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2019

FESTIVAL
SPECIAL

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SAM SMITH WAS ONE OF MANY at Lollapalooza’s second consecutive year in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 29-31 at the Hipodromo de San Isidro.

Nine Years Of Lolla Latin Style

By Bob Allen

t’s the early days of autumn in South and Brazilian rock supergroup Tribalistas both
America and, for local music fans, that’s played exclusively at the Brazilian event.
festival time, as the Lollapalooza music Chile was the first South American country
Ifestivals that occur each year in Argentina, to host a Lollapalooza-branded, multi-day TOP5 Global Concert Pulse

Chile and Brazil arrive. The 2019 events are event, launching in April 2011 with a two-day
all in the books now, having each wrapped in event. After staging Lollapalooza’s popular Avg Gross Avg Tix Price Avg Cities
recent weeks. The festivals in Buenos Aires flagship event in Chicago’s Grant Park for 1 Paul McCartney 3.63m 31.9k $113 10
and Santiago both ran for three days during six years, beginning in 2005, the festival’s
the last weekend of March, and São Paulo’s producers had decided to expand into interna- 2 Eric Church 2.89m 29.3k $98 11
festival occurred the following weekend, from tional markets, and Lollapalooza Chile was the 3 Elton John 2.66m 19.0k $139 13
April 5-7. result. The Killers, Kanye West, Deftones and
This year, the top draws on the Latin Amer- Jane’s Addiction led a slate of some 60 acts for 4 Fleetwood Mac 2.23m 15.4k $144 15
ican lineups were Twenty One Pilots, Arctic that inaugural 2011 event. 5 Justin Timberlake 2.17m 16.4k $132 25

Monkeys, Kendrick Lamar, Post Malone, Sam Last year, the Chile festival – held at Santi- See Page 34
Smith, Lenny Kravitz and Tiësto. Kings of Leon ago’s Parque O’Higgins on March 16-18, 2018
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