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Live Music: “Mademoiselle et son Orchestre” – Up-tempo funky jazz-blues from Marie-Claude & her band!

Published on February 23, 2010 in Events, Music, Party and Uncategorized. Comments Tags: america, band, blues, chinese, classics, english, france, french, funk, jazz, jazz standards, live music, mademoiselle, Mademoiselle et son Orchestre, marie-claude, marie-claude lebel, quebec, quebecois.

Next Performance: Saturday 27th February 2010 – 9:30pm (Supported by Joris. Free B4 9:30pm. 30 RMB after incl. a free drink)

Fronted by the beautiful and very talented Marie-Claude, ‘Mademoiselle et son Orchestre’ play up-tempo funky jazz blues with a Quebecois twist. Together with her band they perform their own original compositions together with covers of jazz classics from France and America, singing in French, English & Chinese. Marie-Claude is a force of nature on the stage singing up a storm and she always gets the whole crowd dancing.

For more information on Marie Claude please see her MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/mademoisellemali

Ginkgo Weekly Pub Quiz – The most devious quiz night in Beijing!

Published on October 29, 2009 in Events. Comments Tags: beijing, beijing pub quiz, beijing quiz night, english, ginkgo, monkey, pub, pub quiz, quiz night, wednesday.

Every Wednesday at Ginkgo, team up with your friends and duke it out in Beijing’s most devious pub quiz! Happy hour drinks for all participants! Can you answer all of Rod’s devilish questions? The winners get a bottle of sparkling wine! Starts at 8pm. 20 RMB per contestant.

Live Music “Philip Spencer” – Dylan-esque poet and storyteller singer songwriter

Published on March 30, 2009 in Events and Music.

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Comments Tags: bob dylan, dylanesque, english, event, ginkgo, guitar, lao gu, leonard cohen, live, luo go, lyrics, Music, nan luo gu xiang, philip spencer, poet, singer, storyteller.

Next Performance: Thursday 28th November 2009 – 9:30pm (Free Entry.)

Many people know Phillip Spencer the owner of the Nan Luo Gu Xiang restaurant, Luo Gu. What many people don’t know is that he also has a secret sideline playing the guitar! Philip plays great covers of classic songs from Bob Dylan to Leonard Cohen, as well as his own haunting Dylan-esque compositions with storyteller lyrics. From time to time he can be found gracing our stage when we can pull him away from his restaurant!

Live Music: “Lions of Puxi” – The Shanghai sensation live in Beijing

Published on February 11, 2009 in Events and Music. Comments Tags: Alain Couronne, band, beijing, chinese, english, englishman in new york, french, funk, Gauthier Roubichou, Gilbert Kuppussami, ginkgo, groove, Johnny Joseph, lions of puxi, live, Music, Quentin Paquignon, rap, reggae, shanghai, Vladimir Le.

Lions of Puxi Live at Ginkgo

Unless you have been lost in the hutongs for the past few months, you would be have hard pushed not to have seen the YouTube video from “Lions of Puxi” where they have taken Sting’s “Englishman in New York” (see below) and given it a Shanghai make-over, with hilarious results! The Lions will be heading to Beijing this March for a one week tour so be sure not to miss them when they play at Ginkgo on Friday 13th March. Free Entry!

The Lions of Puxi are a pride of musicians from other habitats who saw a gap in the Shanghai music scene and took a bite. These handsome predators create a funky reggae style groove over unexpected songs, lyrics or rap. Sometimes in English, Sometimes in French but don’t be alarmed when you reccognize an English song and realize that its sung in Chinese!

The Lions of Puxi are:

Gauthier Roubichou (Lead Vocal-France)
Gilbert Kuppussami (Vocal and Percussions-Mauritius)
Vladimir Le (Guitar-France)
Quentin Paquignon (Saxophones-France)
Johnny Joseph (Drums-Mauritius)
Alain Couronne (Bass-Mauritius)
Jason (Keys-China)

“If music be the food of life”, then ‘The Lions of Puxi’ should prey on!

You can check out their website here: www.puxi.me

Here’s the clip that everyone has been talking about: