South By Southwest Sails

South By Southwest took place in Austin, Texas. It’s a time for people all over the country to come together to celebrate music with their favorite artists and new films. This year, I happened to experience the festival with my family when I traveled to South Texas. I got to sing along with my favorite artists, meet different people, and just have an overall fun three days with my family.

South By Southwest is a film, music, and interactive media festival, that happens in Austin, Texas every March. People from all over country come together in one city to have an entertaining couple of days.

South By Southwest was created in 1987 by Roland Swenson, Louis Jay Meyers, Louis Black, and Nick Barbaro. They wanted to affect the future of entertainment and media. A fundamental opinion shared by the group was that the local creative and music communities were as talented as anywhere else on the planet, but were severely limited by a lack of exposure outside of Austin, according to SXSW.com.

The first South By Southwest was in 1987 and an expected 150 registrants rose to over 700 people. 31 years later, South By Southwest gets bigger by size and becomes even more famous every year.