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Community Performance at Our Tampines Hub

June 23, 2018 by Sasha M

acoustic, community, covers, event, guitar, live music, live performance, performance, public, show, Singapore, vocals

Hello hello hello!!

So I recently did a public performance at Our Tampines Hub (if you’re on my Instagram, or Facebook page, you’d probably have seen my post announcing it; if you aren’t yet, go follow/like so you see my posts!).

For this show, I had Anthony Poi accompanying me on guitar. We did a set of stripped-down acoustic covers through the ages, from Oasis to Swedish House Mafia (can’t escape the EDM music!).

We also did a couple of Lady Gaga tunes, some wedding songs, and some really heartbreakingly sad songs (those were my favourites).

It’s been quite a while since I did a public event like this, and it was fun to be able to interact with the crowd. I’m happy that many of them stayed throughout our set, and were smiling, clapping and singing along as well.

Just wanna give a big THANK YOU to my friends and fans who came down all the way to Tampines to watch me perform. It meant so much to me to see you guys there. So much love for y’all!

Check out the video above to have a listen to the music, hear me chat with the audience in between songs, unsuccessfully attempt to convince people to come up and dance, and enjoy the chill vibes 🙂

Performance at HDB Community Week

June 8, 2017 by Sasha M

Work

a cappella, arrangements, auditions, beatbox, covers, gig, HDB, improvisation, jam, live looping, loop, music, performance, show

Last Thursday, my a cappella/beatbox crew Little Red Dots went for a performance as part of the HDB Community Week celebrations. It was a 30 minute set in the afternoon, outdoors (under a shelter though), and it was h-h-h-HAWTTT (mostly because we turned up the heat with our kickass performance!!!!!) We had a great emcee and sound guy though, and a nice crowd that cheered for us, and it was so nice to perform there 🙂

Yes, this is the only photo we took, and it was during soundcheck. LOL.

A little backstory on this gig:
Actually one of our members couldn’t make it for the gig. So we were going to go in as a three member group, and had to come up with all new arrangements for three people instead of our usual four. Then suddenly… another person couldn’t make it!!! So we held an open audition for someone to sub the person.

Quite a few people came to audition, and we’re very happy and grateful for the turnout… but after the auditions we realized that it’s Really Difficult to sub an a cappella singer whose parts are not scored, but improvised and then fixed afterwards by memory lol. (Yes, a little insight into the esoteric ways in which our a cappella-ish group thing works.)

We did manage to find a sub in the end, from within the a cappella / show choir community. But that sure was a lesson learnt, that a cappella singers who can improvise parts sure are difficult to substitute!

(Oh, and if you haven’t seen or heard Little Red Dots before, here’s a video we made:)

One thing we realized during the rehearsal process is that it’s very difficult to do a cappella with just three people (essentially only two people singing). So we had initially held aspirations of doing some incredible mindblowing arrangements like Freedoms Boombox:

Or even something simpler like this:

(Okay I am obviously a huge Freedoms Boombox fangirl but I guess these two videos are more than enough for you guys HAHA)

Anyway, the point is, we realized we are not Freedoms Boombox or anything close. So we scrapped the idea and went with a loop pedal. Which worked out great!

I have some video footage of our gig somewhere, so I’ll post an example or two up on my YouTube channel soonish. Meanwhile, many thanks to the very talented John Khoo from John and Deneice Glee Studios for performing this gig with myself and Jacky aka JK47! Hope we can perform together again in future 😀

Yeaa!