Austin considers itself the "Live Music Capital of the World," and at least for the week of the South by Southwest music festival, it really is. The whole city turns into a giant rock show, with hundreds of bands in every bar, club, store, park, cafe, restaurant - basically anywhere that has people, has live music.
I got to hang out and play music with some of my good friends from U of I who ended up moving to Austin, see some friends from the West coast who were also in town for the festivities, and meet a whole bunch of cool new people and musicians from all over the world. Some highlights were; jamming with David Moss (Illinois native - now rocking his cello full time in Austin), and a band of jug band pirates from Vermont who rolled in on a psychedelic school bus that runs on veggie oil, going to a backyard show in the hill country with Carrie
, seeing seeing Green Mountain Grass (http://www.greenmountaingrass.net/) wow passersby while busking on 6th Street, and playing acoustic with Raina Rose (http://www.rainarose.com/) on my last night in town.
Raina on guitar and Trevor on mandolin
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