G.E.M. 2017 Live World Tour, Queen of Hearts

G.E.M. is a famous singer-songwriter based in Hongkong and is very popular in Asia. Her English name G.E.M. is an acronym for Get Everybody Moving, which symbolizes the dream that she wants to get everybody moving through music. Her new Live World Tour "Queen of Hearts" is a theme tour of audiovisual album "new heartbeat", based on the Queen of Hearts card, which is created by the HUMMINGBIRD MUSIC together with the world's leading production company MOMENT FACTORY. This Live World Tour will continue the popularity of last round of 73 concerts and bring incredible experience for both your audio and visual soul.

April 15, 2017 Capital Gymnasium

“On the Way to Happiness” FanFan’s solo concert in Beijing

Christine Fan (born March 18, 1976), the Sweet Queen of the Chinese music, better known by her stage name FanFan or her Chinese name Fan Wei-chi, whose last concert in Beijing was six years ago， will hold her world tour concert (Beijing) “On the Way to Happiness” in Beijing Capital Gymnasium on 20 May 2017, which is her first comeback concert after she was pregnant. Thus no matter the overall production or the detailed arrangement will be very surprising and touching. In the concert FanFan will not only sing the hot track “FanFan’s Thanks Giving” of her new album, but also perform her warm healing songs, such as “Original Dream”, ”One is like summer, the other is like fall”, “Most Important Decision”.

May 20, 2017 Capital Gymnasium

A Cappella Concert, Six Appeal

Six Appeal is a world class vocal ensemble infused with impeccable comedic timing and the energy and vitality of a rock band. Swearing off instruments, the award-winning vocal band Six Appeal takes you on a journey that spans decades of music, performing classic oldies, current chart toppers, and catchy original tunes –all sung a cappella. Featuring vocal dexterity and adventurous song selection, this remarkably talented sextet of young singers navigates multiple genres of music with a wonderfully eclectic repertoire that is guaranteed to captivate and entertain audiences of all ages. Despite their cheeky group name, the antics of these six young gentlemen provide a good-natured atmosphere for their electrifying performance. A Six Appeal show will split your sides, feed your musical sweet tooth, and leave you wondering how in the world they pulled it off just with voices. In the spring of 2012 Six Appeal achieved the title of National Champion at the National Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Festival in San Rafael, CA. In addition to their 1st place win, they also won the award for Best Original Song as well as the coveted Audience Favorite award. In early 2013 Six Appeal appeared on National TV singing the National Anthem at the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, LA on ESPN.

May 26, 2017 New Tsinghua Auditorium, Tsinghua University

BAM Percussion

Initially BAM Percussion was to be a group of serious percussionists striving to make their mark. But everything changed on the day we decided to use industrial blue barrels as drums.

Those barrels inspired us. They made us feel like children again. First we turned them into drums, only to realize afterwards that this was just the beginning of many possibilities. We discovered that the barrels could be much more than drums as we had first conceived them. The fun was just starting.

During our four months of research and creation, our childhood imaginations returned. WOW! Of course, a child can play for hours with a simple cardboard box, using his or her limitless imagination to trans-form it into various objects—a house, a car, an airplane, and so on.

Well, that’s exactly what we did with our blue barrels. And long live the explosion of collective creativity!

Our first real discovery was how to turn a barrel into a horse, and this was what led us in the direction of a combination of comedy and percussion. Humour and percussion…. Hmm. Why not?

In short, that was what gave birth to BAM and its electrifying «eXplosion» show.

