Posts Tagged ‘Festival’

19
May

Adelaide International Guitar Festival!

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This event is dedicated to the world’s most popular music instrument “Guitar”. It will be bringing together some of the best guitarists from Australia and around the world including United States, Spain, Brazil, and Austria. It will run for four days from 25th to 28th November. The beauty, energy, and diversity of this instrument are sure to attract huge volumes of Adelaide flights. The festival of 2010 is will feature 70 musicians in 16 performances with artists crossing range of genres and showcasing their hand on musicianship and creativity. Performances will include all types of music including every thing from Blues to world music, Latin, Jazz, and Classical.

By taking your Adelaide flights

One can not only watch Guitar performances but may also attend a range of free and low cost workshops, artist’s talks, panel discussions, and master discussions. This festival promises to resonate with guitar devotees, curious spectators and fans of many musical styles from around the globe. This event is holding for the very first time in Australia and tickets can be purchased at official website of the festival. This show will provide an opportunity for emerging players to be heard and given exposure on an international stage. A large number of cheap flights to Adelaide will be reserved to join this event till the mid of November. This Guitar competition is one of the world’s most prestigious competitions.

05
Mar

2010 French Quarter Festival, Nab Show, Country Music Awards, Tribeca Film Festival, Focal Awards, Highlight April Media Industry Events

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The 2010 International Experimental Media Congress, the first Congress of its kind since the 1989 Toronto Experimental Film Congress, will assemble film, video, new media artists, theorists, archivists, and curators from around the world, who will be in Toronto through April 11 for panels and discussions related to experimental media production, exhibition, dissemination, criticism, pedagogy and reception. The International Film Festival Summit (IFFS) is an annual conference and trade show for professionals from the film festival industry who will be in Amsterdam through April 9 to participate in presentations, interactive panel discussions and networking events, and to look forward to the Dinner With Strangers event that allows attendees a unique and fun opportunity to meet and dine with festival colleagues from all over the world. The 2010 French Quarter Festival, opening April 9-11, highlights New Orleans’ signature music, food, and culture in the historic neighborhood, mostly by a musical smorgasbord of jazz, r&b, funk, folk, opera, gospel, blues, and brass bands, but also with over 105 food and beverage booths located in Jackson Square, Woldenberg Riverfront Park, and the Louisiana State Museum’s Old U.S. Mint, forming the “World’s Largest Jazz Brunch” with local cuisines from the area’s finest restaurants including such festival favorites as Jambalaya, Crawfish Bread, Gumbo, Red Beans and Rice, Muffaletta, Crawfish, and more.

16
Oct

La Villette Jazz Festival – A Melodic Feast

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Arguably one of the most beautiful cities in the world, Paris has a certain charm that attracts thousands of visitors on a regular basis who travel to this magical city in search of entertainment and relaxation. If any city in the world can show you a wonderful time and shower you with a bagful of pleasant memories, Paris certainly can do even better. Boasting a myriad of fascinating tourist attractions, this one of a kind city is an ideal destination whether you are traveling with the one you love or the entire family.

Jazz music was created by African American entertainers in the United States of America and was immensely popular in the 1950s. Proving that Jazz music is very much alive and kicking, music festivals featuring jazz music are organized in many of the major cities around the world quite frequently. Most of these are annual events that attract the attention of fans scattered across the world. La Villette Jazz Festival in Paris is one such event which is scheduled to start off in the month of September. Visitors at the 2010 segment of the event will have the privilege of experiencing a spectacle of quite amazing diversity and flare.

As there will be several traditional Jazz musical performances staged at this event, a number of experimental features will also be on offer. Approximately 50 different bands featuring 200 talented artists will be on show at the La Villette Jazz Festival in Paris. Young aspiring artists will have the chance to sharpen their skills and get to know the secrets behind being a star. Visitors should not be surprised to find a few famous faces among the artists list that will be present at the festival.

01
Oct

Rhythmic Fusion at the Macau International Music Festival

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The Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macau SAR Government presents the 22nd Macau International Music Festival (MIMF) from October 5th to November 2nd, 2008.

 

The Macau International Music Festival, since decades, has been bringing internationally renowned artists to Macau. Every year, performances at the Macau International Music Festival are of the highest order and offer a delicate balance of Eastern and Western forms of music. Along with promoting Macau tradition and culture, the Macau International Music Festival seeks to expose the communities in Macau to diverse musical forms, and in the process enrich the cultural experience in Macau. This year the focus is on opera, symphonic, choral and chamber music, as well as contemporary, folk, pop and jazz music.

 

The 22nd Macau International Music Festival will see none other than Britain’s National Orchestra – The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra giving the opening performance. This is their first performance at the Macau International Music Festival and it will be conducted by Principal Guest Conductor Leonard Slotkin. (5/10, at the Macao Cultural Center Grand Auditorium, 8pm). It is of course common knowledge that ever since its inception by Sir Thomas Beecham, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra has, under his guidance and vision, been known to perform some of the greatest compositions the music world has ever heard.

 

17
Apr

D.c. Music Theatre Celebrates Two Years With A Three Day Music Festival

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Etobicoke, On. –, 2010 – The D.C. Music Theatre is celebrating their two-year anniversary with a three-day music festival. The all ages festival is taking place on the Easter long weekend starting on Thursday April 1, 2010 and running through to April 3, 2010, at The D.C. Music Theatre (360 Munster Ave. Etobicoke On. M8Z 3C7). The event will start off with an indie night on the Thursday and a punk and metal night to follow, featuring StayleFish, Assassinate The Following, Caym, Polarity and many more.

 

It wasn’t to long ago when there was nowhere for independent bands to play in Etobicoke. For the past two years D.C. Music has been hard at work turning their production studio into a full out concert hall, giving a home for artists and music lovers to enjoy some great shows. “D.C. Music have been concert promoters for quite sometime now and we created a great stop for touring artists and local bands to showcase their talent to all the local concert goers in this area, and because we do all ages shows it gives the kids in this area a place to get exposed to some great music.” said Marco Mondano president,   ” We are really excited about our 3 day festival, and we want to invite everyone to come out, celebrate and have a great time with us.”