About 70 ACC students spent the first weekend of ACL Fest learning the ins and outs of putting on a music festival as they prepare for careers in the industry.
Austin Community College student Jillian Masters watches Something Corporate perform at ACL Festival at Zilker Metropolitan Park last Saturday. She was shadowing an audio engineer as part of an initiative known as Festival University to help students prepare for careers in the music industry.
She said there's a lot to consider, especially for an event like ACL that's outside. Things like humidity, she said, have to be taken into account.Masters is one of dozens of ACC students who recently got to see what their chosen career path might look like if they worked on large-scale, live music events.
“I just hope this leads to a career. I hope it leads to meaningful, valuable, life-changing opportunities and employment for these students,” he said. “I think that we’re going to really be examining how we might make this not just a weekend event, but perhaps a weeklong event and provide our students some experiences during that off-week whenever there’s no traffic at the park to see if there’s anything that we can create for them that will give them even more insight into the behind the scenes look of what it takes to a run a major, nationally-renowned music festival,” he said.
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