The Armadillo Christmas Bazaar keeps Austin weird with distinctive jewelry, fabrics, handmade goods, blown glass, paintings and prints from local and national artists, December 14-24 from 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Shoppers browse among the handicrafts while listening to live music from some of Austin’s best musicians. Tickets are $3, weekdays before 7 p.m. and $5, evenings and weekends. http://www.armadillobazaar.com/

New 2007 Downtown Location and Dates:
Austin Convention Center
Exhibit Hall 2
500 East Cesar Chavez Street
Enter on Trinity near 2nd Street
December 14th - 24th 11am - 11pm Daily
Admission: $3.00 weekdays before 7PM & $6.00 evenings and weekends

  Come, enjoy the very best of Christmas shopping Austin Style.

Featuring 24 musical performances on the Capital Metro Music Stage, a bar, food, local and regional fine artists & craftspeople plus that special Austin feeling that can only be found here.

Enjoy dancing in the aisles while shopping for fine art and distinctive gifts right here in downtown Austin.

The 32nd annual Armadillo Christmas Bazaar is still in the heart of downtown Austin along the 2nd & 3rd Street corridor. This year we moved three blocks east of Congress Avenue to a larger facility. It remains the same truly Austin honky-tonk bar shopping experience that has made the Armadillo Christmas Bazaar one of the region's most beloved holiday traditions.

The Armadillo welcomes into the show new community partners: Austin Circle of Theatres, AusTix, NowPlayingAustin, The Long Center for Performing Arts, Arts Alive Austin, First Night Austin, Art City Austin, South Austin Museum of Popular Culture, TexAmericana, Austin Film Society, Liveable City, Austin CarShare, Austin Green Art, Downtown Austin Neighborhood Association, Downtown Alliance, and Capital Metro. We also welcome our new business participants: Stubb's Legendary Kitchens, Arte y Chocolate and Wild About Music.

So come join us for a unique Austin tradition and show your support for the local artists and musicians who keep Austin cool. Admission is $3.00 weekdays before 7PM and $6.00 evenings and weekends.

About the Bazaar

Relax and enjoy the very best of Christmas shopping Austin style. Our live music on the Capital Metro Music Stage is a favorite of local performers and audiences alike because of its warm and intimate setting. We’ll have wider aisles, a larger stage and lots more room to dance.

Our patrons find the shopping experience to be fun and relaxed. It’s a great place to find a unique assortment of gifts for those you care about and something nice for yourself too.

Our artists find that they can produce their very best works of the year and sell them at the Armadillo Christmas Bazaar. They look forward every year to reuniting with their extended Armadillo family.

The Armadillo Christmas Bazaar began as a special event at Austin’s famous Armadillo World Headquarters (AWHQ). The Armadillo World Headquarters was the inspiration or origin of many local cultural icons including Austin City Limits, Threadgills, and the South Austin Museum of Popular Culture, along with the Armadillo Christmas Bazaar.

The Armadillo Christmas Bazaar serves as a living link between the modern urban center of today’s Austin's and a time decades ago when the live music, artistic expression and lifestyle of this city first captured the imaginations of so many people across the country.  Through more than three decades the Armadillo experience has continued to give Austin a modern identity as an accepting and free spirited community where creativity is respected and rewarded. Today's vital, growing city has been richly rewarded in terms of prosperity and quality of life as a result of the reputation that comes from this identity.

The success of the Armadillo Bazaar’s best of Austin identity was the inspiration for the Austin Bergstrom International Airport’s nature and character program that gave us good local bar-b-que, Amy’s Ice Cream and live music at the terminal. That program’s success at ABIA was the inspiration for the many visible local character features included in the design of the new Austin City Hall.

Come join us at our new location to enjoy a unique Austin tradition while showing your support for local artists and musicians who keep Austin cool.