.- The alternative music festival Lollapalooza, which for the first time ever leaving the U.S. to land in Chile, keyed to the last detail and ready to receive the 2nd and 3rd of April a few hundred thousand visitors, estimated today event organizers. "We hope to gather about 40,000 to 50,000 people per day festival," he told reporters Sebastian de la Barra, a director of Lotus Productions, the company responsible for developing the event, also praised the "good time" living Santiago and international musical and cultural destination.
"I believe that today Santiago is at his best. If at any minute there to visit Santiago is now, and that feels and looks, because people are super friendly and artists can walk down the street and feel safe, "said De la Barra. The Lollapalooza festival will feature on his arrival in Chile with international artists such as The Killers, Kanye West, Deftones and Cypress Hill, but also with musicians from the Chilean national scene as Chico Trujillo, Ana Tijoux, Los Bunkers and Javiera Mena, between others.
Indeed, both singer and boys Javiera Mena Los Bunkers Mexico participated via videoconference from the press conference prior to the event and expressed his "fascination" and "joy" at the arrival to Chile for a show of the mystique of Lollapalooza. "It seems incredible that a festival of the class is taking place in our country.
The quality of the artists who will present is remarkable. I have no memory of another festival that brings together many major groups. I think the public will be the big winner, "said Mauricio Durán, guitarist of the bunkers. In the same vein spoke Javiera Mena, who noted that the musical event comes just in time when the Chilean music has been positioned at the forefront of the international music scene.
"I'm super happy because I've been to other festivals Primavera Sound (Barcelona), played at the Vive Latino (Mexico City) in the Personal Fest (Buenos Aires), and thought 'why there was a festival and in Chile?' "she said Chilean artist. On the other hand, De la Barra said that Chile's sustained economic growth, improved infrastructure and cultural openness Santiago are the three reasons that made the capital was erected to host the first international experience of Lollapalooza in his nearly 20-year history.
But above all, the organizer said O'Higgins Park as the ideal space to accommodate over 50 artists of the Festival, as it is a large site located in the center of the city, two key features of the image surrounding Lollapalooza. "I do not have a place in the region that today compare to what is the Parque O'Higgins, that was also an important factor in deciding to make the festival here.
It has many green areas, old trees and is an amazing place to be seized more, "said De la Barra. Lollapalooza organizers also confirmed their intention that the musical event "continue for many years in Chile, although they were careful about that and said they prefer to await the results of this first edition to draw conclusions. 
"I believe that today Santiago is at his best. If at any minute there to visit Santiago is now, and that feels and looks, because people are super friendly and artists can walk down the street and feel safe, "said De la Barra. The Lollapalooza festival will feature on his arrival in Chile with international artists such as The Killers, Kanye West, Deftones and Cypress Hill, but also with musicians from the Chilean national scene as Chico Trujillo, Ana Tijoux, Los Bunkers and Javiera Mena, between others.
Indeed, both singer and boys Javiera Mena Los Bunkers Mexico participated via videoconference from the press conference prior to the event and expressed his "fascination" and "joy" at the arrival to Chile for a show of the mystique of Lollapalooza. "It seems incredible that a festival of the class is taking place in our country.
The quality of the artists who will present is remarkable. I have no memory of another festival that brings together many major groups. I think the public will be the big winner, "said Mauricio Durán, guitarist of the bunkers. In the same vein spoke Javiera Mena, who noted that the musical event comes just in time when the Chilean music has been positioned at the forefront of the international music scene.
"I'm super happy because I've been to other festivals Primavera Sound (Barcelona), played at the Vive Latino (Mexico City) in the Personal Fest (Buenos Aires), and thought 'why there was a festival and in Chile?' "she said Chilean artist. On the other hand, De la Barra said that Chile's sustained economic growth, improved infrastructure and cultural openness Santiago are the three reasons that made the capital was erected to host the first international experience of Lollapalooza in his nearly 20-year history.
But above all, the organizer said O'Higgins Park as the ideal space to accommodate over 50 artists of the Festival, as it is a large site located in the center of the city, two key features of the image surrounding Lollapalooza. "I do not have a place in the region that today compare to what is the Parque O'Higgins, that was also an important factor in deciding to make the festival here.
It has many green areas, old trees and is an amazing place to be seized more, "said De la Barra. Lollapalooza organizers also confirmed their intention that the musical event "continue for many years in Chile, although they were careful about that and said they prefer to await the results of this first edition to draw conclusions.
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