& MUSICwidoutLYRICS ; MEwidoutYOU

Monday, June 22, 2009 &

a) Select an event or festival from the recommended list below for your field trip;

For this field trip assignment, I have chosen the festival Singapore Arts Festival. There are several reasons for choosing this festival.

Firstly, I think that this festival aroused the most interest out of me, as I’m more interested in music, as compared to beers, or fashion festivals.

However, although I’m fairly interested in music, I will not usually go to these festivals in my free time.

Thus, I think that the Singapore Arts Festival is a very good festival to go to, and also do my assignment on.

A banner of Singapore Arts Festival 2009 at Esplanade

The Singapore Arts Festival started out in 1977, and it serves as a national arts festival for the local arts activities of Singapore’s different communities and races.

The Singapore Arts Festival is organised by the National Arts Council, which has supported and helped the Singapore Arts Festival to develop into a symbol which represents the artistic and cultural life of Singapore.

Today, the Singapore Arts Festival is consistent with its largest singular event on Singapore’s arts calendar, with artists from more than 20 countries, and activities of more than 400, with attendances up to 500,000, a festival which inspires and captures the public imagination of the city.

As the Singapore Arts Festival is a festival with many activities and events, I went to a few of them.

As people always mentioned, the start and the end of a festival will be the most spectacular among everything, as it marks a great opening, and also a marvellous closing ceremony, a complete end of the festival for this time round.

Thus, for this festival, I went to the closing celebrations, which were held at the Yishun open field near the bus interchange.

Closing Celebrations at Yishun (Crackers?)

Also, I went to the few free flipside performances held at the Esplanade in collaboration with the Singapore Arts Festival.

The few flipside performances that I went to were the band performances by the local band Pinholes and also the Korean band Oh! Brothers.

Oh! Brothers from Korea

The Pinholes (local)

Also, it is themed Shake, Rattle, Rock & Roll!, a place for local and overseas bands to exhibit their talents, and also arouse interests from locals in the form of music.

These two bands performed at the Outdoor Theatre, from 12 June to 14 June, with various performances from 7.30 to 10.30pm.

The Korean Oh! Brothers have performed at the 2006 Mosaic Music Festival before, and now they have returned to the Esplanade in the Singapore Arts Festival with their new rock ‘n’ roll tunes from their latest album.