Partipants join renowned chefs and winemakers from around the globe for this gourmet festival. The weekend's events include dinners and tastings at various Austin restaurants and locales. Participants can try their hand at a number of cooking schools led by premier chefs. There's even a fine wine auction that offers guests the opportunity to take a bit of the festival home with them. Austin gets a Cajun accent on April 28-29 with this fun festival at Waterloo Park.
Visitors enjoy scorching zydeco music, spicy Louisiana food and tons of tasty crawfish.
Guests revel in a traditional funeral procession complete with Mardi Gras-style beads and tokens. With nearly 1,000 musical acts performing on 45 stages throughout the city each March, it's no wonder SXSW has been SXSW Click to enlarge dubbed spring break for the music industry. Established acts as well as young hopefuls shake, rattle and roll for five days and nights while music industry honchos and upstarts mingle and schmooze. This year's music festivities run from March 14-18 and will be led by the likes of David Byrne, Ike Turner and Ray Davies of the Kinks. In recent years, the popularity of the music conference has led to the addition of interactive seminars and a film festival, scheduled this year for March 9-12.