Savvant Music

Music festivals, conferences, etc., we’re attending or interested in

One of the highlights of SXSW 2010  in Austin, Texas last month, was the keynote interview of the incredible Smokey Robinson.  Here are a few key points from Smokey’s talk.  I wish I could bring you tha man himself, because he is truly amazing!
Smokey  just put out his own independent record. And it was a [...]

Well, the Fort Collins SpokesBUZZ folks are on their way! But Bob Carnahan and I are already here watching GREAT bands at the British Music Embassy at Latitude 30 in Austin, TX. All our SpokesBUZZ posters are posted and about half of our VIP passes passed out! Video and photos to follow!
Right now we’re listening [...]

Last Sunday night in Austin, we all piled into a taxi and headed off to the Austin City Limits Studio for a terrific party thrown by PBS.
The PBS party was held in the KLRU Austin building where the world famous Austin City Limits stage is located. Being near this stage where so many amazing performances have [...]

We spent ALL DAY last Thursday with the amazing Quincy Jones.
He probably doesn’t know it, because there were always 200-2000 other people there as well , but WE knew it and it was AWESOME. It was like spending the day in the presence of giants and their ghosts and their shadows as Mr. Jones [...]

It’s always the bands you find by accident that turn out to be the best, as you’ll find by reading further about new music recommendations from NPR vs what we found by stumbling down 6th Street…
CFO Bob Carnahan and I arrived here in Austin last Friday to catch SXSW interactive, so even though yesterday was [...]

Well, here it is at the very start of SXSW 09 and I’m in the middle of site upgrades! Well, my husband always complain and asks why I always insist on doing all the laundry right before a trip.  What can I say? I’m thorough and I want to make sure everything is well backed [...]

Shortly after SXSW 2008, Anny Randel spoke to Cormac Neeson, the front man of The Answer, over the phone just outside their practice room back in Ireland. Here are a few excerpts from the interview! (I tried to leave in the traces of his really beautiful Irish accent, but to hear it for real you’ll [...]

I managed to catch an acoustic set by the up and coming rock band The Answer, an awesome group from Northern Ireland, earlier in the week, and I was really impressed, so Friday night (or early Saturday morning) found us back at Latitude 30 to check out how this group sounds live. The answer is [...]