Madonna Extends Tour to Bulgaria, Serbia and Romania in Summer 2009
BalkanTravellers.com
Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet Tour, which took place August through December of 2008, is to be extended into this year, with concerts in never before played markets, including the three Balkan countries.
The concert in Sofia – for which tickets go on sale on February 19, will start at 8pm at the Vassil Levski National Stadium. The exact dates and venues for the concerts in Romania and Serbia have not been announced yet.
As part of the first leg of her Sticky & Sweet Tour, the Queen of Pop's Balkan stops included the coastal town Budva in Montenegro and Athens in Greece. The former, as BalkanTravellers.com reported drew an audience of 700,000 people not only from Montenegro, but also thousands of fans from throughout the region.
As BalkanTravellers.com reported last autumn, world-class performers have started including the Balkans in their tours only in the past couple of years, to music lovers’ great delight.
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A Perfect Shot
Koprivshtitsa Fair, Bulgara. Photographs by Neva Micheva
In Homo Urbanus Europeanus, exhibited May 9-24 in front of the National Theatre in Sofia, Jean-Marc Caracci presents his photographs of people in the urban environment of European capitals.
RED&WHITE SOFIA. On the 1st of March Bulgarians say goodbye to the winter. They buy each other red&white threads to carry around until they see a stork and spring can begin. Photography by Lode Desmet
BULGARIA D'OR: The Bulgarian countryside, patinated with the noble golden dust of the autumn. Photographs by Lode Desmet
360 degrees Bulgaria, an exhibition by photographer Alexandar Ivanov, is on display at the Sea Garden in Varna until August 28. It will be shown at Plovdiv’s Central Square from Sept 5.
The exhibition Photographs of a Trip Through Bulgaria by Hungarian photographer András Balla can be seen in Sofia's Hungarian Cultural Institute, at Aksakov 16 Street, until August 22
Instant Spring in Sofia | Photographs by Lode Desmet
Off-the-season Beauty of Bulgaria's Black Sea Coast | Photographs by Adelina Iliev
Bulgaria's Northern Black Sea Coast
Photographs by Albena Shkodrova
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