![]() ![]() Attendees will still receive primary entry to programming associated with their badge-type, but can now enjoy secondary access to most other SXSW events. New for 2017, the Interactive, Film, and Music badges will now include expanded access to more of the SXSW Conference & Festivals experience. READ MORE: SXSW: Complete List of Winners at the 2016 Film Awards SXSW has also announced its Featured Session “Product Mavericks: Top Tips From Women Who Build,” which will feature many panelists that include Stephanie Hannon, the CTO of Hillary for America, and Fidji Simo, Director of Product at Facebook. These include Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Bill Ford, Executive Chairman of Ford Motor Company, and television host Rachel Ray. The other 2017 Featured speakers are from many fields, including tech, music, film, television, business, and journalism. As news of his passing spread, musicians from Austin and beyond have shared their stories about Meyers on his Facebook page - cherishing the undying support he showed for musicians and the community.‘Beef’ Review: Ali Wong and Steven Yeun Are Knockouts in Netflix’s Outsized A24 Drama A music lifer, he continued to be active in music production and management, and attended SXSW annually. ![]() Meyers left Austin in the late Nineties, returned to manage the Austin Music Network from 2003 to 2005, and relocated back to town for good following his departure from the Folk Alliance in 2014. To be effective, you really have to grow into a bureaucrat when you’re running an organization. He literally turned grey from the first couple years of South by Southwest. He couldn’t stand that week of the year where he had to turn down all those bands and they were all mad at him. “Louis liked to be hands-on and micromanage, and South by Southwest was getting too big. Black says the conference’s growth didn’t suit his onetime partner’s style. We’d all been in the music business one way or another, but Louis had been a working musician, which none of us were, so he had hands-on experience that he contributed to make it really work.” “The whole idea behind South By was that it was supposed to bring everybody in the region’s music business together. ![]() There were people who managed bands in Kansas City who’d dealt with a booker in Austin and a booker in Tempe for 15 years and they’d never met. There was no Internet, there was no cell phones. “Keep in mind, at that point there was just phone and fax. “Louis Meyers and Roland Swenson came to Nick Barbaro and I in 1986 wanting to start a regional conference for people in the music business,” recalled Black on Friday. ![]() (Photo by Theresa Dimenno)Ĭonnections to his native Austin ran deep: a guitarist, banjoist, and pedal steel player known for his work with insurgent country favorites Killbilly, a booker and show producer, partner at legendary venue Liberty Lunch during its early years, a manager of many bands including locals the Killer Bees, GM of the Austin Music Network, director of Folk Alliance International in Kansas City.Īccording to SXSW co-founder and Austin Chronicle editor Louis Black, Meyers was instrumental in instigating the annual music conference, born at the paper in 1987, where Meyers kept an office and the other three principals worked or owned. Founders Day: (l-r) Roland Swenson, Louis Jay Meyers (sitting on the railing), Louis Black, and Nick Barbaro, 1992. ![]()
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