One of the biggest names in contemporary country music is to kick probably the most expected tour in 2010. George Strait cheap tickets who won the A
One of the biggest names in contemporary country music is to kick probably the most expected tour in 2010.
George Strait cheap tickets who won the Artist of the Decade award at the ACM Artist of the Decade All Star Concert in April this year and was among the nominees on the 43rd CMA show is coming to the MGM Grand Garden Arena, and he’s bringing Reba McEntire and Lee Ann Womack with him.
The tickets for the Las Vegas show that will be held February 6 have already sold out. Saturday, November 21, was the day all fans expected eagerly. The big fight for tickets was over until noon. But as Womack’s album states: “There’s More Where That Came From.” The tour kicks off in early 2010 and continues through late spring.
Baltimore, Greensboro, Knoxville, Charlottesville, Phoenix, Las Vegas, St Louis, Wichita, Tulsa, Atlanta, Orlando, Memphis, New Orleans, Portland, Tacoma, Omaha, Kansas City, Des Moines, are some of the places where the trio Strait-McEntire-Womack will perform for their fans.
George “King of Country” Strait will share one stage with his friend Reba McEntire. The latest news is that the opening act for their shows will be the up-and-coming singer Lee Ann Womack. Womack is one of the hottest country artists with more than 6 million albums sold, two Grammys and critical acclaim for her last album, “There’s More Where That Came From.”
George Strait said that he and Oklahoma superstar Reba McEntire will make the show a really spectacular night and they surely will!
Ras Nas on tour in Norway. Autumn 2009. Reggae music and Afropop
Ras Nas is to tour six towns in Norway in October-November this year bringing reggae and african music closer to a wider Norwegian audience. “It feels good to get a chance to spread the music once again” says Ras Nas aka Nasibu Mwanukuzi whose latest CD “Dar-es-Salaam” has received rave reviews by local as well international music critics.
Ras Nas, a Tanzanian musician and poet based in Oslo, blends reggae and afropop with a dash of poetry. His lyrics are in both Swahili and English. The tour will include Kongsberg, Drammen, Fredrikstad, Arendal, Oslo and Trondheim.
Ras Nas’ line up consists of musicians from Congo Brazzaville, Ivory Coast, Norway and Sweden.
For more info check out www.rasnas.kongoi.com and www.twitter.com/rasnas
Tour dates:
23rd October – Kongsberg
24th October – Drammen
29th October – Fredrikstad
30th October – Arendal
31st October – Oslo
06th November – Trondheim (Transform festival)
Short Ras Nas’ bio
Ras Nas is singer-songwriter, poet, guitarist, percussionist and producer from Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.
Nasibu has experimented with painting and carving. He started playing music at the age of ten and sang for a while in a church choir at St.Peter’s Cathedral in Dodoma, Tanzania, in 1968. Growing up in the 60′s and 70′s Nasibu listened to a lot of Tanzanian music by master guitarists like Wema Abdallah, the mighty Mbaraka Mwinshehe and his Likembe Mahoka style, Segere Matata, as well as Michael Enok of Dar Jazz, from Dar-es-salaam.