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Stand with the Band: Join the Movement to Protect Human Creativity
Join the Stand with the Band campaign to protect independent artists from AI exploitation. Help Austin Texas Musicians raise $500,000 through donations and local Round Up campaigns.
Why Now Is the Time for Musicians, Fans, and Industry Leaders to Step Up
Austin's music community is facing a critical moment. From artist advocacy and fair pay standards to protecting human creativity in the age of AI, ATXM has been fighting for musicians and venues for years. Now, we need your help. Learn why raising $500,000 by June 30 is essential to sustaining this work—and discover how you can make a difference.
2026 Will be Our Biggest Year Yet—And We Need Your Help to Build It
ATXM is launching its most ambitious year—more education, a new creative hub, safer gigs, and stronger advocacy. Your support powers the programs that keep Austin’s music alive and its musicians thriving.
5 Ways to Support ATXM—and How to Put Each One Into Action
ATXM is urgently raising $2M to fund 2026 initiatives supporting Austin’s working musicians. Learn five impactful ways to help—from recurring donations to corporate sponsorships—and how your support fuels advocacy, education, and economic opportunity.
How Your Donation Supports Austin’s Musicians — In Action
Austin’s musicians are at a critical moment. ATXM is turning advocacy into fair pay, education into income, and opportunity into paid work—but urgent funding is needed to keep momentum moving. Support the people who make Austin’s music possible.
Help Us Fund the Future We’re Building
In late March 2026, Austin Texas Musicians will launch our most ambitious year of educational programming yet—centered around a brand-new Quarterly Master Class Series designed to give working musicians the practical, real-world training they need to thrive.
Community Partners
Are You a Central Texas Musician?
Austin Texas Musicians is for you! We are musicians working for musicians.
Our community of Central Texas musicians is over 6,000 strong and growing.
We represent those we serve on city, state, and federal policy and provide basic needs and services to improve our quality of life.
Advocacy, Education, and Economic Development are the three pillars of our work to empower you to “Show Up, Speak Up, and Be Heard"!
Make an impact today
🎵 Join us in protecting Austin’s creative future.
Every bit of support goes a long way in helping us help musicians. We’ve got some very impactful new initiatives in motion for 2026, including:
Expanded Paid Performance Opportunities for Musicians
Expanded Education Programming, in Partnership with Local Higher Education
A Downtown Creative Hub, Parking and Safe Escort for Musicians
To continue doing this work, we need your help. Cultivating new partnerships, investment, and donor relations both public and private will be key to our sustainability.
We're putting out a call to all interested corporate partners, angel investors, and music community members and imploring that we all come together to lift up what has proven to be a crucial service to the health of our music community, which truly serves as the cornerstone to Austin’s economic well-being. We hope you’ll help us continue our work by donating, or by contacting us directly to discuss options.