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Dirty Boogie Rockabilly Festival

Let’s crank up the music, embrace the fashion, the hairstyles and relive the Rockin’ 1950’s!

The Dirty Boogie Rockabilly Festival returns in full swing with an awesome musical line up.
Los Rizlaz (Japan)
The Bembol Rockers (Philippines)
The Boogie Playboys (Hong Kong)
Miss Cathy (Hong Kong)
DJ Dave “Wobbly” Ross (UK)

Live Tattoo by Starcrossed Tattoo
Live Hair Grooming by Edwin Watch X Crows Nest Barber Shop

The music. The clothes. The cars. The dancing. What’s not to love! Book now.

Dirty Boogie Rockabilly Festival
DBSFZ Rebel Society
Date: 8pm, 14 November, 2015
Venue: Grappa’s Cellar
Tickets: $280, $260 (Advance)

Wine & Dine Festival 2015

The 2015 Wine & Dine Festival at the Central Harbourfront features a dizzying array of food and wine to enjoy over the next three days. The festival is organised by HK Tourism, which ensures that a large number of the territories hotels have food booths showcasing their signature dishes at prices well below what you’d find when dining at the hotel.

There’s wine, wine and more wine, tasting rooms, samplers and wine pairing dinners. To enjoy a glass and to keep things simple wine’s have been divided in to two categories. Classic wine – $20/coupon and Grand wine $50/coupon. You can purchase as many or as few coupons as you desire.

Food… There’s lots of lovely food, a smorgasbord of tastes and flavours from across the globe. The food and wine booths are separated into zones. Sadly, neither the festival map nor the booklet offer a list of all the participating outlets. In a way that good as it forces you explore, but it can also be a pain to locate a booth you want to visit.

Buffets are for grazing and sampling, and this is the best way to explore the large festival area because you never know what you might find. Dishes are paid for in cash and prices range from $10 up. Some of delights we discovered on our wander last night included a lovely artesian french booth offering cones of cheese, ham’s and salami ($50-60). Among the delights in the hotel booth area were a tasty lamb shank and a delicious stuffed crab topped with melted cheese; or enjoy heart shaped meatloaf topped with gold leaf.

Locally it can be hard to find good bread, but several restaurants make their own and are showcasing this on their booths Ciak has nice fresh bread to go with it’s spicy sausages. While Bagoes is offering fresh bagels, bagel sandwiches.

There’s lots of desserts, one definitely to look out for is is egg custard served in a real egg shell. It’s not cheap $70 for 2, but it’s delicious – booth C204.

There’s also a stage offering a variety of live music through the festival.

Frustrations – there’s very little seating, and no shade! So if the sun’s out, bring some suntan cream and an umbrella because without any breeze Central Harbourfront can be very hot.

It’s outside, there’s food, wine, beer, live music… what’s not to like, have fun.

Wine & Dine Festival 2015
Date: 22-25 October, 2015
Venue: Central Harbourfront
Tickets: $30
More info:
22 October – 8-11:30pm
23-24 October – 12-11:30pm
25 October – 12-10pm
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A Musical Trilogy of Fantasies – Princess Mononoke, Butterfly Lovers & Nodame Cantabile

In childhood, many of us enjoyed Japanese anime and or listened to Chinese traditional stories recounted by our grandparents. As adults or kidadults a lot of us still enjoy Japanese manga and fantasy. They are art forms which recall our childhood, but also bring us to a world out of reality when we need it. Winnie Yin (印玉文), an acclaimed pipa (琵琶) musician presents, in collaboration with the HKMPO, three musical fantasies inspired by these art forms.

The concert will start with the Legend of Ashitaka, from Joe Hisaishi’s (久石譲) symphonic suite for Princess Mononoke (幽靈公主), an anime fantasy produced by Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎駿) about the struggle between the supernatural guardians of a forest and the humans who consume its resources, involving the outsider Ashitaka and San, who was raised by wolves in the forest. “Mononoke” is a general term in Japanese for a spirit or monster. The performance features the opening of the suite which appears at the end of the anime.

