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Hokkien Hits With Xie Jinshi PHOTOS: Singapore veteran singer Xie Jinshi Picks WARNER MUSIC celebrates 40 years of his career by SINGAPORE,

performing popular Hokkien hits, Gig GREGOR SALTO/ such as Prince Jiaqing Tours FACEBOOK, and Farewell By The Sea, with his EMMA HEWITT/ daughter, Lindy Chia. FACEBOOK, WHERE: Esplanade Concert Hall, COLLECTIVE MINDS 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: Esplanade/ City Hall WHEN: Mon, 3pm ADMISSION: $15 TEL: 6348-5555 INFO: www.esplanade.com

Wing & Paul Impulse Concert band Beyond’s guitarist Paul Wong and Yip Sai Wing, better known as the Drum King of Asia, will perform the group’s classic hits, such as Really Love You, Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies and Glorious Years. WHERE: Compass Ballroom, Resorts World Convention Centre, 8 Sentosa Gateway MRT: HarbourFront WHEN: June 15, 8pm ADMISSION: $48 - $198 TEL: 6348-5555 INFO: www.sistic.com.sg

Hujan & Padi Reborn Hujan from Malaysia and Padi Reborn from Indonesia team up to perform hits such as Kotak Hati, Empayarmu, Semua Tak Sama and Kasih Tak DEON: EULOGIA; EULOGY ALBUM LAUNCH BAR ROUGE GONE ROGUE PRESENTS: Sampai. Fresh off the release of his 10-track album eulogia;eulogy GREGOR SALTO WHERE: Esplanade Concert Hall, and a Tokyo tour, home-grown singer-songwriter Deon Best known for tracks such as Para Voce and high-profile 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: Esplanade/ (above) is launching the work with a show at the remixes of tracks by the likes of pop singers Rihanna and City Hall WHEN: June 30, 8pm Esplanade this weekend. Jennifer Lopez, Grammy-nominated Dutch DJ and ADMISSION: $55 - $80 The album, his third, was conceived over the past three producer Gregor Salto (above) returns to Singapore with TEL: 6348-5555 years and draws inspiration from his parents’ battle his brand of house music, which features a Latin and INFO: www.sistic.com.sg with illnesses – in particular, his father’s struggle with Afro-soul twist. Parkinson’s disease. WHERE: Bar Rouge, Levels 71 and 72 Equinox Complex, Familiar Unfamiliarity – Backed by a four-piece band, the multi-instrumentalist Swissotel The Stamford, 2 Stamford Road Jiu Jian In Concert will perform tracks such as Fix, Moving In Silence and MRT: City Hall WHEN: June 15, 10pm to 4am Home-grown singer Jiu Jian will What Do I Owe. ADMISSION: Free entry before 10.30pm, $25 after 10.30pm. perform his lesser-known tunes, WHERE: Esplanade Recital Studio, 1 Esplanade Drive Includes a standard house-pour drink. For table including those from his solo albums, MRT: Esplanade WHEN: Tomorrow, 7.30 to 9pm reservations, e-mail [email protected] unreleased originals and pieces ADMISSION:Tickets at $25 via or call 9177-7307 written for international artists. eulogiaeulogy.peatix.com Each tells a tale of individuals who have touched his life at various phases of his musical journey. WHERE: Esplanade Recital Studio, 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: Esplanade/ City Hall WHEN: July 8, 8pm ADMISSION: $69 TEL: 6348-5555 INFO: www.sistic.com.sg

