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Isabel Guerra

The upcoming arrival in Lima of Mexican band Café Tacuba is creating great expectation among its fans, who have ordered a special edition of Pisco which will feature a photo of the band on its label.

Reportedly, the Peruvian fans will hand this in as a present for the band, which is currently celebrating 20 years of career with the tour “20 Years, 20 Countries.”

The pisco is an “Old Barrel”, and not only will feature the band's portrait, but also the official anniversary logo and a summary of this Peruvian drink's history.

“This is our way to show them our endearment,” says Roberto Orellana, president of Cafe Tacuba Peruvian Fan Club.

The Mexican band will arrive in Lima on July 9th, and will perform at Scencia Conventions Center (La Molina). Tickets are on sale at Plaza Vea and Vivanda.

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Isabel Guerra

Peruvian region of Ucayali will boost mystic tourism in order to attract more domestic and foreign visitors, especially tourists from Europe.

Regional tourism authorities are currently launching a project to start next July.

Local tourism official Freddy Rios Flores said they are waiting for the first financial support (29,000 soles) from the regional government.

He said that “we have registered over 50 shamans who practice folk medicine, in the indigenous and mixed race specialty.”

Local authorities recognize Santa Clara, Nueva Betania and Rao Netes, located in the community of San Francisco (Pucallpa), as three places where shamanic activity is highly developed.

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Isabel Guerra

Mexican group Café Tacuba, one of the most creative bands from the 90's, will perform in Lima as part of the celebrations for its 20th anniversary.

The group will give one concert on July 9th at the Scencia Conventions Center, in La Molina.

Winner of several MTV awards and Latin Grammy awards, Cafe Tacuba is a band which music can not be classified in just one category: the versatility of sounds and rhythms turns this group into an important piece inside history of Latin American rock.

Their current tour, called “20 Years/20 Cities,” has taken them to La Paz, Santiago, Buenos Aires and La Habana.

Tickets for the concert will go on sale Thursday via Tu Entrada (Plaza Vea & Vivanda Supermarkets).

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Isabel Guerra

According to local press, Depeche Mode confirmed their concert in Lima on October 13th, as part of their Tour of the Universe 2009.

It will be a mega concert, and 25,000 fans are expected to attend.

The band’s most famous songs are “Just Can’t Get Enough”, “Personal Jesus”, “Enjoy the Silence”, “I Feel You”, “Strange love”, “It’s no good” and “Never Let Me Down Again”.

It has had forty-five songs in the UK Singles Chart, as well as #1 albums in UK, US and has sold over 75 million albums worldwide, as part of total worldwide record sales (including singles) in excess of 100 million.

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Isabel Guerra

Puerto Rican merengue singer Olga Tañon and Dominican merenhouse trio Los Ilegales will arrive in Lima, to to perform at the Estadio Monumental on August 7 this year.

Two-time Grammy Award winner, Olga Tañon perform hits like Es Mentiroso, Muchacho Malo, Bandolero, and Cuando Tú No Estas and many more.

Olga Tañon has earned three Latin Grammy Awards and nineteen Premios Lo Nuestro awards during her career. Dominican merenhouse and hip hop group Los Ilegales will also perform in Lima on the same date.

Los Ilegales sing a wide variety of musical styles such as merengue, salsa, rumba, cumbia, reggae, balada pop, bachata, R&B, reggaeton, house, hip hop, and some of their greatest hits are Fiesta Caliente, La Morena, Rebotando, Me Haces Falta, Enamorao, Baila, etc.

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Isabel Guerra

Peruvian actress and singer Magaly Solier defended today in Cannes “Altiplano,” a movie that denounces the abuses that some mining companies do in Peru against the population.

The movie, by Peter Brosens (Belgium) and Jessica Woodworth (US) is based on a real mercury spill that occurred in Choropampa in 2000, which produced many collateral damages among the population.

