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Grex Music2 Item 300: Mickey's Miscellaneous Musical Musings [linked]
Entered by micklpkl on Thu Mar 1 22:54:17 UTC 2001:

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#8 of 22 by micklpkl on Thu Feb 7 15:07:38 2002:

Hmmm. I haven't been very talkative so far this year. I'll try to remedy that.

Some recent thoughts:

My best friend is coming to Austin for this years SXSW music festival, so I
went to the website < www.sxsw.com/music > to get a general idea of what'll
be happening. Looks like the keynote speaker will be Robbie Robertson, and
he's supposed to have a newly-restored print of The Band's farewell
performance, THE LAST WALTZ (directed by Martin Scorsese), that will be
screened during the music conference. The Really Interesting Thing (at least
to me) is the interview with Hillary Rosen, President & CEO of the RIAA. I'm
very curious about that, mostly to see how she handles the crowd. There's just
a whole bunch of bands/performers on the invited list, including several from
SE Michigan, so I'll type the few names that I'm interested in: Neil Finn,
Katell Keineg, Better Than Ezra, Starsailor, Marcy Playground (?? Had no idea
they were still around), along with Austin's old-standbys like Stephen Bruton,
The Damnations, Michael Fracasso, Jon Dee Graham, Jimmy LaFave, La Tribu, Abra
Moore, Pushmonkey, Reckless Kelly, etc. etc. The groups I saw from MI are:
Binary Star (Ypsilanti), Mogue Doyle (A2), Robert Bradley's Blackwater
Surprise (love that name; have no idea about the band) among several others
from detroit. March 13-17 for the music part of the festival.

The 15th Old Settler's Music Festival, which began as a bluegrass fest in a
North Austin suburb, moves to Camp Ben McCulloch in the wildflower-strewn Hill
Country this year, 19-21 April. yeah, I'm way early on this one, but I'm
excited about the line-up. Bruce Hornsby, Michelle Shocked, Del McCoury, Peter
Rowan, Darden Smith, among the big names, and Texas guitar-god Monte
Montgomery, Terri Hendrix, Caroline Herring, and that 8-year-old banjo picker
Ryan Holladay, Railroad Earth, and many more. This is gonna be my birthday
present to myself this year. I'm taking a bluegrass vacation. <
http://www.bluegrassfestival.com/ > if anyone else is interested. :)