I made it to Texas! First new state of the year checked off and now I've gone to a music festival. In typical spring break fashion, I met up with my college friends. Our friend Sara lives in Austin, so 5 of us invaded for SXSW—oh and to celebrate her 30th and St. Patty’s Day.
It was 5 fun-filled days with music and beer. Just about every venue or open space had bands playing all day and night. Luckily we were staying walking distance from downtown, so we just music-hopped (or bar-hopped) all the way through Austin. The weather was super nice too—so shorts weather and drinking outside!
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| Band outdoors in Austin |
Some highlights were General Fiasco—an Irish band—playing Wednesday night at a local bar. We also checked out an outdoor Shins concert. And even though it sucked getting up early, we went to the live broadcast of KGSR on Friday. We saw ZZ Ward, Graffiti6, and Fun. perform a a few songs apiece as we enjoyed chicken and waffles. I was a bit sleepy, but it was worth it. There were many other good highlights and a small number of not-so-good highlights. Overall good music all over the place.
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| The Shins |
My local Texan thing was going to Shiner, Texas to visit Spoetzl Brewery. My friends suggested kissing a cowboy, but all I saw in Austin were hipsters. It may have been possible that Brooklyn transplanted for the weekend. So instead of kissing a cowboy (or a hipster), I decided that drinking a new and local beer totally counted instead. Oh and we had some delish Texan BBQ to go with it.
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| Shiner, Texas |
I spent the whole time goofing off with old friends, listening to music, eating Mexican and drinking too much beer. Bring on next year!
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| Always better. |
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