HOMEcoming 2026: supporting Austin musicians

Well, Homecoming is a month-long celebration of Austin's live music community. You can enjoy live music at more than 20 venues throughout the month, all to benefit housing opportunities for aging musicians and entertainers. Joining us this morning is Hannah Cofer, Executive Director of Home Austin. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for having me. So why don't we start with what Homecoming is and what Home Austin does. Yeah, so Home Austin is a non-profit here in town that takes care of our musical legends. So we primarily work with housing, trying to make sure that the people that defined us as the music capital of the world can afford to stay here. And so Homecoming is, it was actually, the idea came from a music venue owner at the Saxon Pub, Joe Ables. And the idea is that all these venues do their own level of give back for an entire month. So that's either a dollar per ticket or some places have like specialty cocktails, things like that. And they all do this for home to make sure that our folks are taken care of. So it's a fun way to encourage Austinites to go out and see some amazing live music in a month where the venues are really bringing some great talent into their stages. Yeah, that's awesome. And how can people get involved with Homecoming this year? I mean, go see music, right? There's almost 20 venues, like you said. If you go to austinhomecoming.com, it has all of them listed. And really, there's a lot of really fantastic shows that are coming up. We're midway through the month, right? So we've already had some great shows, but there's a lot left to see. And we've got an online auction, too, part of, you know, homes. You know ecosystem is that we have a lot of really amazing live music lovers That are part of our family and so a lot of them have donated pieces of Austin's musical history So we've got an auction online. That's got posters and music experiences and things and this beauty right here This was Speedy sparks who was a longtime Austin bassist. He played with Doug Psalm and a bunch of legends um passed last year and his longtime partner nancy um was very generously donated this um so it has like five decades of musical history in austin it's part of our soundtrack but it's also i mean it's a it's an amazing piece in its own right it's a 1955 fender precision base so um we've got Little pieces of music history like that on the auction. So, yeah. That is awesome. And then this is a, it's a mum? Yes. Yes. It's a mum. Yes. I'm proud of you. Yeah. Not in Texas. So, when I moved here, I learned what a mum is. Yes. I'm realizing that not everybody knows this. Yes. So, we have a very crafty little committee that made these mums for all the participating venues. So, you'll see it, like, you know, in. In some of the venues to know that they're participating. That's our little like nod to the South here in Austin. I love it. We talked about, you know, why it's so important. And if people want to get more information, where can they go? It's really austinhomecoming.com. We've got an app. You can build your lineup for the rest of the month. You can go browse and bid and, you know, just see everything home. That's awesome. Well, thank you so much for joining us. And it sounds like such a great event coming up. Yes, thank you.