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Glastonbury Festival is an annual five-day festival of contemporary performing arts held in Pilton, Somerset, near Glastonbury. Musicport World Music Festival is held annually at The Spa Pavilion, Whitby, North Yorkshire. The Music Village Festival is held every two years in London and has been running since 1987.
The term "world music" (or "global," "international," and the like) is a Western musical category encompassing many different styles of music from other parts of the globe. [13] It includes many forms of music that Westerners consider ethnic, indigenous music, folk music, neotraditional music, and music where more than one cultural tradition ...
Deep Forest is a French music project that originally began as a duo consisting of Michel Sanchez and Éric Mouquet. [2] They compose a style of world music, sometimes called ethnic electronica, mixing ethnic with electronic sounds and dance beats or chillout beats. Their sound has been described as an "ethno-introspective ambient world music". [3]
Benefit concert. A benefit concert or charity concert is a type of musical benefit performance (e.g., concert, show, or gala) featuring musicians, comedians, or other performers that is held for a charitable purpose, often directed at a specific and immediate humanitarian crisis . Benefit concerts can have both subjective and concrete objectives.
Electronic dance music (EDM), [ 1] also referred to as club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and festivals. It is generally produced for playback by DJs who create seamless selections of tracks, called a DJ mix, by segueing from one recording to another. [ 2]
This article lists the most-attended concerts of all time. The oldest 100,000-crowd concert reported to Billboard Boxscore is Grateful Dead 's gig at the Raceway Park, Englishtown, New Jersey on September 3, 1977. The concert was attended by 107,019 people. Internationally, 40 paid concerts have surpassed the initial record set by Grateful Dead.
Texxas Jam was the informal nickname of an annual summer rock concert called the Texxas World Music Festival (1978–1988). It was held in Dallas at the Cotton Bowl, and in Houston, at either the Astrodome or the Rice Stadium on the campus of Rice University . The original Texxas Jam was a three-day festival held over the Fourth of July weekend ...
EDM is notorious for being one of music’s largest boy’s club, with women making up just 11 percent of artists at electronic music festivals in 2015. And in 2014, just 18 percent of EDM labels included women on their rosters. “If you Google ‘female DJ,’ there’s not a lot of reputable female producers that come up,” Miriam Nervo of ...