posted by admin on Jun 20
The legendary entertainer Elton John who is at present touring
Archive for the ‘concert’ Category
posted by admin on May 31
Filter is embarking on a 30 day U.S tour covering most cities of America and Filter’s fans are excited that their star performer is touring the country after a gap of six years. The tour has kicked off at Amos South End in Charlotte on May 21 and has so far covered places like Cleveland, Charleston, Philadelphia and Washington DC. The next stop for Filter will be at Canopy Club in Urbana on June 13th followed by performances at Chicago on June 14, Minneapolis on June 15, Oklahoma on June 20, Nashville on June 23rd and Toronto on June 26th. If you are a Filter fan, rush to grab your ticket that is on sale now.
posted by admin on May 5
Last Friday night, the Artis Piano Quartet, a renowned musical band from
This concert took place in the
posted by admin on Apr 26
The Canadian pop diva Celine Dion took time off her busy concert schedules to attend a TV program in Beijing to voice her support for the Beijing Olympics. She attended the TV show with her husband Rene Angelil and expressed that she was totally against the boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She said that there should be no room for politics whenever one talks about the Olympics. Celine Dion had rendered her voice for the song “Power of the Dream”, the theme song for the Atlanta Olympics.
Many senior personnel from foreign governments have condemned the cowardly acts such as politicizing the Olympics event and disrupting the Olympic torch relay like Celine Dion. In her concert at Shanghai, many fans also voiced their support for the Olympic Games. She called the Olympic Games as the world’s greatest sporting occasion wherein the complete human race will fight to attain glory for their respective nation.
posted by admin on Mar 28
Bruce Springsteen is going to perform in a benefit concert on May 7th at the Count Basie Theater in New Jersey. The concert is named as “An Evening with Bruce Springsteen” and the collection from the show will go to the expenses for renovating and restoring the Count Basie Theater. The concert fans can get the tickets for the benefit show through an online auction called “Make Your Best Offer” that has started from March 20th.
The CEO of the Count Basie Foundation, Rusty Young said that the members of the foundation are happy and excited to get Bruce Springsteen as the performer for its benefit concert and he also appreciated the enthusiasm showed by Springsteen in helping them to preserve the theater. Other programs as well as operations like the “Cool School” will also benefit from this concert. The historic theater can be renovated and preserved if the concert fans support the good cause of the event.
posted by admin on Mar 12
The Ra Ra Riot band has chosen to kick start their major tour from March 12 to 15 with six party as well as showcase performances at the South West Music conference in Austin, wherein they will preview the songs of their forthcoming debut album. They follow this up by joining hands with the three siblings of the Cribs band, the tour that begins on March 17 at Athens and concludes on April 4th at Los Angeles. The Ra Ra Riots and the Cribs will be performing in places like Washington DC, Chicago, Cleveland, Seattle and San Francisco during the period of March 17 to April 4.
The Ra Ra Riot then joins with Los Angeles ‘The Little Ones’ music group for a nationwide tour that kicks off on April 5 and runs till the mid of May. The busy Ra Ra Riot is slated to perform in San Diego, Charleston, Orlando, Austin, Ohio, Baltimore, Detroit, California as well as Kansas City. This massive tour is expected to bring in lot of fans following the Riot’s band group which started stepping into the music scene recently in the year 2006. The band has spent the whole of winter working on their new album that will see the limelight in the year 2008.
posted by admin on Mar 10
Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday concert will be hosted at the Hyde Park in London this June. The Hollywood actor Will Smith is invited as the master of ceremonies for this event. Will Smith is a big fan of this greatest personality, who was the former President of South Africa and was very happy to take up the job as host .The organizers for this concert, is 46664, the organization of Mandela to campaign against AIDS. The name of charity organization “four double six six four” is derived from the combination of prison number 466 Mandela was holding, while he was in Robben Island and his year of imprisonment, 1964 .
The event will see the performances by leading musical bands like Spice Girls, U2, Queen and artists like Annie Lennox. The 2008 concert on June 28th is expected to be one of the biggest concert shows in U.K and ticket registration for the concert has already started. The organizers of this concert is trying to bring Eminem , the artist who created controversy by referring black women as “dumb chicks” in one of his track. He was made to apologize in 2003 about his blunt lyrics. The fund raised will be used for global campaigning against AIDS.
posted by admin on Feb 29
Linda Eder who has tasted success from different live performances and concerts she does all over the world, had enthralled the audience who had gathered at the Rosemount Theater on February 23 with her soulful country music along with the Chicago land Pops orchestra. The country singer, who has just finished recording her 10th album, “Be Myself”, is a versatile and dedicated singer who talks with her music and this explains the increase in the fan following she gets. Eder got a rapturous support from the fans after she finished her first song “Almost like Being in Love”.
Eder launched a few songs from her latest album, “Be Myself” and the applause she received will augur well for the album. Eder sang some of the songs like “Don’t Rain on My Parade”, “If I Could” and “Man of La Mancha” of other artists and sang these songs with utmost passion as if they were her songs. Eder, known commonly as the Broadway legend, has performed in more than 900 shows with the Broadway team and her song “Someone like You” is the one that talks about the immense talent in this singer. Eder closed the concert with a soul stirring but powerful number “Somewhere over the Rainbow” that captured the minds and hearts of the entire audience.
posted by admin on Feb 25
The Ariel String Quartet has been scheduled to perform at the Kennedy center for the Fortas Chamber Music Concert to be held on April 21st of 2008 and the running time of the show is 100 minutes. The Ariel String Quartet was formed in the year 1998 in Jerusalem. Their debut performance was in the year 2000 at the Jerusalem Music Centre. In 2003 they won the 1st prize in “Franz Schubert And The Music Of Modernity” competition in Austria. The current members of this group are Alexandra Kazovsky, Amit Even-Tov, Gershon Gerchikov and Sergy Tarashchansky.
Ariel String Quartets are planning to perform the favorites by Beethoven, Haydn and Kurtag. Music lovers and Ariel fans are expecting a spectacular performance from this Israeli band that uses string instruments like Violin, Cello and Viola. Their music has a delightful mode which makes it extraordinary as well as wonderful. They are now the popular ensemble at the conservatory of music in New England. The quartet has won many music competitions and one of the most popular among this is the Grand Prize for the competition conducted at the Fischoff National Chamber. The other artists who are going to perform at the Kennedy center this year include “Eighth Black Bird”, Jonathan Bliss and Miriam Fried, Trio mediaeval and Cantus etc.
posted by admin on Jan 18
Alt-rockers Lifehouse are getting ready to return to the road with a new slate of North American dates.The trek is set to launch Feb.