The Butterfly Lovers Concerto originates from a Chinese legend about the love affair between Zhu Yingtai (祝英台) who attends class in disguise as a man, and Liang Shanbo (梁山伯) who develops a strong affinity for Zhu without knowing that she is a lady. After discovering that Zhu is a lady, Liang falls in love with her and they enjoy a short joyful period before Zhu’s parents arrange for her to marry a rich man. Liang dies of a broken heart. During the journey to her wedding, Zhu leaves the procession and throws herself into Liang’s grave. Their spirits turn into a pair of butterflies who fly away together. The concerto adapts melodies from the Chinese opera and folk songs about the legend. It is such a successful Chinese concerto that it is not only taken up by Chinese violinists and soloists of Chinese instruments but also by today’s great violinists such as Gil Shaham and Maxim Vengerov. Compared with the original violin concerto, He Zhanhao’s arrangement for pipa is usually played at a faster tempo offering a perfect showcase for Yin’s impeccable technique and natural expressiveness.

In Nodame Cantabile, Tomoko Ninomiya’s popular Japanese manga about Shinichi Chiaki, a meticulous musical genius and Nodame, a messy out-of-control conservatory student who prefers playing the piano by ear rather than reading the score. Shinichi, who has secret ambitions to become a conductor, meets Nodame by accident and quickly falls in love with her. With Nodame’s encouragement, Shinichi decides to take up the baton out of Japan despite his fear of flying due to an air accident when he was a kid. He enters an exciting conductor competition in which he has to conduct Dvořák’s From the New World while spotting “the errors” among a large number of orchestra players. He wins the gold medal at the competition, launching his international career. In the symphony, one can find rhythms from the composer’s motherland Bohemia, native American music and African-American spirituals while German classical masters’ influence is discernible (e.g. Scherzo from Beethoven’s Ninth vs Scherzo of Dvořák’s). Leonard Bernstein hailed it as a truly multinational masterpiece.

Performers:
Winnie Yin 印玉文 (pipa)
Kevin Wong 黃史琦 (conductor)
Hong Kong Metropolitan Philharmonic Orchestra (HKMPO) 香港都會愛樂管弦樂團

Programme:
Joe Hisaishi: Music from Princess Mononoke
Chen Gang/He Zhanhao: Butterfly Lovers Pipa Concerto
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony no. 9 in E minor, “From the New World”, op. 95

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A Musical Trilogy of Fantasies – Princess Mononoke, Butterfly Lovers & Nodame Cantabile
Hong Kong Metropolitan Philharmonic Orchestra
Date: 8pm, 20 October, 2015
Venue: HK City Hall, Concert Hall
Tickets: $200, $150, $90 from Urbtix

Irma @ The Vine Centre – 18 September, 2015

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Irma’s second visit to Hong Kong in 2015, saw a packed Vine Centre royally entertained as the singer who found fame on youtube showcased new songs and old favourites.
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Septiembre Mexicano

Experience Mexico during Septiembre Mexicano as The Consulate General of Mexico in Hong Kong organizes a series of art, culture, music and gastronomic activities, open to the public, to celebrate its 205th anniversary of independence.

Fashion
Mexican designer Carmen Rion, presents her latest textile designs at the “Renaissance of Fashion” event. Rion is also a fashion researcher and is well known for ‘rescuing’ traditional Mexican textiles and integrating them into her contemporary creations.
Carmen Rion
Date: 9am-5:45pm, 31 August – 25 September, 2015.
Venue: The Fashion Gallery, Polytechnic University, 11 Yuk Choi Rd, Hung Hom.
Tickets: Free

Food
Enjoy millenary dishes and 21st century Mexican haute cuisine as chef Jose Lazcarro prepares some of the most traditional dishes including: ceviche, shrimp agua chile, mole poblano, green pipian at Cafe Too and the Lobster Bar in the Island Shangri La. Chef Lazcarro worked with Alain Ducasse in Paris in 2009, then in the USA with Robert McCormick and is currently Executive Chef at Quinze in his hometown of Puebla.
Chef Jose Lazcarro
Date: 8-30 September 2015.
Venues: Lobster Bar and Grill, 6/F, Island Shangri-La; Cafe Too, 7/F, Island Shangri-La.

Art
Abstract artist Roberto Turnbull inaugurated his first solo exhibit of 26 artworks entitled Mexican Big Bang: Paintings by Roberto Turnbull at the HK Museum and Art Gallery, HK University earlier this month. Turnbull is a versatile artist comfortable in the realm of painting and sculpting; in the chaos of the flat abstraction, and in the order of three-dimensional geometry.
Mexican Big Bang
Roberto Turnbull
Date: 9 September – 29 November, 2015
Venue: Drake Gallery, HK Museum and Art Gallery, HK University
Tickets: Free

Film
Alamar (To the Sea, 2009), directed, written and produced, Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio, captures the unconditional love of a father for his son as they spend time together amid the stark beauty of unspoiled nature of the Banco Chinchorro coral reef before the son departs for Italy.

