Dubbed as the world's leading music industry event, The SXSW Music and Media Conference 2012 will for the first time in 25 years showcase music talents from Africa. This was made possible by SPINLET, the company with a premier mobile music download platform for bringing media distribution to emerging markets in Africa.
SXSW 2012 will showcase roughly 2,000 musical acts from around the globe, representing well over 50 different countries, on over 90 stages in downtown Austin. Texas from March 13-18, 2012.
Obi Asika, CEO Storm 360 comments on this: "I am thrilled that Spinlet has taken the initiative to deliver this showcase, it is a significant investment in some of the greatest contemporary talents out of the continent and you can be sure the Africans will rock the house. As we push our content globally it is critical that we get access to these major festivals and we are grateful to Spinlet for making this possible and also to Ngozi Odita from Society Hae who did much of the behind the scenes work to set up the panels, showcase and who has been an incredible advocate for the African presence at SXSW 2012, Rock On!"
The Spinlet Africa showcase is from Thursday 15th to Friday 16th March, 2012.The Confirmed performance schedule is as stated below.
The biggest stars representing 5 countries.
Thursday, March 15
Copa - 217 Congress Avenue
8pm - 2am
Chief Boima (Sierra Leone)
Sauti Sol (Kenya)
Just A Band (Kenya)
Spoek Mathambo (South Africa)
Baloji (Congo)
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 (Nigeria)
Friday, March 16
Beso Cantina - 307B W. 5th
10pm - 2am
Bez (Nigeria)
Naeto C (Nigeria)
M.I (Nigeria)
Blitz the Ambassador (Ghana)
2Face (Nigeria)
For more info on SXSW 2012 please visit:
http://sxsw.com/
http://sxsw.com/music/shows/bands
http://sxsw.com/node/9272-hist
For more info on SPINLET, visit their website @ http://spinlet.com
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