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Arrow Classic Rock

Once a year the station organizes Arrow Rock Festival, one of the largest rock festivals in the Netherlands with dozens of big-name bands playing every year.

Cashless catering

The use of the technology has expanded to include music festivals such as Ottawa Bluesfest and Wireless Festival, where the system has been integrated into RFID wristbands.

CIMA Festival

The CIMA Festival, or Concerti in Monte Argentario, is an Italian international classical music festival which takes place annually in the Tuscan town of Monte Argentario.

Doomsday Festival

The Doomsday Festival was a two-day music festival held August 19-20, 2000, at the Ostragehege in Dresden, Germany.

Eddie Daniels

The American premiere took place at the Crested Butte Music Festival on July 18, 2010, under the direction of music director Jens Georg Bachmann.

Face Tomorrow

After the band released its second album The Closer You Get in 2004, Face Tomorrow toured all over Europe and the United States, playing festivals like Lowlands, Pukkelpop, Noorderslag, Bochum Total, Groezrock and Paaspop.

Festival Siembra y Lucha

Festival Siembra y Lucha is an open air metal festival held annually in San José, Costa Rica since 2012.

Hardtechno

By 2007, almost all major European Techno festivals, such as I Love Techno, Awakenings, MayDay, Nature One, Mystery Land featured a Hardtechno stage or at least one Hardtechno artist.

Laurel Pop Festival

The Laurel Pop Festival was a music festival held at the Laurel Race Course in Laurel, MD on July 11–12, 1969.

Let's Rock The Moor!

Let's Rock The Moor! is an annual boutique and family-friendly 1980s music festival held in Cookham, Berkshire.

Livingetc

The magazine made Livingetc TV, a 15 part series for Discovery Travel & Living which was transmitted worldwide, and created a series of CD’s with The Big Chill (music festival), Buddha Bar, Momo’s Kemia Bar and Sketch (restaurant) and bar.

Lockn' Festival

Lockn' Festival, formerly known as Interlocken Music Festival, is an annual four-day music festival held in Arrington, Virginia.

Midwest Rock Festival

The Midwest Rock Festival was a music festival held at the State Fair Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on the 25th-July 27, 1969.

Phil McMullen

McMullen also founded the semi-annual Terrastock indie rock festivals which have taken place in Britain and North America since 1987, and in 2013 curated the first Woolf Music festival.

Rena Jones

Jones has performed at several electronic music festivals including Shambhala, Burning Man and the Glade.

Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto

Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto is an annual classical music festival held in August and September in the Japanese Alps near Matsumoto.

T-Model Ford

Ford and GravelRoad opened the third day of the All Tomorrow's Parties Festival, in New York over Labor Day weekend, 2010, curated by American independent film-maker Jim Jarmusch.

The Leisure Society

Over the Summer of 2009 the band performed across the UK and Europe, including at The Big Chill, the Green Man Festival and the End Of The Road Festival.

The River Detectives

After playing the Splashy Fen festival in the Natal Province, the band received further invitations to tour in the country and relocated to Durban for a year before returning to the UK in 2000 to take a break.

Threnody Ensemble

They have also appeared at two All Tomorrow's Parties festivals, in 2002 and 2004 respectively, where they were asked to play by festival curators Shellac and Sonic Youth.

Two Moors Festival

The Two Moors Festival is an annual classical music festival based in Devon and Somerset, England.

Walter Vinson

He performed at music festivals and recorded further tracks over the next decade, before the onset of hardening of the arteries curtailed his public appearances.

Watershed Music Festival

Watershed Music Festival is an annual country music festival held at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington.

Wellpark Brewery

The Tennent's brand is used for sponsoring music and sport including the Scotland's largest outdoor music festival: T in the Park.

WIIL

AugustFest was an annual music festival created and produced by Lakeside Productions, Inc, and sponsored by WIIL and held in the month of August in 2007 and 2008, both times at the Lake County Fairgrounds in Grayslake, Illinois.

Within the Ruins

The band has most recently toured Europe with Carnifex and has been part of a number of 2011-12 festivals thus far including The Bonecrusher Fest, The Jamboree, New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, The Bamboozle, South by Southwest and 2011's The Summer Slaughter Tour.


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2011 Australian Grand Prix

Performing at the Sidetracked Music Festival on the 26th were Birds of Tokyo, while on the Sunday The Living End headlined the post-race concert.

Above Ground

The group played locally and at the Punakaiki Music Festival (West Coast, New Zealand); and would have been forgotten like a lot of bands had Page not recorded nearly every practice and concert and organised the "Gone AIWA" cassette (1983), re-released in 2011 on vinyl by Siltbreeze.

