Apple Music Festival

Apple Music Festival
Dates
  • 1–30 July (2007–11)
  • 1–30 September (2012–14)
  • 19–28 September (2015)
  • 18–30 September (2016)
Location(s)

London, England

Austin, United States

Years active 2007–present
Website
www.applemusicfestival.com

The Apple Music Festival (formerly known as the iTunes Festival) is a music concert series held by Apple, Inc. inaugurated in 2007. Free tickets are given to Apple Music, iTunes and DICE users who live in the United Kingdom, through localized prize draws. Performances are also streamed live and available to view afterwards, free of charge, for Apple Music members on their Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, PC, and Android phones. In London, the Apple Music Festival has become an annual music festival which takes place in September at The Roundhouse art centre in Camden Town. The series made its United States debut with five days of free performances at the Moody Theater in March 2014, alongside the South by Southwest (SXSW) music showcase in Austin, Texas. In August 2015, the iTunes Festival was renamed as the Apple Music Festival.

2007

Held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

2008

Held at KOKO, Camden Town.

2009

Held at The Roundhouse, Camden Town.

2010

Held at The Roundhouse, Camden Town and live streamed on MySpace.com

2011

Held at The Roundhouse, Camden Town and broadcast by ITV2 and presented by Alexa Chung and Dave Berry.[3]

2012

Held at The Roundhouse, Camden Town and broadcast across Channel 4's stations (including Channel 4, T4 and E4).[4]

2013

Held at The Roundhouse, Camden Town.

2014

Austin

On February 19, 2014, Apple announced that the iTunes Festival will take place in the U.S. for the first time with a five-day festival at the Moody Theater, Austin, Texas from March 11–15, alongside South by Southwest.[6]

London

On 21 July 2014, Apple announced some of the line up for the eighth iTunes Festival held at The Roundhouse, Camden Town

2015

On 18 August 2015, Apple announced some of the 2015 line up and confirmed that the festival had been rebranded as the Apple Music Festival.[7] Held at The Roundhouse, Camden Town, the festival was broadcast via Apple Music.[7]

2016

On 24 August 2016, Apple Music announced via social media Apple Music Festival 10 will be returning to The Roundhouse, Camden Town for its tenth year. The full line up was announced on 25 August 2016 via Beats1 by Julia Adenuga as a surprise during Chart with Brooke Reese. The festival will be streamed live and on-demand via Apple Music and this is the second year where Beats1 broadcasts live interviews and performances from the festival. The festival was heavily promoted with creative artwork, pictures and videos on the Apple Music's Instagram and Snapchat stories. Festival performers such as Britney Spears personally messaged UK fans via Twitter for exclusive free tickets to the artist's respective performances at Apple Music Festival 10.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "The first-ever classical artist to headline iTunes festival?". Arts Journal Blogs. July 28, 2011. Retrieved April 27, 2013.
  2. ↑ "The Pretenders at Koko". Last.fm.
  3. ↑ "iTunes Festival on ITV2". London: itv.com. January 7, 2011. Retrieved October 7, 2011.
  4. ↑ "iTunes Festival returns to Channel 4" 2012-19-05. Retrieved 2012-20-05.
  5. ↑ "Katy Perry's stream on Twitter".
  6. ↑ "Apple Announces iTunes Festival Coming to SXSW―Five Amazing Nights, Five Amazing Shows". Apple. 2014-02-19. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
  7. 1 2 "Apple Music Festival Brings Incredible Live Performances to Fans Worldwide in September". Apple. 2015-08-18. Retrieved 2016-08-25.
  8. ↑ "Apple Music on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2016-08-25.

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