A: Apart from Twice, hip-hop trio Black Eyed Peas, a folk music festa, Japanese virtual singer Hatsune Miku, and K-pop boyband NCT will all visit Taiwan.
B: Black Eyed Peas once rocked Taiwan in 2006. I love their hits, such as “I Gotta Feeling,” “Boom Boom Pow” and “Where Is The Love?”
A: The upcoming Taipei Dome Eastwave festa celebrating 50 years of folk music sounds like fun, too.
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B: The seven-hour-long concert is scheduled from 3pm to 10pm on Saturday.
A: I hear over 60 artists are going to perform more than 100 unforgettable classic folk songs.
A: 除了Twice以外，另類嘻哈天團黑眼豆豆、民歌拾光祭、日本虛擬歌手初音未來、韓流男團NCT都即將來台。
B: 黑眼豆豆2006年曾來台，熱門金曲包括：《I Gotta Feeling》、《Boom Boom Pow》、《Where Is The Love?》
A: 「台北大巨蛋拾光祭」也很特別唷，是為了慶祝民歌50週年舉辦的！
B: 演唱會預計將從週六下午3點唱到晚上10點，長達7個小時。
A: 聽說有超過60組藝人，將接力演唱超過100首令人難忘的經典民歌呢。
（By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times／台北時報張迪）
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