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Encyclopedia > Nobel Peace Prize Concert

Each year in December, the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony takes place in Oslo, Norway. There is also a concert held in addition to the ceremony, with the winner and prominent guest participating. The Nobel Peace Prize Medal featuring a portrait of Alfred Nobel The Nobel Peace Prize is one of five Nobel Prizes bequested by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. ... County Oslo NO-03 District Viken Municipality NO-0301 Administrative centre Oslo Mayor (2004) Per Ditlev-Simonsen (H) Official language form Neutral Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 224 454 km² 426 km² 0. ... A classical music concert in the Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. ...


The first Nobel Peace Prize Concert was held in 1994. The concert has been held every year since, with the exception of 1995 when a classical concert was held instead.


Several edited editions of the concert are made, with different lengths and different content, for various countries.

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Artists

Since planning starts in January, the artists invited to the concert aren't typically connected to the winner, who is announced in October. There are however usually made a few late additions, to reflect the winner.

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Baaba Maal is a Senegalese singer and guitarist born in Podor, on the Senegal River. ... Species See text. ... The American-born soprano Barbara Hendricks (born 20 November 1948) is a renowned opera and concert singer. ... Bon Jovi is a Rock and Roll band from New Jersey that has sold more than 33 million albums in the U.S. alone during the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, while over 100,000,000 albums worldwide, and played live concerts in major cities in Asia, Europe, Australia, Canada and... Boyz II Men is an American R&B/soul singing group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... Bryan Ferry (born 26 September 1945 in Washington, Tyne and Wear) is a British singer, musician and songwriter, famed for his suave visual and vocal style, who came to public prominence in the 1970s as lead vocalist with Roxy Music. ... The Cardigans is a Swedish band formed in the town of Jönköping in 1992. ... The Chieftains are an Irish musical group founded in 1962, known for performing and popularizing Irish traditional music. ... Rosanne Cash (born May 24, 1955) is an American singer and songwriter. ... Chris Botti (born October 12, 1962) is a smooth jazz trumpeter. ... The Corrs are a folk rock band from Ireland, consisting of three sisters and one brother from the Corr family, who rose to prominence in the late 1990s. ... Craig David on the cover of his 2nd album (2002) Craig David English R&B singer of Grenadian and English descent. ... Album cover for Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Cant We?, the Cranberries breakthrough debut album. ... Cyndi Lauper picture Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper (born June 22, 1953), better known as Cyndi Lauper, is a singer whose melodic voice and wild costumes have come to epitomize the 1980s, the decade in which she first came to fame. ... 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Various information

  • Harry Connick Jr brought 35 musicians with him on stage, when performing at the concert in 1997.
  • At the concert in 1998, American TV network Fox, did not include A-ha's performance, which was edited out.
  • Another performance edited out by Fox in 1998, was Norwegian artist Espen Lind's "Pop From Hell". The word "hell" was not the problem, but the following sentence: "You make me so hard/because you're a star". A Fox-producer stated it would be too much to take for the American family audience. Espen Lind was told his performance would not be edited out if he did not include the word "hard" in the song, but he would not change the lyrics. He said he did not want to let himself be controlled by a double-moralistic American family channel, and that such compromises were not acceptable for him to make.
  • The 2001 concert's closing song was "Let It Be", performed by Paul McCartney and the other artists.
  • The Grand Finale in 2002, sung by all the artist, was "Imagine". Opera star Jessye Norman forgot the lyrics.
  • The Grand Finale in 2003, sung by all the artist, was "Imagine". Robert Plant sang and changed the word religion with division in the sentence "Nothing to kill or die for/ And no division too".
  • The Grand Finale in 2005, sung by all the artist, was "Give Peace a Chance".

Harry Connick Jr. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the company itself prefers the capitalized version FOX), but rarely as FBC, is a television network in the United States. ... The correct title of this article is a-ha. ... Norwegian singer,songwriter and producer. ... Medieval illustration of Hell in the Hortus deliciarum manuscript of Herrad of Landsberg (about 1180) Hell, according to many religious beliefs, is a place and/or a state of painful suffering. ... Hard: see hardness. ... An audience is a group of people who participate in and experience or encounter a work of art, literature, theatre, music or academics in any medium. ... Let It Be is a song written by Paul McCartney (but credited to Lennon-McCartney when released) and produced by The Beatles. ... Paul McCartney on stage in Prague, June 6, 2004 Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born June 18, 1942, and best known as Paul McCartney) is a British singer, musician and songwriter, who first came to prominence as a member of The Beatles. ... Imagine is a utopian song written and performed by John Lennon, which appears on his 1971 album Imagine. ... Jessye Norman The American soprano Jessye Norman (born 15 September 1945) is one of the most admired contemporary opera singers and recitalists. ... Imagine is a utopian song written and performed by John Lennon, which appears on his 1971 album Imagine. ... Robert Plant performing live on stage at the University of East Anglia in November 2002. ... This article is about the arithmetic operation. ... Give Peace a Chance was a hit song written by John Lennon, and credited as Lennon/McCartney. ...

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