World news about “Music festival” published by euronews.
Nuits Sonores kick off in Lyon The Nuits Sonores Music Festival in Lyon France, is a popular annual date for fans of all things techno, Indie and electronic. Over the six days of the… 08/05/2013
Graffiti Art hits Kabul music festivalAn artist paints graffiti on a wall during the Sound Central music festival in Kabul. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani 02/05/2013
Get ready for Europe’s music festival season!The organised and most avid festival-goers among us will probably already have their tickets booked to one or more of the hundreds of music festivals being… 01/05/2013
‘Balkan Trafik’ returns to Brussels for a seventh year Balkan Trafik continues for seventh year its trip to the capital of Europe bringing together traditional with modern sound with a perfume of the multicultural… 24/04/2013
Weaving chords of beauty in Baku Azerbaijan has been playing host to the third International Space of Mugham Festival – a renowned spectacle amongst mugham folk enthusiasts, held in the… 18/03/2013
Jazzing up in Baku It is Baku’s annual international jazz festival. Founded in 2005 by Azeri saxophonist Rain Sultanov, it brings together some of the world’s finest jazz… 24/10/2012
Baku presents a symphony of youth The Moscow Virtuosi is one of the world’s finest chamber orchestras. At the fourth edition of the International Uzeyir Hajibeili Music Festival in Baku, in… 03/10/2012
The land of Puccini echoes to La Bohème arias The tragic story of Mimì and Rodolfo in early nineteenth century Paris, and the unforgettable arias which made La Bohème immortal, have drawn thousands of… 06/09/2012
Where is Wally?A man rides across the desert during the Burning Man 2012 “Fertility 2.0” arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. More than 60,000 people… 30/08/2012
Don Giovanni the great seducer: bonus interview More excerpts from our interviews (in English and Italian) with bass-baritone Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, soprano Carmen Giannattasio and tenor Saimir Pirgu. 26/07/2012
Don Giovanni the great seducer The poet E.T.A Hoffmann called Mozart’s Don Giovanni “the opera of all operas” and for the 90th anniversary of the Festival Arena di Verona, the director and… 26/07/2012
Paleo Music Festival hosts the old and the new French rock band “Dionysos” from Valence performed at this year’s music festival Paleo in the Swiss city of Nyon – with founder and frontman Mathias Malzieu… 25/07/2012
Scissor Sisters top London’s river of music As part of the city’s Cultural Olympiad, Londoners were treated to a kaleidoscope of music this weekend during The River Music Festival. Held across various… 23/07/2012
Music: Paléo Festival, Nyon Revellers of all ages hit the Paléo Festival in Nyon, Switzerland to soak up the atmosphere at one of the biggest open-air music festivals in mainland Europe… 20/07/2012
Montreux Jazz Festival The famous Swiss Jazz Festival is underway and this year truly does cater to all tastes. Quinn Sullivan is 13 years old and already people are calling him a… 10/07/2012
Established stars mix with up and coming artists at Montreux Ian Anderson, the flute and voice behind the legendary Jethro Tull was one of the many stars at the annual Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. He has… 05/07/2012
Montreux Jazz Festival – nocomment Bobby McFerrin and Chick Corea performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Founded by Claude Nobs in 1967, over the years the festival has become… 03/07/2012
Gnaoua mixes music and equestrian display One of the international stars at the Gnaoua Music Festival was Oumou Sangaré from Mali. She began singing aged five, at first to help her mother feed the… 25/06/2012
Mud mayhem at Isle of Wight Festival – nocomment Severe weather conditions across large areas of the UK have led to widespread flooding in many regions, but music fans attending the Isle of Wight Festival… 24/06/2012
15th Gnaoua Music Festival starts in Morocco The Gnaoua Music Festival in the Moroccan city of Essaouira is now underway. The festival celebrates traditional Gnaoua music, a mixture of sub-Saharan… 22/06/2012
