And here’s another festival lineup for you folks: Stevie Wonder, Metallica, Neil Young & Crazy Horse and the Foo Fighters are set to headline the fifth annual Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival in San Francisco’s Gold Gate Park. Find out who else will performing below.
There might be just one or two more ‘i’s’ to dot and ‘t’s’ to cross, but if there is a god in heaven then the Stevie Wonder deal to headline the final night at Glastonbury will be (wait for it….) signed, sealed and delivered any minute now.
Wonder would join U2 and Muse as headliners at the festival, which takes place on Worthy Farm in Somerset from June 23rd to the 27th.
It’s a huge plus to have a president that shares our passions, and thank goodness Obama shares our passion for groovin’ tunes.
As part of PBS’s “Performance at the White House” series, the network will broadcast a Stevie Wonder concert live from the White House on Feb. 26. The show follows a Feb. 25 award ceremony where the president and the first lady will honor Wonder with a Library of Congress award. Wonder’s song “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours” was a staple during Obama’s campaign and was performed during inauguration week, so it’s only natural that our commander-in-chief should extend him a special thanks.
Friday the 13th has suffered from the longstanding reputation of being a day filled with bad luck. Those who suffer from paraskavedekatriaphobia, the fear of Friday the 13th, will likely be stuck inside all day in hopes that the devils of this sporadic holiday will leave them alone.
It seems that some of superbly talented musicians, songwriters and singers suffer from superstitious tendencies. Whether it’s UB40 echoing Stevie Wonder’s fears about the “writing on the wall,” those crazy Swedes in the band Europe, ironically swearing that they are “not superstitious,” or The Kills every statement that, “superstition is/your modern eye,” it’s apparent that even the musically inclined will be effected by this Friday the 13th.
For the rest of us, Friday the ’13th is just another Friday and that alone is reason enough to celebrate!
Whether you buy into the fear associated with this day or are just glad it is Friday, BeatCrave has come up with an awesome list of superstitious songs for everyone’s viewing and listening pleasure.
After last year’s dismal TV audiences, the 2009 Grammy Awards captured 19.05 million households, up from 17.18 million in 2009. With a variety of artists, spanning decades of music, the 3 ½ hour CBS broadcast was able to appeal to all ages and galvanize the failing industry.
Jack Sussman, an executive vice president at CBS Entertainment said:
“The Recording Academy put on quite a show — an unprecedented 24 performances and a range of artists that appealed to ‘tweens,’ teens, young adults and [baby] boomers.”
The We Are One concert at the Lincoln Memorial pulled crowds with big names performing for the celebration of the inauguration of Barack Obama. Beyonce, Bruce Springsteen, Herbie Hancock, Sheryl Crow, Stevie Wonder, Bono and Garth Brooks took to the stage to sing classics like “This Land Is Your Land”, and “America the Beautiful”.
The Obamas held the seats of honor as the diverse lineup of talent played for the throng of people gathered. Historical passages were read by Queen Latifah and Denzel Washington, and Steve Carell and Jamie Foxx also got onstage for comic relief. Foxx even did an impersonation of Barack’s monotone, staccato voice, which the future president heartily enjoyed.
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