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> Nimen hao Friends !
>
> Below are details about my performance schedule in Beijing.
> You are welcome to send this to your friends there.
> My email address is George Sapounidis [george_sap@yahoo.ca]
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> Keep well.
>
> Thanks for your interest,
> George Sapounidis
>
>
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> For Immediate Release
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> CANADIAN PERFORMER INVITED TO BEIJING FESTIVAL
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> Accommodation: Cui Ming Zhuang Hotel, Beijing
> Telephone number is 65136622 (reception), April 28 - May
5
> Performance schedule for G. Sapounidis:
> At Chaoyang Park (with several other groups)
> May 1st, 3rd, and 4th, from 10:00 to 11:00 and from 15:00 to
16:00
> Organizer: China Performing Arts Agency, Beijing
> Telephone number is 64014738 (Contact: Ms. Liu Jia)
> REFERENCE: Mr. Yang Xuelun, Cultural Counsellor,
> Embassy of the People's Republic of China, Ottawa, Canada
Tel. 789-2832
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>
> George Sapounidis, an Ottawa-based international singer and
musician of
> Greek descent, has been invited to perform on May 1, 2, 3 and
4, 2002 at
the
> 3rd Annual MEET IN BEIJING Arts Festival. This is a
comprehensive
> international festival organized by the Ministry of Culture of
the
P.R.O.C,
> the People's Government of Beijing Municipality and the State
Administration
> of Radio, Film and Television. The festival has been held twice
successfully
> since 2000 and has attracted more than a hundred arts groups
and
exhibitions
> from all over the world. The 3rd MEET IN BEIJING Arts Festival
will be
held
> in Beijing, China from April 20 to May 31, 2002. Sapounidis
will be the
only
> Canadian performer.
>
> Sapounidis previously appeared in China in October and November
of 2000
when
> he charmed audiences with performances of Chinese and Greek
folksongs at
two
> international arts festivals, the Shanghai Baoshan
International Folk Art
> Festival and the Nanning International Arts Festival of
Folksongs.
>
>
> A polyglot, Sapounidis performs international folksongs in up
to eight
> languages accompanying himself on guitar or Greek bouzouki or
with
> ensembles. In June 2000 he participated in an East meets West
concert held
> at the National Library of Canada in Ottawa which presented the
music of
> Greece, China, Quebec and Latin America. On April 17, 2002 the
George
> Sapounidis Trio with guests performed songs about Greece and
China in East
> meets West II at the Fourth Stage of the National Arts Centre
in Ottawa.
> Guests included the Greek Ambassador to Canada His Excellency
Mr.
> Chrysanthopoulos, the Egyptian Ambassador to Canada Her
Excellency Dr.
> Sallama Shaker, and the Cultural Counsellor, Mr. Yang, from the
Embassy of
> the People's Republic of China. Both events were produced by
the Canadian
> Chinese Multicultural Productions.
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