SXSW MUSIC FESTIVAL - INITIAL LIST OF SHOWCASING ARTISTS ANNOUNCED Genre-spanning and genre-defying initial lineup revealed
Austin, Texas - October 16, 2019 - The South by Southwest® Music Festival (SXSW®) has announced an initial list of Showcasing Artists invited to perform at the 34th annual event. The festival takes place where entertainment, technology, and media industries converge, creating a global platform for emerging acts, established artists and industry professionals to expand their horizons. The first essential music event on the industry’s calendar, the SXSW Music Festival occurs March 16 - 22, 2020 in Austin, Texas.
Every year, the SXSW Music Festival programmers present a genre-spanning and genre-defying lineup of artists from around the world, with established performers playing alongside bold new acts. The result is a unique live music experience where industry pros and music lovers discover an unparalleled range of artists and styles. A few highlights from this first round of artists include: ANAVITÓRIA (São Paulo BRAZIL), Automelodi (Montreal CANADA), Baker Boy (Melbourne AUSTRALIA), Cassper Nyovest (Mafikeng, SOUTH AFRICA), Declan J Donovan (Essex UK-ENGLAND), GRIP (Atlanta GA), Hachiku (Melbourne AUSTRALIA), HTRK (Melbourne AUSTRALIA), The Jones Family Singers (Houston TX), Just Mustard (Dundalk IRELAND), Kælan Mikla (Reykjavik ICELAND), Kristin Hersh (Providence RI), Martha Wash (New York NY), The Murder Capital (Dublin IRELAND), Nanpa Básico (Medellín COLOMBIA), The Orielles (Manchester UK-ENGLAND), Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs (Newcastle Upon Tyne UK-ENGLAND), Pom Poko (Oslo NORWAY), Purple Pilgrims (Coromandel NEW ZEALAND), Quinn Christopherson (Anchorage AK), SUMIN (Seoul SOUTH KOREA), Taimane (Honolulu HI), and YAYOI DAIMON (Tokyo JAPAN).
This is the first of several announcements revealing the wide array of Showcasing Artists who will perform for the international creative community at SXSW. These showcases give attendees the opportunity to experience tomorrow’s headliners in small-stage performances at unique venues in downtown Austin. Artists invited to perform include:
Accü (Carmarthen UK-WALES) Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard (Cardiff ACTORS (Vancouver CANADA) UK-WALES) Adam French (Congleton UK-ENGLAND) Cadence Weapon (Toronto CANADA) Aiming For Enrike (Oslo NORWAY) Campfire Social (Wrexham UK-WALES) AKA (Cape Town SOUTH AFRICA) Candeleros (Madrid SPAIN) Alex the Astronaut (Sydney AUSTRALIA) Cape Weather (Los Angeles CA) Ali Barter (Melbourne AUSTRALIA) Capyac (Austin TX) Alien Tango (Murcia SPAIN) Caracoles (Canary Islands SPAIN) Altre di B (Bologna ITALY) Carla Geneve (Perth AUSTRALIA) Amanda Black (Mthatha SOUTH AFRICA) Casey Neill & The Norway Rats (Portland OR) ANAVITÓRIA (São Paulo BRAZIL) Cassper Nyovest (Mafikeng SOUTH AFRICA) Andrea Cruz (Puerto Rico PUERTO RICO) Ceci Juno (Guayaquil ECUADOR) Angelica Garcia (El Monte CA) The Chairs (Taiwan TAIWAN) Antti Paalanen (Kokkola FINLAND) Charlie Faye & The Fayettes (Austin TX) Approachable Members Of Your Local Chestnut (Los Angeles CA) Community (Melbourne AUSTRALIA) ChihiroYamazaki+ROUTE14band (Tokyo Arre! Arre! (Malmö SWEDEN) JAPAN) Art d'Ecco (Victoria CANADA) Clean Cut Kid (Liverpool UK-ENGLAND) Automelodi (Montreal CANADA) Cloud Rat (Mount Pleasant MI) Bad Waitress (Toronto