Lunchtime music breaks in Valletta

Take time out in the middle of your busy schedule or fit this in your leisurely holiday timetable. Valletta has lots o offer even when the hordes of summer tourists leave Malta. This October and November enjoy good classical music in the most charming environment of the beautiful church of St. Catherine of Italy in the heart of Valletta, where the fourth series of lunchtime concerts takes place, featuring an eclectic array of works and an exciting line up of performers.
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WinterFest concerts in Riga

Every year since 1999, the Herman Braun Foundation in Latvia is organizing a series of concerts to celebrate preparations for the Winter season in November, Christmas in December, New Year and Russian Orthodox Christmas in January, and the regular anniversary of Foundation in February. The Winterfest held this year from November 14, 2009 to February 13, 2010, includes nine concerts of vocal, baroque, jazz and classical music that you should not miss.
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Amsterdam’s top 25 live gigs this Fall

When you are travelling it can be really fun to go to a concert of one of your favourite bands that happens to be where you are. Amsterdam has surprisingly few venues for major touring bands to play, but the good news is that the major ones are quite good and relatively easy to reach when you are staying in the city centre. This Fall some of the world’s leading artists are performing in the Dutch city so prepare yourselves. We have selected a hot-list of the 25 live gigs you should not miss when in town.
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Fifth season in Philharmonie Luxembourg

Over the last five years, the Salle de Concerts Grande-Duchesse Joséphine-Charlotte has developed rapidly into a venue for events that radiate far beyond the Luxembourg’s borders. In the 2009-2010 season, the Philharmonie continues to be a home for the many-facetted local music scene, while complementing its programme with great conductors and the best soloists, ensembles, and orchestras from the wide world of music.
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Bucharest pumps up the volume

One thing is for sure: Bucharest does not know what it feels like to be in a post-summer blues mood, as far as live music is concerned. With Madonna’s super concert signaling the end of the summer in late August, some thought that the party’s over. They were so wrong. From September to the end of the year there are dozens of live concerts spread all over the Romanian capital. We chose the best 16 and present them to you.
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Red Dragon roars in Europe

With 45 major art exhibitions and more than 60 concerts from traditional to modern music, and 75 performances of theatre, opera, dance, puppets and acrobatics onstage in 40 cities in Belgium (but also in the Netherlands, Germany, France and Luxembourg), europalia.china is definitely the biggest festival held in Europe to date. The festival runs over a period of more than 17 weeks -October 8, 2009, to February 14, 2010- but it is actually an eight-month marathon, since its events start as early as mid-September and some exhibitions run until the end of April 2010. Plenty of time for more than a million Europeans to get to know China’s millennia-old culture and traditions.
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Sofia's last 2009 live gigs

Sofia is a hot spot when it comes to live concerts. And it seems that Bulgarian concert-goers are always thirsty for new gigs since most of the lives scheduled for this season get sold-out within days of the pre-selling opening. Already half way through the second half of the year, Sofia lives in the Madonna mode. But after the great diva’s concert on August 29, gigs by famous artists continue. Some of them are Macy Gray, Mr Big, Cesaria Evora. Tarje Turunen, ZZ Top, Sylvie Vartan, Ojos de Brujo and what’s left of the legendary Boney M.
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Las Vegas nights in Helsinki

You might or you might not like this kind of entertainment but you should at least try it. Treat yourself with a journey back in time into the roots of casino entertainment in the exciting Las Vegas glam of the happy 50s and 60s. It is easy if you are in Helsinki, Finland, from September until the end of December. If blackjack and the roulette is not your style, you can still dress up and go to the glamorous Grand Casino Helsinki to see one of the three shows onstage this season. And of course you can combine them with a delicious dinner.
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Five-week art celebration at the Pompidou

Five weeks of exhibitions, shows, conferences, screenings, living paintings, concerts and performances punctuate the programme of a new festival organized by the Centre Pompidou in Paris from October 21 until November 23, 2009. The Pompidou is inviting a wide-ranging audience to discover today’s creation in all its shapes and colours in this continuous laboratory of contemporary art. Join the festivities in Paris and take the privileged opportunity to renew your perception of creation and contemporary issues.
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