Austin’s iconic Antone’s signs 50-year lease, adds blues museum
Iconic Austin blues venue Antone’s Nightclub has announced a lease extension to remain at its current location, 305 E. 5th St., for another 50 years. The club has also secured a $1.3 million investment from Rally Austin — a real estate nonprofit that partners with the city through the Austin Cultural Trust program — to create the “Antone’s World Famous Museum of the Blues.”"Securing a home for 'Austin’s Home of the Blues’ for the next 50 years is a grand and poetic victory to the impassioned pursuit that Clifford Antone started 50 years ago,” Antone’s co-owner Will Bridges said in a news release. “And to bolster our presence and impact with the education and preservation focus of the blues museum deeply enriches and realizes the full vision of our mission.”The lease extension positions An...










