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[It should be noted that these protests are only coming from a few priests and not officially from the entire Bulgarian Orthodox Church. However, I still don't see anything wrong in requesting a rescheduling of the concert out of respect to Orthodox Christians who are called to keep a strict fast on August 29 in honor of the beheading of St. John the Baptist. It's not like they totally are protesting a Madonna concert in Bulgaria - J.S.]
Madonna's Bulgaria Concert Scheduled for August 29
Feb 11 2009
The Sophia Echo
Madonna's concert in Bulgaria will be held in Sofia on Saturday August 29 2009, Sofia Music Enterprises, a local promotion company, said on February 11.
The venue will be Vassil Levski National Stadium, with a start at 8pm. The most expensive tickets, for those seeking to stay inside the Golden Circle just metres from Madonna, will cost 200 leva. People satisfied to stand in front of the stage will pay 150 leva.
The cheapest tickets, in the pit, cost 100 leva. Seat prices will vary between 110, 135 and 165 leva depending on location.
Tickets will be sold from February 19 2009 at the National Palace of Culture (NDK) as well as at shops of Ticketpro, on ticketpro.bg and at the Euro-Bulgarian Cultural Centre, among other venues.
In the Black Sea city of Bourgas, tickets will be sold at the Sound Garden shop. In Veliko Turnovo, buy them at Medouza.
Madonna's first-ever concert in Bulgaria is part of her Sticky & Sweet Tour in Europe. She will reportedly arrive with a crew of 250 people, and enough equipment to make her concert the largest show that Bulgarian fans have ever seen.
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Bulgaria Orthodox Priests Call for Madonna Concert Cancellation
Novinite.com
August 18, 2009, Tuesday
Bulgarian Orthodox priests from the city of Plovdiv have called for the cancellation of the US super-star Madonna's concert in Bulgaria on August 29.
They state as a reason the fact that Madonna's performance is on the day on which the Bulgarian Orthodox Church reveres the memory of St John the Baptist.
"The Orthodox Christians fast on this day and the fast is stern - water and bread, abstaining from any worldly pleasures and merry-making", Father Emil Paralingov from St. Paraskeva Church in Plovdiv explained.
He believes the date of the concert should be changed and for this reason the Church needs to interfere, issuing a special statement.
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church has still not expressed an official opinion on the matter.
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Madonna Asked To Reschedule Show by Bulgarian Priests
SplashNews
August 23, 2009
Bulgarian Orthodox priests have thrown another spanner into Madonna's blighted Sticky & Sweet tour. Just off the back of a Polish show during which scandalised Catholics rallied outside, the Bulgarian clerics have called for the cancellation of the megastar's concert in Sofia.
The concert at the Vasil Levski soccer stadium falls on the same day as a religious feast, prompting the priests' demand. It has not been an easy tour for Madonna. In Russia, she met with special requests for a St Petersburg concert that some wanted to take on a revolutionary tone, while in France two stage workers died in a freak accident ahead of her date in Marseille. Orthodox priests in Plovdiv, southern Bulgaria, asked her to reschedule the show from August 29, St John the Baptist day, when revelry is not allowed. Emil Paralingov, a priest, has urged the Bulgarian Orthodox Church to liaise with authorities on the issue. Madonna's concert in Warsaw coincided with the day Catholics celebrate the Virgin Mary's ascension to heaven.
Madonna's Bulgaria Concert Scheduled for August 29
Feb 11 2009
The Sophia Echo
Madonna's concert in Bulgaria will be held in Sofia on Saturday August 29 2009, Sofia Music Enterprises, a local promotion company, said on February 11.
The venue will be Vassil Levski National Stadium, with a start at 8pm. The most expensive tickets, for those seeking to stay inside the Golden Circle just metres from Madonna, will cost 200 leva. People satisfied to stand in front of the stage will pay 150 leva.
The cheapest tickets, in the pit, cost 100 leva. Seat prices will vary between 110, 135 and 165 leva depending on location.
Tickets will be sold from February 19 2009 at the National Palace of Culture (NDK) as well as at shops of Ticketpro, on ticketpro.bg and at the Euro-Bulgarian Cultural Centre, among other venues.
In the Black Sea city of Bourgas, tickets will be sold at the Sound Garden shop. In Veliko Turnovo, buy them at Medouza.
Madonna's first-ever concert in Bulgaria is part of her Sticky & Sweet Tour in Europe. She will reportedly arrive with a crew of 250 people, and enough equipment to make her concert the largest show that Bulgarian fans have ever seen.
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Bulgaria Orthodox Priests Call for Madonna Concert Cancellation
Novinite.com
August 18, 2009, Tuesday
Bulgarian Orthodox priests from the city of Plovdiv have called for the cancellation of the US super-star Madonna's concert in Bulgaria on August 29.
They state as a reason the fact that Madonna's performance is on the day on which the Bulgarian Orthodox Church reveres the memory of St John the Baptist.
"The Orthodox Christians fast on this day and the fast is stern - water and bread, abstaining from any worldly pleasures and merry-making", Father Emil Paralingov from St. Paraskeva Church in Plovdiv explained.
He believes the date of the concert should be changed and for this reason the Church needs to interfere, issuing a special statement.
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church has still not expressed an official opinion on the matter.
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Madonna Asked To Reschedule Show by Bulgarian Priests
SplashNews
August 23, 2009
Bulgarian Orthodox priests have thrown another spanner into Madonna's blighted Sticky & Sweet tour. Just off the back of a Polish show during which scandalised Catholics rallied outside, the Bulgarian clerics have called for the cancellation of the megastar's concert in Sofia.
The concert at the Vasil Levski soccer stadium falls on the same day as a religious feast, prompting the priests' demand. It has not been an easy tour for Madonna. In Russia, she met with special requests for a St Petersburg concert that some wanted to take on a revolutionary tone, while in France two stage workers died in a freak accident ahead of her date in Marseille. Orthodox priests in Plovdiv, southern Bulgaria, asked her to reschedule the show from August 29, St John the Baptist day, when revelry is not allowed. Emil Paralingov, a priest, has urged the Bulgarian Orthodox Church to liaise with authorities on the issue. Madonna's concert in Warsaw coincided with the day Catholics celebrate the Virgin Mary's ascension to heaven.
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