Classical
Russian Riches is an evening of Russian music tonight at Taipei’s National Concert Hall. German conductor Gabriel Feltz leads a program that includes Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23 and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No.1 in D minor, Op.13. The concert’s opening work is the haunting Fairytale Poem by Sofia Gubaidulina, a leading modern Russian composer.
■ National Concert Hall, Taipei City
Photo courtesy of crockers
■ Tonight at 7:30pm. Tickets are NT$700 to NT$1,500 (NT$400 tickets are sold out), available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
NSO Read Between Notes I — Spring Time — Time for Read? will be held on Sunday at Taipei’s National Recital Hall. Hong Kong theater director Edward Lam (林奕華) will read from his work This is not a pipe and I am not Sherlock Holmes, which examines love and obsession. The National Symphony Orchestra will accompany with a performance of Saint-Saens’s The Assassination of the Duke of Guise, matching the twists and turns of Lam’s narration with the first film music in the world.
■ National Recital Hall, Taipei City
Photo courtesy of Pickup
■ Today at 2:30pm. Tickets are NT$400, available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
Event
Radio Station ICRT is teaming up on Monday with Latinos Taiwan for Carnival Taipei (台北拉丁嘉年華), a music and food extravaganza at Taipei Flora Expo Park’s Maji Square, which runs all day and into the late hours. There will be an Afro-Latin market between 11am and 7pm that features tacos, burritos, ceviche, beer, handicrafts and much more, a free dance workshop from 2pm to 7pm and a flower parade at 3pm and 5pm. At noon, the main stage out front of Triangle will host different acts including dance performance groups such as Afrozomba, , and the NCTU Argentine Tango Club. Musical guests include Montunos Latin Band and Bloco Forca. After dark, there will be a party at Triangle with a number of DJs including P-Lala, Tutto and Praddmix.
Photo courtesy of Sellmine
■ The daytime events will take place at Taipei Flora Expo Park (台北花博公園), 1, Yumen Street, Taipei City (台北市玉門街1號). The after party will take place at Triangle, 1, Yuman St, Taipei City (台北市玉門街1號)
■ Monday from 11am to late in the evening. Tickets for Triangle concert are NT$400, available through www.facebook.com/events/367880246908578
Contemporary
DJ Marcus Aurelius will host Pop Up DJ Party tonight at A7 Commune, an outdoor space featuring roughly 20 food trucks across from ATT 4 Fun. The free performance, which runs from 9pm to midnight, will feature funk, soul, hip-hop reggae, disco and much more.
■ Commune A7, across from ATT 4 Fun, 12, Songshou Rd, Taipei City (台北市松壽路12號)
■ Tonight from 6pm until midnight; music from 9pm until midnight
■ Admission is free
Hong Kong veteran musician David Huang (黃大煒) appears tonight at Legacy Taipei, a venue that hosts top Taiwanese pop performers and international acts.
■ Huashan 1914 Creative Park (華山1914), Center Five Hall (中五館), 1, Bade Rd Sec 1, Taipei City (台北市八德路一段1號).
■ Show starts at 7pm
■ Admission is NT$1,500. Tickets available through www.indievox.com and at 7-Eleven ibon kiosks
Heavy metal group Burning Island (火燒島) will play tonight at The Wall (這牆), a prominent Taipei venue for indie rock artists. Tomorrow, deathcore/death metal outfit Emerging from the Cocoon (破繭而出) will share the venue with GunPowder, which fuses American hard rock and Japanese speed metal. American Ringgo Ancheta, better known by his stage name Mndsgn, performs hip hop on Sunday. It is a night of techno and house tonight at Korner, a venue located inside the Wall. Yoshi Nori, Boris Ocram and Meuko! Meuko!, among others, are also on the bill. Tomorrow it’s a night of techno with diskonnected, Al Burro, Konstantin, Kettenkaussell and Birds & Tapes taking the stage. On Sunday, Jubilee and The Large, two musicians that are part of Mixpak, a Brooklyn-based record label that is home to some of Jamaica’s biggest stars, will head the bill.
