drawls and soars.

From 8pm we welcome the amazing funked up and soulfully dancetastic onemanphunkband HENRY + THE INVISIBLES. Git set for an explosive stompdown wall of sound performance. “Henry + The Invisibles’ music has the grit of Sly & The Family Stone, the rhythmic syncopation of James Brown and the guitar wizardry of Prince yet has a unique and progressive modern original sound that is definitively Henry + The Invisibles.” Awesome stuff!
Get yer breath back quick and refuel cos from 9.45pm it’s Austin’s thrilling dance sensations SOUL TRACK MIND! Blasting a mighty meld of soulful R&B, funk, pop, rock an’ blues, STM is an energetic horn-driven six piece that’ll blow your mind. According to The Huffington Post, “They come out of a gritty melting pot that includes seasonings from Booker T and the MGs, Otis Redding, Billy Preston, the later works of Ray Charles, and more contemporary influences like the Black Keys and John Legend.” To which, all we can add is a big Phoenix Saloon… Hell Yeah!