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The Best and Biggest Artists make 2012 Brighter at the Big Dome!

One of the country’s most prominent and enduring landmarks, the Big Dome continues to be the concert venue of choice of the big stars in the music industry. 2012 kicks off on the right note with 13 concerts from the best and biggest international and local acts. Take your pick from the lineup of concerts from January to April:

Simple Plan
Canadian pop punk band Simple Plan kicks off 2012 when they stop by Manila for their Get Your Heart On! Tour. Catch them live at the Big Dome on January 12.

Anne Curtis
TV host, actress, and now platinum-record artist Anne Curtis stages her first concert, Annebisyosa—No Other Concert World Tour on January 28.

Martin & Sharon
The Concert King and the Megastar join forces for their Valentine concert, dubbed Once in a Lifetime, filled with their new and classic hits on February 11.

Ogie & Regine
On Valentine’s Day, feel the love with OPM’s power couple, the Songwriter and the Songbird—Ogie Alcasid and Regine Velasquez—in a special concert dubbed Mr. & Mrs. A. This will be their first concert as a married couple.

Engelbert Humperdinck
Contemporary balladeer and perennial favorite Engelbert Humperdinck will continue to serenade music fans in a post-Valentine’s Day concert on February 15.

Avril Lavigne
Get rockin’ as Canadian pop-rock singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne comes to the Big Dome for her The Black Star tour. Known for her punk rock look and hits such as “Complicated” and “Sk8r Boi,” Avril will shake up Manila on February 16.

James Ingram
American soul singer, songwriter, and record producer known for hits such as “Just Once,” “Baby Come to Me,” and “I Don’t Have the Heart” continues the romantic mood in concert on February 17.

Bryan Adams
Rock it out with Canadian rock singer-songwriter Bryan Adams on February 18. Adams is known for his hits such as “Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman” “Cuts Like A Knife” “Summer of ‘69” and “When You’re Gone,” his collaboration with former Sporty Spice Mel C.

Evanescence & Bush
American gothic rock band Evanescence and British alternative rockers Bush perform back-to-back at the Big Dome on February 19. Evanescence’s biggest hits include “Bring Me To Life” and “My Immortal.” Bush, led by vocalist/guitarist Gavin Rossdale (also known as the husband of No Doubt lead singer Gwen Stefani), is one of the biggest rock acts in the 90s and is the band behind the song “Swallowed.”

98 Degrees, A1, & Blue
Relive the boyband era with pop hitmakers 98 Degrees, A1, and Blue, as they perform together in the Manila leg of The Greatest Hits tour on February 25. 98 Degrees, the American contemporary pop vocal group that sang the hits “Invisible Man” “Was it something I didn’t say” and “I Do (Cherish You);” A1, the British-Norwegian boyband in the late 90s behind the songs “Same Old Brand New You” and cover version of the 80s A-ha song “Take on Me;” and Blue, an English pop vocal group from the early 2000s, who sang the hits “All Rise” and “One Love” will surely entertain fans who grew up in the 90s and the noughties.

Cyndi Lauper
Girls will surely have fun when 80s pop icon Cyndi Lauper goes onstage on March 17. One of the best-selling artists of all time, Lauper will take Manila by storm with some of the greatest songs of the 1980s, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” and “Time After Time.”

Hanson
The brothers behind the 1997 mega hit “MMMBop” comes to Manila for the second time! Now all grown up, the Hanson brothers will be at the Big Dome for their Shout it Out tour on March 30.

LMFAO
The American hip hop duo behind the chart-topping, LSS-inducing, and dance moves-busting song “Party Rock Anthem” brings the party to the Big Dome on April 11.

Expect only the best performances and more at the Smart Araneta Coliseum, the Philippines’ foremost events venue.