Production / Touring / Audience development

Project ATX6

Taking Austin musicians around the world, with a documentary team along for the journey.

Production & Tour Manager / Documentary production

June 2017–March 2020

Six musicians with instrument cases standing in front of the S-Bahn Hamburg information maps in a train station. — Project ATX6 / photography by Kate Blaising

The context

Project ATX6 brings Austin musicians to festivals around the world and captures the journey on film. I worked alongside the artists and the documentary team, helping shape what we made and making sure it could happen.

The work behind the journey

I coordinated international production and tour logistics for an 18-member musical ensemble across ten cities in Europe, Asia, and North America. The work connected travel, schedules, live performances, photography, and documentary filming.

Alongside the logistics, I developed social campaigns and worked on sponsorships and fundraising to support the project and bring the artists’ stories to a wider audience.

Kate taking photos on a street beside train tracks — Photo: Georgia Parker

Between the shows / From my photo archive

Two musicians grinning beneath a theater marquee that reads “Project ATX6” and “Tower Comedy Fest.”

Two musicians walking down a busy market street lined with stalls and signs.

Black-and-white photo of the ensemble sitting and lying together on a rug with acoustic guitars, laughing, beneath a “Nine Banded” sign.

Black-and-white photo inside a train carriage as musicians settle in with their luggage and instruments.

Black-and-white photo of two musicians in cowboy hats and face masks, one reflected in a window.

Project ATX6 / Musicians, travel, and life between shows / Photography by Kate Blaising

On screen and on the road

My work spanned production and tour management, photography, marketing, and documentary support. For Lift Me Up specifically, I worked as a camera assistant and photographer and helped with marketing and tour management.

The film follows the 2020 Project ATX6 musicians and was later distributed on Austin PBS. Credit the film team through the original film credits.

A group crowded into an elevator while two people take photos with cameras. — On the road with Project ATX6

Black-and-white photo of a singer performing with a guitarist, a drummer, and a trumpet player in a rehearsal hall. — Rehearsal / Photo: Kate Blaising

Film

Lift Me Up / Austin PBS

Camera assistance, photography, marketing, and tour support by Kate. Original film credits remain with the film.

Watch on Austin PBS

Kate, at far left, hugging Leslie Sisson of the Austin band Moving Panoramas on a dark stage lit with green lights, with others from the group smiling beside them.

What came together

International touring and documentary work brought together through production, relationships, fundraising, and audience communications.

Collaborators & credits

Project ATX6’s musicians and documentary team. Photo of Kate taking photographs: Georgia Parker, used with permission.