Musica – The knight of dreams and roses Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier opened this year’s season at Teatro del Maggio Fiorentino in Florence. It is a romantic story of an adult love affair… 31/05/2012
New Order plays Lyon festival One of the most influential and critically acclaimed bands of the 1980s, the legendary British group New Order is playing a series of gigs around Europe… 23/05/2012
New Order: new again By combining New Wave and electronic music, New Order became one of the most critically acclaimed and highly influential bands of the 1980s. Euronews met them… 22/05/2012
Lyon lets its hair down for urban festival Nuits Sonores The French contemporary music festival Nuits Sonores has got people dancing in the streets of Lyon. The 10th edition has just begun, watched over by… 18/05/2012
‘Nuits Sonores’ festival: Lyon dances all day and night until SundayNuits Sonores, the biggest festival of French contemporary music, opens on Wednesday in Lyon. The festival is one of the key cultural attractions of the… 15/05/2012
Kosovo-born singer represents Albania at Eurovision In the sunny Albanian city of Tirana, Kosovo-born singer Rona Nishliu gets ready for the Eurovision Song Contest – where she will represent Albania in the… 11/05/2012
Jazzing it up around the world The very first International Jazz Day was celebrated on April 30 in New Orleans, New York and Paris. UNESCO founded the International Jazz Day to raise… 03/05/2012
Moscow celebrates Prokofiev In Moscow for one month from late March, the Rostropovich Festival takes place. It was founded in honour of the celebrated Russian cellist who died five years… 18/04/2012
Birthday celebrations at ‘Balkan Trafik’ The famous Bulgarian clarinetist Ivo Papasov showed his virtuosity at the sixth annual Brussels’ ‘Balkan Trafik’ music and arts festival. Though Papasov… 17/04/2012
Montreaux festival founder “Funky George” dies at 76Claude Nobs, the founder of the Montreaux jazz festival, has died at the age of 76. He had spent several weeks in a coma following a skiing accident. … 11/01/2013
Salvation Army band set for Eurovision glorySwitzerland will send a Salvation Army band to next year’s Eurovision Song Contest. The group Heilsarmee was picked to go to next May’s event in Sweden by a… 17/12/2012
Ukraine wins Junior Eurovision Song ContestThere may not have been a throng of press and cameras to welcome ten year-old Anastasia Petryk back home to Kiev but the little girl and her family were… 03/12/2012
US air guitarist crowned world championAmerican Justin Howard, known as ‘Nordic Thunder’ has won the 17th Air Guitar World Championships in Finland. Eighteen contestants performed in front of a… 25/08/2012
Woodstock Stop surprise guests are German and Polish heads of stateYoung music fans had a surprise at Woodstock Stop when German and Polish heads of state took to the stage. Joachim Gauck and Bronislaw Komorowski marked the… 02/08/2012
Alerts for southwest England after floods hit northFlood alerts have been issued for southwest England as bad weather continues to sweep the country. A month’s worth of rain in 24 hours caused severe… 24/06/2012
Mud causes chaos at Isle of Wight FestivalIt was mud, mud glorious mud at the Isle of Wight Festival as Music lovers showed their dedication by braving the conditions after a combination of heavy rain… 23/06/2012
Ukraine enters ‘dreamland’ with folk festivalThere are festivals and there are festivals and Ukraine’s ‘Krayina Mriy’ is one that is starting to set itself apart. Loosely translated, ‘Krayina Mriy’… 22/06/2012
Morocco hosts 15th annual Gnaoua World Music FestivalThousands of fans are in the Moroccan city of Essaouira for the Gnaoua World Music Festival. The event is in its 15th year and celebrates traditional Gnaoua… 22/06/2012
Eurovision’s first semi-final winners announcedThe winners of the first semi-final in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest celebrated getting through to the all important climax of the competition on May… 23/05/2012
Cheers and tears for Azerbaijan’s Crystal HallAzerbaijan has announced the completion of its new concert hall which will be the venue for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. The Crystal Hall in the… 18/04/2012
