Austin’s Famous Armadillo Christmas Bazaar Turns 40!

One chilly and rainy night forty years ago, Bruce Willenzik, an employee at the Armadillo World Headquarters, was chatting with a young singer named Lucinda Williams when the topic turned to the artists who made their livings selling their wares outside on the Drag. As Willenzik remembers it, Williams remarked “It’s too bad those artists don’t have a warm dry place like this to sell in.”