Show Picks: Yuewen Music Festival, Diskorama!, Lee Wei Song & Lee Si Song concert
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K-pop star Taeyang is one of the many regional acts performing at the three-day Yuewen Music Festival, taking place at Siloso Beach from Dec 28 to 31.
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Yuewen Music Festival
The inaugural edition of the three-day Yuewen Music Festival has a stacked line-up of international, regional and home-grown music acts.
The first day features personalities such as Thai singer-actor Billkin Putthipong Assaratanakul of the movie How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024), Thai singer-actor PP Krit Amnuaydechkorn, K-pop acts Itzy and Red Velvet – Irene & Seulgi, and Mandopop singer Lala Hsu.
The second day has sets by big names such as South Korean singer Taeyang and his BigBang bandmate Daesung, as well as Japanese diva Mika Nakashima.
On the third day, partygoers will ring in the New Year and celebrate the countdown show with a line-up that includes Dutch electronic dance heavyweights Afrojack and Don Diablo, as well as Lucas & Steve, also from the Netherlands.
Representing Singapore will be home-grown electronic dance music artiste Wukong. There will also be fireworks and light show with 1,300 drones.
Where: Siloso Beach, Sentosa sistic.com.sg
MRT: HarbourFront
When: Dec 28 (from 2pm), Dec 29 (from 1.30pm) and Dec 31 (from 2.30pm)
Admission: $100 to $1,014 via Sistic (go to
Esplanade Presents: Pentas – Konsert Diskorama!
Veteran Malay pop and rock singer Jatt Ali is one of the artistes performing at Konsert Diskorama! at the Esplanade Theatre on New Year’s Day.
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Glitter balls, groovy rhythms, slick dance-floor moves – get transported back to the heady days of the 1970s in this New Year’s Day show.
Diskorama! concert will feature home-grown Malay orchestra Orkestra Melayu Singapura revisiting funk, soul and disco classics with home-grown and regional stars.
They include Malay pop music scene stalwarts such as Singaporean singer Jatt Ali, who made his name in the early 1970s with funk, pop and rock band Black Dog Bone, and Malaysian singer Francissca Peter, who started singing in the late 1970s.
The show also features younger acts such as R&B singers Izat Ibrahim and Syaz Smooth, as well as award-winning actress-singer Siti Khalijah.
Where: Esplanade Theatre, 1 Esplanade Drive
MRT: Esplanade
When: Jan 1, 8pm
Admission: $35 to $80 via Sistic
Lee Weisong & Lee Sisong – Forty For You: A 40-Year Musical Journey Concert
Singaporean singer-songwriters Lee Si Song and Lee Wei Song have written Mandopop classics for the likes of Jacky Cheung and Stefanie Sun.
ST PHOTO: SHINTARO TAY
Singer-songwriters and twins Lee Si Song and Lee Wei Song, two of Singapore’s most prolific songwriter-producers, will mark their musical journey with a 40th anniversary concert.
They will be performing songs they wrote for some of Mandopop’s biggest stars. Since the 1980s, they have worked with the likes of Heavenly King Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer Gigi Leung, home-grown singer Stefanie Sun and Taiwanese artiste Jam Hsiao.
While the set list will comprise a fraction of the over 700 songs they have worked on, it will include classics such as Cheung’s A Thousand Reasons To Be Sad (1995), Hong Kong singer Sandy Lam’s I Heard That Love Had Returned (1995), late Chinese-American diva Coco Lee’s Thinking Of You 365 Days (1998) and Sun’s My Desired Happiness (2000).
As Lee Si Song recently told The Straits Times in an interview: “We know our purpose in life is to do music. We have always believed in it and that people will appreciate it – music made in Singapore.”
Where: Sands Grand Ballroom, Level 5 Sands Expo and Convention Centre, 10 Bayfront Avenue
MRT: Bayfront
When: Dec 31, 8.30pm
Admission: $68 to $288 via Sistic
