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Thank you SO much for all the kind words, every comment… It means more to us than you can imagine 🙏🏽❤️🥰

>>ViNYL & MERCH NEWS<< We’ve got a lot of requests on how to get hold of vinyl and other merchandise, as our web shop has been out of function for a looong time!! The good news is that It’s up running again now 👾👾👾 We have gone through everything left in storage and found quite a few treasures, including brand new t-shirt designs from last years’ 10 year anniversary FRUiT EU tour, stuff we ONLY sold at the concerts, but also some old styles from way back. Go check it out, Christmas is coming :) All The LOVE //Mette💋 LiNK in biO🥳 #Merch #Tshirts #TheAsteroidsGalaxyTour #Music #CD #ViNYL (her: Copenhagen) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHfxkc9hMOX/?igshid=nxpnugloyb4w

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We know It’s been more than a while. Hope you have been well in this craziest of time, world changing pandemic, and that you are holding up, wherever you are. We want to let you know, that the reason for not being in touch with you in all these months is that we had decided to put Asteroids on hold for now.

All the years of touring with our music, sharing it with you, has simply been out of this world!!! We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all the love and support you have shown us. You are the best friends an artist could wish for - Thank You ❤️

We are both working on new projects, but separately. We’ll update you on these in the near future. In the meantime please look after yourselves and stay safe!

All the Love // Lars & Mette (her: Copenhagen) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHDz5BdhCtw/?igshid=qbvsi0sad8ip

Just LANDED iN #Bratislava🛸Tonight 👉🏽 #MajesticMusicClub 💋#FRUiT10 #LiveMusic #YES 📸 from @efemko (Nice Place) (her: Bratislava, Slovakia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4hzY5-h9eT/?igshid=1a9ek0fygjj9l

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🌷Ready for the last shows this year🌷#FRUiT10 0611#Bratislava(#MajesticMusicClub) 0711#Prague @lucernamusicbar #LiveMusic #TheAsteroidsGalaxyTour #OnTour #YES Hope Too seee YOU there 💋 //L&M https://www.instagram.com/p/B4f0pESBEO0/?igshid=ne8hzsvulkr4

This is @irie.wata (I wanna live in her world) 💘 She is one half of the AWESOME Girl team behind our music videos/single artwork for “BOY” and “Dynamite”. Other half 👉🏽 @someonespictures 🔥 #MusicVideo #Artwork #TheAsteroidsGalaxyTour #Team #YES https://www.instagram.com/p/B4SpUxdB8o6/?igshid=kwghlbwt4j9u

Amsterdam Tonight SOLD OUT - Just released 20 more tickets, available Online NOW🌹#FRUiT10 #LiveMusic #ParadisoNoord #YES (her: Paradiso Noord - Tolhuistuin) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4AJjILBFT3/?igshid=1a5s92wbmutr

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S o u n c h e c k 🔮 @petitbain PARiS We play at 9:00 - See you there 💋#EuropeTour #LiveMusic #Paris #Tonight #theasteroidsgalaxytour #BringUsTogether #FRUiT10 (her: Petit Bain) https://www.instagram.com/p/B340YZLhw8z/?igshid=w8hgw4kib05s

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BAND🌹Tour start 👉🏽TONiGHT in #HAMBURG @molotowclub C U there 💋 #FRUiT10 #AGTLive #LiveMusic #Band #OnTour (her: Motorvejen Ved Fredericia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3bx6jihlIV/?igshid=1btt4e29fqamu

💚October🔸LiVE🔸November💚 #Hamburg #Berlin #Paris #London #Groningen #Amsterdam #Budapest #Bratislava #Prague #YES #AGTLive #Tour #FRUiT10 #LiveMusic #TheAsteroidsGalaxyTour https://www.instagram.com/p/B3EKQVmBsRt/?igshid=1i4i529duvcbp

Get your TENG ON - Remix by @john_vincent 🙌🏾 feat. @wafandelife on the👉🎤Poppps TodaY 🔥 !!! Stream iT, Eat iT, Spin iT, Wear iT👽Copenhagen Love //Asteroids #LinkInBio #NewMusicFriday #Copenhagen #Remix #Wafande #JVC #JVCRemix #WaveTeng #HotIce #TheAsteroidsGalaxyTour #Music #NewRelease https://www.instagram.com/p/B0GI1GQhngS/?igshid=1mae6zro9udze

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N E W SiNGLE #DYNAMiTE OUT T O D A Y

