A community tour organised by the Hong Kong-based Asia-Pacific Live Performance Industry Association (APLPIA) began on Monday and continues until tomorrow, bringing music performances from local singers to three historic landmarks across the city, in line with the association’s upcoming Asia Performance Entertainment Expo, which is slated to kick off on Friday at the Cotai Expo Halls of The Venetian Macao.
Day one of the tour took place at the Ruins of St. Paul’s on Monday afternoon, where in addition to the featured local singers such as Kane Ao Ieong (歐陽日華) and “Winifai” (林靜翬), various Hong Kong artistes were invited to perform and interact with the public, having drawn a large audience of both locals and tourists.
In the interval of the concert, Venus Chi Kuk Yi, one of the invited singers from Hong Kong, commended the idea of holding live-music performances at historic landmarks as it offered her an “unprecedented glimpse into the soul of Macau”, and thus allowed her to truly immerse herself in the city’s local culture.
According to a statement released on Monday by the organiser, the four-day community tour serves as “a gathering of enthusiasts and a harbinger of the Asia Performance Entertainment Expo”. It added that the upcoming expo was “poised to stoke the embers of the city’s entertainment fervour” and inspire local talents to join the industry.
Meanwhile, the association said in the statement it hoped to connect pop music to cultural heritage, as a means of enlivening Macau’s historic sites and thus supporting the government’s revitalisation plan for the city’s old quarters.
Yesterday, the second day of the tour was held at the erstwhile Iec Long Firecracker Factory in Taipa Village and will continue today. The last performance will take place tomorrow outside A-Ma Temple in Barra district.
All performances take place from 4 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. Admission is free.
Delegates of the Asia-Pacific Live Performance Industry Association (APLPIA), as well as invited local and Hong Kong artistes (first row) pose with the audience at the end of the first community performance on Monday at the Ruins of St. Paul’s.
– Photo: Gabriel Tam
