Gabriella Cilmi will showcase at SXSW in Austin in March.
Last year, SXSW featured Duffy and the previous year Amy Winehouse played at the convention and festival.The SXSW gig is an important one for Gabriella. After scoring 6 ARIA Awards last year in Australia as well as a hit album in the UK, 2009 is the year of breaking America for Gabriella..
The album ‘Lessons To Be Learned’ will be released around the time of SXSW.
More than 20,000 people from the music industry all over the world attend SXSW in Texas. It is the biggest and most important music conference in the world. In short, for an artist like Gabriella Cilmi, it is the place to be seen.
Australia and New Zealand always puts on a good turn-out for the event. One highlight of the conference is the Aussie BBQ, put on by Stage Mothers.
Other Aussie and New Zealand artists playing SXSW this year are:
AUSTRALIAN:
Dappled Cities
Resignators
Youth Group
Closure In Moscow
An Horse
Loene Carmen
Paris Wells
Kid Confucious
Red Riders
The Kin
Blue King Brown
Anthony Snape
The Boat People
The Fumes
The Chevelles
Birds of Tokyo
The Drones
Infusion
Josh Pyke
Angus and Julia Stone
Naked On The Vague
Andy Bull
My Disco
The Temper Trap
The Grates
NEW ZEALAND
The Tutts
The Brunettes
Connan Mockasin
Jackie Bristow
Ross Royce
Bionic Pixie
Elemeno P
Midnight Youth
Kylie Harris