Alamar
Alamar (To the Sea, 2009), directed, written and produced, Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio, captures the unconditional love of a father for his young son as they spend time together living in a stilt house amid the stark beauty of unspoiled nature of the Chinchorro coral reef before the son departs for Italy.
Date: 7pm, 24 September, 2015
Venue: Global Lounge, G/F, Fong Shu Chuen Amenities Centre, HK University.
More info: +852-2511-3305 / [email protected]

Music
Ernesto Anaya is one of the most popular Mexican musicians of the last 30 years offers. His countryside roots combined with an operatic style create a very particular and original style of Mexican folkloric music. Anaya is a singer, composer, violinist, guitarist, pianist, and producer, as well as a jaranero or jarana player. The Jarana is a guitar-shaped instrument from the southern region of the state of Veracruz, Mexico.
Ernesto Anaya
Date: 27, 29 September
Venue: Orange Peel
Tickets: tbc

Septiembre Mexicano
More info: facebook.com/consulmexhk

Source: Consulate General of Mexico in Hong Kong

The Book of the Hanging Gardens

RAPSOVOCE PERFORMANCE COLLECTIVE brings together pianist Nancy Loo, baritone Caleb Woo and soprano Jasmine Law, presenting a German song recital of Arnold Schoenberg’s Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten (The Book of the Hanging Gardens), Op. 15, and selections by Johannes Brahms, whom Schoenberg hailed as a great progressive, a great innovator in the realm of musical language.

The Book of the Hanging Gardens, Op. 15, is Schoenberg’s fifteen-part song cycle composed between 1908 and 1909, set to the poems of Stefan George. It is the first composition in Schoenberg’s atonal period. The poems of the ‘Hanging Gardens’ are all miniatures, elliptically relating the progress of an intense, ultimately doomed love-affair between two young lovers, ending with the woman’s departure and the disintegration of the garden.

Performers:
Jasmine Law 羅曉晴 (soprano)
Caleb Woo 胡永正 (baritone)
Nancy Loo 羅乃新 (piano)

Programme:
Johannes Brahms:
Am Sonntag Morgen Op. 49 No. 1
Feldeinsamkeit Op. 86 No. 6
Vier ernste Gesänge Op. 121
Arnold Schoenberg:
Das Buch der hängenden Gärten Op. 15

浪漫時期作曲家布拉姆斯被奧地利作曲家荀伯克譽為偉大的音樂語言創新者，影響了很多他的早期作品。荀伯克於1908-1909年間取材自德國詩人喬治·斯特凡的詩，創作出由十五首歌曲組成的聯篇歌曲《伊甸之書，作品編號十五》，是荀伯克的無調性作曲時期的第一個作品。《伊甸之書》講述一對年輕戀人之間的戀愛、進展，其中一人的離去和像伊甸園一般美的花園最後解體結束。

著名鋼琴家羅乃新將與年輕歌唱家羅曉晴及胡永正合作，呈現這套鮮有在本地音樂會舞台上出現的二十世紀經典曲目，以及布拉姆斯的聲樂作品。

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The Book of the Hanging Gardens
RapsoVoce Performance Collective
When: 7:30pm, 22 August, 2015
Where: HKAPA, Recital Hall
Tickets: $180 from HKTicketing

Blur Live @ HKCEC – 22 July, 2015

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Blur rocked a sold-out HKCEC Hall 5 with a selection of greatest hits and tracks from their new album The Magic Whip – written in Hong Kong after the bands last concert here in 2013. The album is full of astute observations about life in in the SAR, but there is something a little bit extra special hearing live songs and tales about your home. If there was one complaint, the gig was not even two hours, so many great songs unplayed… Thanks for coming Blur, see you again soon luv Hong Kong!
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Robbie Williams Let Me Entertain You Tour 2015 CANCELLED

The Asian legs of Robbie Williams Tour including Hong Kong on the 23 September, 2015 are cancelled.

Refunds by credit card automatically, cash refunds from HKTicketing Box Office at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre