“Buildings don’t last, but the music and the culture does,” Eddie Stout told the Chronicle last year. He knows something about endurance. The founder of Dialtone Records, the Eastside Kings Foundation, and its accompanying festival has preserved Black music through nearly three decades of gentrification and displacement in his native East Austin. Too many blues, jazz, and gospel artists to count perform throughout Rosewood this weekend – find the whole schedule at eastsidekingsfest.com – but Mississippi traditionalist Willie Farmer, Chicago Blues Hall of Famer Peaches Staten, and locals including Soul Man Sam and Tomar & the FCs are among the ESK ‘26 highlights. – Carys Anderson
