Perhaps the plea was not too surprising from Sting, the former teacher who became one of the biggest rock stars the UK has produced. But no-one in the audience at the Hay festival doubted the passion in his voice when he warned against scaling down music lessons for children...

''Sting's 90-minute set of hits had a large share of the near-capacity crowd loosening up. With a seasoned three-piece cast of musicians behind him, Sting weaved a decent mixture of material from his own albums alongside those from The Police starting with 'Message In A Bottle' with the audience up and dancing in the front...''

Sunnybrook Foundation are delighted to announce that international recording artists Sting, Sheryl Crow and The Canadian Tenors will perform at One Night Live™, presented by Sun Life Financial, on Thursday, May 21. Now in its second year, the concert will be held at the Air Canada Centre, and hosted by Sex and the City's "Mr. Big", Chris Noth...

Tonight, May 19, Sting joined members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for its annual Corporate Night to their fundraising efforts in providing vital support for CSO programs and audience development initiatives. The set list comprised: Overture to Candide/Sister Moon/If I Ever Lose My Faith In You/Fields Of Gold/Englishman In New York/A Thousand Years/My One And Only Love/Consider Me Gone/Russians/Lullaby To An Anxious Child/Fortress Around Your Heart/Moon Over Bourbon Street/Mad About You/Desert Rose/Every Breath You Take/Fragile...

Sting and Sheryl Crow spoke to The Globe and Mail newspaper ahead of their performances at this year's 'One Night Live' benefit concert for the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre at Toronto's Air Canada Centre on May 21. Tickets for 'One Night Live" are available from www.onenightlive.ca or through www.ticketmaster.ca/onenightlive...