The BAM team,

Jean-Sébastien Dallaire

Denis Richard jr

Vincent BoudreauMay 5-7, 2017 Raffles City, Beijing

The Spring of Warsaw, DAGADANA

DAGADANA, for eight years now, have triumphantly merged elements of Ukrainian and Polish culture through jazz, electronic and world music. By mixing folk, jazz and electronica they create their own unique language. Their full of humour concerts show that they make the music of such kind that makes both the listener and the performer happy. Full of warmth vocal lines sang often through voice processors, bold synthetic sounds, melodic acoustic bass and children’s toys used as instruments is Dagadana’s method to flood the listener with sounds that are never boring. Their latest 4th record collects traditional songs from many regions of Poland and Ukrainian. And there’s an exceptional piece recorded in Chinese in collaboration with a band they met in Beijing – North Lab. The core of the new album is made of Polish and Ukrainian folk songs. Dagadana found their inspiration in many sources: amongst their families and friends, at ethnic music workshops, as well as on their friends’ and families’ bookshelves. The Eastern influence is the result of an encounter with extraordinary musicians – Hassibagen (from Inner Mongolia) and Aiys Song from China – during Dagadana’s visit to Beijing. DAGADANA are proud of their long-lasting cooperation with China since 2012. One of its fruits is the album „Meridian 68” which features performing guests from Beijing. The band has also performed on concert tours in Poland and China (e.g.: Shanghai World Music Festival, Polish Circles of Art Festival, Festiwal Wschód Kultury, Polish Radio Trójka). Musicians from the North Lab band, who have been invited to join the project, present in their works the beauty of Chinese and Mongolian tradition blended with contemporary vibes. Those keen-to-experiment artists met with Polish-Ukrainian DAGADANA in 2013 in Beijing. Music was then for them the only mutually understandable language. A strong bond between the musicians, determination and support from the Polish Institute in Beijing, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Department of Culture of the Poznań City Hall resulted in issuing of the „Meridian 68” album in Poland and common performances on concerts. The artists found their inspiration in various sources: their own families, books and during ethnic music workshops. In the World Music Charts Europe, a prestigeous ranking of 150 best albums in 2016, prepared by the members of Worldmusic Workshop of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), DAGADANA’s album „Meridian 68” was ranked on the 48th place. “Meridian 68” is to be released in China in 2017 and the band is planning to visit the country again for more concerts.

May 18, 2017, Yugong Yishan

The C.Y.C. Wind Orchestra

The C.Y.C. Wind Orchestra was established in May,1977. At present leadership is in the hands of Prof.Yeh, Shu-Han with Prof.Duan Fu-Hsuan as associate conductor, and Chang, Hung-Yu, Chen,Chun-Li serving as section coaches. The 55 participants that currently comprise the ensemble hail from Chinese Taiwan’s many fine academic institution, and represent the wealth of the island’s musical talent. The Band holds one or two annual concerts in Taipei Concert Hall and also accompanies various cultural activities. Moreover, the ensemble often participates in official ceremonies, and in the invitation of both domestic and overseas organizations, conducts annual tours of nation. Additionally, the bands’ reputation has spread abroad, resulting in performances in United States, Europe, Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia . The C.Y.C. Wind Orchestra accolades are both numerous and diverse. Participate in the International Youth Music Awards in the United States yielded the 3A Prize in 1984 and the prestigious Best Performance Award in 1977, 1980, 1989 and 1992. In 1995,1997,2005,2009 and 2011 the band made appearances at the World Association for Symphonic Band and Ensemble (WASBE) conference .On both occasions, the C.Y.C. Wind Orchestra served as the sole representative from Chinese-speaking world. In 2002, the Band won the first prize in the Fourth Asian Symphonic Band Competition held in Thailand. In the 40 years that passed since its inception, the C.Y.C. Wind Orchestra had participated in at least 500 performances worldwide. In addition to direct impact by providing a fertile training ground for many of the island s professional orchestral musicians.

May 20, 2017 National Library Arts Center

Dúa de Pel

Coming from Spain, Dúa de Pel is a literary-musical duet that plunges into the roots of tradition to reinvent it. Reinventing it because it is a today-created folklore, with lyrics by playwright Eva Guillamón and music by composer Sonia Megías. They usually sing a cappella or with a primitive instrumental accompaniment, which surrounds this very unusual group in an ancestral aura, almost magical, hard to define or classify. Eva’s lyrics and Sonia’s music transport us to ancient places, to remote times, where our unconscious remembers, feels comfortable, plays with words and sounds, with instruments and voices.

May 4, 2017 The Temple Hotel May 6, 2017 Theatre at Instituto Cervantes in Beijing