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SXSW Music Festival
1:36 pm
Mon March 18, 2013

Look & Listen: World Music At SXSW 2013

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Gonzalo Deniz goes by the stage name Franny Glass and tunes up his guitar at the Uruguay Music Showcase at the Speakeasy on Wednesday night.
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Juan Campodonico (guitar), leads Uruguayan group Campo onstage with Veronica Loza and Martin Rivero
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A group of drummers joins Campo for a loud finale to the set.
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SXSW is tough for bands promoting on their own so places like Uruguay, Canada, and Great Britain host their own showcases in order to help promote the bands from their home country
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Tucson's Marianne Dissard, who said she is moving to Italy to do more work in Europe, performs at her label's showcase at the Brass House.
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Sammy Decoster, a singer-songwriter from Grenoble, France, performs at the Tucson Music Factory Showcase at the Brass House.
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Shugo Tokumaru from Tokyo, Japan, plays an entrancing set at Kenny Dorham's Back Yard on Austin's East Side Thursday afternoon.
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Chihiro Yamazaki + Route 14 Band play at the Japan Nite showcase Friday at Elysium.
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Though the lyrics are in Finnish, stars of the documentary "The Punk Syndrome" Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät had a captive audience at Headhunters Friday night.
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Since none of the bands get paid for official show performances, many, like Kao=S from Tokyo, do some busking to get more ears and sell more merch.
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With so many music groups in Austin for SXSW it is easy for any of them to get drowned out by all the noise, but luckily for World Music artists, their foreign musical stylings give them a uniqueness that audiences tend to stop and pay attention to.

The language barrier doesn't seem to matter

Many world groups sing in English in order to tap into the English-speaking market, but there is still a healthy demand for music sung in foreign languages.

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St. Patrick's Day
11:04 am
Mon March 18, 2013

Raising The Profile Of Irish Heritage In San Antonio

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Kevin Dowd, president of the Harp and Shamrock Society of Texas, prepares hundreds of pounds of meat for the Hooley celebration.
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Corned beef simmers on the stove at the Beethoven Maennerchor in preparation for the weekend celebration called the Hooley
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Hundreds of pounds of sausage and corned beef was prepared before the weekend St. Patrick's Day celebration
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Carolyn Dowd holds up a picture of the 300 year old St. Patrick to be restored by the Harp and Shamrock Society of Texas
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As members of the Harp and Shamrock Society of Texas began preparations for its annual St. Patrick’s Day Celebration, including a Saturday "Hooley," President Kevin Dowd reflected on the tradition.

"The Irish will fight to the death for what they believe in," he said as he cut hundreds of sausage links at Beethoven Maennerchor Hall on Pereida St. "Right or wrong, that's just the way we're made."

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Deceptive Cadence
8:34 am
Mon March 18, 2013

Marches Madness: Freshly Squeezed Oranges In 4/4 Time

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For his zany opera The Love for Three Oranges, Prokofiev wrote a little march that made it big.
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Arts & Culture
8:46 am
Sat March 16, 2013

F.I.S.H. Exhibit Gets Needed Repairs After February Windstorm

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A fish out of water. One of the 25 F.I.S.H.es was knocked off its hanger and fell into the San Antonio River. River Authority staff fished the big guy out and he is to be re-installed this weekend.
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Artist John Grant, center, and Stuart Johnson, Project Manager with the San Antonio River Foundation, watch artist/fabricator Mike Kirkhart seal together the two halves of one of the damaged F.I.S.H. S.A. River Authority staff assist in the repairs
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Stuart Johnson of the S.A. River Foundation points out one of the newly-constructed braces that will add strength to the F.I.S.H. structures in case of future severe wind events
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The F.I.S.H. exhibit under I-35
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It's time this weekend to go back down to the Museum Reach and see the repaired F.I.S.H. art exhibit.  Artists from Colorado and Florida are in town to repair the fiberglass art installation damaged in February’s windstorm.

Sustained winds over a 16-hour period and gusts of up to 64 mph on February 25th knocked out power and damaged trees and buildings. Stronger than the force of some tropical storms, the wind also battered the F.I.S.H. exhibit along the Museum Reach of the San Antonio Riverwalk.

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