Music festiavls in Korera

I got e-mail from cait_sith like this.

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title : S.O.S

Dear jungle neighbor, meerkat….This is your foreign friend Cait_Sith…I have only one word to say….BOOOORING… I am freaking tired of studying. I need to “ventilate” my brain. I need some life music…Are there any concerts here??? Various music genres are desirable…

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She seems really borrrrrrring now. So, let's talk about music festivals in Korea. There are several music festivals in Korea. And some of them are really awesome. I want to introduce Jarasum international jazz festival, Pentaport rock festival(and Jisan valley rock festival), and Grand mint festival. They are well-known music festival but each of them has their own characteristics.
First of all, Jarasum International Jazz Festival(http://www.jarasumjazz.com) has been held since 2004 in Jara island. The festival has been growing as the nation’s best music festival and as the representing jazz festival in Asia. It usually held on October and many famous artists like Stanley Clarke, George Duke, Giovanni Mirabassi Trio, and The Caribbean Jazz project has visited.

Grand Mint Festival has been held only for 3years but this festival is growing as one of Korea’s representative music festival. Its slogan is ‘the music festival like a picnic’ and ‘the placidity of the city’s refreshing and refined nature’. They serve 3 stages and each stage has different atmosphere. However most of artists are from Korea. So music may not familiar to you.

Lastly, Pentaport rock festival(http://www.pentaportrock.com/) is a largest rock festival, which is held annually in Incheon for 3 days at the end of July. It is considered as one of the biggest live music events in Korea. The festival covers mainly rock and electronic music. Line up had been fantastic until 2008. The strokes, snow patrol, Yeah yeah yeahs, Placebo, The black eyed peas, Kula shaker, and Franz ferdnand, The chemical brothers, L’arc-en-Ciel, Muse, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, Fantastic Plastic Machine, and Travis visited the festival. However, in 2009, the festival divided to Pentaport rock festival and Jisan valley rock festival.(http://www.valleyrockvestival.com/). In this year, Jisan valley rock festival gathered much more people than pentaport because Weezer, Oasis, Jimmy eat world, Fall out boy, Starsailor, and Basement Jaxx visited Jisan while few famous bands visit Pentaport.

Anyway, as I have mentioned above, there are many awesome music festivals here. So don’t be bored. Anyway, why don’t we enjoy one of them? Grand Mint Festival is held now!

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