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Anybody knows any bar that plays great bluegrass music in Singapore? I've been asking my colleagues and friends but they don't seem to listen to bluegrass here.

Google seems to have no answers too. I really love bluegrass and would like to see some live performances if possible. Would appreciate it if someone can suggest a search engine, website or forum to find such bars. Cheers.

Live bluegrass peformances in SG would be a pretty rare thing. Maybe none at all. I saw your post on the other board where someone recommended Jamboree - its pretty mainstream country / western and there is no live musci there. Some things you just learn to live without.

Happy, I also saw your post on the other board. Unfortunately, I think that live bluegrass in Singapore is akin to Cantonese street opera in Appalachia. Good luck finding either!

Have fun at Jamboree, though.

Hey guys.

The music here is driving me crazy. I don't really get the music on MTV Asia. All the hip-hop, R&B and Beyonce is rather distasteful. These people don't really know what good music is.

Did visit Country Jamboree. It was okay but nothing like the places I went to back home. Think I'll hit some of the jazz bars i found on insing. Really desperate now. It's fortunate though that I brought some of my CDs here.

Thanks anyway!

Beyonce distasteful? Oh, you mean her singing

"Good Music" is rather subjective. In line with what Lili said above, I'm sure some people from here would think the same about your favorite places "back home". Just roll with it, you're in a different country - no Merlefest here and no getai there.

Anywhere in Singapore where they do line-dancing?

Lichtgestalt wrote:Anywhere in Singapore where they do line-dancing?

Are you kidding? The day we arrived in Singapore, we checked into our hotel and went looking for some food. We went past what I now know to be Far East Square and there they all were - the line-dancing aunties and uncles, complete with checked shirts and stetsons. Very confusing, it was.

Hey, dun play play!

http://www.billbader.com/worldrecords.htm

The line dancers of Singapore and some from neighbouring Malaysia showed up en force on May 1, 2002 at the huge Expo Center in Singapore. It was an awesome sight. That word "awesome" is overused nowadays, but it could not be more appropriate here. Imagine 6 or maybe 8 football fields worth of dancers quite closely packed. There were sections with school kids who learned to line dance in their P.E. classes. And many seniors were present. Just about every line dance instructor brought almost all their students.
The line dance chosen for this attempt, Singapore Swing, was choreographed by Bill Bader of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada who was flown in for the project to help leading the crowd and teach a dance workshop afterward.
Accountants were hired to monitor the world record attempt and verify the numbers of dancers. The official counting needed to be done before all 13,500 ticketed dancers understood that they were in their designated spots, as it was 20-30 minutes prior to the actual excitement of dancing for the record. But once everyone gathered, it was an amazing sight. Huge video screens around the huge space were used to project the dancing so that all could see, alternating between those of on the stage and those thousands on the main floor.
Guinness World Records recognized this attempt as the official "World's Largest Country Line Dance" with 11,967 line dancers according to the letter received by Mr. Peter Ng of NTUC Income Cooperative in Singapore, the main corporate sponsor of the world record attempt.
Whatever the official numbers were - versus what the ticket numbers told - it was certainly a hugely successful charity fundraiser; at $2 a head, there was a whopping $27,500 raised for the Heart Fund, topped up to $30,000 by NTUC!
On the following day, the front page of Singapore's major newspaper, the Singapore Straits Times, had a big photo spread and very supportive article.

Are you out of the (line-dancing) closet now, Lili?

daffodil wrote:Are you out of the (line-dancing) closet now, Lili?

Oh, I'm not ready for that yet!

Yay, Daff come on over. We can do it in the heartlands. they have sessions in my local shopping centre too. I watch them out the window while I'm getting my toenails painted.

Can't see anything wrong with line dancing.... a bit like Tai-Chi, just with more music

But, for the record, line dancing and bluegrass music are not related much at all.