Pecan Street Festival

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The Pecan Street Festival is the common name for the Old Pecan Street Spring and Fall Arts Festival, a bi-annual public event held every spring and fall in Austin, Texas.

The event is a gathering for local residents as well as artists, merchants and performers, who offer their goods and services for sale to the public. The festival attracts over 250,000 people per event.

Originally produced, funded and conceptualized by French Smith III it was taken over through legal action by the Old Pecan Street Association in 1997. Although Smith's company, Roadstar Productions, continued to produce it for eight more years in the fall of 2006 the production contract was awarded to SEM.