Get Together Austin

May 2013

Get Together Austin Experience the world’s wonder under the Congress Avenue Bridge

Kite Festival unveils a lot more than just a few kites in the air

Get your boots ready for the Rodeo

Come Check Out AMP! At Zilker Park March 29— April 6

Buy Tickets at AMP.com/takemymoney

Featuring : Kings of Leon George Watsky The Script Foster the People Rebecca Black Taylor Swift amongst many others.

Austin Music Party Photo Courtesy of Scott Newton

Contents Introduction 5

Letter from the editors

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Biographies

Go fly a kite The Meaning of a Local Festival

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Kites Done Right: How to make a box kite

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Get your boots ready 12

Austin Rodeo 2013

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Take a look at the highlights of Rodeo Austin!

Under the Bridge The wonders under the Congress Ave. Bridge

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Bats Migration Map

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A week of music 24

A New Type of Rock at SxSw

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Party all night

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Letter from the editors

Welcome to Get Together: Austin! We made this magazine to let people know of the exciting events that happen during the spring in Austin. These events are fun and a lot of people like to attend. We wanted people to get enjoy themselves and have new experiences. We had an amazing, yet hard time creating this magazine. During our process of making this magazine, we kept a smile on our faces by cracking jokes, listening to music and talking. Make the most out of this magazine and try to attend these fantastic events next year.

Sincerely, Esmeralda, Lisbet, Jose and Efrain

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Meet the Austinites Esmeralda Benitez

Efrain Gardu単o

smeralda is a teen who love to sing, dance and listen to music by Jake Miller. She can be creative and outgoing. She is not afraid to be herself and standout. She likes to go downtown and go to ACL. She loves to hang out with her friends, goof off and embarrass them. She also loves to go shopping and waste all her money.

frain is a sarcastic person. He likes to play soccer and hang out with his teammates. He is good at telling jokes. He likes to show pride in his traditions. His favorite place to go play is Zilker Park. He also likes to read and watch television.

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Jose Rodriguez

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Lisbet Rodriguez

Jose likes to play sport and hang out with his friends. He likes Lisbet is a smart and pretty young woman. She is very

to explore downtown. His favorite place to go during the Summer is the UT campus and to the Mueller park. He also likes to go to his old middle school and play soccer with his old friends.

enthusiastic about Jake Miller, Taylor Lautner and Austin Mahone. She spends a lot of time on the Internet updating her social networks. She loves to sing and dance. Also, loves to go thrift shopping on the weekends all around town.

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All Photos by LisbetRodriguez

It’s a walk in Zilker Park, but today isn’t any regular walk in the park. For one day each year, Austin’s favorite playground is transformed into a airway of ripstop nylon, plastic and string.

The Austin Kite Festival is a large and magnificent yearly event that takes place at Zilker Park, Austin’s Central Park.

You never “really know

anyone until you fly a kite with them.” — Bunnie Twidwell, Festival Producer

Between 15,000 and 20,000 participants attended the festival last year. This year’s attendance rates surpassed last year’s with at least 5,000 to 10,000 more participants throughout the entirety of the festival.

According to Bunnie Twidwell, the Austin Kite Festival was founded five years after the founding of the Exchange Club of Austin in 1924. The festival was founded by the exchange club President at the time, Ed John.

The Club, thought that the children in 1929 were up to no good, and that they weren’t being challenged. And The Club wanted to put these children in a fun and creative environment. “[The Exchange Club members] knew that Ed flew kites. And they said lets have a kite contest, Ed you do it.

And Ed said okay, and he put together what was called The Kite Tournament, in a place called Lamar park.” — Bunnie Thus The Kite Festival or as it was known back The

Kites take over Zilker Park in April.

Kite tournament was born.

It began as a tool for The Club to entertain the local children in 1929. Originally The Tournament began solely as what it was called, a tournament, where the children competed in different contests. These contest included the 50 yard dash, highest angle kite, steadiest kite, strongest pulling kite, smallest kite, most unusual kite, largest kite and the oldest and youngest kite fliers. “Back then in the 20’s you hand made all your kites using wood and cloth” — Bunnie In current day the festival has undergone many more changes than just it’s name, yet still remaining the same at it’s core. Throughout the years, the festival’s contest’s have remained 95 percent the

same to the original contests from the first tournament in 1929. The Austin Kite Festival has also always had only single line contests, and today it is the only kite festival that has purely single line contests in the nation.

