Esplanade's Mosaic Music Festival returns!

Written by The Esplanade Co Ltd

Page 6 of 8 THE LIVING ROOM (ESPLANADE CONCOURSE) (All performances here are free) Fri, 7 Mar 08 Modern Jazz Classics 7 - 7.45pm: Half Past Late Organ Trio Feat. Nico Maiofiss (Singapore) With verve and a whole lot of talent, Singapore's jazz trio, The Half Past Late Organ Trio delivers modern jazz classics and original compositions. The Trio is Singapore's Chok Kerong on organ, local guitarist Andrew Lim and Singapore-based Australian drummer Darren Moore, together withgifted French violinist and composer Nico Maiofiss. 8.30 - 9.15pm: Huimin (Singapore) Huimin brings on the jazz ballads. Classically trained, the singer and voice trainer performs regularly at events, music festivals, concerts and the occasional pub. Sat, 8 Mar 08 Bright Young Things 5.30 - 6pm: Kevin & Marcus Loh (Singapore) Introducing one of the youngest, hottest guitarists in Singapore - Nine year-old Kevin Loh started learning the classical guitar at five with his father, Marcus Loh. Today, Kevin is a seasoned guitar performer, having given his first public performance at the age of five, and becoming the youngest soloist to be featured in TPGC's Share concert at six. He performs regularly as a soloist as well as in duet with his father. Sat, 8 Mar 08 An Evening of Jazz Standards 6.30 - 7.15pm and 8 - 8.45pm: Louis Soliano Quartet (Singapore) Enjoy music from Wes Montgomery to jazz standards. The homegrown Louis Soliano Quartet is led by Louis Soliano (percussionist, drummer and vocalist), and also comprises Tay Cher Siang (piano), Andrew Lim (guitar) and Colin Yong (bass and flute). Louis, a recipient of the Compass Artistic Excellence, has performed in ensembles, toured the world, and collaborated with jazz luminaries such as Stan Getz, Sarah Vaughn and Buddy Rich. 9.15 - 9.45pm: Relax One Corner with Najip (Singapore) Trendsetter, entertainer, Suria's "Best Producer/Director" and host of hit TV talkshow Kopi O Teh Tarik and more, Najip jokes, teases and cajoles audiences into a state of utter relak-xation. Sun, 9 Mar 08 Bright Young Things 5.30 - 6pm: Kevin & Marcus Loh (Singapore) Introducing one of the youngest, hottest guitarists in Singapore - Nine year-old Kevin Loh started learning the classical guitar at five with his father, Marcus Loh. Today, Kevin is a seasoned guitar performer, having given his first public performance at the age of five, and becoming the youngest soloist to be featured in TPGC's Share concert at six. He performs regularly as a soloist as well as in duet with his father. Sun, 9 Mar 08 Indie Industry 6.30 - 7.15pm: vAcance (Singapore) vAcance - made up of singer-songwriter Alex Goh, bassist Kelvin Khoo and drummer Riduan - will deliver covers as well as originals from Alex'sself-released solo EP Wholly Fable. 9 - 9.45pm: The Great Spy Experiment (Singapore) Welcome Singapore's indie darlings, The Great Spy Experiment. The band's "champagne-fuelled orgy of powerpop, indie, rock and dance" has fired up stages at home as well as in Texas and New York and won Motorola Street Style Awards' Street Choice Award, no contest. Mon, 10 Mar 08 Purely Acoustic Red White & Blue 6.30 - 7.15pm: Trey Lockerbie (USA) Writer of honest lyrics and simple melodies, Nashville resident Trey may only be 20 but he has already written, recorded and toured with some of the top acts in the music industry today such as Josh Kelley, Collective Soul, Elliot Yamin, Teddy Geiger. Better Than Ezra, Ernie Halter and Five for Fighting. 7.45 - 8.15pm: The Disclaimers (Singapore) The Disclaimers - friends Miles McLean and Alexander Gow - transforms their love of British and Irish bands such as Franz Ferdinand, Ian Dury,The Cure, U2 and The Proclaimers into a high-energy, entertaining stage show with vocal harmonies backed by acoustic guitar and probably theonly electric mandola in Singapore. 9 - 9.45pm: Andrea Hamilton (USA) Los Angeles native Andrea earned a Top 20 spot in the New Songs of the Year listing at the Gospel Music Association Conference at age 16 and since then, has gone indie, writing, performing and recording her insightful songs of love and life. Tue, 11 Mar 08 Jazz Experiments 6.30 - 7.15pm: sOap's (Singapore) sOap's is three (sometimes four) friends - drummer Joseph "Soap" Chian, classical Indian flutist Raghavendran Rajasekaran and keyboardist and vocalist Serent "Stan" Tan - who perform original funky jazz tunes. 8 - 8.45pm: Chuan & Friends (Singapore) Li-Chuan Chong aka Chuan is a composer and sonic artist who has veered from classical music to free improv on a laptop. He has performed with local musicians such as Zulkifle Mahmod, Ang Song Ming, Cyril Wong and George Chua, and shared the stage in Europe and Japan with Denis Dubovtsev, Sebastian Lexer, Chihei Hatakeyama and legendary bassist Tamaru. 