■ B1, 200, Roosevelt Rd Sec 4, Taipei City (台北市羅斯福路四段200號B1), tel: (02) 2930-0162. On the Net: thewall.tw
■ The Wall shows begins tonight at 7:30pm and tomorrow and Sunday at 8pm; Korner shows begin at 11:50pm
■ The Wall tickets cost NT$650 tonight, NT$500 tomorrow and NT$1,000 on Sunday; Korner shows are NT$200 tonight, NT$550 tomorrow and NT$500 on Sunday, available through thewall.tw
Indie pop rock group Amazing Show (美秀集團) perform tonight at APA Mini (小地方展演空間). Crockers (鱷魚樂團) will play rock ‘n’ roll on Sunday with Same but Different.
■ B1,147, Hangzhou S Rd Sec 1, Taipei City (台北市杭州南路一段147號B1), tel: (02) 2327-8658. On the Net: www.facebook.com/apamini
■ Shows start at 8pm
■ Admission is NT$450 tonight and NT$350 on Sunday, available through www.indievox.com
Punk and rock are on the menu tonight at indie rock club Revolver with Cheap Pistols (平價手槍), Defeat the Giant and Fly Without Wings. There are two concerts tomorrow. The first, which features punk and rock with some indie rock, sees Noise Book, Badsound Things and The Little Girl share the venue. The second is dance, hip-hop and house with Buddha Stretch from the US. All-women group Smoky Bomb (煙霧彈樂團) plays a mix of electronic rock, funk and pop on Sunday. No Promise will also take the stage. It’s new-style Japanese drumming on Monday with Tokyo group Mugen, while old school metal is on the bill on Tuesday with Mutation (突變異種), Masquerader and Satanic Oldkill.
■ 1-2, Roosevelt Rd Sec 1, Taipei City (台北市羅斯福路一段1-2號), tel: (02) 3393-1678. On the Net: www.facebook.com/revolver.taipei
■ Shows start tonight at 9pm, tomorrow at 8pm and 11:30pm, Sunday at 8:30pm, Monday at 8pm and Tuesday at 9:30pm
■ Admission is NT$350 tonight, tomorrow at 8pm, Monday and Tuesday, NT$400 tomorrow at 11:30pm and NT$300 on Sunday
Electric-Delta and hill country blues quartet The Wild Alibis will play tomorrow at Bobwundaye (無問題), a small pub in Taipei.
■ 77, Heping E Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市和平東路三段77號), tel: (02) 2377-1772
■ Shows start at 10pm
■ Admission is NT$300
Trip-hop/dream pop act Kingdom of Rain (雨國) and indie rock group Posh Inverse (優雅逆轉) take the stage tonight at Witch House (女巫店), an intimate coffeehouse-style venue in the National Taiwan University area. Tomorrow, Brit-rock band Decadent (廢結合) and solo act Sam Liao (廖士賢) will share the venue.
■ 7, Ln 56, Xinsheng S Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市新生南路三段56巷7號), tel: (02) 2362-5494. On the Net: www.witchhouse.org
■ Shows start at 9:30pm. Restaurant/bar with queer/feminist bookstore and large collection of board games, open 11am to midnight Sundays through Wednesdays, 11am to 1am Thursdays through Saturdays
■ Entrance for music shows is NT$350
Young folk crooner Chen Yan-yuan (陳妍元) will perform tomorrow at Kafka by the Sea (海邊的卡夫卡), a coffee house-cum-music and arts venue.
■ 2F, 2, Ln 244, Roosevelt Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市羅斯福路三段244巷2號2樓). On the Net: www.kafkabythe.blogspot.tw
■ Show starts at 8pm. Cafe/bookstore opens noon to midnight Sundays through Thursdays, noon to 2am Fridays and Saturdays
■ Admission is NT$400, available online through www.indievox.com
Our Piano Trio will perform a tribute to Paul Desmond, an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer who is best known for the work he did in the Dave Brubeck Quartet, tonight at Riverside Cafe (河岸留言). Indie rockers Pink Haze (平克孩子) perform on Sunday with The Waiit providing backup. Metal act Sellmine (爽嗎樂團) and Pickup perform on Tuesday. Chinese exiled rocker Duan Xinjun (段信軍), a member of the Chinese rock band PunkGod (盤古), play on Wednesday.
■ B1, 2, Ln 244, Roosevelt Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市羅斯福路三段244巷2號B1), next to Taipower Building (台電大樓), tel: (02) 2368-7310. On the Net: www.riverside.com.tw
■ Shows start at 9:30pm tonight, 9pm on Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday
■ Admission is NT$400 tonight, NT$350 on Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday, available through www.indievox.com and tickets.books.com.tw
Duke Fantasy (范特西公爵) plays an eclectic collection of jazz, rock, Latin and R&B tonight at Sappho Live, a late-night lounge bar that hosts mostly jazz shows. Tomorrow it is Airy and The End World Party (小女伶與世界末日派對), a six-piece jazz act.
