Apple® today announced the first iTunes® Festival to be held in the US,
featuring an amazing lineup of global superstars, running from March
11-15. Taking place at ACL Live at the Moody Theater, home of Austin
City Limits, the iTunes Festival at SXSW will feature iTunes chart
toppers including Coldplay, Imagine Dragons, Pitbull, Keith Urban, ZEDD
and more to come. All five nights of the iTunes Festival will be
available to enjoy for free as a live and on-demand stream via the
iTunes Store® on your iPhone®, iPad®, iPod touch®, Mac® or PC.
Performances can also be seen in the iTunes Festival app on your iOS
device or with Apple TV® in stunning HD.
“The iTunes Festival in London has become an incredible way for Apple to
share its love of music with our customers,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s
senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “We're excited
about the incredible lineup of artists performing and SXSW is the
perfect place to debut the first iTunes Festival in the US.”
At the iTunes Festival in London over 400 artists have performed in
front of more than 430,000 fans and tens of millions more online.
Performances are available for purchase and download on the iTunes
Store. For additional details on the lineup for the iTunes Festival
check out www.itunes.com/festival.
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with
OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital
music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has
reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store,
and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with
iPad.
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