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Events 2012

Food and Wine Festival

Texas Hill Country Food and Wine Festival

Austin becomes a cuisine and fine wine destination towards the end of March and beginning of April with some of the best chefs in the US culinary scene descending upon the town at the behest of many of Texas's local masters to educate...  see full details



R.E.M

Austin City Limits Music Festival

Rated as one of the largest music festivals in the United States, the three-day Austin City Limits event in a 15-acre city park grew as an offshoot from the popular television series of the same name. The Festival draws young and old to...  see full details



Samba dancers

Carnaval Brasileiro

One of the biggest carnivals staged outside Brazil, and undoubtedly Austin's biggest party, is the euphoric Carnaval Brasiliero, a tradition in the city every February since it was started on a small scale in 1975 by a group of home-sick Brazilian students at the...  see full details



Little Richard, South by Southwest, Austin

South by Southwest

The largest and most important of the many live music events for which Austin is renowned is the annual South by Southwest festival, held at more than 50 venues around the city and drawing performers from around the world. The festival programme includes...  see full details



Old Pecan Street Spring Arts Festival

Old Pecan Street Festival

It is said everything is bigger in Texas, and it is hard to imagine a bigger or better arts and crafts street fair than the one that takes place in Austin's Sixth Street (originally named Pecan Street) in May and September every year....  see full details


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