AXEAN FESTIVAL 2023
FORMERLY KNOWN AS
ASEAN MUSIC SHOWCASE FESTIVAL
TO BE HELD 28-29 OCTOBER
AT GOODMAN ARTS CENTRE, SINGAPORE
FEATURING PERFORMERS 🇸🇬 Shye, 🇹🇭 KIKI,
🇮🇩 Reality Club, 🇵🇭 The Itchyworms, 🇵🇭 Oh Flamingo! AND MORE
July 31st, 2023 – Formerly known as ASEAN Music Showcase Festival, the newly rebranded AXEAN Festival will be taking place in Singapore on 28 and 29 October this year! Get your tickets here: axeanfestival2023.peatix.com
Birthed in 2020 as a virtual music showcase festival, AXEAN Festival launched into the “real world” in 2022 and became an internationally recognised platform, bringing regional artists to the global music stage. With the announcement of the 2023 iteration of the festival, the organisers are taking the opoprtunity to re-introduce the festival with its new name – AXEAN Festival.
Festival co-founder Piyapong ‘Py’ Muenprasertdee explains, “Despite our different languages and customs, Southeast Asia is a region rich with historical heritage, and shared cultures and identities. Colloquially, the term ‘ASEAN’ (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) is often used interchangeably with ‘Southeast Asia’ due to reasons including the spoken language of its people, signifying the sense of unity we have as a region. After 3 successful editions, we want to make a statement of our commitment to elevate Southeast Asian music onto the world stage by renaming our event ‘AXEAN Festival’, with an ‘X’ symbolising our core values of collaboration and crossing borders, whether physical, lingual or cultural, while also inviting artists and fans from all corners of the world to celebrate and share their music with us!”
This first wave of artists performing this year is headlined by Shye, Reality Club, The Itchyworms, KIKI, and Oh Flamingo!. The event will also host performances from Singaporean pop artist Jean Seizure, Thai R&B artist Flower.far, Indonesian singer-songwriter TANAYU, and many more exciting artists.
“There is much great music in the world gone unnoticed and undiscovered. We want to build a community of music discovery champions who don’t care where the artists come from or what language they sing, but instead listen and move to the music with open ears and hearts. This year, we have decided to destroy the barrier of an entry fee and welcome all people to discover their favorite new artists, and then donate as much as they want to support our cause and keep our event running every year!”
– Py (Founder, AXEAN Festival)
ASEAN Music Showcase Festival 2022
Photo by @iamhenzydavid
AXEAN Festival is Southeast Asia’s first intraregional music showcase festival, an annual event that springboards Southeast Asian music onto the world stage held physically in Singapore with 2 main elements: a music showcase festival and business networking events.
Its inaugural edition was organized by 5 participating countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. It was held virtually via live video streaming of pre-recorded performances in September 2020, during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, as an initiative to help regional artists stay connected with their fanbase and gain international fans. The goal was to encourage artists and their teams to look beyond the pandemic and prepare for future export and international touring opportunities by being performance-ready and meeting with music business professionals from all over the world.
The second edition was again organised online in 2021, but joined by 2 additional countries: Cambodia and Vietnam. In 2022, the third edition was its first live edition, held in Singapore and jointly organised by the 7 countries with Laos added to its upcoming 2023 edition.
The Wave 1 lineup of artists performing at AXEAN Festival 2023 in alphabetical order is as follows:
ABANGSAPAU – Singapore
Alisson Shore – Philippines
DVY – Indonesia
Ena Mori – Philippines
Flower.far – Thailand
H 3 F – Thailand
inch – Singapore
Jean Seizure – Singapore
Jessla – Indonesia
KIKI – Thailand
KWAN – Cambodia
Limebócx – Vietnam
LONER – Philippines
Mantra Vutura – Indonesia
Minh – Vietnam
motifs – Singapore
Nick. – Cambodia
obese.dogma777 – Philippines
Oh, Flamingo! – Philippines
Polarix – Cambodia
Rangkai – Indonesia
Reality Club – Indonesia
San – Cambodia
Shye – Singapore
TANAYU – Indonesia
The Itchyworms – Philippines
THINH SUY – Vietnam
Vũ Thanh Vân – Vietnam
Zweed n’ Roll – Thailand
ABANGSAPAU – Singapore
Alisson Shore – Philippines
DVY – Indonesia
Ena Mori – Philippines
Flower.far – Thailand
H 3 F – Thailand
inch – Singapore
Jean Seizure – Singapore
Jessla – Indonesia
KIKI – Thailand
KWAN – Cambodia
Limebócx – Vietnam
LONER – Philippines
Mantra Vutura – Indonesia
Minh – Vietnam
motifs – Singapore
Nick. – Cambodia
obese.dogma777 – Philippines
Oh, Flamingo! – Philippines
Polarix – Cambodia
Rangkai – Indonesia
Reality Club – Indonesia
San – Cambodia
Shye – Singapore
TANAYU – Indonesia
The Itchyworms – Philippines
THINH SUY – Vietnam
Vũ Thanh Vân – Vietnam
Zweed n’ Roll – Thailand
Get your tickets here: axeanfestival2023.peatix.com
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