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Featuring 24 musical performances on the Capital Metro Music Stage, a bar, food, local and regional fine artists & craftspeople plus that special Austin feeling that can only be found here.

Enjoy dancing in the aisles while shopping for fine art and distinctive gifts right here in downtown Austin.

The 32nd annual Armadillo Christmas Bazaar is still in the heart of downtown Austin along the 2nd & 3rd Street corridor. This year we moved three blocks east of Congress Avenue to a larger facility. It remains the same truly Austin honky-tonk bar shopping experience that has made the Armadillo Christmas Bazaar one of the region's most beloved holiday traditions.

The Armadillo welcomes into the show new community partners: Austin Circle of Theatres, AusTix, NowPlayingAustin, The Long Center for Performing Arts, Arts Alive Austin, First Night Austin, Art City Austin, South Austin Museum of Popular Culture, TexAmericana, Austin Film Society, Liveable City, Austin CarShare, Austin Green Art, Downtown Austin Neighborhood Association, Downtown Alliance, and Capital Metro. We also welcome our new business participants: Stubb's Legendary Kitchens, Arte y Chocolate and Wild About Music.

So come join us for a unique Austin tradition and show your support for the local artists and musicians who keep Austin cool. Admission is $3.00 weekdays before 7PM and $6.00 evenings and weekends.

A special feature of this year's show will be a US Post Office, open from 11am – 7pm from Dec. 14 through Dec. 21. All mail posted from this post office will be cancelled with an Armadillo Christmas Bazaar postmark.

The Armadillo Christmas Bazaar is the winner for the event to attend for December's Best Times to Visit Austin 2008 Editors' Choice - 10Best Bet Award. As the 10Best editors explain their awards process, "For many years, we’ve honed our ability to pick the best and most appealing businesses in cities around the world. Our in-house editors and in-the-field locals take their work seriously, collaborating on possibilities and then narrowing selections to ensure that you, the reader, get only the top-rated places. We don’t want you to waste your time with the mediocre."