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ASCAP rides high in the saddle at South by Southwest Music Fest in Austin

For perhaps the biggest week in the music industry calendar year, the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas, which ran from March 17-22, ASCAP pulled out all the stops, proving that great live music is alive and well in 2009.

From ASCAP's rock showcase at the Dirty Dog on Wednesday, March 18th where Death on Two Wheels, Chief, The Temper Trap, Fool's Gold, Dananananaykroyd, Gay Blades and Natalie Portman's Shaved Head burned up the stage, to ASCAP's annual Quiet on the Set Showcase on Friday, March 20th at the Driskill Hotel, featuring Chanel Campbell, WAZ, Madi Diaz with Kyle Ryan, Jason Reeves, Five Times August, Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers and Lucy Wainwright Roche, ASCAP members were at the heart of what made the festival so great and still one of the most important

industry events of the year. In addition to the Society's own showcases, ASCAP co-sponsored the action-packed Filter Magazine Showdown at the sunny Cedar Street Courtyard, which featured such artists as Black Joe Lewis, N.A.S.A. and Flosstradamus. And all day on Thursday, March 19th, the ASCAP/Evergreen Copyrights Boat Cruises carried festivalgoers up and down the river as a respite from the rumble.