austin willacy

Austin Willacy is a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter who has toured the U.S., Europe and Japan with The House Jacks, a groundbreaking all-vocal rock band. He's appeared in Rolling Stone and has performed with Bonnie Raitt, Ray Charles, James Brown and rising stars like Jem, Rachael Yamagata & Amos Lee. Austin has been touring extensively as a solo artist since 2005 while continuing his domestic and international touring with The House Jacks.

Austin is the director of ?Til Dawn, Youth in Arts' award-winning teen a cappella group and has facilitated over 30 youth retreats. He also donates his time and musical talent to a wide range of educational, social and environmental organizations (including The Freight & Salvage and Bread & Roses). He has co-facilitated three of YES!'s Leveraging Privilege for Social Change Jams and recently retired from the board of Rainforest Action Network where he served for 3 years.

Austin's music has been featured on TV (NBC's The Sing Off and MTV's Road Rules) and on the soundtrack of two indie documentaries, (?Word Wars,? and ?A Lawyer Walks into a Bar??). He was hired to co-write the theme song to THRIVE!,a feature-length film slated for wide release in Spring 2011.

Austin loves many different types of music and has been able to use that love (and his wide-ranging vocal ability) to help recreate dozens of rock and pop classics for Guitar Hero (Queen, Wolfmother, Sum 41 & Incubus) and Karaoke Revolution (Jay-Z, Billy Joel, Boy George, Stevie Wonder, The Bee Gees, Maroon 5, Michael Jackson and many more!).

At present, Austin is hard at work on the 7th House Jacks CD (due Summer 2010) his 3rd solo EP (due Summer 2010) and his 4th solo CD (due Spring 2011).