If you love Austin's film and video heritage as much as you love live music, there's an event coming up that was basically made for you. The Texas Archive of the Moving Image — better known as TAMI — is hosting a benefit concert to help fund its ongoing mission of preserving and digitizing the Lone Star State's most precious moving image history.
TAMI has spent years rescuing home movies, news reels, independent films, and documentary footage that would otherwise be lost to time. Think of it as the Austin creator community's way of honoring the storytellers who came before — the folks who picked up a camera long before YouTube or TikTok made that feel like second nature.
The benefit concert, dubbed Tunes for TAMI, brings together the city's music scene in service of its film preservation world — two communities that honestly have more overlap than you'd think. Austin has always been a place where musicians, filmmakers, and visual artists orbit the same creative universe, and this event is a perfect example of that cross-pollination in action.
Proceeds from the show will go directly toward TAMI's digitization and restoration work, ensuring that future generations of Austin creators can access the visual history that helped shape this city's identity. If you've ever dug through the TAMI online collection and stumbled across something jaw-dropping from decades past, you already know why this work matters.
Stay tuned to Austin Cast for more details on lineup announcements and ticketing — because this is exactly the kind of event that reminds us why Austin's creator culture runs so much deeper than just the present moment.