Mickey & The Motorcars - Artist Showcase

MICKEY & THE MOTORCARS RETURN TO SWEET WATER HOLLOW

After a long 9 years, Mickey & the Motorcars are returning to Sweet Water Hollow, headlining our Annual Artist Showcase weekend. And we are stoked! Not only great music, but a killer gallery exhibition and amazing artist vendor booths including art and jewelry you've been waiting for to come to you!

Saturday, May 17th, 2025, Gates at 5:30PM, Opener TBA at 7PM. Main Show: 8:30PM

21+ Show - No outside drinks or coolers - Chairs Welcome

PARKING: LIMITED PARKING AT VENUE!!! Public Parking downtown is available for all vehicles. There will be a shuttle running at 6PM to 8PM from the Bear Parking Lot on River Street (near Veterans Park).

Mickey & The Motorcars: For a handful of summers about 30 years ago, tourists who wandered into a large dancehall in Stanley, Idaho, witnessed a family tradition finding new life. Young and old sat shoulder-to-shoulder, taking a break from the town’s mountain hikes and river campgrounds to take in Muzzie Braun and the Boys––a local family band who’d made it to the Grand Ole Opry, effortlessly spouted cowboy poetry and Western swing at gatherings around the country, and featured Muzzie’s four young sons––precocious boys with rock-and-roll futures.

“There were kids running around, people dancing,” says Micky Braun, the youngest brother who first climbed on stage to join the family when he was about five years-old. “Gary and I’d get up and play a couple of songs, then we’d get off and the older brothers would stay up and play a couple more. It’s pretty funny, looking back on it.” He laughs a little, then adds, still smiling, “That’s how we got started playing.” 

The Braun brothers never stopped. Big brothers Cody and Willy started Reckless Kelly, and Micky and Gary left Idaho for Austin and started Micky and the Motorcars, a road-dogging favorite whose nonstop tour for the last 17 years has defined not just the lives of the brothers, but also shaped Austin’s roots-rock resurgence that has played out over the last two decades. With their anticipated new album Long Time Comin’, the Motorcars cement their place as elder statesmen of that alt-country scene who have managed to master that ever-elusive blend of artistic familiarity and surprise.

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