Get ready for another year of great music at the Four Seasons Hotel during SXSW — this year with some great tunes geared towards kids! KUTX 98.9 and the Four Seasons are presenting a lineup of some highly anticipated artists at the 2017 SXSW Music Conference, while raising money for the Seton Shivers Cancer Center. KUTX Live! at the Four Seasons features four early-morning broadcasts from the Four Seasons ballroom from 7 to 11 a.m., Wednesday, March 15 through Friday, March 17, and also from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, March 18.

Bring the kids! These shows are a great opportunity to let your kids see some amazing music in a calm environment that has great sound quality where you can sit down. Also, Spare the Rock Spoil the Child radio show, will offer kid-friendly sets between the main-stage acts in the hotel’s Lobby Lounge each day.

The event is open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. Admission is $10 per adult and $5 per child (ages 10 & under) per day, with all money collected benefiting the Seton Shivers Cancer Center (cash only). Admission includes a breakfast taco, a granola bar, and coffee.

Limited self-parking is available in the hotel garage on a first-come, first served basis at a discounted rate of $5 per car until 1 p.m.

Here’s the lineup for 2017:

–> Wednesday, March 15
Main Stage Lineup:

  • 7 a.m. French-Columbian, Brooklyn-based, multi-instrumentalist R&B artist Gabriel Garzón-Montano
  • 8 a.m. Folk-blues and Americana band Hurray For The Riff Raff out of New Orleans
  • 9 a.m. Central Texas Hip Hop group Third Root
  • 10 a.m. New Jersey’s hazy indie rockers Real Estate

Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child Lineup:

  • 8:30 a.m. Indie rocker, songwriter, playwright and children’s book author Ralph’s World
  • 9:30 a.m. Red Yarn, who weaves folk songs and puppetry into engaging shows for all ages

–> Thursday, March 16
Main Stage Lineup:

  • 7 a.m. Texan Jonathan Terrell who has written hits for Bart Crow and Mike and the Moonpies
  • 8 a.m. Maggie Rogers, the electro-pop folk singer made famous by Pharrell’s endorsement last year
  • 9 a.m. Three-piece band Middle Kids from Sydney, Australia
  • 10 a.m. English rockers Temples

Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child Lineup:

  • 8:30 a.m. Austin-based “kindie” band The Que Pastas
  • 9:30 a.m. Parents’ Choice Award winning songwriter for children, Joe McDermott

–> Friday, March 17
Main Stage Lineup:

  • 7 a.m. Asheville, North Carolina Americana quartet River Whyless
  • 8 a.m. Oliver John-Rodgers, aka OJR, who plays a range of styles from indie-folk, blues and Americana to grunge, psychedelia, and rock ‘n’ roll
  • 9 a.m. Texas Troubadour Ray Wiley Hubbard
  • 10 a.m. Austin psychedelic rock band The Black Angels

Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child Lineup:

  • 8:30 a.m.  Latin Grammy winners Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band
  • 9:30 a.m. Educational rockers The Deedle Deedle Dees

–> Saturday, March 18
Main Stage Lineup:

  • 8 a.m. Austin-based singer and songwriter Molly Burch
  • 9 a.m. Austin blues, funk and soul artist Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
  • 10 a.m. British rapper, singer (and actress) Little Simz
  • 11 a.m. Spoon drops its ninth album “Hot Thoughts” March 17

Spare the Rock Spoil, the Child Lineup:

  • 9:30 a.m. Chicago’s upbeat, down-to-earth kindie musician Little Miss Ann
  • 10:30 a.m. Family funk super duo Sugar Free Allstars

For more information, please visit the KUTX website.

See you there!

*Cover image from the KUTX Facebook page