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Excellent Fireworks, beautifully shot video, this is awesome.

The fireworks completely fill the screen here and the closeness of the crowd really let you imagine you are right there watching them live.

Superb performance at the end, if you watch very closely you will just see a woman falling over in here excitement, get up, and carry on dancing. Looks like a great night was had by all.

Fireworks with class at the last night of the proms in Hyde Park, enjoy the video.

Kirkstall Abbey will be treated to the sights and sounds of a classical music and fireworks extraveganza on Saturday the 12th of September 2009.

Classical Fantasia is a free open-air concert that is perhaps the most popular outdoor events of the year as its historic sorroundings and breath-taking fireworks combine with fantasy style classical music on behalf the Northern Ballet Theatre orchestra.

Kirkstall Abbey Fireworks at Calssical Fantasia

The 12th Century Abbey is rigged with lighting for the occasion to add to the atmoshpere that has become synonymous with the Classical Fantasia event, now in its 14th year.

All tickets for the Classical Fantasia have been quickly snapped up from Leeds City Council. Executive member for Leisure Councillor John Procter said: “Classical Fantasia is a very special free event and is hugely popular every year. The setting is wonderful, the music is fantastic and the fireworks are spectacular so it all adds up to a great evening’s entertainment and a really unique and magical atmosphere.”

The performance stars at 8pm on Saturday the 12th September. Anyone lucky enough to have a ticket, enjoy!

Video footage of the Edinburgh Festival Fireworks 2009. With a live orchestra in Princes Street Gardens playing accompaniment this is one of the best fireworks displays Edinburgh has ever seen.

This is sensational. Lady GaGa has fireworks attached to her bra.

Yes, we know this is low brow but it is still fireworks related and very entertaining.

A stunning fireworks display wowed VIP guests at the opening party on Saturday.

So what tempted Seal, Tom Jones, Paris Hilton, Monica Bellucci, Richard Gere, Sharon Stone and Mariah Carey to Turkey for the opening of a $1.65bn resort?

Champagne costs £25 a glass, toilets are remote-controlled, guests select linen and pillow firmness from a ‘pillow menu’ alongside each bed and the private beach has been created from 9,000 tons of the silkiest white sand imported from Egypt.

The hotel itself – where suites cost up to £11,500 a night – is a temple to bling, fitted out with 2,500 tons of gold, 500,000 crystals and 23,000 square metres of Italian marble.

The pool is a full five acres of sparkling blue water, across which guests can take gondola rides that take 30 minutes.

In the middle of the pool sits a sunken aquarium with 2,400 fish, so you can literally ’swim with the fishes’ (including sharks) – albeit on the other side of a thick wall of glass.

Meanwhile, the waterside Italian restaurant (one of 11 on site) is stocked with Hermés crockery worth £1.35million.

Of course, if you’re going to spend a vast fortune building a place like this, you might as well start with a bang, which is why Ismailov chose to throw an opening party to beat them all.

He’s flown in superstar songstress Mariah Carey to perform (at a rumoured cost of £1 million) along with Tom Jones as the opening act. They are both on hand to entertain VIP guests including Ms Stone, Richard Gere and Paris Hilton, who have all been paid to attend and flown over on private jets for a blacktie party set to last for three days.

The party itself is a jaw-dropping extravaganza of excess. The fireworks display goes on for nearly an hour, and 600 party guests are treated to Cirque de Soleil-style acrobats on tightropes suspended hundreds of feet overhead. Paragliders soar in the sky above, each bearing one letter of the hotel’s name, while dancers perform in giant clear glass bubbles on the surface of the enormous swimming pool.

The Battle Proms will visit Burghley House in Stamford on Saturday, 11 July, with patriotic anthems blending with military history to create the spectacular night.
The evening will kick off with a flypast from one of the most famous aircraft in the world – a Spitfire – performing a carefully choreographed and breathtaking air display.

There will also be a dramatic war re-enactment from the Napoloeonic Association, with a sensational skill-at-arms displays on horseback and on foot, expertly bringing to life the skirmishes of one of the most colourful and dramatic periods of history.

After the display, the music will begin, announced by a volley of shots from an authentic vintage field gun, answered by infantry musket fire.

Classic patriotic classical favourites, such as Jerusalem, Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory will be performed by the New English Concert Orchestra, with soprano soloist Denise Leigh joined by the acclaimed tenor Michael Bracegirdle on stage.

One of the most dramatic parts of the evening will be Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture and the unforgettable performance of Beethoven’s Battle Symphony.

Both pieces will include the live firing of cannons, using real gunpowder, fired by the orchestra’s percussionist to the original score.

The Battle Proms is believed to be the only concert in the world that includes the firing of authentic cannons, rather than synthetic explosions.

