For those who have lived in the Texas Panhandle for an extended time, you might understand the frustration of being depicted in a specific light – as if we all vote, love, and live the same way. Our large, connected network of caring partners helps to paint a true picture of life here – a community filled with diverse individuals who hope to love and take care of each other. Y'allternative is meant to celebrate and embrace all parts of who we are. Whether you’re a cowpoke or a punk rocker, this event honors who you are and brings you closer to others who exist in this unique space.

THE EVENT WILL FEATURE LOCAL VENDORS, FOOD TRUCKS, AND A LIVE DJ! FEEL FREE TO DRESS UP AND B.Y.O.B.! the event is all-ages, but the after-party at r&R is 21+.

free entry!

Join us in welcoming frail talk and autumnal back to Amarillo as they make their way down to Austin for sxsw!

entry is free but donations are welcomed and encouraged! donations can and should be made directly to the band.

as always: byob!

see y’all there!!

Frail Talk (Fort Collins, CO)

autumnal (Fort Collins, CO)

Joseph Allred is a Tennessee-based guitarist, singer, multi-instrumental composer, and visualartistwith deep roots in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee and Kentucky. Their guitarplaying draws fromdiversemusical styles including Appalachian folk,bluegrass,blues,flamenco, and classical guitar, as well asfrom folk iconoclasts John Fahey and Robbie Basho,figures of the 20th century avant-garde likeAlbert Ayler,Derek Bailey and Henry Flynt, and themusical traditions of India, Iran, and the Arab world.They have released music on Feeding TubeRecords, Worried Songs, Scissor Tail Editions, AKTI, Island House, Blue Hole Recordings,Garden Portal, Reverb Worship/Future Grave, and their own Meliphonic Records imprint.

That Weird place will be on site serving the tastiest vegan food you’ve ever had before the show from 4:20 to 7:20!

From the brains behind the Elder Goth Prom: Amarillo’s first and only Bizarre Bazaar!

Get stocked up on spooky goods at Amarillo’s only Halloween-themed market featuring local vendors. From jewelry to baked goods to art and even plants, you’re sure to find something to get you in the holiday spirit that matters.

This is a family friendly event that will include trick-or-treat bags for kids and door prizes!

participating vendors:

• Aunt Eek’s Books and Curiosities

• Dipped In Velvet

• Roots Plant Craft

• Wild Aster Hats

• CG Designs

• Free cheese Prints

• Jami Ralston

• The Slow Strange

• OMC Soapworkz

• That Weird Place

• Arts in the Sunset Artists

• Kim Wood Makeup Artist

• Brittany Busch & Shanda Fletcher O’Neill

• Foxling & Fae

• Holly Rhea Fine Art

as well as permanent in-store Caliche co. vendors Worm Motel, Tasty Cream Vintage, Heel To Brim Vintage, and Bitter Buffalo Records.

All vendor spaces are full! contact info@calicheco.com if you have any questions.

June Swoon (Los Angeles)

Cowboy Cold (Lubbock)

We’re very excited to have Derek Porterfield & All of His Friends back at Caliche!

MORE info:

• the show will be outside in our back lot

• BYOB

• byochair (we will have limited seating available)

• free entry

MAGIC TRACTOR TOUR:

Garrett T. Capps (San Antonio)

Heavy Meddo (Austin)

pre-order tickets below!

pre-order tickets below!

Brother & the Hayes (Nashville)

Black Caskets (Texas)

Live at Caliche: Saturday, march 11 at 8 PM. Max Knouse with special Guest Broderick Adams. Knouse came through the shop last year as a member of Alex Dupree’s band, but this time he’ll be playing a set of his own. we’re very excited to have him back at the shop.

joining Knouse for the night will be Amarillo’s very own Broderick Adams, who will be playing a solo set. this will be Adams’ first time performing at the shop—Caliche did make a special appearance in Vamping’s music video for “Find My Way”—and we can’t wait to hear what he has cooked up for the night.

show starts at 8 PM.

b.y.o.b.

no cover!

Max Knouse (Los Angeles)

Broderick Adams (Amarillo)

show starts at 8 PM! entry is $5-$15—pay what you can. as always, b.y.o.b.

