Singers Sam Smith and John Legend have joined forces for a duet of Smith's song "Lay Me Down", which they re-recorded for Comic Relief's Red Nose Day, a charity event dedicated to fighting poverty and social injustice in Great Britain and Africa.
Music
This week's music news is once again dominated by the male gender, but rightfully so. Among the novelties, there were quite a few great surprises - both musical and videographic.
A concert treat awaits us in Pula on September 12, as the Pula Roman Amphitheater is the first stop on the exclusive Live Europe 2015 tour of the legendary David Gilmour, the longtime guitarist and singer of the Pink Floyd band.
AWOLNATION, an electronic band from Los Angeles, can be seen and heard on March 25th at PPC in Graz, Austria.
Ennio Morricone, the Italian composer of film and classical music, who managed to rank in the first rank of film music creators, together with composers such as Henry Mancini, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Vangelis and Philip Glass, is coming to Zagreb on April 11.
Zola Jesus, an American singer, is coming to Kino Šiška with her new album Taiga on March 19. She will perform in Vienna on March 17, and in Budapest on March 18.
The young Brighton rock duo Royal Blood is coming to Milan on March 29th. You probably haven't heard of them, but these two young men are hot right now.
The Abba Stars band will flood Ljubljana, Portorož and Celje at the Abba Revival concert with the great music of the Abba band, the greatest hits in the history of pop music will resonate. The eight-member band from Prague will conjure up abbamania live.
That it already smells like spring is also proven by the selection of new musical innovations, which will be a real balm for our ears in this first week of March.
"Open Mic" weekly music evenings will start at Daktari on Sunday, March 1, 2015, hosted by singer-songwriter Kieran Garvey (No Sailor). The weekly open mic is an ideal opportunity for anyone who would like to try their hand at the stage and anyone who wants to listen to some nice acoustic music on a Sunday night.
The renowned American rock band TOTO, famous for its outstanding musical achievements and epoch-making global hit Africa, has announced the release of a new studio album TOTO XIV, the first in ten years, for the spring and a major world tour, as part of which it will also perform in Slovenia for the first time, on Thursday , on July 2, 2015 in the Tivoli Hall in Ljubljana.
On March 14, Dj Umek will premiere his "UMEK B2B" concept at Ambasada Gaviola. The Spanish hipster Coyu will help with the mixer, and Tube & Berger, Sebastien Leger and many others will do the finishing touches in the electronics. This will be Umeko's first and only appearance in Slovenia in 2015, and in 2016 he will not be in Slovenia at all. So it is a kind of farewell performance.