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  September Album Feature: Global Tranquility by Putumayo

  Ten artists. Ten musical perspectives. One gentle invitation to slow down. There is a particular luxury in music that does not ask you…

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  Frida Kahlo Returns to the Stage: Gabriela Lena Frank’s Met Opera Comes to Hong Kong

  The Metropolitan Opera’s acclaimed production arrives in Hong Kong this December. Frida Kahlo has long existed beyond the canvas. Her distinctive self-portraits, indigenous-inspired…

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  Loboc Children’s Choir Opens ASEAN Film Festival 2026 in Hong Kong

  The Philippines’ internationally recognised Loboc Children’s Choir brings music to the opening of Hong Kong’s ASEAN Film Festival, where cinema becomes a meeting…

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  Reclaiming the Sounds of the Hengchun Peninsula: An Interview with Suying Yu, Curator of the Hear Here World Music Festival

  The breeze on the Hengchun Peninsula is always filled with the sounds of the sea and the yueqin. In the town of Hengchun…

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  If Music Is an Industry, Musicians Need Jobs

  A New Zealand Composer-in-Residence programme offers one building block for a Music City, and a useful question for Asia: what does a city…

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  #DanceYourFolkOut: Taiwan’s Southernmost Music Festival Brings Eight Countries, Five Continents to Hengchun This October

  Live Music / Southeast Asia / Taiwan / Hengchun Mark your calendars: Pingtung County’s Hear Here World Music Festival returns October 9-10 to…

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  From Singapore to the West End, Nathania Ong Comes Home to Sing the Musicals

  There is something rather satisfying about coming home after conquering a stage on the other side of the world. For Singaporean songstress Nathania…

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  Hengchun Peninsula Folk Month: Where Taiwan’s Living Folk Tradition Meets the World

  Mountains, Sea and Songs: Taiwan’s Southern Folk Celebration Go as far south as Taiwan lets you, and you’ll hit the Hengchun Peninsula —…

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  TIMA 2026: The Asian Music Industry Builds its Own Global Stage

  The second TMElive International Music Awards has ended with an increasingly clear proposition: Asian music does not need to remain a regional story.…

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  From Seoul to Broadway: Korea’s Musical Theatre Comes of Age

  Sixty years ago, Korea was still finding its musical voice. Today, its musicals are finding their way to Broadway. There is something rather…