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A National Day song about Katong, a place that everyone knows and loves
While the rest of Singapore is singing national songs in celebration of the 57th National Day, acapella group Vocaluptuous decided to go totally local. “We wanted to do a song that had a connection to a place that everyone knew and was completely familiar with, and My Old Hometown Katong fit the bill as it…
Outdoor concert One Love Asia Festival 2022 with Stefanie Sun, Tanya Chua, is a go!
(UPDATED on 5 August 2022) If you are a fan of Mandopop, then mark your calendars for October to catch your favourite stars live at One Love Asia Festival 2022. The two-day outdoor festival will have Singaporean Mandopop stars Stefanie Sun and Tanya Chua, and Taiwanese singer Show Lo belting repertoire from their respective albums…
Coming back with a vengeance – Getai planners preparing for the seventh month
Getai is back, and after a two-year hiatus, it is back with a vengeance. Like it or not, the melodies of dialect folk song and garish LEDs lights are set to sprout around the open fields within HDB estates and the courts of community centres as the seventh lunar month, better known as the month…
New play examines the importance of being Kwa Geok Choo
She was only 18 the year Madam Kwa Geok Choo died. Today, actress Tan Rui Shan, 30, assumes the role of Madam Kwa, better known as the wife of Singapore’s founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew on stage. “There are so many different interpretations of her, yet there is so little resources and information about…
Booming busking scene: Growing industry or just a one-off success?
It seemed like a concert last Saturday as busker Jeff Ng captivated the masses outside the Cathay. Fans numbered in the hundreds waved their light sticks and smart phones to the beat of his music and sang in unison to the Mandarin melodies that Mr Ng was belting. The 32 year-old musician has been performing…
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