Posted on 12/01/2009 5:04:34 PM PST by kristinn
Pop star Natasha Bedingfield will perform at the December 11 Nobel Peace Prize Concert honouring this year's winner, US President Barack Obama, organisers have said. Bedingfield, a chart-topper in the US and Europe, will join Wyclef Jean, Toby Keith and Chinese pianist Lang Lang.
The concert will also include performances by Donna Summer, American jazz singer Esperanza Spading, Irish pop quartet Westlife, Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi, Norwegian fiddler Alexander Rybak and Amadou & Mariam, a blues and jazz duet from Mali.
American actor and rap artist Will Smith and his wife, actress Jada Pinkett Smith, will host the concert, which is held in Oslo the day after the presentation of the Nobel Peace Prize, also in the Norwegian capital.
The show will be broadcast to "a global television audience," organisers said.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2009 prize to Mr Obama for his "efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples".
Traditionally, Nobel Peace Prize winners attend the concert the day after they pick up the award. However, Mr Obama has not yet announced how long he will stay in Oslo.
Toby Keith?
Toby Keith does Zero’s theme song: “I Wanna Talk About Me”.
Hope the batteries in my remote don’t fail....
This is not satire? A Nobel Peace Prize concert?????
However, Mr Obama has not yet announced how long he will stay in Oslo.
Grab & run is my guess. Can they even heat rooms up to the high temps he prefers?
Woohoo! Loserpalooza!
When Mother Teresa won, she asked that this event be cancelled and the money used to feed the poor.
Toby Keith “an’t as good as he once was”
So for the chemistry prize does Tom Lehr sing the periodic table song?
For the medicine prize I’m sure that Anson Williams sings the Pump Your Blood song.
... and there may be many others, but they haven’t been discovered.” Thanks. Now I’ve got that song stuck in my head.
I was a bit shocked myself.
Here's to hoping he plays a few tunes in E sharp
Hell, maybe they will keep him. Being a benevolent nation we could throw in Joe Biden and Congress also.
Anybody old enough to remember Spike Jones. He would have been perfect for this concert.
Bedingfield, a chart-topper in the US and Europe, will join Wyclef Jean, Toby Keith and Chinese pianist Lang Lang. The concert will also include performances by Donna Summer, American jazz singer Esperanza Spading, Irish pop quartet Westlife, Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi, Norwegian fiddler Alexander Rybak and Amadou & Mariam, a blues and jazz duet from Mali. American actor and rap artist Will Smith and his wife, actress Jada Pinkett Smith, will host...
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