On 2 consecutive Saturdays, I attended 2 Chinese music concerts.
As the name suggested, SG50 Sing-Along was a massive karaoke session featuring mainly Chinese songs over the past few decades, led by UFM radio presenters. The attractive part of this concert, to me, was watching veteran singers like Huang Qing Yuan黄清元, Zhuang Xue Fang 庄雪芳, Maggie Teng 邓妙华performed for the first time, in addition to Roy Li Fei Hui and Jimmy Ye. It's a pity that most of them only performed one song - could they also lead in some singalong?
The selection of songs was rather mish-mash: ranging from foreign folk songs, local and foreign pop hits, our campaign and Sing Singapore songs. As a SG50 event, maybe a purely local-composition evening? We definitely have enough local hits to sustain the whole evening.
The anti-climax part of the concert would be the singing by the various company bosses. Knowing the fact that they were not professional singers, there would be a need to enhance the presentation of these items.
From a 10,000 seating capacity event to a 100 only intimate concert, Taiwanese singer Deng Zhi Hao charmed the audience at Blackearth Museum in Joo Chiat on 18 July. Catching his performance again after 20 years, Deng Zhi Hao still sounded as good as he was at his concert at Thian Hock Kheng Temple. He was still as chatty as before, and this time round, he shared with audience the secret of getting old.
He sounded good with his acoustic set, and not those with accompanied orchestra track.
The concert also featured guest singer, local Xinyao musician Wong Hong Mok. Both of them blended well and they received warm applause from the audience.
An enjoyable concert overall.
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