MACA Music Festival: Acoustic Night Ends on a High Note

    (Macao, Sep. 20, 2014) – - Macau Association of Composers, Authors and Publishers (MACA) hosts the MACA Music Festival 2014: Acoustic Night on September 20 (Saturday) at Dom Pedro V Theatre, one of the UNESCO world cultural heritage site in Macao. The event is sponsored by the Macao Foundation and venue-sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao S.A.R. Government.

Guests in attendance include Department Chief of the Office of the Public Prosecutor General U Kam, the Cultural Affairs Bureau Deputy Chief LEONG Ieng Va and HO Ka Wing, the Official Provisional Municipal Council CHENG Kai Meng, the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau VONG Iat Hang, the Macao Customs Services LAU Chi Man, Venetian Macau Limited Assistant General Counsel José Borges Rodrigues, MACA Chairman UNG Kuoc Ian, Director Gary TOU, and Director John HO.

MACA aims to encourage the development of local creative industries and to provide local music creators with the opportunity to shine and communicate. Dom Pedro V Theatre, built in 1860 as the first western-style theatre in China with a seating capacity of 300, has survived as a highly significant cultural landmark in the context of the local Macanese community. This unique cultural fusion of the East and the West and that of the past and the present shows that, there is indeed no boundary in music.

MACA Music Festival is devoted to the local music, performed live by music creators, singers or bands. The shows opens with Tracy Chang, winner of the best song of MACA Song Writers Quest of the same year. Then followed by local Macanese signer Josefina Santos; aRiejohn – a local band formed by Arie Chan and John Ho -- and LAVY -- the local rock n roll forerunner formed by Leo, Angelo, Vincent, and Yaz – brings to the stage their original music pieces. Hong Kong band Soler, as the final guest performer, has lifted the ambience of the show to another height with their affectionate performance.

MACA is here to unite talents and share music, offering the audience with a cultural night to remember.

     Group photos taken at the end of MACA Music Festival 2015