“So in a way this is more heritage than you think, coming from 1929, and it’s amazing that Austin still responds to it.”Bunnie said.

But the Kite Festival is a lot more than a piece of history of Austin and what the city is like. There is a reason that The Kite Festival is one of the few events in Austin that has survived so long. When asked about the meaning of The Kite Festival, Dorsey and Bunnie got a little emotional. Dorsey began by telling the story of a

movie that was produced and

And all of a “ sudden the kite

festival represented hope and how there was always a reason to look up and go out in the park and be with your family.”

— Dorsey Twidwell, Festival Producer

directed by local Austin film maker Turk Pipkin. The film Nobelity, explores the modern world’s problems. In the film Pipkin interviews several Nobel Prize winners from all over the world. He asks each

winner about the problems in the world today, and what their vision is for the world in the next 50 years.

“And the movie kept getting more and more depressing, and we [Bunnie and Dorsey]thought what in the world could this movie have to do with the kite festival. Well, when the movie got to it’s most depressing point he [Pipkin] took his daughters to the kite festival.

And all of a sudden the kite festival represented hope and how there was always a reason to look up and go out in the park and be with your family.

And the last Nobel Prize Winner that he talked to was Desmond Tutu and the power of love, that’s what The Kite Festival means. Hope. And it’s lasted 85 years throughout generations.”Dorsey said.

“And that’s the meaning of The Kite Festival,” Bunnie said.

But it’s not only the producers of the yearly festival that are so attached to it. It comes as no surprise that many Austinites and several foreigners to the city also have

an emotional bond to The Kite Festival.

“I have been attending The Kite Festival for five years straight now,”LASA freshman Pablo Villafuerte said. “My parents and I first attended The Festival when I was 10. A family friend told us about The Festival and he told about how amazing and

Basically it’s a “place to have a

good time with your friends and family, and fly a kite or kick a ball while you’re at it.”

— Pablo Villafuerte, LASA

freshman

breath taking it was, and that was when my parents and I decided to attend the festival.”

Austinite Alec also has something to say about the topic. “I like how you can go around with friends and have a good time and kind of chill,

A mother and her enthusiastic son attempt to get their kite off the ground at The Kite Festival.

you get sunburned and suffer a bit, but it’s fun and there’s a lot of food there and friends and fun stuff.” – (Alec) Austinite.

Even though the majority of Austinites love and appreciate The Kite Festival’s yearly enjoyment, there are

those who have several things to say about it’s very minimal defects. “Yeah I remember The Kite Festival, I witness it every year, it creates horrible traffic problems throughout all downtown.”– Enrique Resendiz, Austinite Although many have different ideas or perceptions of what The Kite Festival is, and what it means to a city like Austin. The Austin Kite Festival has survived more than 85 years, and it has attempted to stay the same throughout it’s history, it has always been a family event where no family member is ever bored or unhappy to attend. For this reason and several others, The Austin Kite Festival is, and always will be a large and magnificent yearly event that resides within the hearts of it’s fellow Austinites.

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The winners of the 2013 Largest Kite Competition attempting to get their creation in the air.

Kites Done Right: Let’s make a Box Kite

Learn how to make simple kites at home. Using only household items, hard work and this article, you could be the owner of airborne art in no time.

Sources: 1. http://www.my-best-kite.com/how-to-make-a-boxkite.html 2. http://www.stormthecastle.com/how-to-make-a/ how-to-make-a-boxkite.htm

All photos by Efrain Garduño

Materials needed to complete this project.

4 pieces of wood that are each 36 inches long 4 pieces of wood that are 14 inches long Some string for tying things up (not kite string) Kite string Plastic, plastic bags or newspaper Any kind of tape (except duct tape) Scissors Writing Utensil Box Cutter Optional — Straws

Before we begin to assemble the kite. Here is a quick tip on how to join two pieces of wood together. The best technique for assembly is to put the two pieces together where you want them connected then apply a piece of tape to hold them in place. Now you wrap the joint with string.

Finally you cover the string with tape. This makes a really strong yet lightweight joint.

Let’s begin assembling the kite frame. Begin by making two “X pieces” as shown, out of two 14in long pieces wood. Next take your four 36in long pieces and attach the X piece 6in from the bottom as shown. Do this for both sides of the kite.

