The News Review:
- National Cherry Blossom Festival begins in Washington DC
- Tribeca festival sets panels special events
- Live: Ultra Music Festival in Miami
- Great American Country Adds Sticks to Fairs & Festivals Tour
National Cherry Blossom Festival begins in Washington DC
Examiner.com
David Luria Attracting visitors from around the world the. The annual event commemorates the gift of 3000 flowering cherry trees from Tokyo Mayor Yukio zaki to the nation’s capital in 1912 honoring the friendship between the United States and Japan. The blossoms of the Yoshino cherry trees do not bear fruit but do create a snowy white atmosphere as the pale pink and white flowers burst open.
Tribeca festival sets panels special events
Hollywood Reporter
The fest which runs April 22-May 3 in New York will showcase”Tribeca Talks Special Events” around the films “Poliwood” and”Passing Strange. Levinson will be on hand to discuss his new film “Poliwood”following its premiere. Joining him to discuss the movie aboutpolitics and Hollywood will be the film’s.
Live: Ultra Music Festival in Miami
Los Angeles Times
show in seven years a stellar Ultra highlight. ne of the festival’s founders and promoters Russell Faibisch said 50000 people attended Friday night 60000 on Saturday. Unfortunately not every veteran on the bill was as creatively dynamic as Size. Such headlining DJs as Armin Van Buuren Tiësto and Paul Van Dyk trotted out the same tired techno and trance beats. Van Dyk did introduce a new single “Home” that true to its title had an unusually warm house-music feel and operatic pop vocal. Anything was better than Prodigy the once hugely successful rock-electronic crossover band which resorted to a string of epithets to try to spark a muddy wan performance.
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Great American Country Adds Sticks to Fairs & Festivals Tour
FXBusiness
The tour will feature several of the nation’s biggest and best country music festivals. According to GAC VP of Marketing Scott Durand “Sticks is a great fit for our Fairs & Festivals Tour. It has a great line up of artists and it’s a festival that we feel will have great appeal to our viewers and that’s why it was a natural addition to our tour. “To be added to the GAC Tour is quite an honor considering we’re an inaugural event” said David Adams STICKS producer. “But from its inception the grand design for STICKS was to be a major country music festival and we have the lineup of talent to support that claim.