BOOM B O O M Bubbly Bass and Dancing Feet 💥👟👟💥 Lyric video made by the amazing @irie.wata and @someonespictures 🙏🏼👏🏾🙌 LiNK iN BiO 🔝 All the Love // Asteroids 💚 https://www.instagram.com/p/BysDO2ghbgD/?igshid=1kj69mpcf3vmt

The horns are BACK 🎺🎺🎺New Single out FRiDAY🍭Are you ready?👟👟 #AGTStudio #NewMusicFriday #Summer #Dance #YES 💋 (her: Vesterbro, Copenhagen) https://www.instagram.com/p/BykgPiLBkYi/?igshid=179fizl81teft

🍭🔜◽▫FRUiT is ON▫◽🔙🍭

We are F e e l i n g nostalgic. This September it’s gonna be 10 years since we released our first album FRUiT!!! SO blessed that this strange teenage dream of an anthem came to life and took us on a futuristic ride through space and time 🦵🏽🥁🌠🚀🌅🎺🦵🏽 Million Thanks to all of you sweet friends, who were a part of it then and all of you listening for the first time now. It truly warms our hearts every time reading a comment about how our music has made you feel through good times or bad, being young or getting older. Our music is for everyone and we love you ❤

To celebrate exclusively🕺🏽🕺🏼🕺🏽 we have put together a small and intimate club tour around Europe this fall. Tickets will go on sale this Friday morning at 10.00 am, keep an eye on this space! Can’t WAiT to see you all, hopefully more places coming up (all around the world🙃)…time will tell…

OCTOBER📡 Thu 10 👉🏼DE, Hamburg, @molotowclub Fri 11👉🏿DE, Berlin, @musikundfrieden Tue 22 👉🏾UK, London, @100club Thu 24👉NL, Amsterdam, @paradisoadam Sat 26👉🏻HU, Budapest, @akvariumklub

NOVEMBER📡 Wed 6👉🏿Slovakia, Bratislava @MajesticMusicClub Thu 7👉🏽Czech Rep Prague @lucernamusicbar

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PS. New Single just around the corner and a full album will hit you late 2019💥!! https://www.instagram.com/p/ByCiYjih8vw/?igshid=12992vhyqjx66

Got your “Wave Teng” ON for easter ?☀️🏄🏼‍♀️🎶 #NewSingle #WaveTeng #BeachLife #Getaway #GoListen #TheAsteroidsGalaxyTour @glitteronglitteroff @spoekmathambo @hoticelife https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwb0eiPBVmz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fsn9kov8byqj

• t 5 years ago

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Putting a 21st century spin on the hip late-'60s world of Burt Bacharach, Sly Stone, and Barbarella, Denmark's the Asteroids Galaxy Tour had barely let their demo out into the world before fame came calling thanks to Amy Winehouse and the iPod family. Multi-instrumentalist Lars Iversen and vocalist Mette Lindberg formed the Asteroids in 2007. Thanks to a freshly pressed demo landing in the right hands, their debut gig was an opening slot at the request of Winehouse when the superstar singer visited the duo's hometown of Copenhagen. Soon after they were signed to the major label Universal who released their debut single, "The Sun Ain't Shining No More," in 2008. As the Asteroids were preparing their debut album and expanding their live lineup to a six-piece, their B-52's-flavored, retro-party single was featured in a television commercial for Apple's iPod Touch MP3 player. ~ David Jeffries

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The Asteroids Galaxy Tour is an indie and psychedelic pop band from Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen. They formed in 2007 and have built a reputation of their songs featuring in Film, TV and Commercials.

It was in their formative years that the band decided to record a demo. The demo was heard by Amy Winehouse’ management, who asked the group to open for her in Copenhagen. This was the band’s first live show, and soon after, their track “Around the Bend” was chosen by Apple to be used in the new iPod Touch commercial and to be aired worldwide from December 2008. After the success of the commercial, this track became the band’s biggest single to date helping to launch the band onto the international stage. They even supported Katy Perry on her 2009 summer tour in Europe.

The band has had a lot of promotion, with their works being used in TV commercials, Film and TV shows. Myer, Australia’s largest department store chain used the song “the Golden Age" to launch their 2009 summer range and SBS Television used the song “The Golden Age” to promote the U.S. television series, Mad Men. Even Heineken International used the song in the 2011 commercial, “The Entrance” where the band in fact featured in the commercial.