"There is always going to be problems, since the owners of the mines are rich people who are making a lot of money and I suppose that's why the government treats them with silk's gloves. Authorities do not defend to the population, they defend the owners of the mining businesses instead," assured Solier in a interview with a news agency.

“The movie is going to generate a lot of polemic, but we are to defend it," she added.

According to Solier, topics like these are not openly discussed in Peru because "Peru is afraid to talk about the reality.”

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Pop boy band The Jonas Brothers, the latest teen craze, caused huge euphoria among their 29,000 young fans who packed the National Stadium of Lima

The show started with the supporting artist Demi Lovato, who sang her most popular hits for more than half an hour.

"Hello Peru! We love you. Thank you for coming tonight, "was Nick's greeting, which enthralled the whole audience, conformed mostly by teen girls and their parents.

The setlist started with "Burning Up", and then they played “That's The Way We Roll”.

"Hello, Peru, love, thank you for your support," they said in Spanish, sending the teen crowd into frenzy.

But the audience's euphoria was absolute when they sang "When You Look Me In The Eyes"; Joe stepped onto the piano showing a Peruvian flag, which made the fans cry in rapture.

The young band will perform again in Lima tonight, and then will continue their tour in Chile, Argentina and Brazil.

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Upon their arrival in Peru, The Jonas Brothers said that they were surprised by the warm welcome their Peruvian fans gave them at the Jorge Chavez International Airport, and outside the hotel they are staying at.

“For us, seeing so many fans here is a dream come true, and we don't know what's next; we are so excited for this lovely welcoming, it's amazing that we can be here” said Nick, one of the band's members.

They said during the press conference that they decided to start their latin american tour here in Peru due to the “the great love that the fans showed us via internet” and that their youngest brother might join the group in the near future.

They also were awarded with a gold disc and a platinum disc, because of their sales in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Perú.

The Jonas Brothers will give two concerts in Lima, on May 18th and 19th.

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Carsten Korch

It’s been a while since I’ve attended such a wonderful and intimate concert like last night.  Three Jacks entertained me and about 500 other guests in the concert hall of Colegio Santa Ursula. I had “only” expected to enjoy some Irish/Scottish Celtic music and see some beautiful dancers, but I got much more that I had bargained for, when the band, 4 women and two gentlemen entered the stage and offered us a journey full of wonderful music, dances and great stories. Despite the fact that the performance was in a concert hall, the band was able to turn the environment into something cozy, and during the concert I started thinking of a bar in Killkenny back in Ireland that I visited more than 10 years ago. There I had the privilege to attend a night (not an evening) , where all the city’s musicians met at the bar of my hotel and started playing/jamming together as they arrived. I’ll never forget that night and the Three Jacks reminded me last night why.  Ireland is beautiful.

There is a good reason why some of the best musicians like Van Morrison, U2, Sinead O’Conner and others have been able to conquer the world with their music in the past – last night it was the Three Jacks that conquered Lima and I can only recommend you to attend this evenings EXTRA concert (almost SOLD OUT).

Tickets are available from S/. 50 to S/. 135 at Teleticket

Where When : 7 PM tonight at the Concert Hall of Colegio Santa Ursula, San Isidro

I almost forgot. Not only do you get an excellent concert, but all the money you pay for your ticket is spend wisely with the help of Rotary Club Lima Sunrise to build a clinic in Pisco, where the inhabitants still don’t have a hospital after the big Earthquake back in August 2007 destroyed most of the city.

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Isabel Guerra

The concert at the National Stadium of Lima made a very pleasant impression to the members of the British banda, according to statements made in Chile bassist Andy Bell.

"The Peruvian public is the one who has impressed us most," he said.

It was the first time in Lima and there was a lot of passion," recalled the musician in an interview with Chilean media.

Bell is not the first Oasis member to share his good impressions. Noel Gallagher, one of the leaders of the group, also said that the show "was incredible."

More than 40,000 fans packed the National Stadium of Lima for that concert.

In another South American cities the attendance was lower: for example, in Santiago de Chile was attended by only 12,000 fans.

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