Cutting Edge NOLA is the oldest music conference and festival in New Orleans, and this year they sponsored a SXSW showcase at the Victory Grill in Austin, featuring many of the same performers they have had in previous Cutting Edge festivals. The 2012 Cutting Edge conference will be in September in New Orleans. Go to http://cuttingedgenola.com/ for further info or registration.
This cool sign is all that remains of an old East Austin club, Friday, March 16, 2012
Miles Davis’ nephew Vince Wilburn Jr. plays the drums at the Victory Grill, East Austin, SXSW, March 15, 2012
The Texas Music Museum has worlds of memorabilia, instruments, photos and recordings that pertain to Texas blues, jazz and soul artists, including a number of musicians from East Austin.
Riders Against the Storm closes out the EXNE stage at the Texas Music Museum, March 15, 2012
The Scoot Inn is always a popular SXSW venue, East Austin, March 15, 2012
Texas Coffee Traders on East 4th Street in Austin will fool you. It will look closed from the street even though it’s open. It will look like a warehouse when it’s really a retail store and a coffee bar. And it has some of the very best coffee in Austin, as well as every conceivable kind of coffee machine and coffee equipment.
The Yellow Jacket Social Club is a secluded venue down in a “cut” on an alley-like stretch of East 5th in East Austin, across the railroad tracks from the graffiti wall. March 15, 2012
This graffiti wall on East Austin’s 5th Street is a well-known neighborhood landmark, SXSW, March 15, 2012
East Austin, SXSW, Thursday, March 15, 2012
