MOSAIC Music Festival (Singapore)

MOSAIC, the yearly Singapore Music Festival, is officially kicking off today for 2009! Music lovers are in for a treat in this 10-day event as performers from around the globe and across genres entertain Singapore. Billings include Brian McKnight, Indigo Girls, George Duke, Mike Stern, and a lot more jazz, funk, and world musicians who I'm not familiar with and I'm probably doing injustice to by not mentioning here. Philippines is well-represented by the popular (and reunited?) rock band Wolfgang, former child-superstar and now recording artist Aiza Seguerra, and jazz and neo-soul singer Julianne.

Tickets are reasonably priced with concert tickets starting at $58. Having said that, this event can still burn a hole in the pocket as you have to buy 1 ticket per concert! Good thing that there are a lot of free open concerts available that feature talents (though lesser known) from all over Asia Pacific and even the US. Some well-known artists such as Wolfgang, Indigo Girls, and Mike Stern, will also grace the open spaces and perform for free for 30 minutes!

These free performances are welcome news because there are a lot of concerts outside of MOSAIC happening this month and the next, and due to my limited budget have been conflicted for days on which performance to see! Oasis, Duffy, Coldplay, Craig David, and even CATS(!) are all coming to Singapore in the next 2-4 weeks that I'm glad I can drop the MOSAIC performers from the (financial) equation!¹

Here are the performance schedules of artists from the Philippines:

	Mar 16	Mar 21	Mar 22
Nokia Music Station Outdoor Theatre (FREE)	Julianne 7.50-8.30pm and 9.50-10.30pm	Aiza Seguerra 7-7.30pm and 10.50-11.30pm
In the House FM Library @ Esplanade (FREE)		Aiza Seguerra 3.45-4.15pm Wolfgang 6-6.30pm
Mosaic Studio Recital Studio ($38)			Wolfgang 7.30pm (70 minutes)

MOSAIC tickets are available through SISTIC website and outlets and the Esplanade Box Office.

For more information about the event, click here to go to MOSAIC's official website. You can download the MOSAIC calendar of events here.

Footnotes

¹ I'll most probably see CATS as repeat performances of productions like these rarely happen. As for the concerts, right now it's a toss between Coldplay and Duffy. I'm leaning more towards Duffy because, again, I'm not sure if she'll come back to Singapore. Coldplay at least has done 2 concerts (all sold out!) in Singapore and is likely to perform here again given a chance.