The evening will conclude with a spectacular fireworks display in front of the house itself.

Piano maestro Jools Holland will bring his 17-piece rhythm and blues orchestra to Rugby School in the summer. The outdoor event will take place on July 17 and those attending are encouraged to bring their own picnics, rugs, chairs and cushions. Jools will be accompanied by several special guests and the show will finish with a fireworks display. Event manager Chris Bailey said: “It is a real pleasure to bring Jools to Rugby School and I am certain the audience will experience a tremendous show.” Now in its 31st series, Later With Jools Holland on BBC2 has become one of the most popular television music programmes.

A spectacular free fireworks display for 80,000 specatators is planned at the Olympic Stadium on New Year’s Eve to welcome in 2012 by the London Mayor Boris Johnson it was reported today.

The Evening Standard said that a giant fireworks display will light up the East End and top music acts will play in the arena on December 31, 2011, to herald the beginning of Olympic year.

Dan Ritterband, the London City Hall director of marketing, said: “We’ve been looking at other host cities and their Olympic Parks tend to turn into ghost towns afterwards because the first time they open to the public is just before the Games.

“We want to sell the Park to Londoners.”

Acts taking to the stage in the 80,000-capacity stadium may include Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and Hackney-born Leona Lewis, in a reunion for the song Whole Lotta Love, the Evening Standard said.

They performed it at Beijing’s Bird’s Nest Stadium last summer.

Pyrotechnics are likely to be supplied by Chinese firm Panda Fireworks, the company which was hired for the Beijing opening ceremony and has been pitching for work in London.

The party would also allow officials to test facilities before the Games, which will attract about 500,000 spectators a day during the Olympics.

From Inside the Games

HUNDREDS of visitors will make tracks to the Alice Littler Park in Aberlour this Saturday for the musical climax to this year’s Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival.

The impressive outdoor entertainment show gets off to a flying start with an RAF Tornado fly-past, followed by a fanfare by the TA team of the Highland Regiment.

Top acts appearing include The Bucksburn and District Pipe band (currently junior world champions), the Fochabers Fiddlers, Highland dancers and a special performance by internationally renowned fiddler Charlie McKerron.”

Topping the bill is iconic Scottish band Capercaillie, and hearing lead singer Karen Matheson’s seductive and moving voice resound around the mountains and glens of Speyside will be an event that’s set to be remembered long after the last festival dram has been enjoyed.

“We have done a few things connected with whisky over the years, but this will be our first visit to the Speyside Whisky Festival and we’re all very excited about it,” said Karen.

“We haven’t been touring so much of late, so it’s all the more enjoyable for us when we do get together.

“We will be performing at quite a few festivals this summer, including several in Spain and France, as well as Scottish ones, the biggest being the Homecoming Scotland Gathering in Edinburgh in July.”

The band have been together for 25 years and, throughout their career, have shown an astonishing musical dexterity, while Karen’s exquisite voice – described by Sir Sean Connery as having been touched by God, is equally at home performing traditional or contemporary songs.

“Over the years, we have noticed a distinct change in those who come to see us,” said Karen.

“Often, when we toured outwith Scotland, the audience was made up of a lot of ex-pats, but that’s not the case now.

“There’s a real indigenous audience with no connections to Scotland, but who have tapped into the Celtic music which has become accessible to the world.”

Although too modest to say so, Karen and Capercaillie must take credit for that. Meanwhile, between festivals, Karen is hoping to get back into the studio and start work on a new solo album, so fans should catch her while they can.

Press and Journal

Ran this past Saturday, the Kentucky Derby holds a unique place in the sports world at the intersections of horse racing, gambling and pageantry. Ladies show up in gigantic hats and sun dresses, men in seersucker suits, sip mint juleps and expensive whiskey. It’s a scene from long ago that only partially counts as a sporting event. To outsiders it may seem like an attempt to spice up a desperately boring part of the sports calendar. The event’s tag line, “The most exciting two minutes in sports” belies its purpose further: How exciting can anything be if it lasts only two minutes? But like many great sports, the athletic contest is a very small part of the attraction, an excuse to engage in questionable and reckless behavior that would otherwise be improper. The Kentucky Derby itself is actually the culmination of the two-week long Kentucky Derby Festival. The festival includes the largest fireworks show in the United States, concerts, fashion shows and private parties. Waiters carry glasses of wine through an obstacle course in something called the Run for the Rosé. In terms of pageantry, The Derby makes college football look like a courthouse wedding. Hunter S. Thompson, of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas fame, got his big break by writing about the Kentucky Derby. He slammed it as overtly racist and sexist, a place where a myriad of real-life ‘Colonel Sanders’ “make an 18th century ass of themselves.”

The Collegian