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Timbre Rock & Roots 2013

  You know a festival is a winner when their alumni includes greats such as Earth Wind & Fire, The Specials and Bob Dylan. Well they can add to that after 2013′s instalment. The Bandwagon Team has picked out some choice acts for this year’s Timbre Rock & Roots Festival. Held at Fort Canning this year, we urge you to do some homework before you set off! And as usual, with an accompanying playlist. Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters The voice of Led Zeppelin Read more
Posted: 11 March, 2013 Music Shortlink
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Close Up with American Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton

  Playing a proverbially despicable character in Singapore Lyric Opera’s (SLO) production of Madama Butterfly is an honour for Israel Lozano. “I feel great singing ‘Pinkerton’ in Madama Butterfly, and it is a privilege to have the chance to sing it around the world. Music and acting makes for a great cocktail in Puccini’s master recipe,” said Lozano, a Tenor who hails from Madrid, Spain. Lozano is starring as U.S. Navy Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton in a classic production of Read more
Posted: 31 January, 2013 Music, Theatre Shortlink
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Hipsters Rejoice: Laneway Festival is Back

  Coming back for its third year, St Jerome’s Laneway Festival has found a new location at Meadow at Gardens By The Bay. Once again, the all-day music extravaganza will feature a top lineup of indie bands and artists including Alt-J, Cloud Nothings, Gotye , Of Monsters and Men, and Tame Impala, just to name a  few. First timers to our little red dot, Gotye and Kimbra will be the key highlights of the show. Let’s hope they will be crooning their award winning collaboration Somebody Read more
Posted: 25 January, 2013 Music Shortlink
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ZoukOut With Adrian Wee

  In my 8 years in Singapore, I’ve always refused to plan my night at ZoukOut. How anticlimactic to follow a schedule when you are out drinking and dancing! The result has been a mixed bag of good and bad. One way to avoid wasting your night dragging your flip-flops aimlessly from stage to stage is to follow the sounds that best suits you. There are three stages to choose on ZoukOut’s big Saturday night (you can consult the full lineup here), each with a very distinct sound. Moon Stage. Read more
Posted: 5 December, 2012 Music Shortlink
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SLO Children’s Choir: Where Love Is

  Presented by the Singapore Lyric Opera Children’s Choir with guest choirs, the Christmas concert will showcase a number of choral pieces in a wide range of styles, from traditional folk-songs composed in the early 1900s, to pieces written only last year.  And according to one of the choir’s conductors, Adrian Poon, each piece was carefully chosen to bring across a specific message to both the children and the audience about Christmas. “We want to emphasise that Christmas is Read more
Posted: 3 December, 2012 Music Shortlink
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Review: The Bootleg Beatles

  There are some bands that one should never try to cover because it is virtually impossible to do them justice, and any attempt to do so would usually end in embarrassment for everyone involved. The Fab Four ranks pretty high on that list, but The Bootleg Beatles not only has the audacity to cover their songs – they even imitate their looks, their fashion, and their mannerisms. And the most insane part of the whole shebang is that they have been pulling it all off impeccably since 1980. The Read more
Posted: 12 November, 2012 Music Shortlink
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[Local Love] Miguel Antonio, 11, Singer

  Local Love is a monthly series on local, up-and-coming creative and artists in Singapore. It is proudly brought to you by Sistic. Miguel Antonio has been singing since he was in a car seat. At just 11 years old, he is already a recording artist and live performer in his own right. His professional singing career took off only about a year ago when a YouTube video of him singing I Dreamed A Dream from the musical Les Miserable at a school idol contest became an Internet sensation. The Read more
Posted: 31 October, 2012 Music Shortlink
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Choir Kids

"When I get shy singing in front of people I imagine them as potatoes. Giant potatoes when they are close but normal potatoes when they are far away," says Aina Betts, age 11. Already having tread the stageboards for three years with the Singapore Lyric Opera Children's Choir, she is getting better at managing her stage fright. Sometimes. "I used to sing nursery rhymes in the shower, and my parents thought I should join the SLO," adds Aina. Her choir buddy Samuel Yuen chimes in: "And we can play Read more
Posted: 9 July, 2012 Music Shortlink
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La Cage aux Folles

Fling on your feather boas and leave your reservations at the door - Wild Rice is staging the rambunctious musical La Cage Aux Folles this July at the Esplanade Theatre! Directed by Glen Goei and starring the inimitable Ivan Heng, the laugh-a-minute show is filled with dazzling dance routines performed by 13 glamazonian "Cagelles". Also catch Singapore's best stage talents - Hossan Leong, Tan Kheng Hua, Darius Tan, Karen Tan, and more. Sequins aside, La Cage is a story about love, family, and Read more
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Rebecca Spykerman, 27, Actress.

Local Love is a monthly series on local, up-and-coming creatives and artists in Singapore. It is proudly brought to you by Sistic. When I spoke to Rebecca, she was days away from her debut in Twelfth Night, the popular Shakespeare In The Park event that brings audiences in the thousands to Fort Canning Park. Are you nervous, I ask. "No pressure", she says with a hearty laugh, for the first time breaking out of her calm and cool demeanour. "If anything, the pressure comes from wanting to put Read more
Posted: 30 April, 2012 Music, Theatre Shortlink