Denver, CO. 4/27/2007 1:17:00 AM
News / Entertainment

ManiaTV! Teams with Tantra World Wide to Simulcast the World’s First LIVE and 3-D Cyber Music Festival

The first-of-its-kind, real time music showcase featuring popular bands and celebrity cameos is set to take place on multiple platforms simultaneously using 3-D virtual phenomenon Second Life and ManiaTV!’s LIVE Internet TV platform.

ManiaTV! and Tantra World Wide today announced the world’s first LIVE 3-D concert scheduled for May 12th, 2007 from 9:00PM-12:30AM EST. The event, dubbed DV8-Live Cyber Festival, was put together by Farook Singh of Tantra WW and ManiaTV! as the first in a series innovative cyber concerts to be produced by the two companies. Anyone with a broadband connection worldwide will be able to watch the concert LIVE at ManiaTV! for free. For a full listing of concert details and to preview the virtual settings, Click here or go to www.tantraww.com.

Celebrity Jamie Kennedy, the star of Kickin' It Old Skool and ManiaTV!'s newest celebisodes will make cameos in-between award-winning musical acts Born in The Flood, Meese and The Photo Atlas. The popular bands will each perform a 45-minute concert in ManiaTV! studios to be broadcast on ManiaTV!’s LIVE Internet TV stream and simulcast in various virtual 3D settings on Second Life.

The virtual portion, beamed to Second Life in real time, will take place on a variety of islands, each with a different design, topography and ambience, such as: lushes gardens, underwater lost worlds, castles and urban scenes.
Concert goers will be able to access the 3D concert via www.tantraww.com.

SOCIAL CAUSE: GLOBAL WARMING- DV8 has invited social awareness partner 8th Wonder of the World, a global series focusing on the ‘Betterment of Children’ and paralleling the United Nations 8 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).  MDG Number 7-Enviromental has been chosen for this Cyber Music Festival.  8th Wonder of the World and DV8 will use this amazing event to increase global awareness for the benefit of Planet Earth and help fight Global Warming  by producing a ' Zero to Low Emissions' Music Festival.
8th Wonder of the World has also invited MannaRelief, a children’s charity providing essential nutritional supplements to sick and impoverished children around the world.

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 www.mannarelief.org