9.15 - 9.45pm: Relax One Corner with Najip (Singapore) Trendsetter, entertainer, Suria's "Best Producer/Director" and host of hit TV talkshow Kopi O Teh Tarik and more, Najip jokes, teases and cajoles audiences into a state of utter relak-xation. Wed, 12 Mar 08 Jazz Finger Busters 6.30 - 7.15pm: Omar (Singapore) Guitarist Omar Abu Bakar, the only Singaporean to win the first prize in the non-classical solo section of Hong Kong's The South East Asian Guitar Festival in 1984, leads Singapore's only independent classical guitar club. 9 - 9.45pm: Tay Cher Siang (Malaysia) Malaysian Pianist Tay Cher Siang has performed solo and with ensembles in the USA, Singapore and Malaysia including the Washington Street Jazz Band, the Greg Lyons group, The Boplicity,  Gruvavenue, and backed vocalists such as Khadijah Ibrahim and Maria Gomes. Thu, 13 Mar 08 Indie Industry 6.30 - 7.15pm: Ferns (Malaysia) Ferns was cultivated in a fertile musical patch in Kuala Lumpur back in 2002, with no amibitions other than to blossom into a lean, green popsong machine. The group has since earned recognition as one of Rolling Stone's Top 25 Bands on Myspace and general critical acclaim for their debut album, On Botany (2007). 8 - 8.45pm: Tokyo Rose (USA) New Jersey-based pop-rock act Tokyo Rose has taken their melodic, rhythm-driven rock across the USA, to Europe and Japan, on tour withother rock acts such as Taking Back Sunday and Sherwood, and into three well-received albums. 9.15 - 9.45pm: Relax One Corner with Najip (Singapore) Trendsetter, entertainer, Suria's "Best Producer/Director" and host of hit TV talkshow Kopi O Teh Tarik and more, Najip jokes, teases and cajoles audiences into a state of utter relak-xation. Fri, 14 Mar 08 Singer Songwriter Fab Females 6.30 - 7.15pm: Megan Bowman (Australia) Described as "sexy and intoxicating" (WLIB/WBLS Radio, NYC), "taking on the world and winning it over one heart at a time" (Inpress magazine, Melbourne), Australian singer-songwriter Megan Bowman delivers rootsy jazz - pop in powerful live performances. 9 - 9.45pm: Olivia Ong (Singapore) Sassy and sweet, Singaporean vocalist Olivia Ong has captured audiences in Japan, Korea, Thailand and Malaysia, with her girlish bossa nova covers and self-penned originals. 10.15 - 10.45pm: Kathleen Harris (Australia) Singapore-based Australian singer-songwriter Kathleen Harris has performed in Australia's Sydney Opera House and Singapore's Blu Jazz Café. Hear her perform her original work, jazz classics and songs by artists she loves best such as Jeff Buckley, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder and The Beatles. Sat, 15 Mar 08 Top of the Pops 6.30 - 7.15pm: nanu (Singapore) An all-female a cappella group, nanu dishes out pop and R&B in several languages and also writes its own songs. 9 - 9.45pm and 10.15 - 10.45pm: d'Easton Ritmo (Singapore) d'Easton Ritmo is a pair of brothers - Khairi & Sahlan - playing and singing with their acoustic nylon guitars. They started performing in 1998 and have since been performing for many private functions as well as public gigs. In 2001, they won the first prize at the Singapore Guitar Festival Competition. Sun, 16 Mar 08 World Music Express 6.30 - 7.15pm and 9 - 9.45pm: The Aurora Project (Singapore) Rich, soulful, lyrical or groovy, the music of the Aurora Project, an improvisational chamber group, is drawn from a kaleidoscope ofinfluences including jazz, classical, rock, funk, tango, Caribbean, Spanish, Indian music, and film music. RELAX ONE CORNER WITH NAJIP ALI (THE LIVING ROOM @ THE CONCOURSE) (Free Admission) Trendsetter, entertainer, Suria's "Best Producer/Director" and host of hit TV talkshow Kopi O Teh Tarik and more, Najip jokes, teases and cajoles audiences into a state of utter relak-xation with Mosaic artists in these sessions. Sat, 8 March Tue, 11 March Thu, 13 March 9.15 - 9.45 pm Najip Ali Creative director of Dua M, the TV production arm of artiste management company Music & Movement, trendsetter and renowned local host, producer and director Najip Aliwas entrusted by Suria, the Singapore Malay Channel, to produce and host its first ever talkshow, dubbed Kopi O Teh Tarik. The show made waves in its five seasons broadcasted here and was the most watched programme on Suria channel. The programme won honours for three years as the Best Variety Programme on Suria Channel's Pesta Perdana and accolades for opening graphics. Its final season won Najip the recognition of being the Best Producer/Director for a variety programme. In 2003, he conceptualised a landmark Malay TV programme titled TV:ism which was aired in Singapore (Suria Channel), Malaysia (TV3) and Indonesia (SCTV). Not limiting his sights only to Malay entertainment programmes, Najip also devised, produced and directed kids' programmes on Kids Central such as KCTV: Wow!, Watch Eat! (three seasons), In Our House and Aspirasi Inspirasi, as well as Pesta! Pesta! Pesta!, which broke the record for viewership ratings on the Suria Channel. Anugerah Skrin (2006), which was considered one of Suria's most watched shows, was also produced and directed by Najip. He was also a judge on the show in 2006. In February 2007, he garnered his latest crop of accolades when Dua M swept all three variety show-related awards at Pesta Perdana, Suria channel's equivalent of the Emmys: Best Variety Series (Popumentari), Best Variety Special (Pesta! Pesta! Pesta!) and Best Director - Variety (he and Azni Samdin won for Pesta! Pesta! Pesta!) << Start < Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next > End >>

 

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