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Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor will play at this year’s Iceland Airwaves music festival in Reykjavík, October 12-16. According to organizers, O’Connor will perform in one concert, which will take place during the weekend October 14-16.
Sinéad O’Connor. Source: Wikipedia.
O’Connor, who gained world fame with her song “Nothing Compares 2 U” in 1990, has often stirred controversy throughout her career with her explicit remarks on religion, women’s rights and politics, visir.is reports.
Approximately 150 musical acts have been scheduled for Iceland Airwaves, among them concerts by Björk and Yoko Ono. Already more tickets have been sold than to last year’s festival. For further information and tickets, go to icelandairwaves.com.
In other music news, English pop and soul musician Paul Young, who had many hits in the 1980s, including “Living for the Love of the Common People” and “Come Back and Stay”, will perform with his band in Harpa, the new concert and conference hall in Reykjavík, on October 4. For further information and tickets, go to harpa.is.
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Iceland is among the top five OECD-countries where immigrants help to boost the economy and increase nation-wide production by approximately 1 percent, according to a new report from the OECD.
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Neither Prime Minister of Iceland Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson nor Minister of the Interior Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir have responded to Edward Snowden’s request for a political asylum in Iceland, as spokesperson for Wikileaks Kristinn Hrafnsson wrote in a letter published in Fréttablaðið today.
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The first fin whale to be hunted in Iceland this season was killed by the crew of whaling vessel Hvalur 8 yesterday evening. The vessel, which set out yesterday along with Hvalur 9, is expected to unload the catch today.
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U.S. negotiator Lee C. Buchheit, who led Iceland’s last Icesave negotiation in 2010, met with Minister of Finance Bjarni Benediktsson last week to discuss Iceland’s planned talks with creditors of the banks, according to Fréttablaðið’s sources.
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The 2013 June-July issue of Iceland Review is out. Themed ‘We Are Young’ the magazine celebrates the arrival of summer by interviewing young energetic Icelanders who excel in art, sports, business and politics—and Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, the youngest PM in the republic’s history and the world’s youngest ruling state leader. Click here to take a look at a selection of the current issue and here to subscribe to the magazine.
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The road to Höfn, a 1,690-person harbor town by the fjord Hornafjörður, is lined with reindeer. Whole herds of the wild horned animals rest peacefully on withered pastures, grace next to sheep and horses and bounce along the road. Soon, Vatnajökull, Europe’s largest glacier and the region’s biggest attraction, comes into view. Looming over Höfn, its outlet glaciers flow down from the mountains on which the bright white icecap rests.
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Sin Fang will celebrate the release of his third album with a release concert in Iðnó on June 12. Flowers was released in February by Morr Music and has been well received by music enthusiasts and critics alike. The concert will be supported by Vök, this year’s winners of the Icelandic Music Experiments.
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