Aerosmith drops Indonesia show over security fears
Aerosmith canceled a show in Indonesia after authorities there said they had foiled a bomb plot targeting the Myanmar embassy.
Aerosmith canceled a show in Indonesia after authorities there said they had foiled a bomb plot targeting the Myanmar embassy.
Great music, great voices, never die. The original members of the group that crooned such hits as “Only You,” “The Great Pretender,” “Twilight Time” and “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” are long gone. But at the Newport Performing Arts Theater in Pasay City Wednesday last week, another group that took on the name was busy keeping the tunes immortal, and the audience in wistful reminiscence.
The MBLAQ’s “First Contact” concert in Manila has been cancelled “due to technical and production concerns,” the promoters and producers of the group announced on Monday.
The return concert of rock band Journey, scheduled on March 21 at the SM Mall of Asia Arena, has been canceled. A statement from Journey front man Arnel Pineda, which was posted on smtickets.com and confirmed by MOA Arena marketing head Nicole Mariz C. Deato, explained the reasons for the show’s cancelation.
At least seven concerts featuring foreign artists are scheduled to be held in Manila this month.
Jessica Sanchez is in town for a solo concert on Feb. 14 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum—a deal that was negotiated in September 2012 when the American Idol 2012 runner-up first came here to perform with her co-finalists at the same venue.
Haiti’s president performed a duet late Friday with Spanish crooner Julio Iglesias in a celebrity-studded concert in the Dominican Republic to help raise money for impoverished children.
Since the world has not yet ended, Filipinos can look forward to a wide variety of shows and events at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) in 2013.
Final date for the Manila concert of K pop and YouTube sensation Psy is on Dec. 20 at SM MoA Open Grounds, reports Pocholo Concepcion, quoting the show’s promoter, Joed Serrano of That’s Ntertainment.
Pop icon Elton John publicly dedicated his only concert in Beijing to Chinese artist and political critic Ai Weiwei, sending a murmur of shock through audience members accustomed to tight censorship of Western pop shows.
NBC said its benefit concert for Superstorm Sandy victims drew nearly $23 million in donations to the American Red Cross.
Four recent concerts by foreign artists demonstrated that it takes a lot of discipline to nurture and sustain talent.
