Irish artists & showcase details announced for SXSW 2017
The annual South By Southwest Festival takes place in Austin in March and is the world’s biggest showcase of new music. As such, there’s not much better places to see new bands even if it’s debatable if 75% of the thousands of bands going there should actually bother.
SXSW is for bands with traction, with some sort of deal already in place, whether that’s management, publishing, record deal, a booking agent or other. A band who are unknown in their home country shouldn’t really be going just cos they were invited. It’s a waste of time and money yet bands and acts go every year despite better advice. Some advice here from last year.
Irish acts added to SXSW
Speaking of bands from the home country, the Irish and Northern Irish bands attending this year added are:
- The Academic
- Picture This
- EMBRZ
- LOAH
- Cloud Castle Lake
- A.S. Fanning
- New Portals
- Ryan Vail
- Ciaran Lavery
- Jealous Of The Birds
- Birds Of Olympus
- Silences
- Robocobra Quartet
Music From Ireland will showcase at this year’s SXSW Music in Austin, Texas at The Velveetta Room on St Patrick’s Day (March 17th) and the now infamous FULL IRISH BREAKFAST at BD Riley’s on 6th St, Thursday March 16th featuring performances from:
More info from Music From Ireland.
Here’s a Spotify list of all the Irish acts:
International SXSW additions
Internationally, notable additions include:
- All We Are
- Duchess Says
- Goldlink
- Jamie Isaac
- The Japanese House
- Lizzo
- Tkay Maidza
- Sassyblack
- AJ Tracey
- Woodes
- Maggie Rogers
Full Spotify playlist of artists:
Full list of additions
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