Events

Public Programs, Concerts, Workshops, and Community Events

H Project Performing Arts Association presents and supports public arts programs that connect contemporary jazz, interdisciplinary performance, education, Texas music history, and community engagement.

HPPAA events include concerts, youth jazz workshops, lecture-demonstrations, museum programs, collaborative performances, and public conversations with artists, educators, historians, and community partners.

Upcoming Events

HPPAA supports public events throughout Central Texas, including concerts, workshops, interdisciplinary collaborations, and programs that make jazz and the arts accessible to community audiences.

Double Vision Youth Jazz Workshop + Jam Session

Sunday, August 9, 2026
2:00–3:45 PM
Batch Craft Beer & Kolaches
3220 Manor Rd.
Austin, TX 78723

A free community jazz education event for young musicians, families, educators, and jazz listeners. Led by Double Vision Jazz Ensemble, the workshop connects students and community members with live improvisation, ensemble interaction, listening, and a welcoming jam-session experience.

Presented by H Project Performing Arts Association featuring Double Vision Jazz Ensemble, in partnership with Austin Jazz Society. This project is supported in part by an Elevate Grant of Austin Arts, Culture, Music, & Entertainment.


Double Vision + Invoke: Contemporary Jazz for Quartet and Strings

Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Monks Jazz
Austin, Texas

Double Vision Jazz Ensemble joins Invoke for a concert of original contemporary American jazz and new jazz-chamber arrangements by Hank Hehmsoth and John Mills. The program brings together improvisation, composition, quartet interplay, and string ensemble color in an intimate Austin jazz setting.

Presented by H Project Performing Arts Association, with support from Austin Jazz Society. Event details and ticket information will be announced.


Double Vision / Eddie Durham Jazz Festival

Saturday, October 10, 2026
Eddie Durham Park
213 W. Martin Luther King Dr.
San Marcos, TX 78666

A public jazz program connecting the San Marcos legacy of Eddie Durham with live contemporary jazz, Texas jazz history, and community celebration. Double Vision Jazz Ensemble will present music and commentary honoring Durham’s importance as a Texas-born jazz pioneer, arranger, guitarist, trombonist, and innovator.

Presented in connection with HPPAA’s ongoing Texas jazz history programming. Additional presenter, partner, and support details will be announced as they are finalized.


Recent program — Eddie Durham Tribute

June 21, 2026
Texas Music Museum
Austin, Texas

HPPAA presented the Eddie Durham Tribute at Texas Music Museum in Austin, honoring Texas-born jazz pioneer Eddie Durham through live performance, historical commentary, original arrangements, guest artists, and community storytelling.

This program featured Double Vision Jazz Ensemble and connected contemporary jazz performance with Texas jazz history, public memory, and arts education.

Eddie Durham Tribute featuring Double Vision Jazz Ensemble at Texas Music Museum, Austin, Texas, June 21, 2026.


Host or Partner with HPPAA

HPPAA works with museums, libraries, schools, universities, arts organizations, galleries, venues, and community partners to present public programs in jazz, interdisciplinary arts, education, and Texas music history.

Programs may include concerts, lecture-demonstrations, workshops, youth engagement, artist talks, community conversations, and documentation projects.

For event information, partnerships, or booking inquiries:

H Project Performing Arts Association

hank@hppaa.org

512-915-2536

Austin, Texas