Venue: Open Air Auditorium
This Sunday, May 13, 2012, starting at 6:00 p.m., Concert at the Park treats all mothers and friends to a soul-music program with the Flippin’ Soul Stompers, The Official Manila Soul Club Band, in celebration of Mother’s Day. Listen and groove to their renditions of Temptations’ GET READY, Wilson Pickett’s IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas’ DANCING IN THE STREET, Stevie Wonder’s UPTIGHT, Al Green’s LET’S STAY TOGETHER, Marvin Gaye’s LET’S GET IT ON, Brenda Halloway’s YOU MAKE ME SO VERY HAPPY, Otis Redding’s RESPECT and TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS, Curtis Mayfield’s MOVE ON UP, Bobby Hebb’s SUNNY, and James Brown’s TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS.
“From generations to generations, Manila has heard over a thousand bands of various genres and styles. Little did they know that most of today’s music was formed by the classier tunes of soul. Envisioned in bringing the masses to the root of modern music, Flippin’ Soul Stompers” was launched in April 2011, with veteran musicians from Put3ska and Juan Pablo Dream and fresh talents from Rub-A-Dub, The Hooligans and the Young Instigators as members. Currently the group is composed of Bing Austria (vocals), Ferdinand Holigores (bass), Andrei Paman (guitar), Paulo Alguesor (guitar), Ren Gamboa (drums), Eldie Siochi (trumpet), Dante Macabale (trombone) and Rudy Calimbas (tambourine and back-up vocals). As fans of soul music themselves, the band follows the examples of Otis Redding, James Brown, Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions, The Funk Brothers, and Booker T and the MG’s. “It exemplifies the vision and goals of the Manila Soul Club that espouses the idea of educating the audiences of the unique rhythms of soul music. Both believe that by playing music “the old school way”, they will trigger a nostalgia that generations before appreciated and missed, and eventually draw the curiosity of today’s generation of the music’s distinctive tunes. Thus, the Club dubs the Flippin’ Soul Stompers the first of their official bands.
FRANCIS TANSECO
www.francistanseco.com
Starting at 3:00 p.m. prior to the free concert on Sunday, a tarpaulin display of some of the works of Filipino London-based self-trained artist Francis Tanseco, celebrating the Filipina, symbolically represented by the ever-popular Superstar Nora Aunor can be seen at the Rizal Park Open-Air Auditorium. Titled, “Filipinism: La Aunor, Woman” , it is a “display of artwork (original oil on canvas or oil on corkboard) on the subject of Women.” The eleven (11) paintings touches on women’s concerns. Nora Aunor (The Muse), through her Filmography, “Ate Guy”, the country’s “one and only Superstar”, is depicted as an actress amongst other. The tarpaulin display is open from 3:00 p.m. up to 5:00 p.m. only.
Admission to Tanseco’s tarpaulin display and Concert at the Park program is free of charge. The public is cordially invited.