A cappella Camp

At Taipei 

Members of Street Corner Symphony (SCS) visited Taiwan from September 15 to 22, 2014.

Arriving at Taipei International Airport, the delegation headed to National Tainan University of Arts straight by a big bus. Nest two and half days we practiced A Cappella together with T.O.P.D. VOIZE, a number one students A Cappella group in Taiwan. 

Concert was held at a 300 seats concert hall at the university, however, full of students came to the show and all the aisles were occupied by students.

T.O.P.D. VOIZE sung so well that it was a quite a challenge to Street Corner Symphony members, mostly Waseda University students.

After the show we headed to Ping Tung city. 

Next morning Ping Tung CountySin Yi Elementary School welcomed Sing Out Asia delegation at the school. School children danced and played instruments and performed A Cappella.  It was amazing and great. 

Next day  SCS members were practicing together with high school and elementary school A Cappella Group and SURE A Cappella group. However, at 16:00 the concert was called off due to a possibility of Typhoon hitting Ping Tung at night.

We had a concert for ourselves with small audience.

T.O.P.D. VOIZE members from Tainan University of Art came to Ping Tung to assist SCS members. 

We all felt warm heartedness of Taiwan people. 

At Hanoi

Waseda Street Corner Symphony members of 6 and Mahidol University Collage of Music Barista Chamber Choir of 8 visited  National Academy of Music in Hanoi, Vietnam from 2 October to 7 October..

We are welcomed by  15 Vocal music department students of the Academy.

For four days we practice A Cappella together. 6 groups of mixed nationalities are given a theme song and practice A Cappella. For the Vietnam students, A Cappella is new and their training are in Classics and Opera singing that it was not an easy time for everyone.

We visited Ninbin, an old capital of Vietnam for a day trip, all together 30 students.

On 6 October we had a mini concert. It was not perfect, of course, however, it showed that everybody really worked hard.

Teachers and students of National Academy of Music in Hanoi are interested in A Cappella that anything can happen in future.

It was a bit short trip but every body enjoyed the time immensely.

Waseda University A Cappella circle, Street Corner Symphony members and Members of Mahidol University Collage of Music got together and had an A Cappella concert in Bangkok on October 19, 2012. Venue was distinguished The SIAM Society at Asok, Bangkok, Thailand. Guitarist,Yoshiro Maehama from Okinawa and a singer song writer Art Thomya of Thailand also performed in the show.

Students of both Waseda and Mahidol stayed together in a Mahidol lodging house for 5 days, and created a A Cappella show.

At Jakarta Japan Matsuri

Sing Out Asia had three concerts in Jakarta. At Monas, a national park in Jakarta, "Jakarta Japan Matsuri" was held. There were 30,000 visitors to the Matsuri. 

When Sing Out Asia started performance under the Southern Cross, a big crowd gathered around the stage.

Audience were so excited that it was hard for our members to go back to our changing room. Many young people wanted to take photo with our members.

Next day, we performed twice at Usmar Ismail Hall in Jakarta. The hall is small and only can accomodate 430 people. We had total of 700 audience and they enjoyed the show greatly.

For the preparation of Sing Out Asia show, we send Ms. Marie Kondo to Jakarta for a month. She was able to get support from CISV for the performance that Sing Out Asia could perform at the Usmar Ismail Hall.

Ms. Sugako Kaikiri of Jakarta Communication Club and students of EN Jyuku, a student musical theater, had supported  Sing Out Asia music show with full heart.

At Asia South Pacific Music Fest (Okinawa)

On 21 October 2010, Sing Out Asia hold a "Asia South Pacific Music Fest" in Okinawa.

Sing Out Asia invited top musicians in Okinawa to perform with us.

We have invited Imel and Marko of Indonesia for the first time. Other members were Art, Julianne, Lala, Lung and N'Jami.

Unfortunately we had only 600 audiences and Sing Out Asia lost 1,300,000 yen unexpectedly.

Thailand Show became a phontom

Student Union of Chulaloungkorn University had invited Sing Out Asia to perform at Chulalongkorn Auditorium.

At the same time, Chengrai City government invited Sing Out Asia to a Music Festival in Chengrai City, north of Thailand.

However International Airport in Bangkok was closed due to a demonstration against government that we had to cancel our show.

At Nihon Seinenkan in Tokyo

It was a cloudy day on June 15th. We had N’Jami and Jim Rock Singers from Okinawa, Julianne from The Philippines, Lala from Indonesia, Art from Thailand, and Lang from Laos. Due to the immigration policy of Japan, It was not easy to bring the artist from South East Asia. We had Mr. Issei Koga, the Diet member of Democratic Party, to help us on this matter.

June 15th, nearly 900 people showed up which almost filled up the first floor of the theater. After the show, we received heartfelt compliments from so many people. 

Our live show in Tokyo was made into an 8 minute special TV by Ryukyu Asahi Broadcasting of Okinawa to be on air in Okinawa & Kyushu region. We also have NHK special TV staff to interview us as a long-term project. Julianne from the Philippines took the breath of the audience with her beautiful music. She has won the most prestigious music prize in the Philippines, “The Awit Awards” in November 2008.

Lala from Indonesia is singing both in the Philippines and Indonesia and very popular.