SXSW - AUSTIN
SXSW Austin, Texas, USA
STATS & FACTS for The Beatbox Collective at SXSW.
SXSW was an incredible experience we achieved everything we set out to and more including:
*1st all beatbox group to officially perform and showcase at SXSW
*12 showcase performances (we believe this is a SXSW record)
*11 (another SXSW record!) collab performances with 9 other acts (15 musicians) from Egypt, Japan, France, Sweden, Scotland, New Orleans & Austin USA)
*USA Radio, press & blogs coverage including The Austin American Statesman, KVRX 91.7fm, KOOP 91.7fm, WEQX 102.7fm, Teens Media Network, SXSW official reviews publications, Flagpole.com/Flagpole Magazine, and BBC Sounds, BBCRadio6 in the UK
*Significant social media growth & engagement (over 72,000 impressions and 14k likes on insta posts alone during SXSW)
*Grew our network with new connections from USA (Austin, New York & New Orleans), Belgium, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, UK
“Highlights from Monday, Mar. 12 at South by Southwest included performances by The Beatbox Collective…performing at the SXSW Music Opening Party at Palm Door on Sixth, in Austin, Texas” Flagpole.com/Flagpole Magazine, Athens, Northeast Georgia, USA
“Last night The Beatbox Collective joined the Classical Unlocked showcase for a truly unique performance. These are the moments when music is transformative.” SXSW USA official media review
"...we had a classical music showcase where The Ayoub Sisters these Egyptian Scottish Classical performers had The Beatbox Collective jump on stage with them and break into these like jungle breakbeats in the middle of an Egyptian Folk song, it was y'know a magical moment" SXSW Senior Programmer speaking to Steve Lamacq on BBC6Music
"Rob's music highlight was seeing The Beatbox Collective" LAVFX Blog https://www.lavfx.com/blog/lux-aeterna-at-sxsw
"Thursday I went to see The Beatbox collective from the UK. This is a crew that beatboxes sounds, beats and sketches. Each Beatboxer, Bass 6, Ball-Zee, Hobbit and MC Zani bring their own sound from Hip Hop, House and Pop. It was an amazing show, my mind was blown!" Amrew Weekes, CJLO Magazine, Canada
http://cjlo.com/articles/cjlo-takes-austin-hip-hop-recap
This wouldn’t have been possible with all the people who helped make this all happen so the hugest of thanks to: The SXSW music team for officially inviting us to Showcase at SXSW USA, The MMF for their support and supporting Gina from right from the start, Monkey Shoulder & Shure for their generosity and kindness, Thea from Classical Unlocked for the long conversations with Gina about forming the dream collaborations, Vulva Voce string quartet for being our very first SXSW collaboration and The Ayoub Sisters string duo for creating the perfect storm with us and all proving beatboxing transcends all musical genres, styles and can work with any instruments. Jaz Dhami, Nav and Suki for an awesome collaboration, Yogetsu and his team from Japan for connecting and jumping up with us, Tracy De Sa (and Ludo) for the fire in our collab, Kr3cial for the crucial injection of New Orleans neo-soul that was a welcome addition to our SXSW collaborative repertoire, Ben Buck for the authentic all Austin collab, to KOOP 91.7fm Radio, KVRX 91.7fm Radio, The Austin American Statesman for covering our SXSW experience and achievements, to all the stage and venue managers, sound teams and crews, film & photography team and to all the wonderful people we connected with.
