A live session from the South Austin Song Circle featuring acclaimed Americana and folk artists Barbara Nesbitt, Slaid Cleaves and Sam Baker.
Barbara Nesbitt, Slaid Cleaves, and Sam Baker are the three on the bill for the South Austin Song Circle at The 04 Center on Wednesday, July 22. It's a lineup of Americana and folk artists, and the night brings them together in the same room rather than as separate sets. The show starts at 8 PM.
Barbara Nesbitt is an Austin singer-songwriter who released her sixth solo album, Lucky Street, in September 2025. She's worked across a few different roles in the local scene: she's backed Willie Nelson and Bob Weir, co-founded The Whiskey Sisters and Sister Golden Hair the Band, and hosts the Monday Night Supper Club at El Mercado. Slaid Cleaves has been writing and performing for over 25 years, with roots in traditional country and folk. He gained a good deal of his recognition from albums like No Angel Knows (1997) and Broke Down (2000), and he's known as a storyteller. Sam Baker is a lyric writer whose songs are shaped by his experience as a survivor of the 1986 Machu Picchu train bombing, and he's taken that material to stages around the world.
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Between the three of them, you've got a local singer-songwriter with a new album, a longtime country-folk storyteller, and a writer whose work comes from a specific, heavy piece of personal history. They're all Americana and folk, but they come at it from different angles. The show is at The 04 Center, 2701 S Lamar Blvd, and it kicks off at 8 PM on Wednesday, July 22.
