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Photo by Steve Wrubel Photo by Dave Mead The band Delta Spirit performs at the Austin City Limits Festival. This year's event is in October. Neil Young (far right) and other musicians mix it up at an Austin concert. Photo courtesy of Austin Convention & Visitors Bureau Dubbed "The Live Music Capital of the World," Austin's addiction to the latest sounds permeates its culture. Tourists gather on the Congress Street Bridge to view Mexican free-tailed bats take fight at dusk. largest urban colony of Mexican venture capitalists and geeks free-tailed bats, which makes in the "Silicon Valley" of Texas, a city with its own brand of style. for a bizarre summer tourist Round Rock; the University for the city's neighborhoods attraction as millions of the eerie of Texas at Austin campus is a historic walking tour. You creatures take flight at dusk with 50,000 diehard Longhorn can also go inside the 1888 from their home beneath the football fans smack in the center state Capitol building — taller Dubbed "The Live Music Congress Street Bridge. of town and a never-ending than our nation's own Capitol. Capital of the World," Austin's A great way to get a feel History Museum, which stages indigenous exhibits like antique Texas furniture. Music Mania The eclectic culture of Austin parade of big- and small-time Austin's museums are another addiction to the latest sounds is really rooted, however, in the musicians playing in 250 live reflection of the city's diversity permeates its culture. This mania mashup of unlikely population music venues, on street corners, — from the Blanton Museum tracks back to legendary blues elements: Politicians doing the in grocery stores — even Austin of Art, LBJ Library and George singer-songwriter Stevie Ray people's business at the Texas city council meetings. Add the Washington Carver Museum Vaughan, who made good in State Capitol, a flash mob of Tex-Mex influence and you have to the Bullock Texas State Austin during the 70s with the FALL 20 1 3 BALLANTYNE MAGAZINE 85