CANADA) Colin Gilmore & Nicolette Good: Ladder To Baker Boy (Melbourne AUSTRALIA) The Moon (Austin TX) Bakers Eddy (Melbourne AUSTRALIA) Common Holly (Montreal CANADA) Banditos (Birmingham AL) Como Las Movies (Austin TX) Bang Bang Romeo (Doncaster Con Brio (San Francisco CA) UK-ENGLAND) Corridor (Montreal CANADA) Barbara Nesbitt (Austin TX) Cousin Tony's Brand New Firebird Barbi Recanati (Buenos Aires ARGENTINA) (Melbourne AUSTRALIA) Baseball Gregg (Bologna ITALY) Cromosapiens (Monterrey MEXICO) Beabadoobee (London UK-ENGLAND) Cruz Cafuné (Tacoronte SPAIN) Beachtape (Brighton UK-ENGLAND) Dan García (Mexico City MEXICO) Ben&Ben (Manila PHILIPPINES) Daniel Casimir & Tess Hirst (London Bethlehem Steel (Brooklyn NY) UK-ENGLAND) Better Person (Berlin GERMANY) Dawn Avenue (Tres Marias MEXICO) Bill and the Belles (Johnson City TN) Declan J Donovan (Essex UK-ENGLAND) Birthday Club (Houston TX) Deeper (Chicago IL) Black Country, New Road (Cambridge Devarrow (Halifax CANADA) UK-ENGLAND) Devours (Vancouver CANADA) Blushh (Los Angeles CA) Donna Blue (Amsterdam NETHERLANDS) BLXPLTN (Austin TX) Do Nothing (Nottingham UK-ENGLAND) Bootblacks (New York NY) Drinking Boys and Girls Choir (Daegu SOUTH Borealis Rex (New Orleans LA) KOREA) Bourgeois Mystics (Austin TX) Dry Cleaning (London UK-ENGLAND) DTSQ (Seoul SOUTH KOREA) The Dunts (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND) Horse Jumper of Love (Boston MA) Early James (Birmingham AL) Housecall (Dallas TX) Easy Wanderlings (Pune INDIA) HTRK (Melbourne AUSTRALIA) eldanidonoso (Santiago CHILE) ings (Seattle WA) El Dorado (Mexico City MEXICO) Islet (Cardiff UK-WALES) Elephant Stone (Montreal CANADA) Jadu Heart (London UK-ENGLAND) Ellis (Hamilton CANADA) Jane Weaver (Manchester UK-ENGLAND) Emma Jean Thackray (London Jan Verstraeten (Sint-Niklaas BELGIUM) UK-ENGLAND) Jason Hawk Harris (Los Angeles CA) Enno Cheng (Taiwan TAIWAN) Jeannel (Berlin GERMANY) Eoin Smith (Dublin IRELAND) Jekyll (Blackpool UK-ENGLAND) eX-Girl (Kichijoji JAPAN) Jeremie Albino (Toronto CANADA) Family Jools (Bristol UK-ENGLAND) The Jones Family Singers (Houston TX) Fanclub (Austin TX) Jordan Mackampa (London UK-ENGLAND) Far Caspian (Leeds UK-ENGLAND) Just Mustard (Dundalk IRELAND) FEET (Coventry UK-ENGLAND) Kae Astra (Austin TX) Ferris & Sylvester (London UK-ENGLAND) Kælan Mikla (Reykjavik ICELAND) The fin. (Kobe JAPAN) KAINA (Chicago IL) Fire EX. (Taiwan TAIWAN) Kate Bollinger (Charlotesville VA) Flyying Colours (Melbourne AUSTRALIA) Kate Clover (Los Angeles CA) The Foreign Resort (Copenhagen KAZKA (Kyiv UKRAINE) DENMARK) Kiki Valera (Seattle WA) FRANKIIE (Vancouver CANADA) Kings of the Beach (Vigo SPAIN) The Frights (San Diego CA) Kiwi Jr. (Toronto CANADA) fuvk (Austin TX) Knife Wife (Washington DC) Gena Rose Bruce (Melbourne AUSTRALIA) Kokoroko (London UK-ENGLAND) Gewalt (Berlin GERMANY) Kristin Hersh (Providence RI) Ghetto Kumbé (Bogotá COLOMBIA) Lady Donli (Abuja NIGERIA) La Glue Trip (João Pessoa BRAZIL) Garfield (Guadalajara MEXICO) Good Morning (Melbourne AUSTRALIA) Laveda (Albany NY) Goon (Los Angeles CA) Leif Vollebekk (Montreal CANADA) GRIP (Atlanta GA) Leon Of Athens (Athens GREECE) Grrrl Gang (Yogyakarta INDONESIA) LET’S MARS (Tel Aviv ISRAEL) Hachiku (Melbourne AUSTRALIA) Lido Pimienta (Toronto CANADA) Hala (Detroit MI) Lilla Vargen (Belfast UK-N. IRELAND) Hardwicke Circus (Carlisle