Louis Jay Meyers (June 21, 1955 – March 11, 2016) was an American festival organizer and co-founder of

South By Southwest South by Southwest, abbreviated as SXSW and colloquially referred to as South By, is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and Convention (meeting), conferences organized jointly that take place in m ...

. He was born in Austin, Texas. Meyers was the event’s primary music booker until he sold his share in the event after the 1994 conference, citing stress and health concerns. Meyers was also an accomplished multi-instrumentalist and producer. From 2005 to 2013, Meyers was executive director of Folk Alliance International. Meyers was admitted to a hospital on March 10, 2016 and initially was diagnosed with

blood clots A thrombus (plural thrombi), colloquially called a blood clot, is the final product of the blood coagulation step in hemostasis. There are two components to a thrombus: aggregated platelets and red blood cells that form a plug, and a mesh of cr ...

. He then died of a suspected heart attack the next day at his home, at the age of 60.

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