Now it’s time to wrap the frame with either newspaper and plastic. Cut yourself two pieces of plastic or newspaper that are 11inches wide and 48inches long. Now using the masking tape attach one end of the plastic or newspaper to one of the bars as shown.

Now wrap the plastic or newspaper around the kite, trim it to size and tape it down to the bar. It should only make one revolution and end right at the bar where you first started. You can place tape around the edges of your plastic/newspaper to reinforce it, if the material your are using is a bit flimsy. Do this for both sides of the kite.

Attach a piece of string to the kite at the points shown. After it is attached, tied and taped it should be about 36 inches long. After you attach the string to the kite, attach your kite string to it, as shown in the yellow piece here. It should be about 14inches from both sides of the string.

Finally it’s time to breath deeply, steep back and admire your creation. At this point your kite should be done and it should be ready to fly. So pick up your kite and go outside and attempt to get your airborne art into the air.

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Get your

rodeo on

Livestock show brings fun for the whole family

The bull riding in the Austin Rodeo showing how’s it done.

Photo Courtesy of: Austin Rodeo

The Star of Texas Fair & Rodeo is a fun, big, and magnificent yearly event that occurs in the west of Austin. This past month it had between 50,000 and 75,000 people attended the rodeo and concerts.

The ticket sales skyrocket this year by making it 2 millions tickets sold which makes it the best year in the organization history.

The Rodeo is a wonderful place to bring your family together and spend time with them. The Rodeo isn’t just for adults its is a place for all ages not like the other rodeos. It also bring people from different cultures together which is amazing because its bringing people together.

The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is another event that families like to go annually. Since the establishment of the Houston Livestock Show it has made an impressive movement in livestock, entertainment industries and the sport of rodeo. It has also enhancing the lives of young people who enjoy these kinds of events.

The Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo and The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo are two great events that families love to go they share a bunch of the same kinds of shows and fairground rides.

Zaira Garcia is a Rodeo lover she has gone to many rodeos in Texas including the Austin Rodeo and The Houston Livestock Show and Fair and many more

Photo Courtesy by: Emily Davis

The Fairgrounds in the Houston Rodeo. People enjoying the fair. in Mexico. She has been going to rodeos at the age of 3 because her dad and grandfather were bull riders and her mom did barrel racing.

She loves going to the Austin Rodeo because she enjoys going to see the shows and go with her friends to the fair. “ I like going to rodeos because they reminded me about my childhood also because of the various places,” Garcia said. The unique thing about the Austin Rodeo is that it brings people from different cultures together.

“The last time I went I met people that came all the way from Las Vegas to live the Rodeo Austin experience,” said Garcia. She was born from a rodeo family family because her father was a

Bull rider, also he grandad and her mother did barrel racing. “I like going to the rodeos because they remind me of my childhood”, said Garcia.

Reed Dupont is a western boy who loves going out hunting, fishing and going to rodeos. He has gone to may rodeos across Texas but the ones he goes the most are the Austin rodeo and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.

He loves going to the rodeos because he loves the shows and fairgrounds. “I have been attending rodeos since I was a little kid and have been attending ever since”, said Dupont. Many times he has been to the Austin Rodeo he loves to go with his family. His little brother Carson love

to go also “ I love the fair it reminds me of the good times I have spent with my family”, said Carson. Reed is really active in the rodeo because he really loves giving back. He has been in a lot of different competition in the rodeo like to do horse back riding “ I love to do this because its fun”, said Dupont.

Garcia and Dupont are two Austinites that love Rodeos. They both love to go to the Austin Rodeo and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Dupont has been to rodeos for 5 yeaar unlike Garcia which has been in rodeo probably her whole life. These two have done a lot for the Rodeo.

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They have done bull riding to horse back riding.

The Austin Rodeo and Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo has been two events have been over Texas for years and they are still her and would still be here in the next years. This two are events that people would never get bored in they many family event also fairground where the kids can enjoy themselves. The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo has been here for 72 years which were really good they have been able to break records over the years they have been here. Also for the Austin Rodeo the Austinites have been able to make the rodeo a place that families can enjoy yearly round.

