A restaurant & bar / coffee shop / live music space in Beijing, China.
Next Performance: Tuesday 1st December 2009 – 9:30pm (Free Entry)
Nicolas Mège and Pierre Brahin … Los Dos Hombres … invite you to share their passion for flamenco and brazilian choro. A little duende flamenco with Tomatito, Gerardo Nunez, some toque antiguo, and than a little chorinho from Rio de Janeiro and Pixinguinha to make you feel happy and sad. One word for this evening … la pasion !”
Next Performance: Friday 13th November – 10:30pm (Free Before 9:30pm. 20 RMB after)
Over Easy Dance Band are Beijing’s most hopping blues band! This local blues outfit isn’t afraid to mess with genre, pushing their sound away from classic blues rock of the Stones into the dancier grooves of bands like Scissor Sisters. They also do some New Orleans jazzy numbers as well as songs by Elvis Presley. Don’t miss them!
Australian singer/wongwriter Phil Crowder is visiting Beijing this October for a few days. He’s been given the thumbs up by Carus and supported the likes of Paul Greene, Mick Hart, Joe Robinson & Jack Jones. Acoustic/folk/roots/poppin troubadour, Phil Crowder, self recorded and released his debut album ‘Shadows’ in May 2009. Phil’s smooth voice and foot stomping, catchy acoustic songs carry his own identity yet feel familiar at the same time and grow with every listen. With his van packed and sights set on playing anywhere he can, the journey’s just begun!
Next Performance: Thursday 26th Novemeber – 9:30pm (Free Entry)
Tony Tse and Sunny Dee are Brothers of Different Colours!
Tony Tse is a true music machine! Based in Shanghai, he has been giving the city to the south an education in musical diversity for the last few years, and now he finds his boundaries expanding to the capital! As an energetic guitarist and soulful singer he mashes up well known songs with lesser known numbers, jumping from song to song without the time to draw breath. Don’t expect to be pigeon-holed with his songs – he has such a huge range there is always something for everyone…. through Reggae, Pop, Jazz, Soul, R&B & Funk his talent knows no bounds. Joining him on the stage is his friend, and talent in his own right Sunny Dee (Afrokoko Roots) for a night surfing the history of popular music. We hope to see you then!
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Those of you that missed Frederick on his last visit to Ginkgo will be pleased to hear that he will be returning to Beijing this month to perform live at Ginkgo on Thursday 21st May from 9:30pm.
Frederick, commonly known as 弗雷德 (pinyin: Fu Lei De), is a European singer-songwriter living in Dalian, China. Known for live improvisations, flipping and sometimes even breaking his guitar during shows, Frederick’s atmosphere comes directly from streets and underground bars where he honed his skills in America, Europe and China.
Frederick has performed more than 450 gigs and concerts in the USA (Los Angeles, Orange County, Washington DC), China (Beijing, Dalian, Tianjin) and Europe (Paris, Munich, Barcelona, French Riviera).
Discography : 3 EPs, actually working on his first album, with songs in Chinese.
Influences : The Doors, Jack Johnson, 周杰伦, John Lee Hooker & Green Day.
He is currently promoting his 3rd EP ‘Human Planes’, and working on his first album.
More information on his music can be found on his website here where you can download some of his songs for free.
We hope to see you at Ginkgo for another great evening of live music.
Bill Zorn thinks of language as music, and music as language. “When I write a song, and when I play a solo, I try to think of a conversation, with all the pauses, inflection and rhythm that the natural flow of ideas imposes. I try to leave spaces to ‘take a breath’,” even though he plays guitar. Playing for 47 years, he is new to the Beijing scene, but his acoustic fingerstyle guitar has already caught the attention of the local cognoscenti.
Zorn’s latest musical offering, The Chou Dou Fu Band, has the critics all agog (or perhaps agag) again. With two guitars, bass and drum the CDF Band explores the more pungent regions of electric jazz. You won’t turn up your nose at the first whiff; their repertoire of originals and contemporary jazz covers is not your average 1950’s cheesy appetizer, but rather a hearty main course of energetic, danceable music for today. “The great classic jazz used themes from what was then contemporary media. We write most of the tunes we play, but we also reinterpret the great music from the ’60’s, ‘70’s and ‘80’s. Actually we’re still looking for great music from the ‘80’s, but haven’t found it yet”, says Zorn. And yes, they do manage to blend some of the acoustic guitar into the mix. But the addition of Dominician bassist Tim Timothy, French drummer Yvan Keller and Cuban guitarist Hansel Gonzalez, The Chou Dou Fu is definitely “zui chou de” (the best!).
For those that don’t already know, Chou Dou Fu is the traditional chinese ‘stinky tofu’, best described as smelling like a combination of roadkill, sewage and old basketball shoes.
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