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GIGS Boon Chan Assistant Life Editor Recommends TGIF Music Station This Series of Music Performances ELECTRO-POP D4 life happenings | THE STRAITS TIMES | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2019 | GIGS Boon Chan Assistant Life Editor recommends TGIF Music Station This series of music performances ELECTRO-POP features some of Singapore’s artists Picks and rising stars. JUVENILE A WHERE: OCBC Square, Singapore Sandee Chan Sports Hub, Stadium Walk PQPMusic MRT: Stadium WHEN: Jan 3, 7.30 - Music 9.45pm ADMISSION: Free INFO: www.singaporeccc.org.sg/ Don’t worry, indie event/tgif-music-station-3/ music stalwart Sandee Chan has not done the Pentatonix – The World Tour unthinkable and dropped an album of Singapore 2020 kiddy music. The acclaimed a cappella-pop group The Taiwanese singer-songwriter is are best known for their pop-style still making intriguing electro-pop on arrangements of modern hits with her 12th studio album, which seems to powerful vocal harmonies, basslines, be a wake-up call of sorts. riffing, percussion and beatboxing. Where Are You Headed? poses a WHERE: The Star Theatre, 04-01 The question which is answered in the Star Performing Arts Centre, 1 Vista album closer Be An Extraordinary Exchange Green MRT: Buona Vista Ordinary Person. A highlight here is WHEN: Feb 11, 8pm ADMISSION: $88 - 35, a darkly sinuous track featuring $ 228 INFO: www.sistic.com.sg singer-actor Kai Ko on the anxieties of 30-somethings. A Date With Friends 2020 – An album on adulting. Relive The Memories With Fredo By Fredo Flybaits Fredo, frontman of legendary 1970s Singapore band The Flybaits, SOUL/POP performs for the first time at the I, ME, MINE Esplanade. He will be singing his Jia Jia original hits from his decades-long B’in Music career in Singapore and Malaysia. International WHERE: Esplanade Recital Studio, 1 Esplanade Drive MRT: City Hall/ Esplanade WHEN: March 6, 8pm Fans of Jia Jia’s soulful voice will be ADMISSION: $25 (free seating) thrilled with this extended dose of the INFO: www.sistic.com.sg Taiwanese singer as the 70-minute album showcases different genres Green Day – Live In Singapore and different sides of her personality. This marks the return of the American The retro swing of At Home features pop-punk heroes since their Hong Kong-based singer-songwriter Singapore debut in 2010. Khalil Fong as Jia Jia croons without WHERE: Singapore Indoor Stadium, irony: “Cook for you, half and half/Very ordinary but not bland, simple 2 Stadium Walk MRT: Stadium WHEN: March 8, 8pm romanticism.” ADMISSION: From $108 House Party grooves along with INFO: www.lushington.com Golden Melody Awards’ Best New Artist OZI. And the gospel-tinged A-ha Hunting High And Low Live ballad Wo Xiang Yao De Kuai Le (Me, In Singapore Night, Train) builds to a satisfying chorus as she declares: “The role I For the first time, A-ha will perform in want/Don’t want to be at the mercy of Singapore – their only show in anyone’s moods/Won’t be scared for South-east Asia. The tour is named anyone.” after the Norwegian group’s era-defining debut album Hunting High And Low. They will perform their hits, including Take On Me, Train Of INDIE POP Thought and The Sun Always Shines HIDDEN, NOT On TV. FORGOTTEN WHERE: Singapore Turf Club @ Kranji, Waa Wei 1 Turf Club Avenue MRT: Kranji Mr Wing Creative WHEN: March 21, 7.30pm ADMISSION: $148 (standard), $248 (VIP) INFO: www.sistic.com.sg With fairy tales and the hopes and fears of motherhood as inspiration, Slipknot – Singapore Rockfest II this is some of the most compelling The concert is part of the band’s We JJ LIN SANCTUARY 2.0 will bring the singer-songwriter PHOTOS: JFJ music from Taiwanese Are Not Your Kind Tour. The metal WORLD TOUR closer to his fans. PRODUCTIONS, singer-songwriter Waa Wei since her heavyweights’ visually arresting Home-grown Mandopop star JJ Lin’s WHERE: National Stadium, 1 Stadium UNIVERSAL MUSIC second album Le Herisson (2010). shows have become the stuff of Sanctuary concerts at the Singapore Drive MRT: Stadium TAIWAN Tracks like Be There For You and legend. Indoor Stadium were one of the best WHEN: Tomorrow and Sunday, 7pm Don’t Cry Don’t Cry shimmer with WHERE: Fort Canning Green, shows of last year. The tour returns ADMISSION: $148 to $348 from maternal love while Panic Attack 51 Canning Rise MRT: Fort Canning for an upsized and upgraded encore Sports Hub Tix (go to could be about the overwhelmingness WHEN: March 24, 8pm which promises new elements, www.sportshub.com.sg or call of modern life: “Overly anxious/Where ADMISSION: $198 (early bird), $218 including two extension stages which 3158-7888) am I, where do I want to go.” (standard). This is a free-standing Elsewhere, surprises abound. event INFO: www.sistic.com.sg