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Photo Courtesy of: Lisbet Rodriguez

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THE STAR OF TEXAS FAIR & RODEO 73,519 A=8$ C=5$ 132 24 53 1938

HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW & RODEO 1,308,288 A=10$ C=5$ over 300 25 51 1931

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Photograph by Karen Tina Harrison

Street Address: 10324 Cedar Canyon Drive Phone #: (512) 435-9847

Photo courtesy of Chemtec

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Rodeo Austin Highlights With a rich history, Austin’s Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo has had many key events over the years. Here are a few.

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Livestock Show.

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1973 1997: The Rodeo adds “Kids Town� to the Fairgrounds.

2004: Miss Rodeo

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Austin contest starts.

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Driving Austin Batty: The wonders under the Congress Avenue Bridge By: Lisbet Rodriguez

All photos by Lisbet Rodriguez

One bat after another flying in a swirling line.

Local Austinites and tourist crowding the Congress Avenue Bridge’s sidewalk to get a good view of the bats.

Forty Five minutes into the bat watching cruise, the boat turned towards the west side of the Congress Avenue Bridge as the sun starts to set.

Visitors crowded all along the bridge’s rail. The world’s largest urban bat colony begins to emerge from under the Congress Avenue Bridge.

One bat after another they fly out from one of the bridge’s pillar. The bats fly out in a spiral line towards the east of the city to go find food during the night.

“I thought it was nice,” Lisa Raper, a local Austinite, said. “It was a pretty sight seeing the bats fly out.”

Mrs. Raper explains how she felt when she was in the bridge looking at the bats fly out from under the bridge.

“The bats fly at sunset, every night,” Jason Jockamo,

captain of one of the boats from Capital Cruises says.

“The best time [of the year] to go see the bats would be near the end of the bat season, from September to October.”

In the bat season, every sunset between the month of April and October Austin visitors can go see the Mexican free-tailed bats emerge from under the Congress Avenue Bridge.

Jockamo, who works for one of the two companies that provide boat cruises on Lady Bird Lake, gives boat tours to watch the bats fly out. Since Jockamo does this every night, he knows when the best time to see the bats is. Like he said, the best time to have the experience to see the bats fly out would be around sunset towards the end of the bat

season.

“In the [end of the] bat season, so from September to October,” Jockamo starts to explain. “There is about 1.5 million bats.”

This urban bat colony consists of one million five hundred thousand Mexican free-tailed bats. Later when the females have their baby, the population increases.

“The bats migrate upwards to Austin because they like the bridge,” Jockamo starts to explain. “They also come to Austin because they like the heat and to have their pup” At the beginning of the bat season, the female bats migrate from Monterrey, Mexico to Austin, Texas and other southern North American states to have their baby bat, known as pup. The female bats will have their pup

in early June, and teach them how to fly and hunt insects for themselves. Once they learn the basics of life they’ll return south.

“It’s a cool feature to have an urban bat colony,” Jockamo said. “[People like to go watch the bats] to enjoy something that doesn’t happen in other cities.”

Although the bats migrating from Mexico fly to other southern states, the colonies normally go to their natural habitat, which is any cave they can find. The particular colony that migrates to Downtown Austin chose the Congress Avenue Bridge for their housing.

“They choose that bridge,” Jockamo said. “Because it provides them protection from predators and so they can have their pup.”

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The Mexican free-tailed bats flying out before the sun sets.

Jockamo talks about the positive effects of living under their man-made home. The bridge has expansion joints on the bottom side of the bridge that the bats can hang from.

These joints are small enough to keep predators away, yet big enough for the bats to fit.

“It is possible that the bats attract rabies,” Jockamo says.

“But it’s very rare.”

Lately there has been people in the city finding bats that might have rabies.

According to Jockamo, this wouldn’t be correct.

“Usually for animals to attract rabies, they have to be bitten,” Jockamo begins to explain. “Since the bats are so small, if they get bitten by something big, they are usually dead anyways.”

As Jockamo says, there would not be many bats that would have rabies. If they did, they would die right after being bitten by the bigger predator that wanted to prey on the bat.

“They usually don’t have any diseases,” Jockamo says.

“But it is possible for them to attract rabies.”

If some Austinites were afraid of this, they shouldn’t have to worry about the bats possibly having rabies or any other disease.

“It is possible that they could get the bats mad,” Jockamo said. “But the bats don’t really care. I don’t think the people are really affecting them much.”

Jockamo was asked if he thought the people visiting the urban bat colony would have a bad impact on them. He got into the bat’s perspective and answered the question with a “no”.

“If anything, they are probably helping spread the awareness that we need to keep the bats there.” Jockamo responded.

