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Recently, the South by Southwest music, video, and involved celebration covered up after another successful year in Austin. Since it falls during spring break week, it's become my history to have a break from my teaching job to work with the event at among the music sites. It is always an interesting and enjoyable change of pace for me personally, and my students get a real kick out of imagining their instructor operating at a club and reveling combined with the music lovers and club hoppers.This year was no different.

The SXSW music festival draws over 1400 bands and a lot more than 5000 music business experts to Austin, and that number doesnt even take into account those thousands joining the picture and active festivals which run concurrently underneath the SXSW banner, and Austin welcomes all of them with open arms. In the end, the event pumps a significant $30 million in to the local economy, and the crowds increase, each year. At least at now of year, Austin rightfully deserves, and proves its position as The Live Music Capital of the Planet.

Live music venues per capita are boasted more by austin than any city in the U.S., and host is played by clubs of all sizes, including a church to bands from all over the world during the four-night music festival. The party officially commences on Wednesday night with Austins own version of the Grammys, The Austin Music Awards. Lewis Benson of Asleep at the Wheel, was a big winner, and Pete Townshend previously of The the stage was taken by Who, with other Brit, Ian McLagan, now a favorite Austin performer.

At my club on 6th Street, we presented bands from Ny, Chicago, San Francisco, and Amsterdam, and celebrated St. Patricks Morning with Irish Music Night on Thursday. Without exception, the members of the companies and their entourages were thrilled about playing Austin and getting the opportunity to be found by a maker or supporter, or found by an archive label. One band member excitedly informed me that after their show, they certainly were acknowledged to collaborate on an important motion picture soundtrack! At the very least during SXSW, Austin could be the city where dreams can actually be realized.

Up and down the 6th Street entertainment area and beyond, record executives checked their agendas and rushed from club to club, munching chopped barbeque sandwiches and looking at the artists, who ranged from audio singer/songwriters to outrageously-dressed and spikey-coiffed punks and rock screamers clad inside their inevitable black garb.

Early one evening, a nicely dressed middle-aged couple approached me to ask if they could buy a ticket for the show. You'll want a son or daughter performing, I smiled, because they were certainly not your typical team hopper. Normally, their daughter was playing, and the proud parents had followed him to Austin for the display and a mini-vacation completely from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. That day had been beautiful, with the temperature hovering near 80, and we chatted for a while about their visit, and what they had seen and done during Austin. The couple was exuberant within their praise and promised that next year they'd be straight back for a longer trip and would positively be getting friends.

Later that night, a woman from the UNITED KINGDOM dropped in to thank me for proposing Marias Taco Express, among my personal favorite places, and invited me to an personal party in a hotel penthouse regional. I thanked her, but had to decline, since this golden carriage that's SXSW has to turn back into a pumpkin by Monday morning, and I had some lesson plans to write. stage to sell