One of the largest Internet/Technology conferences is quickly approaching. While it may come as a surprise, South by Southwest is quickly becoming the hot spot for Internet and technology companies to gather. Gigaom’s WebWorkerDaily has done a nice job of sharing some of the must attend sessions for the tech crowd. There is also a fantastic film portion of the event as well.
However, for the purpose of this post, I will focus on 1,800 musical acts that will be playing throughout the 4-day festival. I thought it would be interesting to take each show listed on the schedule and load it into a TrackVia database to see where these bands are coming from and what are some of the dominant music styles that will be represented at the event. Lastly, given all of the tech parties and events, we thought it would be good to find out which artists will be playing numerous times so as to not miss all of the shows by fan favorites like Peter Bjorn and John.
You can see some of the findings in the chart below. I pulled out a few of the things I found most interesting based on the statistical data.
- Rock dominated the music category with over 773 listings out of 2,251 shows.
- Blues artists represent only 1.2 percent of featured artists
- Artists based in Austin have a local advantage – Austin has the highest number of artists performing at the event followed by California
