Music Celebrations Presents
Shanghai World Expo Music Festival
Shanghai, People's Republic of China
May 1 – October 31, 2010
No other place on earth possesses such an intensity of beauty and strangeness, nor has a longer, richer historical legacy, and few other nations are likely to be as important in the 21st century. China's culture remains exotic, despite rapid modernization and growing Western influences. It is now possible to travel to most of the interesting places in China in a style not dreamed of ten years ago, or barely possible five years ago. China travel is a mobile feast of sights and sensations, new and old.
The World Expo 2010 will be held in Shanghai, China in the grand tradition of international fairs and expositions. The theme of the exposition will be "Better City – Better Life" and signifies Shanghai's new status in the 21st century as a major economic and cultural center. It is expected to generate the largest number of visitors in the history of the world's fairs in terms of gross numbers.
In 2008, the World Expo Event Department accepted Music Celebrations to be the sole provider of 30 musical performing groups from North America to the Shanghai World Expo in 2010. This includes free admission to the World Expo, free meal vouchers for each musician throughout the day of the performance, and outstanding performance venues replete with sound systems, chairs, music stands for the seated musicians, lighting, risers for choirs, loud speakers, and changing room facilities with toilets (hard to come by in China!).
