| Date | Event | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 9 2008 | Idol Gives Back | Fox Broadcasting Company US | Idol Gives Back is the name of a charitable campaign that spanned two episodes of American Idol during its sixth season. It raised more than $75 million in that season and will return this year on April 9, 2008. Ellen DeGeneres will once again join Ryan Seacrest as co-host of Idol Gives Back. She will host from the Kodak Theatre with Seacrest hosting from the American Idol stage in Los Angeles on FOX. |
| May 5 2008 | Music Monday in Canada 2008 | Canada Australia US | On the first Monday of May 2008, students and teachers in Canada will take their music programs outside into the open air of their school grounds or into their communities, to perform a short concert. |
| May 8 2008 | The Classical BRIT Awards 2008 | Royal Albert Hall Westminster London, England | The Classical BRIT Awards are an annual awards ceremony held in the United Kingdom covering aspects of classical music, and are the classical equivalent of pop music's BRIT Awards. |
| May 20, 22 and 24 2008 | 53rd Eurovision Song Contest 2008 | Radio Television Serbia (RTS) Belgrade Serbia | The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition. |
| June 27 2008 | Hyde Park Concert Honouring Nelson Mandela at 90 | Hyde Park London, England | A concert audience of 46,664 will pay their tributes to one of the world’s most loved leaders, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and icon of freedom, Nelson ‘Madiba’ Mandela, as he turns 90 on July 18, 2008. |
| July 16 - August 2 2008 | Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia 2008 | Sydney New South Wales Australia | The Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia is internationally recognized now as one of the world's great Piano Competitions. The Competition was inaugurated in July 1977 by Claire Dan AM OBE and is held every four years. |
| August 5-10 2008 | GFA International Convention and Competition | San Francisco Conservatory of Music San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center San Francisco, California USA | Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) is a non-profit guitar organization founded in the year 1973. The company offers various services ranging from guitar lessons, to a guitar shop, competitions and events. |
| August 9 2008 | World's Greatest Elvis Concert 2008 | Bolton Arena Greater Manchester England | The artists taking part will be the first to acknowledge that Elvis Presley can never be replaced, but we hope that the World's Greatest Elvis Concert 2008 is the closest concert we will ever get to sampling (if only a fraction) the Elvis magic that fans tasted at the International Hotel in Las Vegas. |
| August 16 2008 | Discover the Music-Brain Connection | University Mozarteum Salzburg, Austria | The Cleveland Orchestra and the Cleveland Clinic, world leaders in music and medicine, will convene a symposium called “Music and the Brain” to examine new understandings about the vast impact of music on the human brain. |
| August 23 - November 29 2008 | Sticky & Sweet Tour | Europe North America | The Sticky & Sweet Tour is the eighth world concert tour by American singer-songwriter Madonna to support her eleventh studio album Hard Candy. |
| August 24-29 2008 | International Computer Music Conference 2008 | Sonic Arts Research Centre Queen’s University Belfast BT7 1NN Northern Ireland, UK | Since its inception in 1974, the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) has been co-sponsored by the International Computer Music Association (ICMA) and has become the preeminent yearly gathering of computer music practitioners from around the world. |
| September 2 - 19 2008 | ARD International Music Competition Munich 2008 | Prinzregententheater Munich Germany | The ARD International Music Competition is the biggest international competition in Germany for classical music. It takes place once each year in Munich, Germany. The categories for the 2008 competition are viola, clarinet, bassoon and string quartet. |
| September 7 2008 | World Peace One Global Concert | The world | The World Peace One global concert event is currently planned to be broadcast "Live" from primary host venues with the support of secondary host cities spanning 24 time-zones across the world. |
| September 8 2008 | Canadian Country Music Awards | MTS Centre Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada | One of this year’s CCMA nominees for female artist of the year and last year’s Fans’ Choice Award winner Terri Clark will host the Canadian Country Music Awards, which will feature performers Jessie Farrell, George Canyon alongside previously announced performers Dierks Bentley, Doc Walker, Emerson Drive and Johnny Reid. |
| September 15 2008 | The Cosmos Rocks | Europe | The Cosmos Rocks is an album from Queen + Paul Rodgers set to be released on September 15, 2008 in the EU and October 14, 2008 in North America. |
| September 25 - October 5 2008 | Premio Paganini 2008 | Carlo Felice theatre Genoa Genoa, Italy | The Paganini Competition (or Premio Paganini) is an international violin competition named after the founder of contemporary violin technique Niccolò Paganini. Created in 1954 it has been carried out ever since in the months of September and October. The "Paganini Competition" is one of the most important violin competitions. It is held every two years at Carlo Felice theatre in Genoa, Italy. |
| October 23 - 25 2008 | Karaoke World Championships | Lahti Hall Lahti Finland | Originating in Finland in 2003 with 7 countries, the Karaoke World Championships (KWC) is an international karaoke competition, featuring nearly 30 countries worldwide in 2007. |
| November 15 - 23 2008 | TROMP International Music Competition and Festival 2008 | Muziekcentrum Frits Philips Eindhoven Netherlands | The TROMP International Music Competition and Festival is held every two years in Eindhoven, Netherland. Since 2004 its subjects are string quartet and percussion on a rotating basis. The 19th edition of 2008, 15-23 November, will be devoted to String Quartet. |
| January 17 2009 | The O2 Launches Monumental Classics Series | The O2 Greenwich peninsula London, England | The O2 launches Monumental Classics series with Carmina Burana in January 2009. Carmina Burana, the first in the new classical series, will take over The O2 on 17th January 2009 at 6:30 PM. |
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