Now rebranded as AXEAN Festival, Southeast Asia’s leading music showcase platform will take place in Singapore from October 28 to 29, 2023
Six
(6) Filipino music acts will be performing at this year’s AXEAN Festival,
Southeast Asia’s premier collaborative showcase festival happening in Singapore
on October 28 to 29 at Goodman Arts Centre in Singapore!
Filipino
alt-rock icons The Itchyworms and critically acclaimed band Oh,
Flamingo! will be joining Ena Mori, Alisson Shore, obese.dogma777
and LONER as the country’s representative to the second edition of the
music festival.
Formerly
known as ASEAN Music Showcase Festival, the newly rebranded AXEAN
Festival will feature and attract networking opportunities with notable
international talent buyers from Asia and the rest of the world.
Birthed in
2020 as a virtual music showcase festival, AXEAN Festival launched into
the “real world” in 2022 and became an internationally recognized platform,
bringing regional artists to the global music stage. With the announcement
of the 2023 iteration of the festival, the organisers are taking the
opportunity to re-introduce the festival with its new name – AXEAN
Festival.
Festival
co-founder Piyapong ‘Py’ Muenprasertdee explains,
"Despite our different languages and customs, Southeast Asia is a region
rich with historical heritage and shared cultures and identities.
Colloquially, the term '"ASEAN" (Association of Southeast Asian
Nations) is often used interchangeably with "Southeast Asia" due
to reasons including the spoken language of its people, signifying the
sense of unity we have as a region. After 3 successful editions, we want to
make a statement of our commitment to elevate Southeast Asian music onto the
world stage by renaming our event 'AXEAN Festival', with an 'X'
symbolising our core values of collaboration and crossing borders, whether
physical, lingual or cultural, while also inviting artists and fans from all
corners of the world to celebrate and share their music with us!"
This
first wave of artists performing this year is headlined by Shye,
Reality Club, The Itchyworms, KIKI, and Oh Flamingo!. The event will
also host performances from Singaporean pop artist Jean Seizure,
Thai R&B artist Flower.far, Indonesian singer-songwriter TANAYU, and
many more exciting artists.
AXEAN Festival is Southeast Asia’s first intraregional
music showcase festival, an annual event that springboards Southeast Asian
music onto the world stage held physically in Singapore with 2 main
elements: a music showcase festival and business networking events.
Its inaugural edition was organized by 5 participating
countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. It
was held virtually via live video streaming of pre-recorded performances
in September 2020, during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, as an initiative
to help regional artists stay connected with their fanbase and gain
international fans. The goal was to encourage artists and their teams
to look beyond the pandemic and prepare for future export and
international touring opportunities by being performance-ready and meeting with
music business professionals from all over the world.
The second edition was again organized online in
2021, but joined by 2 additional countries: Cambodia and Vietnam. In 2022, the
third edition was its first live edition, held in Singapore and jointly
organized by the 7 countries with Laos added to its upcoming 2023 edition.
The
Wave 1 lineup of artists performing at AXEAN Festival 2023 in alphabetical
order is as follows:
ABANGSAPAU - Singapore
Alisson Shore - Philippines
DVY - Indonesia
Ena Mori - Philippines
Flower.far - Thailand
H 3 F - Thailand
inch - Singapore
Jean Seizure - Singapore
Jessla - Indonesia
KIKI - Thailand
KWAN - Cambodia
Limebócx - Vietnam
LONER - Philippines
Mantra Vutura - Indonesia
Minh - Vietnam
motifs - Singapore
Nick. - Cambodia
obese.dogma777 - Philippines
Oh, Flamingo! - Philippines
Polarix - Cambodia
Rangkai - Indonesia
Reality Club - Indonesia
San - Cambodia
Shye - Singapore
TANAYU - Indonesia
The Itchyworms - Philippines
THINH SUY - Vietnam
Vũ Thanh Vân - Vietnam
Zweed n' Roll - Thailand
Get
your tickets here: axeanfestival2023.peatix.com
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