The true test of whether he's really pulled off his transformation with his fans may come when the 24-year-old performs at Somerset's legendary Glastonbury Festival later in June.
In the meantime, though, the authority in charge of the area has organised several short-term events to whet the public's appetite for what's to come, with past events including a weekend of rock concerts in early December 2012 and an inaugural alternative cultural festival later that same month.
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She's sung at the famed Salzburg Festival, and later this year, will perform at Japan's Saito Kinen Festival.
The New York festival begins later with Mistaken for Strangers, a documentary about Brooklyn rock band The National.
Hendrix is also about to hit cinemas around the world, with his set from the 1969 Woodstock festival released later this month.
Theatre, dance and music from the Far East will be on show in the east of Scotland as the Edinburgh International Festival begins later.
More than a decade later, the festival has expanded, with films, exhibitions and events making appearances in more than 20 cities the world over, from Athens to Vienna.
Chart act Tinchy Stryder has been added to the line-up for the free Youth Beatz festival in Dumfries later this year.
The identity of the company that supplied Wagner tubas for the first "Ring" cycle at the Bayreuth Festival a year later is uncertain.
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In 1996, he became the first official artist for the Summer Olympics in Atlanta and - a year later - the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.
Later this month, the Hay Festival, the annual literary event in Hay-on-Wye, will also honour RS Thomas.
It was screened again days later at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The next time I saw Ben do standup was about ten gigs later, at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Actor Ralph Fiennes and director David Cronenberg and are to receive BFI Fellowships at the 55th BFI London Film Festival (LFF) later this month.
Two days later, outside the Northwest Folklife Festival in the city centre, a man carrying a book was shot in the leg by stray gunfire.
Coppola later told reporters during the Rome Film Festival that the comments were "obviously bent out of shape" by the magazine.
An earlier version of the film appeared at the Sundance Film Festival, but the two later went back to Pakistan to do additional reporting for this version and they're with us now.
The show also goes out on the road and by week 3 came live from the Children's Food Festival in Little Wittenham and later from the Oxford United Family Fun Day at the Kassam Stadium.
Further headline names for the 2013 festival are expected to be revealed later in the week.
Glasgow's winter festival Celtic Connections is officially way later.
She played Mrs Lovett in the Chichester Festival Theatre's production, which later transferred to the West End.
The festival will also now come to Brooklyn, New York, later in the year.
Cliburn won his first Texas competition when he was 12, and two years later he played in Carnegie Hall as the winner of the National Music Festival Award.
Seven men were later jailed for his murder, which happened on the M40 as he rode away from the festival.
Two years later, Buffett flew Ariel and her family to the Berkshire annual meeting, a weekend-long festival that draws nearly 30, 000 people to Omaha.
Three years later, Newton -- who was then married -- learned from a conversation with a producer at Cannes Film Festival in France that the director had used the video to entertain guests during late-night parties.
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