Ronald Cheng One More Time World Tour Ronald Cheng was one of the best-selling newcomers to the Hong Kong and Taiwan music scenes in the 1990s. Shortly after his debut, he became popular for his duet with , In A Dilemma. His signature song, Rascal, has swept all awards at major music award shows, notably TVB’s , where it was voted the most popular song of 2005. BOHAN PHOENIX PRESENTED BY WHERE: Compass Ballroom, Resorts COLLECTIVE MINDS X PHUTURE World Convention Centre, 8 Sentosa United States-based Chinese rapper Gateway MRT: HarbourFront Bohan Phoenix (above) has been WHEN: Aug 24, 8pm grabbing the attention of audiences ADMISSION: $68 - $198 in the East and West with his TEL: 6348-5555 multilingual prowess and cultural INFO: www.sistic.com.sg amalgamation of rap cultures. Watch him switch effortlessly Fei Yu Qing Farewell Concert between lyrics in Mandarin and The evergreen Taiwanese singer will English, as the up-and-coming artist be back for an encore show, which performs tracks from his 2018 debut will be on a bigger scale. record, Overseas, as well as his EP, WHERE: Singapore Indoor Stadium, Yaode, which was released in March. 2 Stadium Walk MRT: Stadium GIL GLAZE AND EMMA HEWITT and Waiting, with Dutch DJ duo WHERE: Phuture, Zouk, The Cannery, WHEN: Oct 12, 8pm ADMISSION: $98 - AT MARQUEE SINGAPORE Dash Berlin. 3C River Valley Road $258, tickets from Singapore Indoor Marquee Singapore’s June roster of WHERE: Marquee Singapore, B1-67 MRT: Clarke Quay Stadium box office & SingPost outlets DJs kicks off with Swiss DJ Gil Glaze The Shoppes At Marina Bay Sands, WHEN: June 8, 9pm to 1am TEL: 3158-7888 on the decks. 2 Bayfront Avenue MRT: Bayfront ADMISSION: $20 (early bird) INFO: sportshubtix.sg He will be accompanied by guest WHEN: Tomorrow, 9pm till late and $30 (advance) via act, Australian trance singer Emma ADMISSION: Limited tickets at the bit.ly/BohanPhoenixSGTix or Hewitt (above), who is best known for door, from $28 for women and $40 at the door CHARITY her vocals on songs such as You And I, $38 for men (includes one house with Egyptian DJ Duo Aly & Fila; pour) Touch Giving Art Touch Community Services will be launching Touch Giving Art, an exhibition that showcases the artworks of its special-needs clients from Touch SpecialCrafts alongside those of ADMISSION: Free Association’s Eden Endowment Fund. tackles the biggest issues plaguing Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has fared professional artists. The event aims to INFO: tinyurl.com/tgagive Performers include Taiwan’s Chyi Yu, the manpower sector – with a panel in its first year in office. show that art can bring a China’s Zhou Shen and Singapore’s comprising NTUC assistant WHERE: Iseas Seminar Room 2, community together and deliver Roy Loi Fey Huei. secretary-general Patrick Tay, ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, 30 Heng a positive impact on the lives of its Nanyang Khek Community Guild Gift Of Warmth Charity Concert WHERE: Esplanade Theatre, SSA Consulting’s senior Mui Keng Terrace MRT: Kent Ridge beneficiaries. It hopes to raise $250,000. 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: Esplanade/ vice-president Zainal Abidin Ahmad WHEN: June 19, 10 - 11.30am WHERE: Gallery 1, The Arts House, The guild celebrates its 90th City Hall WHEN: June 12, 8pm and PeopleSearch country director ADMISSION: Free, register at 1 Old Parliament Lane MRT: Raffles anniversary with a concert to raise ADMISSION: $48 - $198 Jaime Lim. www.iseas.edu.sg Place WHEN: June 8 & 9, 11am - 6pm funds for Singapore Autism INFO: www.esplanade.com WHERE: Stephen Riady Auditorium, TEL: 6778-0955 Level 7 NTUC Centre, 1 Marina INFO: E-mail [email protected] TALKS Boulevard MRT: Raffles Place/ Downtown WHEN: Tomorrow, 10am CLASSES ADMISSION: $10 (includes light Keynote Lecture By refreshments & a buffet lunch) Artist Huang Yong Ping INFO: Register at moneyfm893.sg Reading And Creating Performance and installation artist Visual Language Through Huang Yong Ping will discuss his art Making A Will Contemporary Puppetry practice from his days with art group The talk explains the will as a This workshop, conducted by artist Xiamen Dad, providing insights into the legal document and aims to cultural landscape of China in Andrea Ang, will utilise the basics of the late 1980s. He will also discuss his promote the concept of early Bunraku-style puppetry as a means art-making processes, philosophies preparation. to study and convey human emotion, and work in the exhibition, Awakenings: WHERE: 04-08 Chinatown Point, physicality and experience. Art In Society In Asia 1960s-1990s. The 133 New Bridge Road MRT: Chinatown Participants will learn about the talk will be mainly in Mandarin, with WHEN: June 8 & 17, 11am - 12.30pm principle of three-person simultaneous English translation. ADMISSION: $10 ($5 for manipulation, as well as some WHERE: The Ngee Ann Kongsi those aged 55 & older) foundational techniques of Auditorium, B1 City Hall Wing, National TEL: 6538-9877 contemporary puppetry, such as Gallery Singapore, 1 St Andrew’s Road INFO: shenghong.org.sg/life-point creating a puppet’s breath Every good gift MRT: City Hall WHEN: Today, 6.30 - and gaze. needs two bottles of great wines. 7.45pm ADMISSION: Free, Malaysia’s Pakatan Harapan WHERE: Make Room, Library@ register at bit.ly/2wyjLFr One Year On orchard, 03-12 Orchard Gateway, To send yours today, go to.... INFO: www.nationalgallery.sg Mr Ibrahim Suffian, co-founder and 277 Orchard Road MRT: Somerset programme director of Merdeka WHEN: Sun, 11am Spotlight: Career Disrupted Centre for Opinion Research, ADMISSION: Free, register at www.STwine.sg In this symposium, Howie Lim from discusses how Malaysia’s new www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary Money FM89.3’s #TheWorkday Pakatan Harapan government under INFO: E-mail [email protected]