
Though I’ve known for a while that Chicago’s violist-singer-songwriter Anni Rossi puts on incredible one-woman shows, I kept missing her at SXSW. She played at Death by Audio yesterday, though, with Micachu and the Shapes, and is playing tonight at Mercury Lounge with Camera Obscura, and then on the 27th at Union Pool with Midnight Masses and Wild Yaks. Pictures of Anni and the Micachu crew from last night are after the jump.
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Day 3 in Austin was March 19, 2009. We headed to Red House Pizzeria to meet with England’s Fanfarlo and shoot a Secret Garden video nearby.

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Admittedly, I’m not familiar with every single band involved in this year’s SXSW festivities, officially or unofficially, though I did listen to well over two hundred bands I don’t care to listen to ever again. Unlike them, the list compiled here includes twenty performers I think are most worth seeing, and for free, no less; as far as I know, all of them are either playing unofficial shows, or plan to play whatever last-minute gatherings that come their way.
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