The sidelined Ophelia takes centre stage in the haunting track of the TALKS POP same name, wresting attention away DELETE RESET from prince Hamlet in his namesake GROW play by claiming his famous A Lighter Side Of History: Rainie Yang utterance, “To be or not to be”. A Flavourful Christmas Tree & Skyline The wry deprecation of Since I Am No Ida Cecil will share her Eurasian family Entertainment Longer Pretending Myself A Poet That traditions, personal stories of how Is Not Sentimental informs a disco their Christmas celebrations have synth tune; Hong Kong changed over the years and the Taiwanese singer Rainie Yang (right) singer-songwriter Yoyo Sham dishes her family prepares and feasts has matured on both the music and appears on an incongruously titled on during this festive period. Recipes personal fronts. She has long ago left ballad about the mystery of include those for curry debal, fruit behind cutesy pop ditties and also attraction, Wednesday Or Happy cake and sugee cake. got married this year. Hump Day?; and Heaven willy-nilly WHERE: Seminar Room, Level 2 She works with a number of female flits from Minnan and Mandarin to National Museum of Singapore, songwriters here – from Cheer Chen English and Cantonese. 93 Stamford Road MRT: City Hall (Celebration Of Oneself bears Chen’s It all comes together beautifully and WHEN: Tomorrow, 10.30 - 11.30am distinctive mellowly contemplative lingers on the mind. ADMISSION: $5 INFO: flavourful stamp) and Peggy Hsu to Sandee christmas.peatix.com/ Chan and Waa Wei – to explore the idea of personal growth while NUH Occupational Therapy husband Li Ronghao co-writes the Day 2020 lyrics to Xian Chou (Show Oneself Up). People are living longer, but are they On the track Delete, she advises: living well? The average lifespan of “Don’t remain forever cute, for Singaporeans is 85 years, but the anyone/Don’t pretend to be brave, for average number of years spent in anyone.” good health is 74. Find out more about how people can take steps to live well and age gracefully. At interactive booths and talks, learn how to prevent falls and common hand injuries, manage stress and cope with low vision. WHERE: Multipurpose Hall, Level 3 St Luke’s Hospital, 2 Bukit Batok Street 11 MRT: Bukit Batok WHEN: Jan 11, 2 - 5pm ADMISSION: Free; registration required INFO: tinyurl.com/ nuhslhotday2020 Long Stitch Bookbinding class and get tips on perfecting the MRT: Lakeside WHEN: Dec 28, 9.30 - FESTIVALS CLASSES Workshop recipe. 10.30am ADMISSION: Free; In this three-hour workshop, WHERE: Jurong Green Community registration required participants will learn basic Club, 6 Jurong West Avenue 1 INFO: E-mail JurongLakeGardens Chingay Parade Singapore Drop-in Craft Activity: bookbinding skills and how to MRT: Jurong East/Lakeside @nparks.gov.sg About 6,000 volunteer performers O Christmas Tree handcraft an exposed spine book WHEN: Dec 28, 2 - 4pm will be involved in next year’s parade, Make your own mini Christmas tree using the long stitch binding ADMISSION: $27 Marbled Cardholder which also marks the People’s using a cinnamon stick and other technique. INFO: bit.ly/35xGWjc In this workshop, participants will Association’s 60 years of community festive embellishments. Presented in building. Highlights include an WHERE: Practice Practice, Lobby 4, learn the basic techniques of crafting conjunction with the exhibition, An Gardening Masterclass leather with clean and modern electrifying opening that will see the 04-32 Oxley Bizhub, 65 Ubi Road 1 Old New World: From The East Indies At Jurong Lake Gardens designs. They will learn to cut leather, release of 200m-long firecrackers, MRT: Tai Seng WHEN: Tomorrow, To The Founding Of Singapore, Learn about staghorn ferns at this punch holes for stitching and the world’s biggest and longest flying 1600s-1819. 1 - 4pm ADMISSION: $79 a person, free gardening masterclass customise names and initials. dragon and a stunning display of WHERE: Glass Atrium, Level 2 $150 for two INFO: bit.ly/2S2bbLk conducted by Mr Jerome Koh, a WHERE: 03-09 Leng Kee Community lights, lasers and pyrotechnics. National Museum of Singapore, horticulture officer from the Club, 400 Lengkok Bahru WHERE: F1 Pit Building, 1 Republic 93 Stamford Road MRT: City Hall Tasty Halal Korean Fried Singapore Botanic Gardens. MRT: Redhill Boulevard MRT: Promenade WHEN: Tomorrow, 10.30am - 12.30pm Chicken WHERE: Banyan Hall, Gardenhouse, WHEN: Dec 29, 11am - 2pm WHEN: Jan 31 & Feb 1, 8 - 9.30pm & 2 - 5pm ADMISSION: Free Learn to prepare the popular Lakeside Garden, Jurong Lake ADMISSION: $31.50 ADMISSION: $28.50 - $60 INFO: bit.ly/2SdmHTY tender Korean fried chicken in this Gardens, 100 Yuan Ching Road INFO: bit.ly/38QTyUF INFO: www.chingay.org.sg/.
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