■ B1, 1, Ln 102, Anhe Rd Sec 1, Taipei City (台北市安和路一段 102 巷1號 B1), tel: (02) 2700-5411. On the Net: www.sappholive.com
■ Shows start at 9:30pm
■ Entrance is NT$400 tonight and tomorrow
Paiwan crooner Seredau performs tomorrow at There Cafe & Live House (那兒咖啡), a venue for indie music in Taoyuan.
■ B1, 454, Fuxing Rd, Taoyuan City (桃園市復興路454號B1), tel: (03) 339-8819.
■ Show starts at 7:30pm
■ Admission is NT$400, available through tickets.books.com.tw and www.indievox.com
Hong Kong veteran musician David Huang (黃大煒) appears tonight at Legacy Taichung, a spin-off of Legacy Taipei.
■ 117, Anhe Rd, Taichung City (台中市安和路117號), tel: (04) 2359-8780. On the Net: www.legacy.com.tw/taichung.
■ Show starts at 8pm
■ Admission is NT$1,500, available through www.indievox.com and at 7-Eleven ibon kiosks
Electro rockers My Skin Against Your Skin (激膚) will perform songs from their latest EP tomorrow at TCRC (前科累累俱樂部), a small venue for independent musicians and local artists in Tainan.
■ B1, 314, Simen Rd Sec 2, Tainan City (台南市西門路二段314號B1), tel: (06) 222 3238.
■ Show starts 8pm
■ Admission is NT$350, available at www.indievox.com
Heavy metal group Burning Island (火燒島) will perform tomorrow at Live Warehouse, a venue for indie music located inside Kaohsiung’s Pier-2 Arts Center (駁二藝術特區).
■ 2-5 Dayi Rd, Kaohsiung City (高雄市大義街2-5號), tel: (07) 521-8114. On the Net: livewarehouse.tw
■ Show starts at 7:30pm
■ Entrance is NT$650, available through tickets.books.com.tw
Indie rockers Famme Fatale (蛇蠍美人), punksters 5 Percent Rules (五趴原則)#, hard rockers Partner We Trust (信伴侶樂團) and Marco (地圖全開) will perform tonight at Sound Live House (迴響音樂藝文展演空間), an independent venue for music performances and art exhibitions in Taichung. Tomorrow it is the release party of Dull and Sulk’s latest EP, If you get in sulk (在憂鬱的時候). Feedback is also on the bill. Electro rockers My Skin Against Your Skin (激膚樂團) perform from their latest EP on Sunday.
■ B1-1, 429, Henan Rd Sec 2, Greater Taichung (台中市河南路二段429號B1-1), tel: (04) 2451-1989. On the Net: soundlivehouse.msmusic.com.tw
■ Show starts tonight at 6pm, tomorrow at 7:30pm and Sunday at 8pm
■ Admission is NT$350 tonight, NT$300 tomorrow and NT$400 on Sunday, available through www.walkieticket.com and www.indievox.com
Pingtung punks Sex Goalkeepr (情色守門員) perform tomorrow at Paramount Bar (百樂門酒館), an indie rock club in Kaohsiung. Disco/post-punk outfit New Sunglasses (新墨鏡) and Kaohsiung punks Ape Apocalypse perform on Sunday.
■ 70 Minzu 1st Rd, Kaohsiung City (高雄市三民區民族一路70號), tel: (07) 389-0501
■ Shows start at 8pm
■ Entrance is NT$ , available through www.facebook.com/paramount.bar/
Puyuma group Paliulius Band takes the stage tonight at Tiehua Music Village (鐵花村), an arts village in Taitung City. Singer/guitarist Chang Kan-shun (張淦勛) and alter-rock/hip-hop act Generation 7 (七字輩) perform tomorrow. Aboriginal rock band Lansing (嵐馨) appears on Sunday.
■ 26, Ln 135, Sinsheng Rd, Taitung City (台東市新生路135巷26號), tel: (089) 343-393. On the Net: www.tiehua.com.tw
■ Shows start at 8pm. Music venue and crafts shops are open 2pm to 10pm Tuesdays through Sundays
■ Entrance is NT$120 tonight, NT$250 tomorrow and NT$300, available at tickets.books.com.tw
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