“Around the Bend" is featured in the Anna Wintour documentary movie, The September Issue which was released in 2009. In 2008, three songs by the band were featured on the Gossip Girl episode “It’s a Wonderful Life”. “Around the Bend" was featured in the NBC TV series Chuck in episode 209. “The Sun Ain’t Shining No More” has been selected as the theme song of the Canadian action comedy television series InSecurity, which premiered on January 4th 2011.

The band has experienced chart success with their song “The Golden Age” which became a hit in Austria, Switzerland, Spain, UK, Canada and the US. They released an album called “Bring Us Together” on September 15th 2014.

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Shooting to some kind of fame after ‘The Golden Age’ was used to market a popular beer, all the hard work put in by Danish act Asteroids Galaxy Tour since forming in 2007 has finally started to pay off. The core duo of Mette Lindberg and Lars Iversen write complex pop songs with killer hooks filling their albums Fruit and Out of Frequency with great songs that could really all be used to market whatever you like, such is the power of the band’s catchy hooks. Some of AGT’s songs have been used during rather well-known TV programmes like Chuck and Gossip Girl, while Mette herself appeared as a guest on Never Mind the Buzzcocks back in 2008. But never mind all that, what about the music itself? Well, Mette Lindberg is the one to watch, a bundle of energy and in possession of a powerful voice that one moment can sound helium-filled, the next she’s belting songs out like a soul singer. They will of course play ‘The Golden Age’, its swinging 60s feel supplemented by a dose of electronica but there’s also the giddy ‘Heart Attack’ which has crazy synths burbling over a little garage rock riff and the set will close out with the funky brass attack of ‘Major’ – which, in fact, is by far their best song. It will probably turn out that you know more Asteroids Galaxy Tour songs than you think – and the ones you don’t? Well, that’s just a bonus.

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Despite sounding more like a live schedule than a band, Danish pop outfit The Asteroids Galaxy Tour have forged quite a reputation for themselves following the release of their debut album 'Fruit' in 2009. The brain child of vocalist and producer Mette Lindberg and Lars Iversen, TAGT have become known through central Europe as one of the liveliest and most involving acts on the circuit.

Bounding onstage in a wash of colour and sound, the five musicians take their place and warmly greet the crowd before performing a double opener of 'Hero' and 'Push The Envelope'. The energy is clearly infectious and the audience are beginning to move, jump and even dance in places under the command of the likeable Mette. They work through a setlist primarily comprising of tracks from 'Fruit' yet there is some new music showcased this evening with similarly shiny production and infectious melodic hooks. There is no doubt that The Asteriods Galaxy Tour are one of the most fun artists currently working.

The band that inspired my passion for live music was THE PHOTOS, I first saw them at the marquee 1980 even saw U2 support them once.

but seeing ASTEROIDS GALAXY TOUR live is like my concert life have turned full circle,

AGT are so exciting and exhilarating perfect in every way,

I could never have enough of THE PHOTOS,I definitely feel the same way about ASTEROIDS GALAXY TOUR.

Great music perfect to watch full of non stop energy and so breathtaking.

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS AMAZING BAND !!!1

Honestly this band is one of the best I've seen live . They're just simply amazing ! For me , this band is perfection. They really put a lot of work in there songs. Every sound or note is "right time/right moment" . Psychedelic at it's best. Mette Lindberg is soooooo cool ! The band is sooooo good ! Please come back to Montreal !

ASTEROIDS GALAXY TOUR definitely one of my favourites, live up there with the very best .

Hugely talented playing great music simply cannot understand why they are not mega superstars

A must see band.

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Danish pop group whose songs incorporate funk, soul, psychedelia, and acid jazz, best known for their 2011 hit "The Golden Age."

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Putting a 21st century spin on the hip late-'60s world of Burt Bacharach, Sly Stone, and Barbarella, Copenhagen, Denmark multi-instrumentalist Lars Iversen and vocalist Mette Lindberg formed the Asteroids Galaxy Tour in 2007. After opening for Amy Winehouse (at her request) at a Copenhagen show, the Asteroids were signed to Universal, which released their debut single, "The Sun Ain't Shining No More," in 2008. As the Asteroids were preparing their debut album and expanding their live lineup to a six-piece, the retro-party single was featured in a television commercial for Apple's iPod Touch. Fruit, which arrived in 2009, included the single "The Sun Ain't Shining No More"; the band's sophomore album, 2012's Out of Frequency, found the band moving in a more expansive, sophisticated direction. ~ David Jeffries

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April 2, 2012 • "Fantasy Friend Forever" could one day enslave nations by dint of its sheer infectiousness.

