Over the next month the Longhorn Network (LHN) will continue its commitment to showcasing the many facets of the University of Texas with programming highlighting music, public affairs and academics. The Cactus Café returns to the line-up Sunday, March 9, airing live performances of top local artists and a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the Austin music scene as told by the musicians themselves.

The next Cactus Café show – located in the Texas Union building on the UT campus – features alternative rock band Nelo. Nelo got its start in Austin in late 2005 and has performed at both Austin City Limits and SXSW music festivals. The band just released an eponymously titled new album on February 4 that has already hit No. 8 on Billboard’s “Top Heatseekers Chart”.  Cactus Café featuring Nelo will air exclusively on LHN at 9:30 p.m. CT on Sunday, March 9.

This week, LHN viewers will get an inside look into the twenty-year relationship of political powerhouse couple James Carville and Mary Matalin when their lively and candid discussion, LBJ Presents: James Carville and Mary Matalin airs at 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 26. From the LBJ Library, the two legendary political strategists will discuss their new memoir Love and War: Twenty Years, Three Presidents, Two Daughters and One Louisiana Home. In the book, the couple reveals how to stay happily married while occupying opposite sides of the political spectrum. Carville was an architect of President Clinton’s campaign in ’92 while Matalin was a campaign director for the re-election of President George H.W. Bush.

March will conclude with the next installation of the magazine series Alcalde.  The show will feature a history of the UT School of Journalism as it turns 100, a vignette on the recently opened “Love and War” exhibition at the Ransom Center, a piece on scholarship winner and bassoon major Sarah Vogt, a list of the ten most talented and inspiring professors to ever teach at UT, and a short piece on the Armadillo World Headquarters and Willie Nelson’s first Austin appearance, which took place there in 1972. The special will air on Monday, March 24 at 9:30 p.m. The Alcalde is the official alumni magazine for the University of Texas at Austin.

Where to Watch
Longhorn Network is available on AT&T U-verse TV, Time Warner Cable, Verizon FiOS TV, Grande Communications, Cox Communications, Cablevision, Charter Communications, Google Fiber (in Kansas City), Consolidated Communications, En-Touch Systems, E-Tex Communications, Bay City Cablevision, Mid-Coast Cablevision and Texas Mid-Gulf Cablevision. Longhorn Network is now available online to Verizon FiOS, Grande Communications, Cox Communications, Charter Communications, AT&T U-verse TV subscribers at LonghornNetwork.com. It is also available on tablets and on smartphones to fans with an affiliated video subscription, and online and through the app at no cost to U.S.-based military personnel via computers, smartphones and tablets connected to on-base military broadband and Wi-Fi networks.

About Longhorn Network
ESPN has a 20-year agreement to own and operate a year-round, 24-hour network dedicated to Texas athletics in partnership with UT and IMG College. Longhorn Network offers a variety of content, highlighted by more than 175 exclusive events annually from 20 sports, original series and studio shows, historical programming and academic and cultural happenings.

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