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The massive Global Citizen Live concert this Saturday will include appearances from Billie Eilish, Black Eyed Peas, Green Day, H.E.R., Metallica, Elton John, Camila Cabello, Ed Sheeran and Jennifer Lopez, among many others. So many, in fact, that the event is taking place on six continents over 24 hours.

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Violinist Nigel Kennedy has pulled out of a Classic FM concert at the Royal Albert Hall, taking place this week, after the station asked him not to perform a classical arrangement of Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Little Wing’. This amounts to “musical segregation”, he has declared, and made it “impossible” for him to play the show.Speaking to The Guardian, Kennedy said: “This is musical segregation.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorApparently concerts, albums, documentaries, writing songs with Mick Jagger, VMA honors and writing books aren’t enough to keep the indefatigable Dave Grohl busy: Now he’s doing a book tour.Later this month and next, Grohl will undertake an extremely limited run of intimate evenings that’ll see (and hear) him bring his first book to life: “The Storyteller –Tales of Life and Music,” which is described as “a collection of memories of a life lived loud,” is out October 5 via Dey Street Books and Simon & Schuster.Tickets for the tour on sale now.The book ranges from his formative years on the DC punk rock scene through the decades of music that followed — all of which Grohl will discuss, along with “some special

Olivia Rodrigo has played her first concert of 2021.While the musician has played several performances at live one-off events, this was her first concert of the year proper, following restrictions brought by the ongoing pandemic.Speaking to the audience in Las Vegas where she was performing at the iHeartRadio Music Festival, Rodrigo said: “This is a really special day for me because this is sort of like my first show.”“I’m just so grateful that you guys are here with me experiencing this.

Garth Brooks fans are salivating at the prospect of the country music icon finally returning to Ireland to play a string of concerts at Croke Park next year.

Dancing king! Derek Hough fans know he’s a six-time Dancing With the Stars champion, but they don’t know everything about the entertainer.

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Westlife may have had to delay their concert plans for now but they certainly weren’t sitting on their laurels.

Ed Sheeran fans can celebrate that Friday feeling as the singer today announced his huge 2022 tour. The songwriter will play 12 concerts in the first leg of 'The Mathematics Tour' - including two nights in Glasgow.

Little Mix fans have won a legal case against concert promoters for the band.Sally Reynolds, Sarah Cassandro and Victoria Nelson attended a concert in West Sussex with their children, who can hear, in September 2017.The women had requested a British Sign Language interpreter so they could also enjoy the music.

Elton John has postponed the European leg of his farewell tour, saying he’ll undergo surgery after injuring is his hip in a recent fall.

Billie Eilish is discussing her change in confidence.

We may have been missing live music but if insider info is anything to go by, 2022 is going to make up for it with some major gigs in the pipeline. Among the stars set to rock Irish audiences? None other than Bruce Springsteen!

Keith Urban introduced a very special guest on stage at his latest concert. 

Madonna is ready to premiere the Madame X Tour.

While some fans were holding out hope that Kourtney Kardashian would make her first ever appearance at the Met Gala on Monday, September 13, along with her boyfriend, Travis Barker, the rocker couple was busy, well, rocking out.

It was a moment country music fans all over Ireland will never forget, the day they heard that the Garth Brooks concerts that were due to take place in 2014 were cancelled.

Lance Bass has revealed that his twin babies are due to arrive "any day now". The former N*Sync star, 42, announced in June that he and his husband, artist Michael Turchin, 34, were to be parents via surrogacy.

Six-time Grammy-nominated electronic musician deadmau5 has his fair share of criticisms for the modern state of electronic dance music (EDM), but there is a new crop of artists pushing the genre’s boundaries.

Kacey Musgraves is at the VMAs for the first time and she’s making her red carpet appearance a major moment.