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CORPORATE PARTNERS

Diamond

  • Holloway & Gumbert

Platinum

Gold

  • Acclivity Healthcare
  • Emdeon Business Services
  • DECO Recovery Management, LLC
  • Doctors Reporting Services of Texas
  • HealthShare/THA
  • HMI Financial Services
  • Passport Health Communications
  • Preferred Health Technology
  • Select Billing & Collections

Silver

  • Cardon Healthcare Network, Inc.
  • Financial Corporation of America
  • NCO Financial Systems, Inc.
  • NRS Nationwide Recovery Systems Healthcare Services
  • ParrishShaw + Co.
  • The SSI Group, Inc.

Bronze

  • Ingram & Associates
  • Corpra Care, Inc.

Austin, Texas Information & Links

Austin, Texas Links
+ www.austintexas.org
+ Austin Map
+ Austin Music
+ 6th Street Entertainment

As Austin’s official slogan is The Live Music Capital of the World, the city has a vibrant live music scene with more music venues per capita than any other U.S. city. Austin’s music revolves around the many nightclubs on 6th Street and an annual film/music/multimedia festival known as South by Southwest. The city also has a burgeoning circle of live performance theater venues such as: Zachary Scott Theatre Center, Vortex Repertory Company, Salvage Vanguard Theater, Arts on Real, Scottish Rite Children’s Theater, Hyde Park Theatre, and the Esther’s Follies comedy & magic show which has been operating for over 3 decades now. The longest-running concert music program on American television, Austin City Limits, is videotaped on the University of Texas at Austin campus. Austin City Limits and Capital Sports & Entertainment run the Austin City Limits Music Festival, an annual music and art festival held at Zilker Park in Austin. The long-running outdoor musical, the Zilker Park Summer Musical expects to celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2008. The Urban Music Festival is held during the Texas Relays weekend every April. Other annual events include Eeyore’s Birthday Party and the Austin Reggae Festival (previously named Bob Marley Festival) in April and Carnaval in February. Halloween, the two Mexican independence days (Cinco de Mayo and El 16 de Septiembre), St Patrick’s Day, Mardi Gras, July 4, and Juneteenth (Emancipation Day) are all widely celebrated. First Thursday is a popular festival which takes place the first Thursday of each month.

Austinites take pride in eccentricities and celebrate differences and being different (in lifestyle, character, beliefs, etc.). “Keep Austin Weird” has become a local motto in recent years, featured on innumerable bumper stickers and t-shirts. This motto has not only been used in promoting Austin’s eccentricity and diversity, but is also meant to bolster support of local and independent businesses.

Ballet Austin is the fourth largest ballet academy in the country. Each year Ballet Austin’s twenty member professional company performs ballets from a wide variety of choreographers, including their international award winning artistic director, Stephen Mills. Ballet Austin has traveled around the world performing in Europe, twice at the Kennedy Center (Washington D.C.), and in New York City’s famous Joyce Theatre.