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avex presents the a-nation Summer Music Festival!

a-nation enters its 19th year with a little different format that is pushed by the sign of the times. Japan, much like every other country in the world, has shied away from large gatherings. This year's event features over fifty acts from Japan and across the world.  The paid stages include names like ayumi hamasaki, KODA KUMI, SUPER JUNIOR, Red Velvet, BACK-ON, EXO-SC, and many more. The free stages features Aina The End, The World Standard, AATA, and others.

Tickets are about $46.  If you pay in yen it's slightly cheaper at 4800 yen (roughly $45). The main streams will go online at 2PM JST and performances begin at 4PM JST. Note: the White Stage (LINE) stream starts at 1250PM JST! Purple Stage (YouTube) starts at 6PM JST and closes the night at 1130PM JST.

Stage breakdown (in alphabetical order)

Blue Stage (Ticketed)
Amuyi (??) / ayumi hamasaki / EMPiRE / FAKY / Fei (???) / Gemma (???) / GENIC / Kalen Anzai / KODA KUMI / Kohmi Hirose / MAMESHiBA NO TAiGUN / Naomi (??) / Novelbright / SuperM / Sae Otsuka / VOGUE5

Green Stage (Ticketed)
BACK-ON / BALLISTIK BOYZ from EXILE TRIBE / BuZZ / Da-iCE / DA PUMP / HAO (???) / I Don't Like Mondays. / JADE / Julius (??) / lol /Daichi Miura / SKY-HI / STAMP / SUPER JUNIOR / Wayne Huang (???)

Yellow Stage (Ticketed)
Beverly / Chou Tokimeki?Sendenbu / EXO-SC / GENIN WA JIBUN NI ARU / HARAMIchan / James Lu (?? ?) / M!LK / Peter Fish / PIKOTARO / Red Velvet / SEAMO / Timo Feng (???) / TRF / Yoanna (?? ?)

Purple Stage (Free) @ avex YouTube Channel
Aina The End / GOLDEN BOMBER / HAN-KUN from SHONAN NO KAZE / macaroniempitsu / Mosawo / riria / Taisei Miyakawa

White Stage (Free) @ avex LINE Channel
AATA / Baby Kiy / EMIKO SUZUKI / Hiro Ishibashi (MC) / IKINIGE / kolme / Leola / MaRuRi to Ryuga / Project 88 / Rei©hi / RUN Girls, Run! / Sakuramen / The World Standard (Wasuta) / THREE1989 / Tomoko Matsumoto (dj mapi) / Yu. (??)

To purchase a ticket visit: https://www.vlive.tv/product/ds00u00u00000236?lang=en

Free Performance Stages
Purple Stage (avex YouTube Channel) https://www.youtube.com/user/avexnetwork
White Stage (avex LINE Channel) https://live.line.me/channels/370

For further details please check out https://a-nation.net/

The schedule is as follows:

anation schedule

 

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