The 21st Annual SXSW Conference - March 7th - 16th 2014 The Music Industry's Spring Break

        South by Southwest (SXSW) is a set of film, interactive, and music festivals and conferences that takes place each March in Austin, Texas. Started back in the 1987 the event continues to both grow and become more popular each year. Intended as a way for independent artist, musicians, promoters and such to meet up and share. The conference it was soon realized provided the perfect atmosphere for the independent artist/musician to network his skills and showcase his talents to the people that can make a difference in his career. The people at the this conference. In 1993 the event was moved to Austin, Texas where it has been held every since. The event takes place at the Austin Convention Center located at 500 E Cesar Chavez in downtown Austin, Texas.
       Considered by many as the ultimate in music conferences SXSW slowly emerged as one of the premiere showcases for independent undeveloped talent. Each year SXSW becomes more and more popular. The Music event alone has grown from 700 registrants back in 1987 to over 12,000 this year (so far). This promises over 1,700 performers as bands, artist and musicians, yet there have been times when well over 2,000 performers performed at SXSW.
     The event itself is very supportive and open to independent artist of all kinds. An excellence setting to both seek talents you may need within your career as well as offer unique talents you may posses. It seems that each year the something happens which seems to make the conference even more memorable.

2011
The 2011 Interactive festival was by far the largest it had ever been, with an estimated 20,000 attendees
The March 15 screening of the Foo Fighters documentary Back and Forth was followed by a surprise live performance by the band itself, with a setlist that included the entirety of the then-upcoming album Wasting Light

2012
2012 was also the first year the music portion was expanded to Tuesday. The musical festival included rappers such as Talib Kweli and Lil' Wayne, along with surprise appearances by Big Sean and Kanye West; indie bands that appeared included MENEW and The Shins. Bruce Springsteen was the keynote speaker for the music festival

2013

The big-budget films The Incredible Burt Wonderstone and Evil Dead premiered at the 2013 SXSW Film, as did the Snoop Dogg documentary Reincarnated, and Spring Breakers had its U.S. premiere

     So come on out this year and rub elbows with some of the famous people in the industry for 2014! 

Everything you'll ever need can be pulled right from the website www.sxsw.com