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Indian dance at Yayasan Sime Darby Arts Fest Malaysia. Music Press Asia
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Yayasan Sime Darby Arts Festival Returns August 2023

The Yayasan Sime Darby Arts Festival (YSDAF), Malaysia’s largest free-for-all arts festival has finally returned after five long years. YSDAF 2023-themed “Shout it Out: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow” kicked off in February, and will end with a final celebration on Aug 19 and 20, 2023. Presented by the Yayasan Sime Darby and The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (KLPAC), the biennial festival has not only created 2,600 job opportunities for artistes and arts workers, but brought the arts to around 50,000 festival goers. This has been a nationwide highlight of…

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Editor's choice Books at Music Press Asia
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Editor’s Top Art & Music Books This Season

Music Press Asia and its staff has been reading some latest release of books in Southeast Asia, we’ve come out with this list so you don’t have to. Enjoy it! I WANT TO DIE BUT I WANT TO EAT TTEOKBOKKIby Sehee BAEK / Anton HUR (Trn.) The South Korean hit therapy memoir recommended by BTS’s RM [Hardcover]. The phenomenal Korean…

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International Women Day 2023. Music Press Asia
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Virtual Festival: International Women’s Day

Join NMWA [National Museum of Women in the Arts] today (Wednesday, March 8, 2023) for a virtual festival to celebrate International Women’s Day. A virtual event of conversation with artists, cocktail-making class, a musical performance, and much more. NMWA will be highlighting the amazing contributions that women have made to the world with their creativity. Throughout the day, museum staff,…

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Ricardo Montaner and family Disney Plus tv series. Music Press Asia
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A Disney Originals: The Montaners on Keeping It Together as a Family

Review: 4/5 star New Latin American Docu-Reality Series ‘Los Montaner’ Is Now Available on Disney+ Love comes in many forms and shapes. And this is no different inside Latin music’s influential family, the Montaners. With a social media audience of over 160 million, it is hard to believe the kind of authority it can harness globally. Editors at Music Press…

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Hazel Savage Musiio SoundCloud interview. Music Press Asia
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Hazel Savage: Artificial Intelligence in Digital Transformation of the Music Business

The interview below was an exclusive interview initially published in Music Press Asia’s December 2022 e-magazine. Q1: Hi Hazel, you have had an incredible year with expanding Musiio and joining SoundCloud. Tell us a little about this journey. It’s been an absolutely amazing year, I sold Musiio to SoundCloud, moved back to the UK from Singapore to take up my…

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A24 Past Lives Celine Song Trailer. Music Press Asia
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A24 Release Celine Song’s Movie Trailer

‘Past Lives’ Trailer: Greta Lee Leads A24’s Acclaimed Romantic Drama From Filmmaker Celine Song A24 has unveiled the first trailer for its romantic drama Past Lives, starring Greta Lee (Russian Doll), Teo Yoo (Decision to Leave) and John Magaro (The Many Saints of Newark), which recently world premiered to rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival. The first feature written…

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February 2023 Playlist2. Music Press Asia
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A Playlist of Perspectives: GRAMMY Awards Nominations

It has been an exciting year for creative music making. At Music Press Asia, we started the year with an intense review of music and its production made over 2021 and 2022 specially selected for the GRAMMY Awards nomination. Our selections are fantastic indicators of where we’d put our faith creatively for the music scene for 2023, if not more.…

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Kalush Orchestra Wins 2022 Eurovision Song Contest. Music Press Asia
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Liverpool To Host Eurovision Song Contest 2023

A rush of demand is expected when seats in the 11,000-capacity venue, with fans dead set on attending the first contest on UK soil since 1998. Liverpool, oh Liverpool With just 97 days left until the contest kicks off, organisers and local officials are undertaking a last-minute scramble to put in place the required infrastructure for the world’s largest song…

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Franz Welser Most conducts Wien Philharmoniker 2022. Music Press Asia
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Vienna Philharmonic’s Strauss Family Concert Review

The Golden Hall’s full beauty shines on 1 Jan 2023 when the musicians under the baton of Franz Welser-Möst is featured in Vienna’s New Year’s Concert performing for millions of television viewers around the world. A timely concert at the end of the year to promote hope, friendship and peace. There is no question about the global success of the…

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Richie Jen takes on mandopop 3 decade. Music Press Asia
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Richie Jen 任賢齊 Celebrates 26 Years of ‘Too Softhearted’

In a recent interview and documentary, Richie Jen harks back at a musical career that began in Taiwan around thirty years ago. This singer is the epitome of what a lasting career and a rewarding one would look like and the 26-year-old single 心太軟 “Too Softhearted” is at the very center of his successes subsequently after. To celebrate the moment,…

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