Nile Rodgers has been announced as one of this year’s keynote speakers at the annual South By Southwest music festival in Austin, TX joining previously announced speakers Gareth Edwards, filmmaker (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Godzilla); NYT bestselling author/professor Adam Grant; DJ/producer/Beats 1 creative director Zane Lowe; and Mount Everest photographer/climber Cory Richards — as well as director Lee Daniels, chemist Jennifer Doudna, and writer/director Jill Soloway.
Click to see the line up of performing bands and panels for 2017.
WCBS-FM’s Dan Taylor interviews Nile Rodgers for Up Close with a Legend in the Adorama Theatre in New York City on September 21, 2016 (Photo: E.J. Judge / CBS Digital)
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The 2017 SXSW Music Festival will take place from March 13 through 19, 2017.
See the full lineup here.
–Joe Cingrana/WCBS-FM