The Front Festival 2024: The Official Recap

Over labor day weekend 2024, The Front Festival took over The LINE HOTEL Austin, The Contemporary Austin—Laguna Gloria and Cheer Up Charlies for four days of independent music and film.

Featuring 65 women and LGBTQ+ artists, dancers, filmmakers, musicians, chefs, performers and independent creatives, we welcomed more than 1,300 guests.

Keep reading for a full look at this year’s impact.

All photos by Jinni J and Manny Frayre

thE FRONT FESTIVAL 2024 highlights:

✰ No. 1 — 65 Artists Exhibited

Meet every musician, filmmaker and artist in The Front Festival’s 2024 Lineup here.

✰ No. 2 — 1,300+ Visitors Welcomed

Across Central Texas (and nationwide), friends and family traveled in for a sweet weekend in our Austin hometown. Big shouts to Tito’s Handmade Vodka, Waymo, The LINE Hotel Austin, The Contemporary Austin — Laguna Gloria, Liquid Death, the Red River Cultural District, Downtown Austin Alliance Foundation, as well as Future Front’s donors and members., for making it all possible.

✰ No. 3 — $1000+ Fundraised

Thanks to donations at the door and our Cocktails For Good Bar by Tito’s Handmade Vodka, we fundraised $1000+ for our Creative Future of Texas Fund throughout the weekend.

✰ No. 4 — $11,000 In Commissions & Contracts

The festival’s programming generated more than $11,500 in commissions and contracts for the festival’s artists and production teams.

✰ No. 5 — 100% Community-Led

It took four team members, 28 volunteers and curators, 50+ collaborators and nine months of planning to open The Front Festival 2024.

This year, for the first time ever, all participating artists were curated from our Annual Open Call, too.

THREE WAYS TO STAY INVOLVED:

✰ Head to thefrontfest.com to keep tabs on next year’s festival (Labor Day Weekend 2025).

Explore each artist on our 2024 lineup here.
Learn more about why the festival exists here.
Want to be a participating artist in next year’s festival? Read about our Artist Open Call here.

✰ Remember why spaces like The Front Festival matter.

We believe in the power of a good show, emerging talent and storytelling.

The Front Festival is an annual, end-of-summer community festival, featuring independent music, film and creative experiences curated by Future Front. Hosted in Austin, we put Texas women and LGBTQ+ artists at the front of our lineups.

A portion of all ticket sales fundraise for Future Front’s Creative Future of Texas Fund, which has distributed $20,000 in awards since 2020. We couldn’t do it without you.

✰ Explore all we do at Future Front—and find what’s for you—at futurefronttexas.org/programming.

Apply to a program, like our upcoming Fall Season of The Front Market.
Attend upcoming events at the Future Front House and around Austin.
Visit The Future Front House, open Tuesdays through Fridays for gallery viewings and drop-ins.
Become a member and get complimentary access to all our events, community Slack group, weekly office hours and full creative directory.
Become a volunteer and help us put on more events like this!