UK-ENGLAND) Lorine Chia (Los Angeles CA) Hater (Malmö SWEDEN) Los Moustros del Espacio Exterior (Culiacán Hedonutopia (Istanbul TURKEY) MEXICO) Henry Brun & The Latin Playerz (San Antonio LOS WILDS (Madrid SPAIN) TX) Louis Prince (Orange County CA) High Heavens (Austin TX) Lower Tar (Los Angeles CA) Hiperson (Chengdu CHINA) Luna Luna (Dallas TX) HMLTD (London UK-ENGLAND) Magnolian (Ulaanbaatar MONGOLIA) Malin Pettersen (Oslo NORWAY) Noya Rao (Leeds UK-ENGLAND) Manifest Destiny's Child (Denton TX) Olivier Cong (Hong Kong HONG KONG) Mapache (Los Angeles CA) Orchards (Brighton UK-ENGLAND) Margaret Glaspy (New York NY) The Orielles (Manchester UK-ENGLAND) Maria y Jose (Tijuana MEXICO) Otha (Oslo NORWAY) Martha Wash (New York NY) Ötzi (Oakland CA) The Mastersons (Los Angeles CA) Pachará (Mexico City MEXICO) Mauskovic Dance Band (Amsterdam Partner (Windsor CANADA) NETHERLANDS) Pearla (Brooklyn NY) Max Chinasky (Cancún MEXICO) Pearl & the Oysters (Gainesville FL) me&you (Sacramento CA) Perfect Son (Warsaw POLAND) Merk (Auckland NEW ZEALAND) Petrol Girls (Graz AUSTRIA) MICHELLE (New York NY) P.H.F (Auckland NEW ZEALAND) Michigander (Kalamazoo MI) Pictish Trail (Isle Of Eigg UK-SCOTLAND) Mikie Rivera (San Juan PUERTO RICO) Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Mirella Cesa (Guayaquil ECUADOR) (Newcastle Upon Tyne UK-ENGLAND) Mir Fontane (Camden NJ) Pizzagirl (Liverpool UK-ENGLAND) Mobley (Austin TX) Pom Poko (Oslo NORWAY) Model/Actriz (Boston MA) Porridge Radio (Brighton UK-ENGLAND) Mojo Juju (Melbourne AUSTRALIA) Purple Pilgrims (Coromandel NEW Moonchild Sanelly (Port Elizabeth SOUTH ZEALAND) AFRICA) Qlowski (London UK-ENGLAND) Moon Kissed (New York NY) Quinn Christopherson (Anchorage AK) Moon Panda (Copenhagen DENMARK) Richard Spaven (London UK-ENGLAND) Morena Leraba (Mafeteng LESOTHO) Riders Against the Storm (Austin TX) The Murder Capital (Dublin IRELAND) Roan Yellowthorn (Camden ME) Myylo (Los Angeles CA) Rosehip Teahouse (Cardiff UK-WALES) Nadia Nakai (Johannesburg SOUTH AFRICA) Ruby Boots (Perth AUSTRALIA) Nanpa Básico (Medellín COLOMBIA) Ruth Koleva (Sofia BULGARIA) Natalie McCool (Liverpool UK-ENGLAND) RVG (Melbourne AUSTRALIA) Native Sun (Brooklyn NY) Samba De La Muerte (Caen FRANCE) Necking (Vancouver CANADA) Sammy Brue (Ogden NY) Neck of the Woods (Vancouver CANADA) Samthing Soweto (Johannesburg SOUTH Negative Gemini (Los Angeles CA) AFRICA) NekoJam (Taipei City TAIWAN) San Cha (Los Angeles CA) Neoma (Cuenca ECUADOR) San Mei (Gold Coast AUSTRALIA) Neuza (Fogo CABO VERDE) San Saba County (Austin TX) New Fame (Da Nang VIETNAM) Sarah Klang (Gothenburg SWEDEN) Nico LaOnda (New York NY) Sarah Shook & The Disarmers (Chapel Hill Nicolás Molina (Castillos URUGUAY) NC) Night Dreamer (Los Angeles CA) Savannah Sgro (Nashville TN) Nobody's Girl (Austin TX) Sen Morimoto (Chicago IL) Nonso Amadi (Toronto CANADA) Shady Nasty (Sydney AUSTRALIA) Shah (Toronto CANADA) The Tomboys (Kobe JAPAN) Shana Falana (Kingston NY) Tony True and the Tijuana Tres (Monterrey Shell of a Shell (Nashville TN) MEXICO) SHIJIN (Schwarz-Bart/Galland/Braff/David) Topographies (San Francisco CA) (Paris FRANCE) Totemo (Tel Aviv ISRAEL) Simi (Lagos NIGERIA) Tufan Derince (Diyarbakir TURKEY) Sleeping Brain (Taipei TAIWAN) UCHIKUBIGOKUMON-DOUKOUKAI (Tokyo $NOT (Lake Worth FL) JAPAN) Sofia Macchi (Mexico City MEXICO) The Underground Youth (Berlin GERMANY) Sofia Portanet (Berlin GERMANY) Vandoliers (Fort Worth TX) Sonoda (Los Angeles CA) Vanishing Twin (London UK-ENGLAND) Spirit Was (Queens NY) Video Age (New Orleans LA) Spooky Mansion (Los Angeles CA) Virginia Wing (Manchester UK-ENGLAND) Stealing Sheep (Liverpool UK-ENGLAND) Waco Brothers (Chicago IL) Stella Sommer (Berlin GERMANY) The Wandering Hearts (London Strange Ranger (Philadelphia PA) UK-ENGLAND) SUMIN (Seoul SOUTH KOREA) We Are The Grand (Santiago CHILE) Taimane (Honolulu HI) Weird Milk (London UK-ENGLAND) Tallies (Toronto CANADA) Western Youth (Austin TX) Tamtam (Riyadh SAUDI ARABIA) When Chai Met Toast (Cochin INDIA) TC Superstar (Austin TX) Why Bonnie (Austin TX) Theon Cross (London UK-ENGLAND) WILD (Los Angeles CA) There (Tel Aviv ISRAEL) XCELENCIA (Caguas PUERTO RICO) Thornetta Davis (Detroit MI) The Yawpers (Denver CO) TisaKorean (Houston TX) YAYOI DAIMON (Tokyo JAPAN) Tolliver (Los Angeles CA) Young Deji (Houston TX) Tomar and the FCs (Austin TX) Young Georgian Lolitaz (Tbilisi GEORGIA)
(This list is subject to change. More performers will be announced at later dates.)
The final deadline to apply to perform at the SXSW Music Festival is Friday, October 25, 2019. For more information, please visit https://www.sxsw.com/apply-to-participate/showcase-applications/.
Listen to the artists who will be performing at SXSW 2020 by subscribing to the official SXSW Apple Music, Spotify and YouTube Music Video playlists and listening to SXSWfm mixes on Mixcloud.
Attendees also have access to the SXSW Conference, where high-profile artists and industry leaders will speak on cultural trends, emerging technologies, new monetization models and much more. Already announced for 2020 are a Keynote by musician and artist Kim Gordon, and producer and songwriter Benny Blanco as a Featured Speaker. Stay tuned for one of our largest SXSW Conference announcements on Tuesday, October 22, 2019, where more speakers and sessions will be revealed.
All SXSW Music registrants receive primary access to Music and Convergence Conference programming, including Keynotes and Featured Speakers, Music Festival showcases, the Comedy Festival, exhibitions, networking Meet Ups, the Gaming Expo, the Flatstock Poster Show, Registrant Lounge, the SXSW Outdoor Stage at Lady Bird Lake concerts, and the closing BBQ & softball tournament. Secondary access is available for most Interactive and Film events.
The online SXSW Schedule provides a complete rundown of 2020 programming, broken down by time and event category, with the ability to build a customized schedule. To get started, please visit https://schedule.sxsw.com/.
SXSW dedicates itself to helping creative people achieve their goals. Founded in 1987 in Austin, Texas, SXSW is best known for its conference and festivals that celebrate the convergence of the interactive, film, and music industries. An essential destination for global professionals, the event features sessions, showcases, screenings, exhibitions, professional development and a variety of networking opportunities. SXSW proves that the most unexpected discoveries happen when diverse topics and people come together. SXSW 2020 will take place March 13 - 22, 2020. For more information, please visit sxsw.com. To register for the event, please visit sxsw.com/attend.
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