41st Annual Spring Pecan Street Festival

The non-profit-run, FREE Pecan Street Festival

41st Annual Spring Festival

Saturday and Sunday, May 5th & 6th  (11am-10pm Sat./11am-8pm Sun.)

Now in its 41st year of the Pecan Street Festival — with 40 spring fests and 37 fall fests — bringing Texans the 78th festival to date. The PSF is the largest, and longest-running, of Texas’ arts/crafts and music festivals. It draws nearly 300 local and national arts, crafts, and food vendors, +/-50 musical acts, and a quarter-million attendees during the weekend. PSF is also FREE; the ONLY large-scale, festival around that can boast this.

EXTENDED METRO RAIL HOURS for Cinco de Mayo & the FESTIVAL!  Here’s the Saturday schedule.

¡La Fiesta de Pecan Street!

Cinco de Mayo and Pecan Street Festival…a match made in heritage heaven. The biggest party in town Saturday with mucho bands, tasty beverages and bueno eats!

Music on Saturday includes lots of Latino sounds, many on main/Neches stage, including DJ Chorizo Funk (of Peligrosa), Liz Burrito, Ley Line, Chulita Vinyl Club (both all-female bands), and Ex-Romantica.  You can hear more on 100-track/10-hour soundcloud.

This year’s featured artist is local J Muzacz with an original piece, including one of his signature low-riders, for our posters and t-shirts sold at the PSA booth; his booth adjacent (Trinity and 6th St.) with original GIVE design hats, Lowrider shirts, fine art prints, brand-new stickers and original artwork for sale.

Lots of great street performers will be permitted on the sidewalks, like the underserved youth of The Austin Community Steelband, setting up at Brazos around noon on Saturday.

A special addition to Sunday’s stage line up: a Hare Krishna festival blessing in song form from His Grace Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari (Sun., Neches Stage, 11:30 am).

We have a wonderful array of vendors, offering festival-goers pottery, printmaking, pen and acrylic work, hand blown glass, jewelry, assemblage art & more! 

The Pecan Street Association (“PSA”), the non-profit behind the festival, gives back to the community via donations to local non-profits and towards preservation of the Pecan Street Historic District.

Sponsors: Soulciti, Car2Go, EBay, LifeStorage, Pecos Pete’s, T-Mobile, Karbach Brewing Co., Buddha Brew Kombucha, The Austin Convention Center, The City of Austin, The Austin Chronicle and Do512. 

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PHOTO CREDIT: Will Taylor, LostinAustin.org