Woah! We heard news floating around the Twitterverse that Jay-Z would be in Philadelphia. Well, according to The New York Times, he’s here to announce that he’ll be curating and the headlining performer at the first Budweiser Made in America music festival, which will be a two-day event happening on September 1 & 2 in Fairmount Park with 28 musical acts ranging from the “rock, hip-hop, R&B, Latin and dance” genres. Jay-Z and Mayor Nutter are scheduled to make this announcement at 10:30 a.m. today at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (the East Terrace at the top of the Rocky steps), according to XXL Mag. The festival will be produced by Live Nation and an unspecified portion of ticket sales will be donated to local non-profits via the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey. Tickets will go on sale at Ticketbastard and Live Nation on May 23. We’re interested to see how much they are going to cost.
Updates: Festival will take place on the Ben Franklin Parkway, and will also be live streamed. There will be 3 stages, and 2-day passes will cost $99. No artists named yet, but 70% of the lineup is confirmed. Donations will be going to the United Way.