Seattle Symphony’s Beethoven & Wine Festival pairs the finest in Northwest wines with popular Beethoven classics. Each night begins with wine tasting in the Samuel & Althea Stroum Grand Lobby, arranged by renowned Northwest sommelier David LeClaire and featuring wines from SageCliffe Cave B Estate Winery and other local vineyards.

Massachusetts Museum Of Contemporary Art will kick off Found Footage Festival on Thursday, August 20, 2009, 8:30 pm, at Courtyard C or Club B-10.

Venetian Night Chicago 2009 is expected to attract more than 500,000 people today. The festival is expected to be so crowded that the Chicago Transit Authority will provide buses and transportation for the 52nd annual Venetian Night festival in Chicago.

The 43rd annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival will explore music and its meaning in Latino culture in "Las Americas: Un mundo musical/The Americas: A Musical World," the fourth and final program in the “Nuestra Musica: Music in Latino Culture” series, an initiative that explores and presents the diverse, evolving and expanding universe of Latino music.

To open the 14th annual summer season of the Talcott Mountain Music FestivalSM, Music Director Edward Cumming will lead the Hartford Symphony Orchestra in Summer Groove! Rhythm, Blues & Soul on Friday, June 26 at 7:30 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center at Simsbury Meadows.

Southbank Centre announces that MELTDOWN 2009 (Saturday 13 - Sunday 21 June 2009) will be artistically directed by jazz legend Ornette Coleman, widely regarded as a creative genius who changed the musical landscape forever.

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will embark on a two-week journey of South American music with conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya and the 'Musica Ardiente' Festival, May 27-June 6. The festival, presented by CNN en Espanol, will feature three programs. The first program, May 28 and 30, 2009, entitled Caminos del Inka, will share the rich musical traditions of the Inca Trail.

Southbank Centre, London organizes Ether Talk: Rob da Bank: Future Festivals on Friday 24 April 2009, at 8pm.

Playing off the hit TV Show, Dancing with the Stars, the Louisville Orchestra gives this event a local spin. The second annual Canfield Development’s Derby Festival Dancing with the Stars will be held on Friday, April 24 in the grand ballroom of the elegant Henry Clay building.

Auckland City's Pacific Island Community Board says the opening ceremony for the world's largest Pacific festival will go ahead despite the financial problems that have hit the event.

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is extremely proud to present the Wall Centre Brahms Festival, a musical celebration of one of history’s greatest composers. Firmly cast in the Romantic era, yet gracefully writing in the Classical style of Mozart and Haydn, Johannes Brahms wrote some of the most extraordinary music the world has ever known.

In an unprecedented move, the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra is devoting a major portion of its 2008-2009 season to honor the works of classical music’s giant: Ludwig van Beethoven. Fourteen performances between Jan. 17 and March 22 will comprise the NMSO’s Beethoven Festival, treating audiences to three symphonies, four concerti, a choral mass and a variety of other Beethoven masterpieces.