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Best Kid-Friendly Rehearsal Complex

Music Lab on Oltorf

Best Kid-Friendly Rehearsal Complex
John Anderson

Every summer, Sonny, Taylor, Mike, and the staff of the Music Lab on Oltorf Street gird themselves for the annual invasion of kids with guitars. Since giving a home to Michele Murphy's Natural Ear Music Camp four years ago, Music Lab has afforded dozens upon dozens of aspiring adolescent rock stars the opportunity to rub shoulders with and practice in the same space used by Doyle Bramhall, Alejandro Escovedo, Sara Hickman, Shandon Sahm, and Fastball. Year round, the South Austin location and its sister hall on Krebs Lane provide full-service rehearsal and recording facilities.