The boat driver then looked at the positive side of the question. Having Austinites and tourist visit the wonders under the Congress Avenue bridge would be a good thing for these bats.

Spreading the word about the Mexican free-tailed bats emerging from under the bridge could attract more people to this unique

The bats flying to East Austin to find food.

experience about Austin.

“The bridge is kind of a man-made structure that the bats like to live in,” Jockamo says. “So we’re probably helping them accidentally.”

The bats got an advantage in living under the bridge because the Congress Avenue Bridge is a man-made structure. This means that the bridge wasn’t made for the bats to use as a home.

“I love my job,” Jockamo said. “My job is a lot of fun.”

When Jockamo was asked about how he felt about his

job as a boat cruise driver, he talked about how much fun he had. He enjoys spending his afternoons telling people facts about the largest urban colony that migrates to Austin and lives under the Congress Avenue Bridge.

Lady Bird Lake Cruises Bat Watching Excursions happen every sunset from March to October Costs: Adults: $10 Seniors: $8 Kids: $5

Photo courtesy of Capital Cruises

Make reservations online at ladybirdlakecruises.com

Mexican Free-tailed Bats: The Mexican Free Tailed bats also known as the Brazilian Free-tailed bats. They are a medium size bat that is a native in the Americas they are the most abundant mammal the lives in North America. Mexican free-tailed bats are about 9 cm (3.5 in) in length, and they weigh about 12.3 g (0.43 oz). Their tails make up almost half their lengths. Their ears are wide and set apart to help them find prey with echolocation. The Mexican free-tailed bat is one of the most widespread mammals in the Western Hemisphere. Mexican free-tailed bats roost primarily in caves. However, they will also roost in buildings of any type as long as they have access to openings and dark recesses in ceilings or walls. Mexican free-tailed bats are primarily insectivores. They hunt their prey using echolocation. The bats eat moths, beetles, dragonflies, flies, true bugs, wasps, and ants. Bats usually catch flying prey in flight. Large numbers of Mexican free-tailed bats fly hundreds of meters above the ground in Texas to feed on migrating insects. Mexican free tailed bats are loved all around Austin, Texas the migrate down to the south from Texas, California, Nevada, and New Mexico. The cross trough the South Congress bridge in Austin, Texas yearly round and people that goes to see them, enjoy themselves they love going. The Mexican free tailed bats are really common in the south and southwest in the U.S. These bats are really common and they are something that you should look forward too and explore the bats location in the states that are being showed in the map.

Bats Migration Map

KEY: West Mexican Free Tailed Bat East Mexican Free Tailed Bat

Bat Facts:

Some Mexican free-tailed bats can fly up to 250 miles (402 km) in a single night. They can fly up to 10,000 feet (3,048 m) high and reach speeds up to 60 miles per hour (97kph).

Map By: Daniel M. Russell

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Taking the Stage Local teen band Residual Kid hits SXSW

By: Esmeralda Benitez

All photos courtesy of William Branch

Residual Kid plays at KTSW MR Fest 2013.

Just recently a new band named Residual Kid played at SXSW for a few shows. The band consists of; 12-year-old Max Redman, 14-year-old Ben Redman and 14-year-old Deven Ivy. In the band, Max is the bassist, his brother Ben is the drummer and Deven is the guitarist.

These beginning musicians have been playing their instruments since a small age and are now in a band pursuing some of their ambitions and wishes to perform in SXSW. But getting into SXSW was not an easy task, according to Residual Kid. Max pointed out that they had to be background checked to get in to the festival. The festival organizers listened to their music to see if they were qualified to play and if they would fit into a specific area of music. Once they were accepted the organizers gave them a time to play.

While the band is playing, Ben said that he is thinking, “don’t screw up, don’t screw up. Do I hit this here, or do I stop?”

While Deven seemed to not completely agree with Ben and his nerve wrecking thoughts.

Deven said “I just kind of feel it out.”

Deven isn’t the type of person to freak out during a big performance. He likes to relax, keep calm and just go with the flow.

“Well it all depends on what song” Ben said “If we have been playing it for a while, its like the back of your hand or riding a bike, but a new song that you wrote like a week ago is always like whoops, where does that go?”

It all up to how well known the songs are to Ben.

Residual Kid plays at KVRX 2013

Deven said “And then you screw up and its just like whatever.”

