Bryan Adams and Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli will help wrap up the forthcoming FIFA World Cup with performances in a July concert, organizers have announced.

Adams, recognized with the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award at the Juno Awards gala earlier this month, will take the stage alongside Bocelli and other artists such as South African soprano Pretty Yende for an event titled Celebrate Africa, the Grand Finale.

The concert will take place in Johannesburg, South Africa’s largest city, on July 9 — two days before the World Cup’s final soccer match.

Source: CBC News

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Bryan will be touring with his full band in South Africa in July 2010.

Here are the dates confirmed so far:
July 13 – Cape Town,
July 16 – Durban,
July 18 – Johannesburg

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Bryan Adams is among six Canadians to win this year’s Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards.

The honour recognizes “outstanding lifetime contribution to Canada’s cultural life.”

Each winner receives $25,000 and will be honoured at a gala at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa on May 1. Governor General Michaëlle Jean will present the awards April 30 at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.

Adams, who is touring internationally with his Bare Bones solo acoustic show, performed his song Bang the Drum with Nelly Furtado at the Olympic opening ceremony.

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Bryan is donating prime concert tickets and exclusive Meet & Greet experiences to each of his American shows in February. The auction, in conjunction with Universal Music Group is being run through ebay and will benefit the Red Cross Haiti Relief.

Ticket packages are available for shows from February 19th through 24th in S. Dakota, N. Dakota, Iowa and Indiana. Auction ends Monday, Feb 15th.

Now please click here to bid and show your support for Haiti.

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Bryan Adams sings the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver 2010 for German TV – ARD. The Canadian wrote the song “One World, One Flame” exclusively for the ARD.

From 1th of February the song is to hear on the ARD and the radio. The song will guide the audience of ARD through the Olympic Games. ARD sports coordinator Balkausky Axel said: “We are very pleased that we could win Bryan Adams for writing and singing this song only for our broadcasts of the Winter Olympics.” Adams is not only world-famous, but stand up for Canada more than any other musicians. With “One World, One Flame” he has written a song that fits perfectly into such a big event like the Olympics. “We are very excited to see how our audience will accept it,” added Balkausky.

The song “One World, One Flame” to buy at Amazon@Germany.

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The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) and CTV are pleased to announce that Bryan Adams is the recipient of the 2010 Allan Waters Humanitarian Award.

The Award, named after CHUM Ltd. founder Allan Waters, is made possible by funding from the CTVglobemedia-CHUM benefits package and recognizes an outstanding Canadian artist whose humanitarian contributions have positively enhanced the social fabric of Canada.

The Allan Waters Humanitarian Award will be presented to Mr. Adams during THE JUNO AWARDS broadcast on Sunday, April 18, 2010 on CTV.

Since the early days of his music career, Adams has been at the forefront of fundraising and social awareness events from Amnesty International “A Conspiracy of Hope” and Rock for Amnesty Tours, Live Aid, Live 8 and One Night Live. In 1985 Adams co-wrote and took part in the recording of “Tears Are Not Enough,” Canada’s song to help raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia. (more…)

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American syndicated radio show INTHESTUDIO celebrates the 25th Anniversary of Bryan Adams’ RECKLESS album with a one hour rockumentary.

Twenty-five years ago this week Bryan Adams’ fourth album, Reckless, had been out exactly two months & had only just begun spinning off what eventually be a total of six Top 15 hits , including the #1 ” Heaven.” At the time only Michael Jackson’s Thriller was its equal for sheer mass appeal prolifics. In mid-August 1985, a month after I had witnessed him & his band from sidestage at Philadelphia’s massive RFK stadium performing to more than a billion people as part of the televised Live Aid charity concert, Reckless was the #1-selling album in America. (more…)

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Adams submitted his song a while back hoping that it would be a part of the film, but tells us things were delayed after the tragic death of Travolta and Preston’s son, Jett, earlier this year.

Bryan Adams has a song in the new feature film, Old Dogs, starring John Travolta, Robin Williams and Kelly Preston. The Canadian singer wrote the track, “You’ve Been A Friend To Me” especially for Old Dogs — a movie that centers around two friends who find their lives turned upside down they suddenly have to take care of 7-year-old twins. (more…)

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Bryan will be touring with his full band in Scandinavian Countries in May 2010. First tour dates for Danemark, Finland and Norway has been confirmed.

Here are the dates:
May 21 – Aalborg/Denmark,
May 22 – Aarhus/Denmark,
May 23 – Odense/Denmark,
May 24 – Hillerod/Denmark,
May 26 – Tampere/Finland,
May 28 – Kristiansand/Norway

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International stars such as Jude Law, Elle Macpherson, Lenny Kravitz and Laura Pausini have been photographed by Bryan Adams for the Hear the World initiative. These pictures are exclusively available for you to admire in the Hear the World calendar 2010.

You can reserve your copy of this limited edition calendar for EUR 19.90 / USD 29.90 / GBP 17.89 / CHF 29.90 at www.hear-the-world.com to support the charitable projects run by the Hear the World Foundation. All net sales proceeds will go to the Hear the World Foundation. This Foundation is committed to using its financial resources and supplying hearing systems to improve the quality of life for people who suffer from hearing loss.

Source: hear-the-world.com

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Bryan Adams has once again teamed up with Greenpeace – this time on their campaign for justice for the Tokyo Two.

The Tokyo Two are Japanese Greenpeace activists Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki. In 2008 they uncovered evidence that a Japanese whaling ship, Nisshin Maru, hunting whales in the Southern Ocean sanctuary under the guise of scientific research, was being used to illegally supply the whale meat market. (more…)

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CNN’s Max Foster talks with Bryan Adams about his three decades in the music game and what the future holds.

Canadian rock singer-songwriter Bryan Adams says the secret to a hit song is “a great melody and a simple lyric.”

Asked why he thought his 1991 super-ballad “(Everything I Do) I Do It For You,” was such a mega-hit, Adams said the song’s lyrics had “a universal simple message.”

“That’s probably the reason why it was a hit in every country in the world,” the Grammy Award-winning Adams said on CNN’s Connect The World. (more…)

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Bryan Adams is on ‘Connect the World’ programme on Monday (30 November). Don’t miss it!

This is an interactive programme that accepts questions from viewers online, which are asked by the host on air. So you have the chance to ask Bryan Adams the questions you would like answered. More information on: www.cnn.com/connecttheworld

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Watch the new official video clip of “You’ve Been A Friend To Me” on BA’s Youtube Channel

The soundtrack is no is available in MP3 format on Amazon (under MP3 Downloads) and ITunes.

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Watch teaser trailer of the movie

Listen to short clip of the song

Bryan Adams has recorded a new song called ‘You’ve Been A Friend To Me’ for the movie “Old Dogs” with Robin Williams and John Travolta.

Movie will play in theaters on November 25th and the soundtrack will be released on November 24th. Here is the full tracklist of the soundtrack: (more…)

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