Chinese Folk-Pop Music

Saturday, October 28, 2006 20:00     Mount Fortress     Free admission

Groups:
Black Steed (Mongolia)
Sonam Wangmo (Tibet)
Yirenzhizao (Yi Minority)
China Girls (Han)

Through the gates of China's frontiers have entered the energies of rock and pop and the harmonies of Western classical music. They have ascended the mountains of Tibet and crossed the deserts of Inner Mongolia, knocking on the doors of Chinese villages and spreading the good news. Just as Solang Wangmu, Black Steed and Yirenzhizao are plugging into trends in urban music to feed their own roots, the China Girls veil their tradition with the sonic colours of Western classical instruments. The exotic fusion will be immediately familiar to multicultural Macao, but not the deep roots of China that this new popular music seeks to uncover.

Duration: approximately 2 hours, with no interval