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February 25, 2009 • Spacey and adventurous, this duo from Copenhagen experiments with funk, folk, soul and '60s psychedelia. Its album Fruit has yet to be released, but the band has already enjoyed considerable success opening for Amy Winehouse. Hear the duo perform a session on World Cafe .

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February 17, 2009 • Though Fruit , The Asteroids Galaxy Tour's first official LP is not scheduled to be released until May, this Danish group already has an impressive resume in the works. "Around the Bend" has been featured in an ipod touch commercial, a few tracks were on an episode of the CW show Gossip Girl , and the band's first gig was opening for Amy Winehous at Copenhagen's largest music venue.

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The Asteroids Galaxy Tour is a Danish pop band consisting of vocalist Mette Lindberg and songwriter/producer Lars Iversen, formed in 2007 in Copenhagen, Denmark. When performing live the band extends to a five-piece, featuring Mikkel Balster Dørig (guitar), Simon Littauer (MPC and keys) and Rasmus Littauer (drums).

Soon after being recorded, the band's demo was heard by the management of Amy Winehouse, who asked the group to be her opening act in Copenhagen. This was the band's first proper live show. Not long after that, the track Around the Bend was chosen by Apple to be used in the new iPod Touch commercial to be aired worldwide from December 2008. Following the success of the commercial, Around the Bend went on to become the band's biggest single to date, helping to launch the band onto the international stage.

In November 2008, lead singer Mette Lindberg was a guest on the BBC music quiz show Never Mind the Buzzcocks.

In 2009, the band were guests on the Danish morning TV show Good Morning Denmark. They have also guested on top French music show Taratata where they first performed the track Inner City Blues , a cover of the Marvin Gaye classic, which later became a favourite of their live shows.

The band supported Katy Perry on several sold out dates for her summer 2009 European tour. On 21 September 2009, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour's debut album Fruit was released in Europe, followed by the USA release in October 2009.

In January 2012, the band released their second album, Out of Frequency . In September 2014, the band released their third album, Bring Us Together , via their own label Hot Bus Recordings and Rough Trade Distribution.

On 23 March 2018, the band released their single Surrender .

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This is an annotated NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the barred spiral galaxy UGC 12158, with compass arrows, a scale bar, and colour key for reference. It looks like someone took a white marking pen to it. In reality it is a combination of time exposures of a foreground asteroid moving through Hubble’s field of view, photobombing the observation of the galaxy. Several exposures of the galaxy were taken, which is evidenced by the dashed pattern.

The asteroid appears as a curved trail as a result of parallax: Hubble is not stationary, but orbiting Earth, and this gives the illusion that the faint asteroid is swimming along a curved trajectory. The uncharted asteroid is inside the asteroid belt in our Solar System, and hence is 10 trillion times closer to Hubble than the background galaxy.

Rather than being a nuisance, this type of data is useful to astronomers for doing a census of the asteroid population in our Solar System.

[ Image description : Annotated image of barred spiral galaxy UGC 12158 against the black background of space, with compass arrows, a scale bar, and colour key for reference. The galaxy has a pinwheel shape made up of bright blue stars wound around a yellow-white hub of central stars. The galaxy is tilted face-on to our view from Earth. A slightly S-shaped white line across the top is the Hubble image of an asteroid streaking across Hubble’s view. Indicated filters are expressed as: “F475W” in blue, “F606W” in green, and “F814W” in red. At the bottom left corner is a scale bar labelled “60,000 light-years” over “30 arcseconds.” At the bottom right corner, the “E” compass arrow points towards the 2 o’clock position. The “N” compass arrow points towards the 5 o’clock position.]

• CREDIT NASA, ESA, P. G. Martín (Autonomous University of Madrid), J. DePasquale (STScI). Acknowledgment: A. Filippenko (University of California, Berkeley)
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Watch newly discovered asteroid fly between Earth and moon on Jan. 27 (video)

The space rock poses no threat to our planet, despite being on a path to zoom between Earth and the moon.

Update for Jan. 28: Astronomer Gianluca Masi was able to capture some fascinating footage of asteroid 2024 BJ during its flyby of Earth on Jan. 27. Watch the space rock zoom by our planet on Space.com (above) thanks to the Virtual Telescope Project or on the project's YouTube channel . 

