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Artist Wiz Khalifa performing last Saturday at the annual Mawazine Music Festival in Rabat, Morocco.
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Wiz Khalifa to headline Thrival Festival in September

Abdeljalil Bounhar/Associated Press

Wiz Khalifa to headline Thrival Festival in September

Wiz Khalifa will make his one Pittsburgh appearance in 2017 at the Thrival Innovation + Music Festival, which returns to the Carrie Furnaces in Swissvale Sept. 29-30.

It is the site where the Pittsburgh rapper filmed the video for his double-platinum single “Work Hard, Play Hard.”

Among the other major acts will be Maryland rapper Logic, indie-rockers Two Door Cinema Club, Detroit funk band GRiz and Guatemalan-American DJ Carnage.

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They will be joined by SuperDuperKyle (“iSpy”), Kiiara, TokiMonsta, Missio, Steve James, Harts, Echos, Circa Waves, Welshly Arms, Michigander, The Garment District, Byron Nash & Plan B, Rachel B. and JRod. The schedule for each day will be announced in August.

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Two-day general admission and VIP festival passes go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at www.Thrivalfestival.com

The festival kicks off with Thrival Innovation (featuring a new partnership with San Francisco-based event and media company, NewCo) on September 27-28, a conference focused on “Intelligence: Humans X Tech” — a theme that leverages Pittsburgh’s strengths in robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

“We started this initiative five years ago. To watch its growth has been pretty remarkable,” Bobby Zappala, founder of Thrival and CEO of Ascender, said in a statement. “Thrival 2017 is set up to be a special experience. We’re proud to have a Pittsburgh artist headline the bill for the first time in the festival’s history.”

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It is also the first year that Thrival has joined forces with international promoter Live Nation. For more information on the festival, visit thrivalfestival.com, and follow Thrival on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat.

First Published: May 16, 2017, 11:25 a.m.
Updated: May 16, 2017, 11:27 a.m.

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Artist Wiz Khalifa performing last Saturday at the annual Mawazine Music Festival in Rabat, Morocco.  (Abdeljalil Bounhar/Associated Press)
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