Apple Music Festival
The Apple Music Festival (formerly known as the iTunes Festival) was a concert series held by Apple, Inc. and inaugurated in 2007. Free tickets were given to Apple Music, iTunes and DICE users who lived in the United Kingdom, through localized prize draws. Performances were 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 became an annual event taking place (from 2009) in September at the Roundhouse arts 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.
Apple Music Festival
- 1–30 July (2007–11)
- 1–30 September (2012–14)
- 19–28 September (2015)
- 18–30 September (2016)
- Institute of Contemporary Arts (2007)
- KOKO (2008)
- The Roundhouse (2009–16)
2007–16
In August 2015, the iTunes Festival was renamed as the Apple Music Festival. In 2017, after a 10-year run, Apple confirmed to Music Business Worldwide that it would no longer host any music festivals.[1]
2014[edit]
Austin[edit]
On February 19, 2014, Apple announced that the iTunes Festival would 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.[8]
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.[9] Held at The Roundhouse, Camden Town, the festival was broadcast via Apple Music.[9]
In 2016 the Apple Music Festival 10 returned 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 was streamed live and on-demand via Apple Music. Beats1 also broadcast live interviews and performances from the festival. The festival was heavily promoted with artwork, pictures and videos on 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 the festival.[10]