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===2010s to present=== Morrison performed for the [[Edmonton Folk Music Festival]] in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on 4 August 2010 as the headline act for the fundraiser and was scheduled as second-day headliner at the Feis 2011 Festival in London's [[Finsbury Park]] on 19 June 2011.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://communities.canada.com/edmontonjournal/blogs/pluggedin/archive/2010/05/31/morrison-is-a-go.aspx|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120708125216/http://communities.canada.com/edmontonjournal/blogs/pluggedin/archive/2010/05/31/morrison-is-a-go.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 July 2012|newspaper=Edmonton Journal|last=Sperounes|first=Sandra|date=31 May 2010|title=Morrison is a go! β Plugged In|access-date=3 June 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/M/Morrison_Van/ConcertReviews/2010/08/05/14928946.html|title=Concert Review: Van Morrison|date=5 August 2010|author=Ross, Mike|website=Canoe.ca|access-date=5 August 2010|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709200737/http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/M/Morrison_Van/ConcertReviews/2010/08/05/14928946.html|archive-date=9 July 2012|url-status=usurped}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.haringeyindependent.co.uk/news/topstories/8918744.Irish_music_festival_extended_for_second_day/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928120240/http://www.haringeyindependent.co.uk/news/topstories/8918744.Irish_music_festival_extended_for_second_day/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 September 2011|newspaper=Haringey Independent|last=Kirk|first=Tristan|date=18 March 2011|title=Van Morrison to headline second day of London Feis festival|access-date=18 June 2011}}</ref> He appeared in concert at [[Odyssey Arena]] in [[Belfast]] on 3 February and at [[The O2 (Dublin)|the O2]] in Dublin on 4 February 2012. He appeared at the 46th [[Montreux Jazz Festival]] as a headliner on 7 July 2012.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-rt-us-montreuxbre83i1ll-20120419,0,901506.story | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130119094735/http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-rt-us-montreuxbre83i1ll-20120419,0,901506.story | url-status=dead | archive-date=19 January 2013 | title=Dylan, van Morrison headline Montreux jazz fest β Chicago Tribune | website=[[Chicago Tribune]] | access-date=20 April 2012 }}</ref> In 2014, Morrison's former high school [[Orangefield High School]], formerly known as Orangefield Boys' Secondary School closed its doors permanently. To mark the school's closure Morrison performed in the school assembly hall for three nights of concerts from 22 to 24 August. The performance on 22 August was exclusively for former teachers and pupils and the two remaining concerts were for members of the public<ref>{{cite web|last=Williamson|first=Claire|url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/van-morrisons-night-of-nostalgia-in-orangefield-30529930.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141014104026/http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/van-morrisons-night-of-nostalgia-in-orangefield-30529930.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 October 2014|title=Van Morrison's night of nostalgia in Orangefield|website=The Belfast Telegraph|date=23 August 2014|access-date=19 August 2015}}</ref> The first night of the Nocturne Live<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nocturnelive.com/concerts|title=bookings|website=Nocturnelive.com|access-date=19 August 2015|archive-date=17 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317062757/http://www.nocturnelive.com/concerts|url-status=dead}}</ref> concerts at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, UK on 25 June 2015, featured Morrison and Grammy Award-winning American Jazz vocalist and songwriter [[Gregory Porter]]. In June 2021, ''[[The Times]]'' noted that "fittingly for someone who has been so vocally opposed to the lockdown" resulting from the 2020β2021 coronavirus pandemic, "Van Morrison played one of the first big-scale concerts in London since events, albeit tentatively, started up again." [[Will Hodgkinson]] wrote that the show "was as good an argument for the return of live music as you could wish for."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/music/article/van-morrisons-your-man-for-unlocking-the-hits-3nkj87nxd?t=ie |title=Van Morrison review β Van's your man for unlocking the hits |work=[[The Times]] |last=Hodgkinson |first=Will |date=7 June 2021 |access-date=20 July 2021 }}</ref>
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