and then there were three (more)…

And so, Beijing’s ascension into the annals as the city with the most music festivals in the world ever continues. We are moving into a complicated holiday period, due to the fact that the mid autumn holiday is snuggled up close to the October Golden Week. For those of you (like us) who are relatively confused, this means that Wednesday 22nd September is a holiday, with the 23rd and 24th also officially days off. To make up for this, you must work one day of the weekend before and one of the weekend after. The country will close down 1-7 October for the national vacation. Confused? We thought so…

Anyway, there are another 3 festivals hitting Beijing over that period. Check ‘em out here:

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Olafur Arnalds talks China to Drowned in Sound

In March of this year, Split Works and Sonicbids brought Icelandic artist Olafur Arnalds to China for an 8 city tour as part of the annual JUE art and music festival. Over 3,000 tickets were sold. In Drowned in Sound today, Olafur talks about many things; he pays particular attention to the tour in China.

JUE 2010 | 冰岛Olafur 嘉宾

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