An asteroid discovered earlier this month will reach its closest point to Earth on Saturday (Jan. 27), when it will soar through the sky at a distance closer to us than the moon.

Astronomers first detected the up to 121-foot-wide (37 meters) asteroid, dubbed 2024 BJ, on Jan. 17. They  documented  their discovery the following day, after calculating that the rock will safely soar past our planet without incident.

The asteroid will fly close to the moon just before 9 a.m. EST (1400 GMT) before zooming past Earth three and a half hours later at an estimated speed of 14,200 mph (22,850 km/h). The flying space rock will reach its closest point to Earth at 12:30 p.m. EST (1730 GMT), according to  NASA .

You can watch the airplane-size asteroid as it sails just 220,000 miles (354,000 kilometers) from Earth — more than nine tenths of the average distance between our planet and the moon — on a  Virtual Telescope Project livestream  from 12:15 p.m. EST (1715 GMT). On the live, you can expect to see the asteroid as a white speck moving quickly among the background stars.

Related:  How NASA correctly predicted that a tiny asteroid would burn up over Germany, hours before it happened

2024 BJ is a near-Earth asteroid of the Apollo type, which means its  egg-shaped orbit crosses that of Earth  to reach its closest point to the sun before turning around and extending out toward the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

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Apollo asteroids, of which over 1,600 are currently known, make up the majority of the population of Earth-crossing and  potentially hazardous asteroids . But fear not: 2024 BJ is nowhere near large enough to be considered hazardous. In fact, Earth appears to be safe from asteroids — at least from cataclysmic, "planet-killer" ones measuring more than 0.6 miles (1 km) across —  for the next 1,000 years . 

And if a currently unknown planet-killer should happen to sneak up on us — say,  from the direction of the glaring sun  — scientists already have a few plans for dealing with such an Earth-threatening catastrophe, including attempting to deflect the space rock with rockets, or possibly with  nuclear weapons detonated in space . Hopefully, we'll never have to put such a mission to the test.  

Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and more! And if you have a news tip, correction or comment, let us know at: [email protected].

Sascha is a U.K.-based trainee staff writer at Live Science. She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Southampton in England and a master’s degree in science communication from Imperial College London. Her work has appeared in The Guardian and the health website Zoe. Besides writing, she enjoys playing tennis, bread-making and browsing second-hand shops for hidden gems.

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The Bolshoi Theatre

The Bolshoi Theatre is the oldest, the most famous and popular opera and ballet theatre in Russia. The word “Bolshoi” means “big” in Russian. You can buy a ticket online in advance, 2-3 months before the date of performance on the official website . Prices for famous ballets are high: 6-8 thousand rubles for a seat in stalls. Tickets to operas are cheaper: you can get a good seat for 4-5 thousand rubles. Tickets are cheaper for daytime performances and performances on the New Stage. The New Stage is situated in the light-green building to the left of the Bolshoi's main building. The quality of operas and ballets shown on the New Stage is excellent too. However, you should pay attention that many seats of the Bolshoi’s Old and New Stages have limited visibility . If you want to see the Bolshoi’s Old Stage but all tickets are sold out, you can order a tour of the theatre. You can book such a tour on the official website.

If you want, following Russian tradition, to give flowers to the performers at the end of the show, in the Bolshoi flowers should be presented via special staff who collects these flowers in advance.

In August the Bolshoi is closed.

The Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre

This theatre is noteworthy. On one hand, it offers brilliant classical opera and ballet performances. On the other hand, it is an experimental venue for modern artists. You can check the program and buy tickets online here http://stanmus.com/ . If you are opera lover, get a ticket to see superstar Hibla Gerzmava . The theatre has a very beautiful historic building and a stage with a good view from every seat. Tickets are twice cheaper than in the Bolshoi.

The Novaya Opera

“Novaya” means “New” in Russian. This opera house was founded in 1991 by a famous conductor Eugene Kolobov. Its repertoire has several directions: Russian and Western classics, original shows and divertissements, and operas of the 20th and 21st centuries. It is very popular with Muscovites for excellent quality of performances, a comfortable hall, a beautiful Art Nouveau building and a historic park Hermitage, which is situated right next to it. You can buy tickets online here http://www.novayaopera.ru/en .

Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Center

The Opera Center has become one of the best theatrical venues in Moscow. It was founded in 2002 by great diva Galina Vishnevskaya. Nowadays its artistic director is Olga Rostropovich, daughter of Galina Vishnevskaya and her husband Mstislav Rostropovich, great cellist and conductor. Not only best young opera singers perform here, but also world music stars do; chamber and symphonic concerts, theatrical productions and musical festivals take place here. You can see what is on the program here http://opera-centre.ru/theatre . Unfortunately “booking tickets online” is available in Russian only. If you need help, you can contact us at and we can book a ticket for you. 

Tchaikovsky Concert Hall and The Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory

These are two major concert halls for symphonic music in Moscow. Both feature excellent acoustics, impressive interior, various repertoire and best performers. You can check the program here http://meloman.ru/calendar/ . You need just to switch to English. Booking tickets online is available only for owners of Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian phone numbers. If you need help, you can contact us and we can book a ticket for you. 

Moscow International Performing Arts Center (MIPAC)

This modern and elegant concert hall houses performances of national and foreign symphony orchestras, chamber ensembles, solo instrumentalists, opera singers, ballet dancers, theatre companies, jazz bands, variety and traditional ensembles. Actually, it has three concert halls placed on three different levels and having separate entrances. The President of MIPAC is People’s Artist of the USSR Vladimir Spivakov, conductor of “Virtuosy Moskvy” orchestra. You can see pictures of the concert halls here http://www.mmdm.ru/en/content/halls . The program is impressive in its variety but is not translated into English. You can contact us at and we can find a performance for you.

Bournemouth confirm pre-season tour of United States

Bournemouth have confirmed they will spend pre-season in the United States this summer.

The Premier League club have announced they will head to Los Angeles, California with the playing squad, including USMNT captain Tyler Adams , to be based at the training facilities of MLS team LA Galaxy.

They also toured the U.S. back in 2016.

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The two-week trip will see the club play their first two friendlies of pre-season and will also take in a visit to Santa Barbara.

Wrexham AFC co-chairmen Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney announced that their side will face Bournemouth at Harder Stadium in Santa Barbara, on July 20.

🇺🇸 BOURNE IN THE USA 🇺🇸 We're delighted to announce we'll be preparing for the 2024/25 season in Los Angeles 🔥 Full details: https://t.co/2SIbl8lQCz pic.twitter.com/jnKcILTObz — AFC Bournemouth 🍒 (@afcbournemouth) April 25, 2024

Bournemouth Chief executive, Neill Blake, said: “I’m delighted that we’re able to confirm this exciting news, and that we will be providing the best possible preparation for the playing squad to continue their great work of this season.

“We’ve secured an incredible facility for Andoni (Iraola) and his staff to operate in, for the start of what will be an historic season for AFC Bournemouth as we prepare to move into a state-of-the-art training ground of our own.”

President of business, Jim Frevola, added: “It’s great that we’re able to take the team back to the US for the first time in nearly ten years. I’m so excited to head out there to see and grow our fanbase in the area, and to continue to develop the club off the field.

“We were thrilled by the recent Premier League event in Nashville, and now we can’t wait to meet with more Cherries fans out on the west coast.”

The club also confirmed they will host two friendlies at Vitality Stadium ahead of the first round of the 2024-25 Premier League season on the weekend of August 17.

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Best things to see and do in Moscow

Moscow is the capital of Russia and is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Asia. It’s rich and complex history is a constant reminder of its strategic position between Europe and Asia and makes it one of the cities you should visit once in your life. In terms of the many iconic landmarks, the delicious cuisine, and the characteristic, colorful architecture it has, Moscow is full of surprises for first-timers and seasoned travelers. Apart from the main attractions, it has like the Kremlin or Red Square, Moscow has many hidden gems for you to discover on your free walking tour with your local guide. 

On any of the free guided tours we offer in Moscow , you will be able to find a selection of many tours which are available in different languages and at different times of day, like the morning, afternoon, and evening. Since Moscow is such a large metropolis, getting your bearings by doing a guruwalk with a local guide who will show you all Moscow’s hidden gems is a great idea. This way you get to learn as much as possible about the local culture and way of life. A trip to Moscow wouldn't be complete without visiting iconic places like St Basil’s Cathedral, Lenin’s Mausoleum, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, or the State Historical Museum, before getting some fresh air at Gorky Park, the medieval church of Kolomenskoye, or shopping at Izmailovsky Market. Don’t miss visiting the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the Bolshoi Theater, or checking out the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve. 

Many travelers have left their r eviews and opinions about the local guides , gurus, and the routes they walked. If you have any questions about the routes or what is included in the tour, check out their opinions. 

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