Cowboy Cold (Lubbock)

Chasen Wayne & the Honky Tonk Machine (Austin)

Jack Fister (Austin)

KID CANDIDATE

a film by Jasmine Stodel

Saturday, November 5 @ 8 PM

description:
A viral joke video catapults Hayden Pedigo – a 24-year-old artist and experimental musician in Amarillo, TX – into the spotlight and prompts him to make a surprise bid for city council. With his goal of upending the status quo and ousting corrupt incumbent politicians, Kid Candidate follows Pedigo’s unorthodox campaign while unpacking issues of race, income inequality and gentrification in small-town America.

event details:

• rsvp is strongly encouraged (link below)

• free entry

• outdoor screening

  • outdoor heating will be available

  • dress warm

• seating will be available but limited. first come, first serve.

• a q&A with hayden pedigo will follow the screening

  • q&a will be moderated by jenny inzerillo

• byob

• open to all ages

WORLD Channel’s America Reframed

kid candidate premieres on world channel’s america reframed on November 3, 2022 @ 8/7c

streaming: 11/02/22-5/02/23 @ https://bit.ly/ARF_KidCandidate

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High Plains Public Radio

HPPR, our local NPR affiliate, is co-sponsor of the event. jenny inzerillo of hppr’s high plains morning will moderate the q&A with hayden pedigo.

tune into hppr by radio: 94.9 / 105.7 (amarillo stations)
stream online through their website!
or download the npr app for iphone or android.

as if halloween weekend wasn't exciting enough already, Travis roberts & the willing few will be playing a show at caliche on saturday, october 29—the day after the rocky horror picture show screening.

their set will be accompanied by a silent screening of the classic vampire film nosferatu.

event details:

• $5 suggested donation

  • pre-pay below

  • no one turned away for lack of funds

• outdoor screening

• byob

• byo chair

• costumes encouraged!

we are pleased to announce our second annual screening of The rocky horror picture show. like last year, the screening will be interactive, and we will have prop bags available with all of the necessary goodies.

the screening will be outdoors in the back lot directly behind caliche. the event is byob and byo chair.

costumes are encouraged!

Pre-order your tickets below!

COME CHECK US OUT AT HOODOO MURAL FESTIVAL THIS YEAR! we’ll have a curated selection of vintage clothing, records, and other assorted goodies.

hope to see you there!

bad girls upset by the truth is a semi-autobiographical country cabaret written by lubbock native Jo carol pierce. jo carol cut her teeth with the likes of other lubbock legends such as butch hancock, joe ely, and jimmie dale gilmore, to whom she was married briefly. she moved to austin in the 80s and started to make a name for herself as a songwriter and performer. despite receiving acclaim amongst her fellow performers, she would not release her first album, bad girls, until 1995 when she was in her 50s.

bad girls is a musical comedy unlike any other. jo carol, like tom t. hall or john prine, has a gift for depicting the everyday tragedies of life with cutting and astute humor. she also revels in raunch with songs like “does god have us by the twat or what?” and “vaginal angel.”

with jo carol’s blessing, lauren meckel has revived bad girls and re-introduced it to a modern audience. meckel first performed bad girls at the edinburgh festival fringe in 2019. when she returned to the states, she took bad girls on the road for a few performances in texas before covid shut the world down. meckel’s performance at caliche will be her first since before the pandemic.

a few more words about meckel: she’s one of those people of envious talent. she has a phd in anthropology, and she is currently an instructor at lsu. she’s also a trained actor, appearing most recently in the netflix film look both ways. we are incredibly excited to have meckel at caliche.

this is one event that you really won’t want to miss!

trigger warning: performance contains instances of suicide ideation.

steven van betten

abe hollow

saturday, august 27 from 4pm to 8pm: caliche will host several local vintage clothing resellers! come find your new favorite outfit.

VENDOR SIGN-UP FORM: CLICK HERE. sign-up deadline is monday, august 22!

n this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla (Jennifer Lopez) is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham (Edward James Olmos), realizes that his young daughter is talented and begins performing with her at small venues. She finds success and falls for her guitarist, Chris Perez (Jon Seda), who draws the ire of her father. Seeking mainstream stardom, Selena begins recording an English-language album which, tragically, she would never complete.

Alex Dupree is a published poet and songwriter living in Austin, TX. In the mid 00s, he founded the Trapdoor Band, an improvisatory folk group and vehicle for his lyric-driven songwriting. He released three albums under that name before switching to the Idyl moniker in 2009. During this time, he also played guitar in Zookeeper, the new folk-rock project of Austin emo pioneer Chris Simpson (Mineral, The Gloria Record, Mountain Time).

