Free Lunch ATX benefit w/ Caroline Rose, BRUCE

Free Lunch nourishes Austin’s unhoused community by providing nutrient-rich cooked meals to the Eastside Esperanza Community and local free fridges. This benefit show also helps establish Radio Coffee’s new Montopolis location with a solo set from songwriter and Free Lunch volunteer Caroline Rose. Where their pandemic release Superstar traded early folk efforts for pop sheen, March’s The Art of Forgetting blurs all lines of genre, following tinny vocals and acoustic arpeggios with modulated synths and Spanish-tinged guitar. Opener BRUCE toes a similar line, serving tongue-in-cheek confessionals to the tune of bubbling keys or, at other times, soft strums. —2782307