Dear Sum,

Thanks for the sharing!! Philipinoes are really talented in singing. Her voice is sweet and her guitar playing is free but I like her live playing in the soundbase competition rather than the MP3 recording. Live playing is much powerful, she really deserved to be the champion.

Cheers,
Frankie(Capo)

agree with you ,frankie.
the bass part of the live version was more dynamic and added more colors to the song.
i think that's why the bassist got the best performers award.
thanks sum for the info.
Also Band Natural's performance was great. Fish sang very good. I thought they'd get at least one of the awards.

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The Renfrew Group(won the third prize) are also very experienced musicians. The girl, Anna, who played percussion is indeed professional.

From http://www.renfrewgroup.org/index.htm

Anna started playing the piano at the age of 3 and studied with Tino Maxwell and Grace Lau. In 2001 she obtained her Grade 8 Piano Certificate from the Trinity College of Music (London) with distinction and was invited to perform at the 1st Hong Kong Music Rendezvous, organized by the Trinity College of Music (London). Anna later graduated from HKBU majoring in Performance and Pedagogy (Total Percussion) under the instruction of Rebecca Ng. During her school years Anna was already an experienced percussion tutor and arranged some of her own percussion ensemble pieces. In 2006 Anna went to USA to continue her studies at the Berklee College of Music and by 2007, she was awarded the Best Improved Drummer award by the percussion department, of which only 12 students among the whole department were selected. Anna is also an active performer on the pop/jazz music scene, having been the leader of the HKBU Jazz Band, percussionist in numerous wind bands and orchestras, and member of the pop ensemble Maz which won the silver prize of the 2005 Soundbase competition held by Tom Lee. She is now the drummer and also band leader of local jazz ensemble Renfrew Group.

Dear Sum,

Thanks for sharing! I start to realise the reason for the professional performance of most of the groups in the show because they are in fact the professional musicians. The girl looks sweet too by the close shot!!!

Cheers,
Frankie(Capo)

Professional player go for 「原音2007」樂隊比賽... Poor musicians here in Hong Kong. lol

Lanno

Music only for fun!

近年﹔朋友、電台和大眾都在批評、力鑑香港的音樂已死。 但﹔今次 通過 近年的 ‘原音比賽’ 她實實在在地告訴大家，我們本土的音樂根本沒有如一眾所說的，早已凋萎。 反之﹔我覺得她們是正在不同的土壤下，一步一步地盛開中。

今天，大家聆聽音樂、好歌，有很多方法。如果我們的眼睛、耳朵只是單向一方，可能真的會看不到、聽不見世間更多的好歌和美事。 要聽好音樂，我想大家都應該向前放眼多一點。

又，在比賽當天，再一次欣賞到 Henry & Richard 的表演，我個人覺得精彩萬分﹔記憶中，技巧感覺尤勝當年的 Too Young to be Marriage (我在七十年代中，過聽不下三數次他們的表演)。 但可能時代不同，而 The Hollies 當年的音樂處理手法在今天也許真的不大討好﹔單以 Allan Clarke和當年 Graham Nash式的，以力、以放的高音和唱，面對近年愛樂朋友們，對樂曲需要多樣化伴奏等的品味要求，再加上參賽者的水準實在平均高得可以，"Marigold / Gloria Swansong" 使我個人覺得真的有點兒被忽畧了。 但以歌、以表演，以我個人的感受，再一次說 Henry & Richard ‘精彩萬分’。

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