The fifth season of Indian Idol, which started in April, will culminate Sunday with the announcement of the winner at a grand show.

Bollywood stars like Amitabh Bachchan and Kareena Kapoor will mark their presence at the finale Sunday, which also happens to be India’s 64th Independence Day.

But win or lose, these singing youngsters are raring to go. In fact, Hyderabad-based Sreeram Chandra, 24, has already worked with music director duo Salim-Suleiman.

The Winner of Indian Idol will get the following pleasures along with a Cash Prize of Rs. 5 Million:
* A One-year Contract with Sony BMG
* A Tata Winger Car
* A Chance to sing a song in a Yash Raj Films’ project

These opportunities are really great but will be only for the Winner of the Show.

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McLachlan, recently divorced and with two young daughters, said she was ready to focus again on her career and resurrect the Lilith Fair tour, an all-female traveling concert series she helped found in 1997 which ran for three consecutive summers.

“I talked to my two managers and my agent who are my partners, and every year we get together and talk about Lilith, and reminisce, and it was always like ‘ugh, too much work’,” McLachlan, 42, told Reuters Television.

“Then last year we got together, and we started talking about it, and we said ‘you know, we could do this again, we could give it the energy that it needs, we have the time on our hands to do it, and we could make it something even more fabulous than it was last time’.”

Grammy-winning McLachlan said she founded the original tour because she became fed up with the perception that female artists could not be enough of a draw for concertgoers.

She proved them wrong in 1997, 1998 and 1999 and hopes to do the same with the 2010 incarnation.

The new tour will feature a wide array of artists, from hip hop stars like Rihanna, Queen Latifah, and Mary J. Blige, to Lilith Fair veterans Sheryl Crow and Emmylou Harris, to new acts and classics like country music queen Loretta Lynn.

“There’s a wealth of great new artists out there as well as a lot of the ones who were there last time to draw from,” she said.

Stepping back onto the stage with her first studio album in seven years has been a breeze for McLachlan, who returns with a mixed collection of songs that reveal a playful and carefree woman that fans might not recognize immediately.

Her sixth album “Wintersong” was released in 2006 but that was a mixture of Christmas songs rather than her own material.

“I sort of feel like after seven years, I’m stepping out and revealing myself again,” said McLachlan.

Her new album, out on June 15, has produced her new single “Loving You Is Easy.”

“It just felt like the right track to go with because I am really happy, and I feel strong, and I feel like I want to grab life by the you know what’s and go for it,” she said.

“It’s happy, and people say ‘oh it’s a really happy song, I miss the sad Sarah,’ and I say ‘well don’t worry honey, it’s still there’,” she added .

McLachlan said she was happy to take a break from the music industry when she did, citing the sexualized, highly marketed corporate pop music trends of recent years.

“Music is always very cyclical, and I remember, it felt like the door got slammed shut, and it felt like there was this huge swell of boy-bands and girl-bands, and sort of prefabricated bubblegum pop, very heavy in marketing and sexuality,” she said.

“I make the music I make, and I’m very grateful, and it’s a luxurious position for me to be in, where I don’t have to follow any trends. I don’t have to write a song because it has to live in a certain format,” she said.

The Lilith Fair tour kicks off in Calgary on June 27 and will head to 18 cities across North America before concluding on August 16 in Dallas, Texas.

(Reporting by Reuters Television, Editing by Belinda Goldsmith) – Reuters

NEW YORK (AP) – A free concert by pop band Hanson and up-and-coming Canadian rapper Drake was canceled Tuesday after twice as many people as anticipated showed up and many became unruly, police said.

The show started at about 6 p.m. with an opening act at Pier 17 on Manhattan’s South Street Seaport, a popular summer locale for concerts. Hanson, the Tulsa, Okla., brothers behind the 1997 hit “Mmmbop,” and headliner Drake, whose album “Thank Me Later” debuted Tuesday, were to appear on stage soon after.

Organizers were anticipating about 10,0000 people but nearly 20,000 showed up, police said. Many people climbed roofs and started throwing bottles, as concertgoers smashed together toward the stage, police said.

Witness Tamika Johnson told the Daily News newspaper: “People in the front started leaving because they were getting crushed.”

The concert organizers asked the New York Police Department for help dispersing the crowds around 7 p.m., police spokesman Paul Browne said. Two people were arrested on minor charges; six suffered minor injuries, police said.

The concert was part of the “Sounds Like Paper” series presented by Paper magazine, an independent magazine focusing on arts, culture and music. The magazine apologized on its website: “Wow, the crowd was much larger than we anticipated, and unfortunately the show was canceled. But we will make it up to you guys!”

The magazine posted several updates on Twitter during the night: “It’s a total madhouse — in a good way” and “get off the roof!”

Telephone calls by The Associated Press to representatives for Drake and Hanson weren’t immediately returned Tuesday night.

A spokesman for Drake, whose album features Kanye West and Alicia Keys and debuted to positive reviews, told the Daily News the rapper was disappointed the NYPD dispersed the crowds before he could perform.

Hanson’s “Mmmbop,” from the trio of brothers’ album “Middle of Nowhere,” was one of the biggest debut singles of all time.

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Associated Press writer Tom McElroy contributed to this report.

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