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Bermuda Music Festival

Place: Bermuda

Date: October 1-4, 2008





Experience four fantastic nights with us at the 13th annual Bermuda Music Festival. Come relax by day and move to the music by night.





Beyonce, Alicia Keys and UB40 will headline the Bermuda Music Festival in October.

Other acts lined-up to appear include The Whispers, Collie Buddz, comedians Bill Bellamy and Dick Gregory, Solange Knowles (Beyonce's sister), soul and R & B singer Aaron Neville and comedian, actor and radio personality, Steve Harvey.

"This event will garner for Bermuda more worldwide attention than anything that has ever happened here," BMF producer Rock Newman of Gibraltar Promotions told the Bermuda Sun. "Folks around the world are going to say 'Bermuda has got it going on!'"

There are 22,000 tickets available and *residents can buy them online tomorrow at www.bermudamusicfestival.com/presell They go on sale on Thursday for non-Bermudians. Or you can buy them at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess, the Fairmont Southampton Princess or Café Latte in St. George's.

The festival will he held at the National Stadium and there is a range of ticket prices. Bronze tickets will be $75, silver $100 and gold tickets will cost $125.

There is also a Bermuda VIP package called 'Viva Las Vegas' that includes first or second row seating during the performances, a luxury gift bag, T-shirt, CDs, a ticket to the after-party and the chance to win a four-day all inclusive trip for two to Las Vegas and a $10,000 shopping spree. The cost? A cool $1,000.

"I've watched the leadership of this country really commit itself to not just talking about making Bermuda a better place, and taking it to the next level, but actually doing it," Mr. Newman said.

As for whether Beyonce's husband R&B singer Jay-Z will be joining her in October, he says: "Well, all I can say is that where the major stars go, others tend to follow."