Alexey Stadler

In 2012 he participated in the chamber music festival of the Kronberg Academy “Chamber Music Connects the World”, where he performed together with renowned artists such as Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet and Christian Tetzlaff.

Andrew Maxwell

In 2008 he and fellow comedian Marcus Brigstocke founded the Altitude Festival, a comedy/music festival in Meribel, The French Alps.

Anita Prime

Whilst in France Prime performed a solo concert at the Carlton Cannes Hotel on the French Riviera during the MIDEM Music Festival.

Bamboozle

The Bamboozle, an annual three-day music festival held in New Jersey

Big Pineapple

In 2013 the first 'Big Pineapple Music Festival' was held in April with Birds of Tokyo headlining the event.

Blues and Roots Festival

East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival, a music festival hosted at Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia

Brand New Sin

Brand New Sin performed at the 12th annual KRockathon (a one-day music festival presented by the Syracuse, New York radio station WKLL).

Candida Thompson

As a chamber musician, she has collaborated with musicians such as Isaac Stern, Bruno Giuranna, Frans Helmerson, Janine Jansen, Julian Rachlin, David Kuyken and performed at many festivals such as Kuhmo (Finland), Gubbio (Italy), International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht (the Netherlands) and La Musica (the USA).

Christoph von Dohnányi

Jens Georg Bachmann, music director of the Crested Butte Music Festival in Colorado, had been in the same position at the NDR Symphony Orchestra from 2007 to 2009.

Edwin Outwater

He has also held posts as Associate Conductor of the Festival-Institute at Round Top (a renowned music-training program based in Texas), Principal Conductor of the Adriatic Chamber Music Festival in Molise, Italy, and Assistant Conductor of the Tulsa Philharmonic.

Elena-Maria Smon Wolays

Smon Wolay has also deejayed at the Swedish Sex and the City 2 gala premiere, Way Out West Festival music festival, the wedding of Jan Bengtsson (heir to clothing company H&M) and Cirkusprinsessan - an international circus world championship for females only.

English Music Festival

The Violin Sonatas by Arthur Bliss and Henry Walford Davies have languished in manuscript form for over one hundred years, and were performed at the 2010 English Music Festival by regular EMF artists Rupert Marshall-Luck and Matthew Rickard.

Ernie and the Emperors

In 1969 Ernie Joseph changed his musical direction with the driving rock Confusion album, teaming up with brothers "Ruben the Jet" (Brian Faith), Cory (Cory Colt), and drummer Steve Dunwoodie (Stevie D), to tour the southeastern states as Big Brother Ernie Joseph, a tour that included the Love Valley Music Festival near Greensboro, NC).

Force Attack

Force Attack is a music festival, which is organized every year on the last July weekend in Behnkenhagen in the municipality Süderholz near Rostock.

Grand Courage

On July 11, 2010, the band performed on The largest Russian rock-music festival "Nashestvie".

Hampton Court railway station

The line is also used for the yearly Hampton Court Palace Flower Show in July and other event such as the Hampton Court Music Festival and a "Country affair"(2006)

Hiawatha Music Festival

The Hiawatha Traditional Music Festival in Marquette, Michigan is held each year during the next-to-last full weekend of July and features traditional, acoustic, American music.

James Paul

Following his studies he was awarded the Serge Koussevitsky Memorial Conducting Prize presented by Erich Leinsdorf at the 1967 Tanglewood Music Festival.

Jaqueline Negron

In March 2004, Coca-Cola sponsored Jaqueline to perform at the largest Latin American music festival in the world: Miami, Florida's Calle Ocho Festival.

Jeremy Monteiro

On March 11, 2005, as part of the inaugural Mosaic Music Festival, he performed at the Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay in Singapore, with his international trio of Shawn Kelley and Belinda Moody, Singaporean singers Claressa Monteiro, Jacintha Abisheganaden, Anne Weerapass and Rani Singam, together with jazz legend James Moody, in a concert to commemorate Moody's 80th birthday.

Kalindula

In the Southern Province of Zambia, kalindula bands compete to participate in the annual Tonga Music Festival sponsored by Chikuni Radio station.

La solitudine

Laura Pausini performed the song live for the first time on 23 February 1993, competing in the newcomers' section of the 43rd Sanremo Music Festival, broadcast by Italian TV station Rai 1.

Lismore Music Festival

Lismore Music Festival is an annual classical music and opera festival held in Lismore in the Republic of Ireland.

Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival

He returned each year, bringing his Russian friends such as David Geringas, Andrei Gavrilov, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Oleg Maisenberg, and others who performed at Lockenhauser Konzerte before the founding of Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival.

