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Steve Vai Festival in Groningen!
20-24th October, 2010

10 years ago the NNO initiated a unique annual festival in Groningen, each year featuring an internationally known contemporary composer. This year we proudly present the virtuoso guitarist and composer, Steve Vai.

Steve Vai is the Paganini of the rock guitar, a virtuoso, a perfectionist in every musical style he embraces who is always looking for new boundaries in his playing and composing.

The festival
During the Festival you will also hear Steve Vai world premières including the especially for the occasion composed work 'Expanding the Universe'. Vai will perform twice with the North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra (NNO) on October 22nd and 23rd. Later on in the week there is a Vai-competition called 'Naked Tracks', and on Sunday 24th October a documentary on the history of the electric guitar. For more details please click on the programme page on this website.

The NNO, NTR and The Oosterpoort are proud to be able to organise concerts involving artists of international standing and attraction, putting Groningen firmly on the map as an artistic centre.

We wish you an enjoyable Steve Vai Festival.

The NNO, The Oosterpoort & NTR (till september 1st: NPS Radio 6)
 

Festivalkrant

Download nu de Festival Krant.  Hierin leest u alles over het festival; uw handboek in de week van het festival.
(PDF | 2MB)

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The North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra (NNO) was founded in 1989 following the merger of the Frysk Orkest and the Noordelijk Filharmonisch Orkest. The NNO has roots leading back to 1862, making it the oldest orchestra in the Netherlands today. In 2012 the orchestra will celebrate its 150th birthday. The NNO is based in Groningen and plays on average 140 concerts per season in the north of the Netherlands, along with concerts around the country and abroad. For more information visit www.nno.nu

Mail info@nno.nu
Phone + 31 50 369 5800
Fax +31 50 369 58 15

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The Steve Vai Festival is a joint production between the North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, the NPS Radio 6 and The Oosterpoort concert hall.

Artistic management: Marcel Mandos, Peter Sikkema, Co de Kloet
Production: Frank van Eunen
Marketing: Elisabeth Brons, Richard Heideman, Marc van Hertum
Text: Marcel Mandos
Translation: Elisabeth Brons, Michael Eversden
Copyright images: Larry Di Marzio, Michael Mesker, Jan Buwalda

Steve Vai official website: www.vai.com

The festival receives financial support from:
NPS Radio 6
Thee Oosterpoort & Stadsschouwburg
North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra (NNO)
Stichting VSB Fonds
Stichting H.S. Kammingafonds

 

The Oosterpoort Concert Hall

For more information regarding The Oosterpoort: www.de-oosterpoort.nl

Radio 6

Radio 6 is the radiostation for soul and jazz

Radio 6 is the Dutch radio station for soul, jazz, funk, rhythm & blues and world music. The best new releases can be heard on Radio6, as well as the classics in these fields. In each broadcast a newly released CD is featured as Radio 6 week CD.

You can listen to Radio6 via the cable, via http://m.radio6.nl and/or on our own iPhone app, via DAB digital radio and of course via live streaming on the website.
The NPS sents out daily programmes on Radio 6 such as Sylvana’s Choice, with Sylvana Simons and Weekend Winfried with Winfriewd Baijens. On Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10 pm untill midnight Radio 6 presents live concerts and special projects with, for example, the Metropole Orchestra and the North Netherlands Orcbestra (NNO)