Sonic Transmission Festival | Viva Palestina Orchestra, DJ Mutarrancho, & Surprise POP-UP
Schedule
Sat, 13 Sep, 2025 at 09:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
501 Pedernales St BLDG #2E, Austin, TX, United States, Texas 78702 | Austin, TX
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Sonic Transmissions Festival returns to Austin, September 11–14, 2025, with four nights of genre-defying music across multiple venues. Featuring artists from Texas, Chicago, New York, Amsterdam, Toronto, and Norway, the festival spans jazz, rock, folk, experimental, and global traditions. Co-presented by Austin’s essential adventurous music organization, Epistrophy Arts.This year’s lineup features a powerful mix of artists from across the globe: From Chicago, interdisciplinary forces Ben LaMar Gay, Damon Locks & The Gratefuls, and poet-performer Marvin Tate join the fray. Norway sends avant-garde standouts Andreas Røysum Ensemble and saxophonist Signe Emmeluth. From Amsterdam, Chicago, Bolivia and Brazil: Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly’s MESTIZX. Austin is deeply represented with Thor & Friends, The Young Mothers, Little Mazarn, Lisa Cameron, Henna Chou & Joshua Thomson, the Viva Palestina Orchestra, and the cosmic country of Garrett T. Capps & NASA Country. Also featured is the fierce saxophone and clarinet works of Toronto’s Karen Ng; Trio Glossia, led by Stefan Gonzalez; the ethereal vocal/oboe duo Senso di Voce, live visual by David Sydiongco, and Venezuelan DJ Mutarrancho from Dallas.
About Viva Palestina Orchestra:
Viva Palestina Orchestra (VPO) is an Austin-based collective that performs Palestinian resistance music. Founded in November of 2023, the orchestra’s repertoire centers around Palestinian and Levantine heritage preservation, and celebrates culture, poetry, resilience through music, storytelling, and community engagement. Comprising musicians from diverse cultural backgrounds, the VPO ensemble blends their voices to uplift Palestinian narratives and lives.
Since its inception, VPO has performed regularly throughout Austin, actively participating in events and festivals that empower the community and fundraise for humanitarian causes. On January 28th, 2024, VPO self-produced the Free Falasteen Fest fundraiser at The Museum of Human Achievement. The ensemble’s outreach has fostered Palestinian and Levantine heritage preservation within Austin, with the intention to serve communities throughout all regions of Texas.
During the Spring of 2025, VPO received a City of Austin Proclamation “Viva Palestina Orchestra Day” (March 27th) and performed at the We Love Life Palestine Benefit Weekend in Houston, TX. This multigenerational collective shares the vision that music, culture, storytelling, and poetry can unite and heal, while raising awareness of injustice and racism.
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Sonic Transmissions Festival 2025 In association with Epistrophy Arts.
50% discount for students
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Where is it happening?
501 Pedernales St BLDG #2E, Austin, TX, United States, Texas 78702Event Location & Nearby Stays:
