Crossing Border Festival Brings The Hague to Austin

Crossing Border is a festival where literature, music, film and the visual arts combine to take center stage. From November 18 - 21, writers, poets, musicians, filmmakers and artists will take over The Hague's cultural center. Then in March, the good folks at Crossing Border will travel to Austin to present some of the best bands from their city.

This Wednesday marks the beginning of the 17th Annual edition of the Crossing Border Festival. Their opening night event will feature the six bands from The Hague including -- NiCad, Rebelle, John Dear Mowing Club, Woot -- who were hand selected by the staff at SXSW to perform on the newly created Crossing Border Stage in 2010.

"The Hague is thrilled to see six of our most talented bands play at SXSW." Michel Behre, Programmer from Crossing Border says, "The bands are so excited for this unique opportunity, and we are very excited to see these young bands continue the long tradition of rock music in The Hague."

Since Crossing Border's inception it has sought to find a unique combination of the spoken word with music, film and visual art. As well as courting the biggest names from the international worlds of literature and music, they also feature a wealth of undiscovered artists. One of Crossing Border's hopes is to highlight new developments in literature and music and their interconnection with other arts.

We look forward to welcoming this dynamic organization and their bands to SXSW 2010.

www.crossingborder.nl
John Dear Mowing Club photo courtesy of artist.