LOLLAPALOOZA SET FOR BRAZIL IN 2012 AS ANNUAL FESTIVAL GETS UNDERWAY IN CHICAGO
Rocker PERRY FARRELL’s Lollapalooza festival will debut in Brazil in 2012.
The 20-year-old music event, which hits Chicago, Illinois this weekend (05-07Aug11), will hit the Jockey Club in Sao Paulo next April (12), in addition to returning to Chicago’s Grant Park in August.
The announcement was made at a Lollapalooza launch press conference on Friday morning (05Aug11).
The show will also return to Chile in 2012. This year’s debut of Lollapalooza Chile in April (11), which featured headliners The Killers, Kanye West and Farrell’s band Jane’s Addiction, was a big success.
The line-up for all three 2012 Lollapalooza’s will be announced in the coming weeks.
This weekend’s festival in Chicago will feature Eminem, Foo Fighters, Coldplay and Muse. More than 90,000 music fans are expected to attend each day of the weekend event.
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