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Top jazz musicians to perform in Singapore

SINGAPORE — Some of the top jazz and R&B singers will be heading to our shores next year for the Singapore International Jazz Festival 2014.

SINGAPORE — Some of the top jazz and R&B singers will be heading to our shores next year for the Singapore International Jazz Festival 2014.

These include international stars such as Jamie Cullum, Natalie Cole, James Morrison, India Arie and Incognito, as well as Singapore musicians like Jeremy Monteiro, Melissa Tham and Alemay Fernandez.

The four-day event, dubbed Sing Jazz, promises to be Singapore’s largest ever jazz and jazz-influenced music festival, and runs from Feb 27 to March 2.

Organised by Orbis Festival Productions and held at Marina Bay Sands, Sing Jazz is meant to invigorate the local jazz and music scene, while at the same time helping to nurture and encourage the development of home-grown jazz talent.

Said David Lyndon Smith, Artistic Director of Orbis Festival Productions: “The community of jazz-lovers here has been growing steadily, evident from the increased following and appreciation of live jazz over recent years.

“Our aim is for Sing Jazz to further energise this process and establish itself as Singapore’s definitive platform for the exposition of jazz in all its forms”.

Sing Jazz will host clinics led by festival artistes, and facilitate an exchange of local talent with its counterpart festival, Java Jazz. It will also pledge S$1 from each commercial ticket sale towards the Foundation of Arts & Social Enterprise’s on-going training and grooming of our cadre of up-and-coming jazz musicians.

“Where jazz is concerned, we do have some home-grown talent who have gained international recognition and contribute actively to an increasingly vibrant jazz scene here — our jazz ‘eco-system’,” said Michael Tay, Executive Director for the Foundation Of The Arts & Social Enterprise.

“However, there is much more to be done,” he added. “I applaud Sing Jazz’s social mission, to help cultivate our pool of local jazz artists through its contribution to the Foundation, enabling jazz scholarships for our promising talent and support for their participation at festivals around the world.

“This is a pioneering step, one that we hope will help define Singapore as a nucleus for jazz in Asia, and therefore one on which the Foundation is delighted to collaborate.”

 

What: Singapore International Jazz Festival

When: Feb 27 to March 4, 2014

Where: Marina Bay Sands

Tickets: From S$70 (early bird), from Marina Bay Sands box office (www.MarinaBaySands.com/Ticketing)

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