This May holiday will be packed with events, the Midi Festival in Zhenjiang, The Strawberry Festival in Beijing, Straight Oota Canada here in Shanghai, and probably many more. Also here in Shanghai is the World Music Festival, which is apparently some kind of proto-Expo thing. Here’s the line-up:

Thu April 30, 7:30pm: Deep Forest and Sa Dingding at Shanghai Oriental Arts Center
Friday May 1, 1:30pm: Samba Batucada, Yi People Longche Village Music and Dance, and Ballets Africains at Century Park
Saturday May 2, 1:30pm: Aba Tibetan/Qiang Music and Dance, Ballets Africains, and Shrine Synchro System at Century Park
Monday May 4, 7:30pm: Liu Suola and Netsayi at Oriental Arts Center
Tuesday May 5, 7:30pm: Zakir Hussain and AMRTA at Oriental Arts Center

Word on the Douban street is that you buy tickets for the Century Park events there, at 30 RMB each, and you can/should book tickets (from 30-100 RMB) for the Oriental Arts Center shows through their ticket office at 272 Fengxian Lu, or by calling 6217 2426 or 6217 3055.

You can also check out the event’s Douban page (Chinese) for more info. They have links to some of the performers there. I’ll fish them out in case your Chinese is bad:

刘索拉 http://www.douban.com/artist/solaliu/
Deep Forest http://www.douban.com/artist/deepforest/
Netsayi http://www.douban.com/artist/netsayi/
几内亚非洲舞蹈团 http://www.douban.com/artist/balletsafricains/
Shrine Syhchro System http://www.douban.com/artist/theshrine/
Zakir Hussain http://www.douban.com/artist/zakirhussain

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