On the evening of January 6th, the New Year's Singing Concert of "My City and My Song" - Chinese Urban Folk Songs in the New Era was held in Shenzhen Bao'an Gymnasium. Luo Dayou, Old Wolf, Landlord's Cat, Zhang Lei, Good Sister and other folk singers and bands gathered to sing a new chapter of folk songs in Shenzhen in 2024. So far, the first season of the "My City, My Song" series of activities, which lasted for nearly three months, came to a successful conclusion, and singers from all over the country sang the most beautiful folk songs in the most youthful city.
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Nearly 50 groups of singers from 27 cities brought a feast of folk songs to the public
Red seats, a small open-air stage. From October 2023, Shenzhen will pluck the strings as a city and show the city's vitality through music. In the past three months, the "My City My Song" activity has successively carried out 1 kick-off song party, 8 interactive song parties, and 1 song party ceremony. Audiences of all ages and musical preferences fill the plaza on weekends to enjoy their favorite singers and songs. With the cityscape as the background of the performance and folk music as the connecting link, "My City My Song" warms the music lovers in the city with its simple singing voice.
At present, urban folk songs in the new era are developing rapidly, and more and more high-quality folk songs that convey the charm of the city have emerged. As an open, inclusive, innovative and young city, Shenzhen is a place where diverse cultures are exchanged and blended, and fruitful musical achievements are born here. The holding of a series of folk song collection activities shows Shenzhen's determination to build an important town of Chinese folk songs in the new era.
From Ma Tiao, HAYA Orchestra, Zhao Zhao, Zhang Gayi, Lao Fan next door, Han Xiaojiu, to Wan Xiaoli, Hefeimen+, Deng Zhiwei, River Plate Band, and then to Luo Dayou, Lao Wolf and other well-known folk singers in this New Year's concert, the "My City My Song" series of activities attracted nearly 50 groups of folk musicians from 27 cities across the country to Shenzhen, with nearly 50,000 audiences participating. The seeds of folk songs have gradually taken root and grown in the fertile soil of Shenzhen.
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Use folk songs as a medium to help cultural exchanges and blending
"Voices of the Bay Area", "Voices of the Four Seas", "Hakka Customs", "Modern Sounds" and "My City" will inject multiculturalism into the stage ...... lead the audience into a richer music world. The success of the "My City, My Song" series of activities lies not only in the excellent performance of the singers and the simple and beautiful folk songs, but also in the cultural resonance and integration of the Bay Area behind them.
From the happy harbor that hosted the kick-off song party, to the Shenzhen Radio and Television Financial and Cultural District, to the Bao'an Stadium where the New Year's concert was held, the folk song collection has always welcomed folk singers who grew up in different regions and infiltrated different cultures with an open and inclusive mind and attitude. In the "Hakka Customs" session, the Hakka singer Qiu Lin from Shaoguan refined the Hakka proverbs and integrated them with modern pop music, and supplemented the singing with national wind instruments such as suona, bamboo flute, Xiao, shakuhachi, and Xun. The audience listened to songs such as "Fu Street" and "Moonlight Bride" to understand the Hakka historical allusions behind them.
In addition, the event also invited folk singers from Hong Kong, Macao and other places to participate in Shenzhen, truly presenting the effectiveness of Shenzhen as the core engine of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and promoting the cultural integration of various cities in the Bay Area, forming an emotional connection of "one heart in the Bay Area" with folk songs as the medium, and helping the construction of the humanistic Bay Area.
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During the event, 160 original works were collected
As a series of activities, "My City and My Song" is composed of multiple sections such as song exhibition + Chinese urban folk song Shenzhen premiere center + popularity ranking + song collection + creation and collection + folk song salon, aiming to fully tap the power of folk songs, shape the IP of folk song activities that belong to Shenzhen, and present more possibilities for folk songs through multi-party participation. During the event, a large number of literary and artistic figures and young musicians came to Shenzhen to participate in the creation of folk songs, and the organizers collected 160 original masterpieces during the event, and many musicians made the first release of the songs through the platform of "My City My Song" Chinese Urban Folk Songs Shenzhen Premiere Center.
"My City, My Song" - Chinese Urban Folk Songs in the New Era is guided by the Propaganda Department of the Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports, and the Shenzhen Federation of Literary and Art Circles, sponsored by the Shenzhen Musicians Association, and undertaken by Shenzhen Radio, Film and Television Group, the Propaganda Department of the Shenzhen Baoan District Committee of the Communist Party of China, and Shenzhen Hezong Culture Group. It is reported that after this concert, the song collection and wind collection activities will continue, and the new season of "My City My Song" - the new era of Chinese urban folk songs is also in preparation.
Content source: Shenzhen Special Zone Daily Shenzhen Satellite TV Deep Vision News
Reporters: Yang Mingming, Wu Hekun, Tang Ping, Jin Chengyu, Chen Nan, Guo Fengxin, Ren Xianping, Pan Kang
Editor: Liu Dongbo
Reviewer: Huang Chun, Ma Dan
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