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Zhangbei Music Festival in Hebei

Date: July 25-28－1 pm

Venue: Zhangbei Zhongdu Grassland

Price: 160-500 yuan

Zhangbei Music Festival can't be missed. Held between July 24 and 26, this three-day extravaganza will take part in the grasslands of Zhangbei, about 250 km from Beijing. The lineup is looking strong with veteran rocker Xie Tianxiao leading the bill, Pg.lost (Switzerland), Maximillian Hecker (Germany), Mono (Japan) and Matzka (Taiwan) also making appearances among a packed list of local Chinese acts.

German National Youth Orchestra Concert in Shanghai

Date: July 30－7:30 pm

Venue: Shanghai Daning Theater

Price: 50-500 yuan

The German National Youth Orchestra, founded by the German Music Council in 1969, is one of the world's leading youth orchestras. The best young musicians from all over Germany aged between 14 and 19 devote themselves to exacting orchestral works from all periods in an environment of intensive work phases, and demonstrate their skills by holding regular concert tours under the direction of celebrated conductors such as Kurt Masur, Sir Simon Rattle, Kirill Petrenko and Sebastian Weigle.

International Champions Cup China

Date: July 25－8 pm

Venue: Longgang Sports Center, Shenzhen

Price: 380-1,680 yuan

The International Champions Cup (ICC) is an annual club association football friendly exhibition competition. It predominantly features club teams from Europe playing matches in the United States and occasionally Canada, with a wider roll-out to further countries beginning in 2015 with an expansion to China and Australia. The ICC was founded by Relevant Sports, a division of RSE ventures, a sports promotion company founded in 2012 by billionaire real estate magnate and Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross and Matt Higgins, a former executive with the New York Jets. It replaced the World Football Challenge, which had featured a more even distribution of European-and American-based sides. One match during the 2014 tournament set the all-time record for attendance at a soccer game in the United States. The new record of 109,318 spectators was set August 2, 2014 at the match between Manchester United and Real Madrid in University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan.