FESTIVAL ALERT: Strawberry Festival sold out this year in 20 minutes ! If you missed it, there are still tickets available for the new downtown music festival... Destination Paradise put on by the folks who organize... Read more...
After missing last year, on account of the whole general state of the world thing, JZ Spring , the smaller brother of the annual JZ Festival, returns to Jing'an Park this weekend. It starts on Friday, which is International Jazz Day, but with an... Read more...
A massive light show to mark the final day of CNY. Read more...
Schools confirm their schedule for the upcoming Chinese New Year vacation Read more...
Good news for those staying in Shanghai. Read more...
Have you heard of the MIA Festival ? Probably not. For whatever reason, the last big music festival of the season – and EDM blowout – has flown very low under the radar. Maybe because it’s 880rmb per day (cheaper if you party both days away). Maybe because it appears promised headliner Calvin Harris doesn’t appear to be coming.... Read more...
There are five various festivals happening this weekend. Five. Why? Did the French chef committee run into the metal community at Bird while eating Mongolian sausages and drinking cocktails? Is that what happened? Because it looks like it. Read more...
The flood of live music continues this week in many forms, from straight-up concerts to movies with live soundtracks and a big blow-out of a music festival out in Pudongland. Jazz at Lincoln Center brings the Aaron Goldberg Trio with Jennifer Sanon for post-bop jamming, British superstar DUA LIPA lands at the National Exhibition and Convention Center, the Shanghai... Read more...
Last weekend is over, which means it's time to start blotting out Monday by focusing on next weekend, and the big news (among many many other events), at least for music lovers, is
From the world of drops, builds and ecstatic electronic music comes the news that Calvin Harris, Deadmau5, Alok, KSHMR and about 20 more artists will be headlining and filling out the inaugural MIA festival , on October 13-14. Details are, ahem, missing in action, as the press conference just wrapped up and a few of these... Read more...
Concrete & Grass has released their full lineup for this year’s festival, minus two headliners, and there are some big (indie) names including Slowdive, Oneohtrix Point Never and American Authors . Dance music fans get Prosumer, Illsee and Hong Kong's Mr. Ho among others. Hit the jump for the... Read more...
Indie music festival Concrete & Grass has announced the first wave of its lineup, and, man, it’s a tsunami. The homegrown event is going to have 60+ artists for the 2018 festival, which will run on September 15 & 16 at the familiar Shanghai Rugby Club field. Among the first 30 acts announced for this year: legendary Japanese... Read more...
Exciting time to be a trance kid, with two festivals waving glowsticks on the horizon. One is Shalanaya (Sep 21-24), taking place in the great outdoors on the outskirts of Shanghai. Running since 2013, it's the home of manic pixie children, drum circles, tarot cards, the Thunder Dome and third-eye-havers. It's four days of camping... Read more...
Fun family and cultural stuff to try out for Dragon Boat Festival down at "Great World". Read more...
At the upcoming Shanghai International Film Festival , their 21st edition, around 500 films will be played at 45 cinemas in Shanghai from June 16 to June 25, across every district. The schedule is currently being released on SIFF's... Read more...
We published a couple festival previews ( F&B , Music ) a little while ago, but there've been some updates since then, so consider this an addendum to that;
Festivals in Shanghai keep rolling in. This one's a fun one though, so we thought it deserves special mention. The folks at Bordertown (also of Chili Fest pedigree) are hosting the second annual Shanghai Hot Sauce Festival on May 12 at the Jing'an... Read more...
Just one week to go before 9 million music festivals hit Shanghai for May holiday. Whether your tastes run to big-name EDM superstars to international jazz to family entertainment to hip indie rock, your covered for something out there on a stage this weekend in the city (well... slightly... Read more...
These are the up-and-coming celebrations of things that go in your stomach. Draw deep from the font of F&B festival wisdom. Read more...
It’s craaaaazy festival season again! Here’s your handy dandy round-up of music tests happening in and around Shanghai. Read more...
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