Deven doesn’t really care if he screws up because he has to keep on going with the performance and not let down the crowd.

When the band looks at the crowd and they’re playing their instruments, they watch how the crowd seems to react to there music. The kids look for amusement from the crowd to know they are doing good with their performance.

“I think we got some good responses” Deven said “There was this one dude who was chilling out at the front and was like ‘Yea!’ and just singing along and dancing.”

Residual Kid loves it when their crowd is having as much of a good time as they are while they’re playing their instruments.

“We just kind of love SxSw. We just love walking around, you know” Max said “There were some famous people [and] our friends that are musicians out there.”

Max was explaining the reasons why he liked to perform at SXSW. Deven said “I think it was kind of over overboard this

year though.”

Deven thinks that SXSW this year was really big. He thinks that there was a lot of fans and bands at the festival because the fans wanted to rock out and listen to new sounds and rhythms.

Ben said “Yeah, we played like eight shows.”

Ben is describing how the festival was so big this year that they had to play multiple times.

Deven said “Didn’t really have much time to just goof around.”

Deven wanted more time to relax and just have fun but with all the shows and preparing he barely had any time to do what he likes, which is to skateboard.

Ben said “Which is my favorite part.”

Ben is agreeing with Deven on how they were over bucked with all the shows and was disappointed that he didn’t get to skateboard.

“But yeah, you get tired , and you miss seeing music” Ben said “You only play music.”

Ben explains how he wanted to see other bands play instead of just playing on stage most of the time.

Deven said “Don’t get to see new stuff, [nor] all the out of town bands coming in.”

Deven explains the down sides of playing at SXSW. He wanted to see more bands and see what type of music they have and to see if it inspired him with his own music.

Deven said “I mean, its the best of both worlds when you play with bands that you love, its awesome.”

Deven was saying that he loves playing music with his own band and he also loves listening to other bands play.

He thinks that he is very lucky to have the ability to do both.

In the end Ben said “I feel like I’ve accomplished what we were going to try to do, like we started a band and we didn’t stop” Deven said “Yeah, I don’t know, its rewarding, like not giving up, and then SXSW is always something that we’ve wanted to do, sticking with it until... ” Ben said to end Devens sentence “it happened.”

The Band Residual Kid feels like they have achieved what they were striving to do.

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“Party All Night” Austin’s Newest Music Fest

Tickets: Platinum Badge $1150 Gold Badge $895 Music Badge $625 Film Badge $450 Interactive Badge $695 (Platinum = Music + Film + Interactive | Gold = Film + Interactive) Limited No. of Wristbands $180 (Doors open at 8pm)

Picture courtesy of Trey Shaar/ SxSw

Partyallnightaustinsnewestmusicfest.com

Best of the Best of SXSW Most and least visited events for music in SXSW. Showing the most wanted music SXSW is a diverse festival for different types of music for all types of people. It goes on for about a weeks for all night so that people can enjoy themselves during the night with their choice of music during certain days of the week. The crowd of people gather around to listen to musicians that are famous and some up coming.

The artist that will show up for all different types of genres like metal, indie rock, folk, electronic, country hip hop, R&B and many more.

People go to SWSW for loud music, meet new people or just to chill with old friends. Either way you will have the time of your life.

Various people that went to SXSW were interviewed for the bar graph above.

SXSW has been here for 26 years and more to come.

This year has been the biggest one of all. About 49, 000 people attended the festival this year.

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Save the date.

Don’t be late!

Need plans? This calendar for the rest of the year will provide events for Austinites to go to. Here’s when, what time and where the events will happen.

June Keep Austin Weird Festival and 5K

• July 22nd • Festival at 2p.m., 5K at 7p.m.

• At The Long Center

July Fourth of July Fireworks & Austin Symphony Orchestra

• July 4th • 7-10p.m.

• At The Auditorium Shores

September Pecan Street Fall Festival

• September 28th to 29th • On the 28th, from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and on the 29th, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m • On Sixth Street

November The ThunderCloud Subs Turkey Trot

• November 28th • Thanksgiving morning • At The Long Center

August Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival

• August 25th • 7-10 p.m.

• At The Auditorium Shores

October Austin City Limits Music Festival

• October 4th to 6th and October 11th to 13th • At Zilker Park

December Trail of Lights

• Last 2 weeks before Christmas: • After sunsets • At Zilker Park