Tomorrow is Valentine's Day and if you haven't lined up a more intimate, two-person way of spending the evening, then you can always come out to the Panchiao Sports Arena and join tens of thousands of Mando-pop fans for the Hope of Love Concert, featuring four of the heavyweights of Chinese music.
For this special event, a portion of the ticket sales will go to the Good Shepherd Sisters charity foundation, organizers have signed on Elva Hsiao (蕭亞軒), Lee Hom Wong (王力宏), David Tao and Eason Chan (陳奕迅) for an evening of syrupy love ballads certain to pull on heartstrings and get the glow sticks waving back and forth.
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The show will be the first time that these four singers take the stage together and is the only noteworthy event on the Mando-pop calendar for about as far as the eye can see, quite likely because promoters wouldn't want to schedule an event within a month on either side of the concert's date. That's how much star power will be in the house tomorrow night.
Last November Tao held a solo concert in Taipei that drew over 50,000 people, which broke the concert attendance record that had only recently been set by Mayday (五月天); while Wong, for his part, attracted over 20,000 to a solo gig last fall. Add Hsiao, one of Taiwan's leading KTV divas, and Chan, a long-standing Canto-pop star, to the mix and one gets a winning lineup to pack the house. Or at least, that's what one would expect.
Organizers have been aiming for a crowd of 50,000 and though ticket sales were slow earlier in the week that could change with the weather.
Tickets for the Hope of Love Concert are available through Era Ticketing and run from NT$900 to NT$2,000. Doors open at 5:30pm and the music starts at 7pm. The Panchiao Sports Arena is located at 8 Chungcheng Rd, Panchiao, Taipei County (
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