Events
Live Music This Week
Various San Marcos Venues
Plan your evenings in San Marcos where there’s live music every night of the week! This list of who’s playing where is updated every Wednesday afternoon so come back often.
TXST Bobcat Athletics
TXST Athletics Ticket Office
Texas State University Bobcats are a member of the NCAA Division I Sun Belt Conference. There is always a sport in season. Grab your maroon and gold and catch a game.
Downtown San Marcos Farmer's Market
San Marcos Downtown Square
San Marcos Farmer's Market provides an outlet for Central Texas farmers to market their crops and a source of fresh, homegrown and homemade products for the local consumer. Held every Saturday in Downtown.
Mistick Krew of Okeanos Mardi Gras Parade
Belvin Street
Laissez les bon temps rouler! The Mistick Krewe of Okeanos Mardi Gras Parade is an annual celebration of Mardi Gras with floats, music and lots of fun.
Hip Hops and Grain
Hops & Grain
Every 4th Saturday is Hip Hops and Grain time at Hops & Grain San Marcos! there will be live hip-hop while you check out some local artists and vendors with a little local craft beer for flavor.
Unicycle Football
San Marcos Activity Center
Unicycle Football is exactly as it sounds. American Football played entirely on unicycles. They play a 5 on 5 "flackle" (flag/tackle) variant on hard surface. There are a few minor adjustments in the rules to accommodate being on a unicycle but it's good ol' American Football as you know and love.
Bill Middleton Open Mic Night
Middleton Brewing
Come sign up and play at the Middleton Open Mic night dubbed as Hays County's longest continuously running open mic night. Come join Bill Middleton every Monday from 6:00pm-9:00pm.
Gravedgr (free show)
The Marc
AfterDark presents Gravedgr free for one night only in San Marcos at the Marc. Doors at 7:00pm.
Kent Finlay's Songwriters Circle
Cheatham Street Warehouse
Come join the Cheatham Street Music Foundation as they host their weekly Songwriters Circle. Talented musicians from around Central Texas will perform original songs throughout the night. You never know who might walk in and perform!
BIll Malone: Three Chords and the Truth
The Wittliff Collection at Texas State University
Bill Malone literally wrote the book on country music. He was the first scholar to place the genre in historical context with his classic book, Country Music U.S.A., in 1968. More than 50 years later, he remains a preeminent voice in the field — he was the only historian featured in Ken Burns’s Country Music series (2019) on PBS.
Escapism Plan
The Porch
Chief and the Doomsday Device brings you a live eclectic DJ mix EVERY Friday at Tantra. The show will also feature a SMTX, pop-up record shop and art show.
The Ascension Tour
The Marc
AfterDark and Disco Donnie present: The Ascension Tour featuring Liquid Stranger, Dirt Monkey, Luzcid and Sully. Doors at 8:00pm.
Unicycle Football
San Marcos Activity Center
Unicycle Football is exactly as it sounds. American Football played entirely on unicycles. They play a 5 on 5 "flackle" (flag/tackle) variant on hard surface. There are a few minor adjustments in the rules to accommodate being on a unicycle but it's good ol' American Football as you know and love.
Living in a Watershed
The Meadows Center Glass Bottom Boat Tours
This event will help you learn what a watershed is, how humans impact watersheds, and how they can protected and our water resources.
Music Flicks in the '666: regional showcase of new music videos
Cheatham Street Warehouse
Local musicians are invited to submit newly made music videos for a community-wide showcase. Music videos will be interspersed with live performances from Rusty Dusty, Holiday Indians + a debut set from And They're Deadly.
LBJ Museum Spring Lecture
LBJ Museum
The LBJ Museum's spring lecture series featuring Professor Emeritus and author Dr. David H Zarefsky.
Middleton Brewing 5K Beer Run
Middleton Brewing
Beer run are you in? This is a family friendly event (strollers welcomed). The course follows the rural paved road into the neighborhood behind the brewery.
First Saturday Birding Hikes
Various San Marcos Venues
(First Saturday of every month at sunrise) Interested in birding hikes? From water fowl to woodpeckers to hawks to songbirds - you never know which feathered friends will be spotted.
Downtown Walkabout
San Marcos Downtown Square
Experience downtown San Marcos during the Downtown Walkabout every second Saturday for an array of activities including the San Marcos Farmer's Market, a curated artisan market on the courthouse square (ArtSquared *Mar-Dec*), a community market (San Mercado) and other events hosted by local downtown businesses.
San Mercado Community Market
Price Center
San Mercado is a monthly community market held every 2nd Saturday in Downtown at the Price Center from 9:00am-4:00pm.