La Zona Rosa Tickets

La Zona Rosa
La Zona Rosa is Austin's most eclectic venue hosts a plethora of local and national acts on its two stages. Here the visitors are expected to find everything from rock & singers, latin & world music to blues & jazz on most nights of the week.

La Zona Rosa offers small intimate performances on club side and larger premier acts on the large stage in the venue. The superior sound and lighting and comfortable atmosphere make La Zona Rosa a truly exceptional concert and private events facility.

Recent events include Joss Stone, Gavin DeGraw, Patti Smith and The New Yorker Magazine College Tour.

A word about Austin
Austin, a home to La Zona Rosa as has been mentioned, is also the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Travis County. Situated in Central Texas and part of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 16th-largest in the United States of America, as well as the third-fastest growing large city in the nation from 2000 to 2006.

Austin was selected as the No. 2 Best Big City in "Best Places to Live" by Money magazine in 2006, and the "Greenest City in America" by MSN.

Residents of Austin are known as "Austinites" and include a diverse mix of university professors, students, politicians, musicians, state employees, high-tech workers, blue-collar workers, and white-collar workers.

The main campus of the University of Texas is located in Austin. The city is home to enough large sites of major technology corporations to have earned it the nickname "Silicon Hills."

Music and Austin
As Austin's official slogan is The Live Music Capital of the World, the city has a vibrant live music scene with more music venues per capita than any other U.S. city. Austin's music revolves around the many nightclubs on 6th Street and an annual film/music/interactive festival known as South by Southwest.

Inside La Zona Roza
La Zona Rosa is a wonderful little venue, with a completely DIY-atmosphere in an abandoned warehouse meets your parents garage type of feel. 1990s do not set up the stage in the way a traditional 3-piece band does. Lead singer, Jackie McKeown and replacement bassist Dino Bardot are separated by drummer, Michael McGaughrin, whose drum kit is moved up all the way to the front of the stage.

90s and the Club
In 1990s, the club saw DIY on the top of the list. They started off with "Switch", and during the song, the room filled up, more so than the 25 people they played to in Dallas the night before. Next was "You Made Me Like It", bringing the crowd into the set, again more so than the previous night.

Famous Performances
With its history of openings and closings, La Zona Rosa has long been thought of as perfect for yet another reinvention. Among the players whose names had come up in connection with such a scheme were Tim O'Connor's Direct Events, the House of Blues club chain, and Liberty Lunch co-owner Mark Pratz. Pratz especially had good reason to hope to get the position.

The Management
It's long been speculated that the Lunch, whose long history of near-closings makes La Zona seem solid as a Swiss bank, could be the big loser if a new city hall lands on the spot of his club or Direct Events lands a third venue.

Finally, ' O'Connor and Charlie Jones, and Waterloo Ice House's Ted Karam reached an agreement with La Zona Rosa's most recent owner, Kelly Gruber, for the three to take over management control of the venue.

Conclusion
La Zona Rosa will have to fight for and win the services of the louder, alternative acts that are currently the Lunch's bread and butter.

Pratz wonders aloud how the DE gang would succeed in incorporating such bands into La Zona Rosa's traditionally quieter, older audience-oriented repertoire.

He suggests that such a mix could turn off people who think of the club as a "place to hang" where they can expect music that generally fits their interests there on any given night.