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July 28, 2008

Chris de Burgh's Iranian concert set for November...

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Reuters:

Singer Chris de Burgh will stage a concert in Tehran with an Iranian band in late November, the first such concert in the country in nearly 30 years, an Iranian satellite news channel reported on its website.

De Burgh, who has a loyal following in Iran, visited for the first time in May and said he hoped the authorities would give him permission to perform.

The Irish-born singer will perform with Iranian band Arian.

“The concert is scheduled to be held in the last week of November at Azadi Indoor Stadium in Tehran which seats 12,000 people,” said Majid Roqani, the head of public relations at Taraneh Sharqi Cultural and Artistic Company.

Roqani was quoted by the website of Press TV, Iran’s state- owned English-language satellite channel.

The concert will be the first time since the 1979 revolution that an Iranian pop band played alongside a Western singer inside the Islamic Republic.


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#1 2RealEstateMidgets says:

Damn. I'd love to be there to see the Iranians go nuts when he plays "Don't Pay the Ferryman". Damn.

#2 ysusan says:

I wonder if Palestinians and others on the fascist left are going to call for a boycott of Iran because of their policy of apartheid towards women, genocide towards homosexuals, Ba'his and the other numerous humans rights violations committed by the Iranian government on a daily basis, far more than Israel could commit even if it wanted to.


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