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Arkivbild. Ozzy Osbourne. (Mikkel Berg Pedersen / TT NYHETSBYRÅN)

Många avhopp från festival på grund av coronaoro

Artister som Beastie Boys, Ozzy Osbourne och Nine Inch Nails har ställt in sin medverkan på festivalen South by Southwest i Austin i USA på grund av oro för det nya coronaviruset, skriver NME. De skulle alla ha medverkat i filmdelen av festivalen och pratat om dokumentärer och tv-serier de på olika sätt är inblandade i.

Sedan tidigare har stora bolag som Netflix, Facebook, Twitter och Tiktok ställt in sin medverkan.

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South by Southwest
Wikipedia (en)
South by Southwest (stylized as SXSW and colloquially referred to as South By) is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States. It began in 1987 and has continued to grow in both scope and size every year. In 2017, the conference lasted for 10 days with the interactive track lasting for five days, music for seven days, and film for nine days. SXSW is run by the company SXSW, LLC, which organizes conferences, trade shows, festivals, and other events. In addition to the three main South by Southwest festivals, the company runs other conferences: SXSW EDU, a conference on educational innovation, held in Austin, and the me Convention (Started in 2017), held in Frankfurt, Germany and in Stockholm, Sweden, in collaboration with Mercedes-Benz. Former conferences run by the SXSW organization include SXSW Eco, a conference focusing on social and environmental issues through the lens of technology, creativity and design held in Austin from 2011 to 2016; and another in Las Vegas: SXSW V2V, a conference focused on innovative startups, which ran from 2013 to 2015. Previously, SXSW produced music festivals North by Northwest (NXNW) in Portland, Oregon, North by Northeast (NXNE) in Toronto, Canada and West by Southwest (WXSW) in Tucson, Arizona.
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