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Robert Wells releases his first real solo album 14 år.

The last few years have been filled with big tours with orchestras and artists in
Rhapsody in Rock. What is heard on Close Up Classics is what Robert started
with in young years - music for solo piano by the classical masters.

Robert got 2010 a request from Staffan Scheja to participate in one
tribute concert in connection with Chopin's 200th anniversary. Then the idea was born to
record this record which we now have the pleasure of presenting. This includes works by
bl a Flour, Chopin, Beethoven, Stenhammar, Grieg, Rachmaninov and Debussy.

With the newly started piano school King of Piano and this CD, Robert hopes that he
will inspire new pianists and to create an increased interest in the instrument and
classical music.

Sunday the 14 november kl 16.00 in the First Church , Stockholm,
Robert makes the first solo concert with material from CD:n.
A tour is planned for the spring 2011.

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Robert Wells will return to China on Friday.
This time to participate in SPRING FESTIVAL in Beijing. This major festival celebrated in conjunction with the Chinese New Year TV is broadcast on CCTV4 across Asia and also via satellite in the rest of the world.

When Robert is now the only Scandinavian artist ever to be invited to participate in this gigantic TV broadcast on 6 February is a dream come true

Wells concert in Tromsö on Saturday will be moved to tomorrow Thursday.

After the China trip, Wells' tour in Norway continues as planned with Trondheim on 10/2.
Thereafter follows 11/2 in Lillehammer, 12/2 in Halden and 13/2 in Lilleström.

Robert Wells is the first non-Chinese, awarded the title of Tourist Ambassador for the City of Beijing in China.

The handover took place last Saturday at Solliden's stage in Stockholm by Beijing's tourism ambassador Mr. An, who specially traveled to Stockholm to hand over the title to Wells. "Robert Wells is a good old friend of the city of Beijing and he has created bridges between our cities Beijing and Stockholm, but also between Sweden and China, ”says Mr. An. For us to understand the greatness of this prize, so have i.a., Chinese Yao Ming, now world number one in American basketball, awarded the prize as Shanghai's Tourist Ambassador previously. The Chinese press release about Robert Wells and his award, has been published in over 1000 articles and was one of China's headlines in all their TV channels on Monday.

The 28 August ends Robert Wells Rhapsody in Rock in Dalhalla

Anders Westin

WESTIN PROMOTION AB

The two concerts Robert Wells gives with his Rhapsody In Rock 14 and 15 August is moved to Skansen, Stockholm.

Purchased tickets to Waxholm are valid for the same date at Skansen. As Skansen has a larger capacity than Waxholms Kastell, extra tickets are released. The concert time has changed both days to 19.30. The large Rhapsody stage will be built on the pitch in front of Solliden, where Wells gave some of his legendary Rhapsody concerts for almost exactly 10 years ago. The move will then be made to Rhapsody In Rock on Saturday 15 August in addition to the participating artists will also be visited by five of the greatest artists in China. The concert will also be recorded by Chinese TV.

Participating artists are
Glenn Hughes (UK)
Albert Lee (US)
LaGaylia Frazier
Team Wells choir from the Choir
Vocalettes
Nina Söderquist
Jörgen Mörnbäck
Jacob Samuel
Pablo Cepeda
Stephen Brandt-Hansen (Norway)
Sven & Roma (Tyskland)
RHAPSODY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

And on Saturday as well
Mr. En Bao:singer
Ms. On the Wall: singer
Ms. Jiang Feng:soprano, opera singer
Mr. Cai Dasheng:tenor, opera singer
Mrs. Zhu Jiangbo:China's top Erhu player
Ms. Liu Fangfei: one of Chinese television:s most famous presenters

It is now clear that rock legend Jon Lord (Deep Purple, Whitesnake) participates in this year's Rhapsody In Rock premiere in Falkenberg on 11 July 2009.

It's in the spirit of rock Robert Wells presents this year's Rhapsody in Rock "Handful of keys". This summer, Wells offers a large dose of world-class high-class rock. With him is the rock legend Jon Lord (Deep Purple, White Snake m.fl), Glenn Hughes ”The Voice Of Rock”(Deep Purple m.fl) and Albert Lee (Eric Clapton Band m.fl), Stephen Brant-Hansen, LaGaylia, Jacob Samuel (Poodles), Mikael Rickfors, Nina Söderqvist and Well's own "sidekick" Jörgen Mörnbäck. This year, Rhapsody also has the addition of the current CD The Vocalettes, The "Team Wells" choir from the TV4 choir and the singer and percussionist Pablo Cepeda. Joakim Cans (Hammerfall) appears exclusively at the final gig 28/8 in Dalhalla.

Parts of Wells Rhapsody, also touring in Folkparkerna this summer. Wells then takes with him, Rhapsody Lounge Orchestra, The Vocalettes, Albert Lee and Lennie Norman on a traditional Folkpark tour (see tour dates at www.rhapsodyinrock.se).

Rhapsody In Rock is the largest touring device ever toured in Scandinavia. Under 11 years have been done over 350 concerts, sold over 1,6 million tickets. Robert Wells started it all out of sheer joy of playing and love of music of all the different styles. TV has also shown almost all sets of Rhapsody concerts over the years.

www.rhapsodyinrock.se
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This year's Rhapsody In Rock tour:
This year's Rhapsody In Rock tour:

11 July
13 July
14 July
15 July
14 August
15 August
28 August

Falkenberg, The sports field
Rättvik, Dalhalla
Rättvik, Dalhalla
Rättvik, Dalhalla
Stockholm, Skansen
Stockholm, Skansen
Rättvik, Dalhalla

Jon Lord only participates in Falkenberg
Glenn Hughes does not participate in Falkenberg

(Subject to change)

It has emerged from various articles published in the last week that Malena Ernman has been asked to participate in this summer's production of Rhapsody In Rock.

There is obviously some kind of misunderstanding here, which should be clarified.
Malena Ernman has not been asked about participation from Rhapsody In Rock this summer, as we have a completely different focus on the content of the concerts.

We in the Rhapsody in Rock gang congratulate and keep our fingers crossed for Malena Ernman now on Saturday.

Robert Wells hurriedly flew over to London on Friday, to meet singer and musician Glenn Hughes' "Voice of Rock" (Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Trapeze m.fl) . The meeting which was very successful and led to the fact that it is now definitely clear that the world artist Glen Hughes participates in this summer's Rhapsody in Rock. It was thanks to his choir from Falkenberg that Wells was tipped off about Hughes and from there could be connected with his manager in England. In addition to the Glen Hughes and the "Wells" choir from Falkenberg and the choir, La Gaylia is also ready for Rhapsody in Rock. In a couple of weeks, Wells will release the other names of participating artists + another world artist coming to Sweden for Rhapsody this summer.