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Dave Matthews Band Added to AT&T Music’s Webcast of New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival


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Webcast Delivers Best of Jazz Fest 2009 - including Dave Matthews Band, Ben Harper and Relentless7, James Taylor, The Neville Brothers, Spoon and more - May 2-3

Dallas, Texas, Just when you thought ‘The Big Easy’ couldn’t get any better, it does! AT&T Music will allow fans to relive an incredible performance from Dave Matthews Band at the 40th annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell. One hour of the band’s live performance from Jazz Fest 2009 will be available exclusively at music.att.net on Saturday, May 2 beginning at 6 p.m. CDT.

Combining highlights of the festival’s first five days, live performances taking place May 2-3 and classic footage from the festival’s 40-year history, the complete AT&T Music webcast of Jazz Fest 2009 is as follows (All times CDT. Artists and times subject to change. Check music.att.net for the latest information.):

Saturday, May 2

* 12:45 PMSonny Landreth
* 1:00 PMBeauSoleil
* 1:40 PMSpoon
* 2:50 PMJoe Cocker (three song highlight)
* 3:05 PMClassic performance: Professor Longhair
* 3:10 PMDr. John
* 4:15 PMSugarland (three song highlight)
* 4:30 PMBen Harper and Relentless7
* 6:00 PMDave Matthews Band (one hour highlight)

Sunday, May 3

* 12:45 PMTroy Andrews
* 1:00 PMAllen Toussaint
* 2:10 PMPapa Grows Funk
* 2:30 PMBetter Than Ezra
* 3:15 PMIrma Thomas (highlights)
* 3:35 PMClassic performance: Jimmy Buffet (2006)
* 3:40 PMClassic performance: Sting (2006)
* 3:45 PMBonnie Raitt (three song highlight)
* 4:00 PMJames Taylor
* 5:30 PMClassic performance: Fats Domino (2001)
* 5:40 PMThe Neville Brothers

Select performances also will be made available on AT&T Music, on AT&T U-verseSM TV and through CV (Video on Demand) on AT&T*wireless devices following the festival.

“We’re thrilled to again share the legendary performers and excitement of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival with fans from coast to coast,” said Dan York, executive vice president of content and programming, AT&T Converged Services. “By utilizing our three-screen content platform, we can provide fans with a front-row seat to some of their favorite artists whenever they want, wherever they want and however they want.”

Since 1970, Jazz Fest has captured the majesty of New Orleans culture in all its glory and is widely regarded as one of America’s most cherished celebrations. For more information, visit www.nojazzfest.com.

The live broadband video stream utilizes AT&T Intelligent Content DistributionSM – a network-based Content Delivery Network (CDN) service that replicates information across the Internet. For more information, visit www.att.com/icds.

AT&T Music was launched in December 2008 to help deliver a more integrated consumer experience and expose music content to the approximately 11 million users of the att.net Internet portal. The portal offers exclusive access to the latest news, weather, Yahoo search capabilities, sports and entertainment content. For the complete array of AT&T offerings, visit www.att.com.

*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.

About AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates, AT&T operating companies, are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. Among their offerings are the world’s most advanced IP-based business communications services, the nation’s fastest 3G network and the best wireless coverage worldwide, and the nation’s leading high speed Internet access and voice services. In domestic markets, AT&T is known for the directory publishing and advertising sales leadership of its Yellow Pages and YELLOWPAGES.COM organizations, and the AT&T brand is licensed to innovators in such fields as communications equipment. As part of their three-screen integration strategy, AT&T operating companies are expanding their TV entertainment offerings. In 2008, AT&T again ranked No. 1 in the telecommunications industry on FORTUNE® magazine’s lists of the World’s Most Admired Companies and America’s Most Admired Companies. Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com.



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