CONVERGENCE MAR-APR2017

Of People Around The World
BOARDING PASSES APRIL
Paaspop
Date: 14 – 16 April 2017
Venue: Schijndel, The Netherlands
Twelve stages offering anything between rock
and hip hop to pop and metal, you'll be spoilt
for choice picking from over 175 music acts.
Budapest Spring Festival
Date: 8 – 24 April 2017
Venue: Throughout Budapest, Hungary
Europe
Pulling together the best in classical music,
opera, jazz and folk music, this annual festival
is the largest cultural event in Hungary.
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Shanghai Grand Prix
Date: 9 April 2017
Venue: Shanghai, China
Keep track of the next F1 season in Shanghai.
Visit and travel the city which was once a small
fishing village but now the largest municipality
in the world!
Melbourne Food
and Wine Festival
Date: 31 March – 9 April 2017
Venue: Melbourne, Australia
Asia and Australia
The annual state-wide celebration of Victoria’s
food and wine industry that attracts more than
250,000 attendees to a diverse programme of
over 200 events will keep you salivating.
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Bernexpo
Date: 28 April – 7 May 2017
Venue: Bern, Switzerland
Would you like to view horses and livestock
or just enjoy munching on an apple fritter?
Then this public trade show is the perfect event
for you.
Canadian Music Week
Date: 18 – 22 April 2017
Venue: Across Toronto, Canada
One of the premier entertainment events in
North America, it features five nights of
performances, with 1,000 bands at more than
60 live music venues in downtown Toronto.
Coachella
The Americas
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Date: Between 14 – 16 and 21 – 23 April 2017
Venue: Empire Polo Club, Indio,
California, United States
Radiohead, Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar will
be serenading you. Have you gotten your
tickets?
The Buenos Aires
International Book Fair
Date: 27 April – 15 May 2017
Venue: Buenos Aires, Argentina
The festival hosts many professionals who are
working in the education sectors such as
authors and lecturers as well as those from
leading industries of market and trading,
wholesalers, importers, exporters, processors,
manufacturers, distributors and also some other
exhibitors at the event.
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Pulp Summer Slam 17
Date: 29 April 2017
Venue: Amoranto Stadium, Quezon City,
The Philippines
Southeast Asia's biggest and longest-running
metal festival returns with Megadeth this year!
They’ll be joined by Whitechapel, I See Stars
and Australian progressive metal band Gods
of Eden along with local favourites Slapshock,
Greyhoundz, Wilabaliw, Razorback, Kjwan and
the winner of the 2016 Red Horse Muziklaban.
Cape Town International
Jazz Festival 2017
Date: Between 31 March and 1 April 2017
Venue: Cape Town International Convention
Centre, Lower Long Street, Cape
Town CBD, Cape Town, South Africa
Affectionately dubbed as 'Africa's Grandest
Gathering', Cape Town International Jazz
Festival is considered the largest, most
renowned music festival in Sub-Saharan Africa
attracting over 38,000 jazz lovers worldwide.
Dead Sea Ultra Marathon
Date: 14 April 2017
Venue: King Hussein Park, Amman, Jordan
It will consist of three races – the 50km
marathon, half marathon 21km and the 10km
race. A shorter race for children will be
organised one week before the official event
on the grounds of the King Hussein Park.
International Istanbul
Baroque Music Festival
Date: 1 April 2017
Africa and The Middle East
Venue: Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul, Turkey
Operas, cantatas, sonatas and stabat maters
performances are what you should be looking
for at this music festival.
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