Moshing

16 year-old Jessica Michalik was an Australian girl who died as a result of asphyxiation after being crushed in a mosh pit during the 2001 Big Day Out music festival during a performance by nu metal band Limp Bizkit.

Nightbox

In July 2009, the band made their debut appearance at Ireland's largest music festival (60,000+ attendees), Oxegen, Ireland.

Ocoee High School

The Marching Band has performed in the Cotton Bowl Music Festival, the Florida Citrus Parade, the Ikea Thanksgiving Parade, multiple Under Armour Football All-American Games that were broadcast on Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN), multiple Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parades at Universal Studios Florida, and the New York City Veteran's Day Parade.

Oggi Tomic

Also, Oggi was involved in covering the annual Plymouth Volksfest music festival held at Newnham Park, filming performing artist's such as Hard-Fi, Toploader, Goldie Lookin Chain, Kid Creole, The Blockheads, The Ramones, Dreadzone, Gentleman's Dub Club, Dub Pistols, Two Spot Gobi, Zion Train and Comedian Rufus Hound were performing.

Oliver Mears

His production of Benjamin Britten's Noye's Fludde for NI Opera was performed at the Beijing Music Festival in October 2012, the Chinese premiere of the piece.

Orient, the Festival of Eastern Music

Orient is an annual music festival held in the Baltic countries concentrating on Asian music, the main focus being on folk, sacred, and traditional classical music.

Rank Strangers

The Rank Strangers were also headliners at the Station Inn in Nashville, and the Louisville, Kentucky, music festival, supporting guitar legend Tony Rice's bluegrass band.

Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India

The Collaborations box set marked the first release for Stuart Cooper's film of Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India, shot at London's Royal Albert Hall on Monday, 23 September 1974.

Redfest

Redfest is an annual music festival at Robins Cook Farm, Kings Mill Lane, Nutfield, Redhill, Surrey, England.

Rock in China

Since 2008, Rock in China has been an official partner of the Midi Music Festival, China's largest rock music festival, and has helped to prepare their English-language websites.

Rodolfo Vieira

Vieira has collaborated with student composers in Chicago, NU Contemporary Music Ensemble, Latin Music Festival with US premieres and Lucerne Music Festival Academy in Switzerland under supervision of Pierre Boulez.

Sarah Horick

She was selected as a finalist in the Vancouver Chamber Choir's Young Composers Competition in 2007 and was also a finalist in the Schlern International Music Festival Voice Competition in Vols am Schlern, Italy in 2007.

Sheffield Bach Choir

However, the choir also performs farther afield, participating in the Sixth Churchill Memorial Concert at Blenheim Palace in May 1971, performing in York Minster in June 1972 and at the Leeds Music Festival in 1981.

Sonique

Villette Sonique, a yearly music festival in Parc de la Villette in Paris, France

Stephen Caudel

Toured extensively (Britain, Germany and Japan) including Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, Markneukirchen Guitar Festival, Karuizawa Music Festival and 3 nights at London’s Royal Albert Hall as Special Guest of Art Garfunkel.

The Hindu Friday Review Music Festival

The Hindu Friday Review Music Festival is an annual music festival held in Chennai, India.

Thüring Bräm

As a guest composer, he worked variously at the Hokuto International Music Festival and with the Swiss Groupe Lacroix and the German Ensemble Sortisatio on a CD called “8 Pieces on Paul Klee” in honor to the painter Paul Klee.

Tim Battersby

at The White House 6 times, as well as The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center,The Filene Center at Wolf Trap, The Savannah Music Festival, and Charleston's Piccolo Spoleto Festival.

Town of Claremont

AmpFest, Youth and music festival overseen by the Town of Claremont

V slepých uličkách

A solo version of the composition performed by Žbirka himself at a music festival in Villach, Austria in 1982 won the main award.

Viersen Jazz Festival

The Viersen Jazz Festival is a music festival held every autumn in Viersen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Vilmos Szabadi

In 1995 Szabadi established, as Artistic Director, a chamber music festival in Keszthely, a resort on Lake Balaton.

Yuval Ron Ensemble

Some notable performances include: the International Sacred Music Festival of Fez (Morocco), International Oud Festival and peace tour (Israel), World Festival of Sacred Music (Los Angeles), headlining the Dalai Lama’s “Seeds of Compassion” benefit concert (Seattle), the International Peace Festival (South Korea), as well as concerts in Mexico, Spain, Turkey, and Poland.

Yvynyl

Since 2011, Yvynyl has co-presented #MEGABLAAG with Ears of the Beholder blog: a music blogger party and meetup during South By Southwest Music Festival and CMJ Music Marathon.