After two more albums as Idyl, Dupree moved to California to focus on poetry, studying and teaching at UC Irvine, with songwriting never far from his mind. He continued to hone his craft writing country songs for the LA band Mister Paradise and a duet project with Whitney Mower (They/Live) called Dawn & Dupree. Despite a deep love for country music, Dupree’s songs never quite settle in that category though, absorbing additional influences from the likes of Laurie Anderson, Arthur Russell, Bjork, and John Cale.

2017’s You Winsome, You Lonesome was the first album Alex Dupree released under his own name. It’s a sturdy songwriter’s album with heady, heavy doses of indie rock and country flourishes that drew comparisons to both Bill Callahan and Willie Nelson. His latest project is the upcoming Thieves, produced by Michael Krassner (Califone, Simon Joyner, Boxhead Ensemble), which features a cast of LA musicians such as Max Knouse and Stephen Hodges (Tom Waits, Mavis Staples) alongside Trapdoor Band regulars like Aisha Burns and Matt Matherne.

His forthcoming album Thieves finds Dupree returning to the root of his fascination with folk ballads to deliver songs of deep mystery and timeless storytelling. Keeled Scales will be releasing the new LP in 2022 and reissuing You Winsome, You Lonesome across all physical formats and streaming platforms.

join us in celebrating the release of wes reeves’ debut book Yellow dirt, a collection of poems inspired by the Panhandle. wes will be reading passages from the book as well as signing copies. a musical performance will be provided by ben cargo, and limited edition prints of the rejected book cover designs will be available for purchase, courtesy of the death list.

bio:
Growing up in the Texas Panhandle town of Wellington, Wes Reeves developed an insight into an enigmatic land and its inhabitants. In Yellow Dirt, Reeves reveals the vibrancy of a region with poetry, corralling the immeasurable plains with the language of the unseen.

Since 1991 Wes and his wife, Kim, have lived in Amarillo, where they raised two children. He's worked as a reporter and corporate media relations representative and volunteers his free time to preserve and celebrate the history of the Texas Panhandle. Wes is also involved with community-building efforts for the benefit of future generations who will someday claim this land for their own.

click the following link to order a copy: Wes Reeves, "Yellow Dirt"

Natalie is a multi disciplinary artist and designer focusing on visual play as personal play. This show is centered on romanticizing a stray from the paths that have been laid out for us, and the importance of choosing those non normative paths. It encourages people to innovate on their own world, proposing the ability to live a fuller life through transgression. Intentionality is the key, what are you giving up by fitting in? You could have everything.

“you get what you settle for.”

Meek housewife Thelma (Geena Davis) joins her friend Louise (Susan Sarandon), an independent waitress, on a short fishing trip. However, their trip becomes a flight from the law when Louise shoots and kills a man who tries to rape Thelma at a bar. Louise decides to flee to Mexico, and Thelma joins her. On the way, Thelma falls for sexy young thief J.D. (Brad Pitt) and the sympathetic Detective Slocumb (Harvey Keitel) tries to convince the two women to surrender before their fates are sealed. — rotten tomatoes

Catherine czacki
“start over spirit”

grandmother the seamstress
jars and buttons and things all over
organizing a spiritual practice
tin of licorice
sewing pins pinched between teeth
half a decade to arrange

the praying platypus
onion baggie
rescued chairs
chochliks
chaos glazes
corrugated division

empty planters
large pink marbles
browns
molten metal and milk

two years of mystery porridge survivals for dad
tumbleweeds
fires
the crow, a dog, some feet
dropping through that hole of grey space
blank wooden signs to the future
limitless group stutter of sound

cramped, yet full of life

art opening will feature a performance by the llano estacado monad band.

bio: Catherine Czacki is an artist, educator, writer and musician based in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Czacki’s poetry, essays, and academic writing have been published by Line Script Diary, Haunt Journal of Art at UC Irvine, Resolving Host and Interactions Journal of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. A full length book of Czacki’s poetry and images titled Creosote was published in 2019. Czacki’s art has been exhibited nationally and internationally at galleries and museums including Sculpture Center in Long Island City, JOAN in Los Angeles, Best Practice in San Diego, Prague Biennale and Museo Centro De Arte Pepe Espaliú, Córdoba, Spain. Czacki has attended various research and artistic residencies including Terra Foundation for American Art in Giverny, France and SOMA in Mexico City. Czacki plays with the Llano Estacado Monad Band, a collective of sound makers, artists and musicians.

Entry is free | BYOB | byo chair