Today is the second semi-final night of Eurovision 2016 and the day when Slovenia will also present itself. She will be joined by Latvia, Poland, Switzerland, Israel, Belarus, Serbia, Ireland, Macedonia, Lithuania, Australia, Bulgaria, Denmark, Ukraine, Norway, Georgia, Albania and Belgium. Keeping fingers crossed!
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Again this year, between August 21 and 25, crazy things will happen on Zrće beach, in Pag, Croatia. Sonus Festival 2016 is coming! An even bigger and better edition that will last for five days and five nights. Enthusiasts of electronic music once again have the opportunity to experience a successful DJ scene live.
Music heals, improves mood and motivates. When you're bored or unmotivated at work, put on your headphones and listen to music that will lift your mood, so that the time at work will pass faster and easier.
Thanks to Mans Zelmerlow, who won last year with the song "Heroes", the contest will be held in Sweden for the sixth time. The real Eurovision fever has already started in Stockholm. Eurovision 2016 is just around the corner and today the first semi-finalists will perform. As many as 18 countries will compete in the first semi-final evening, namely: Finland, Greece, Moldova, Hungary, Croatia, the Netherlands, Armenia, San Marino, Russia, the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Austria, Estonia, Azerbaijan, Montenegro, Iceland, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Malta. But only ten of them will make it to the finals. So what and who are the first semi-finalists?
The legendary actress Sharon Stone, who 24 years ago won a role in the erotic thriller Primal Instinct, which made her one of the greatest sex symbols of all time, is still considered a femme fatale even at the age of almost sixty. And when TV host James Corden, the comedian best known for star-studded car karaoke, found out she was having trouble getting a boyfriend, they shot a music video together for the rap song Wanna Date Her? She's Sharon Stone, B**ch''.
After 1000 years, the sounds of the composition called Carmina qui quondam resounded. This is part of an extensive restoration project by the University of Cambridge, which has been ongoing for more than 20 years. After a millennium, it was played again by the group Sequentia on the original instruments and with the original technique. Listen to a song that is almost as old as the earth!
Spring is here, summer is around the corner, which means the season of outdoor music concerts and festivals is upon us. So we can expect a lot of good music, a lot of socializing and meeting new people, among whom you will always come across very special profiles in every crowd, who are "stopped" by every music event. Get to know the 5 types of people you will encounter at almost every music concert.
Beyoncé has a new album - Lemonade! Are you also surprised by the news? You are not the only one. Beyoncé released a studio album for the second time without any announcement and repeated the pattern from 2013, when Beyoncé's album was released. The sixth album appeared online (so far only available on "husband's" Tindal) after the one-hour premiere of her music documentary on HBO, the extension or logical continuation of which is actually the visual album Lemonade.
The premiere of Camillo Daint-Saëns' great French opera Samson and Delilah is approaching. It will be staged for the first time on May 13, 2016, in the great hall of the Slovenian National Theater (SNG) Maribor in co-production with Opéra-Théatra Metz Métropole.
The German progressive industrialists Rammstein, who are known for elaborate concert spectacles with plenty of pyrotechnics, will visit the Austrian capital this June and thus once again serve up a spectacular show.
The British musician Phil Collins, who was one of the best-selling musicians in the world in the 1980s, announced his return at the end of last year from the musical retirement he entered in 2011. He started his second musical spring by reworking his own past solo albums, but in addition to the reworked the covers of the tracks also caught our eye. At first glance, they are identical to the originals, and indeed they are, with the important difference that Phil Collins from 2015 or 2016 and not a younger version. The albums are part of the music retrospective Take A Look At Me Now.
The duo 2Cellos, consisting of the Slovenian Luka Sulić and the Croatian Stjepan Hauser, impresses again. This time, the two most famous cellists in the world pleased us with a video for a mix of a composition by the great classical music Ludwig van Beethoven and a song by rock champions Led Zeppelin. Namely, they combined the Fifth Symphony and the rock anthem Whole Lotta Love.