Jue Festival 2010 line-up announced

Split Work’s Jue Festival, Shanghai’s answer to the New York and Edinburgh Fringe festivals, has announced (relatively) final details for its March 12-29 run.

Taking place across clubs and galleries in Beijing and Shanghai, the Jue Festival 2010 line-up includes live music performances from international acts, local music staples as well as a range of arts-based events that’ll tempt even the most Philistine among us.

And the Shanghai 2010 Jue Festival acts are...

The festival kicks off in Shanghai with Mongolian folk rockers/throat singers Hanggai on March 12 at Yuyintang (check out tracks from Hanggai and our interview with them to psych you up for this show), before hosting the Lone Star State’s experimental folk rocker and indie crush-object St Vincent (March 13) and Canada’s indie rock queen Julie Dorion on March 17. Also on the music line-up: Trippple Nippples (think: Japanese synth-punk freakazoids, March 19) and Dead Elvis & His One Man Grave (March 20).

In addition to the big names on the line-up, we’re looking forward to CrossTalk, when the Jue Festival brings some of Beijing’s most promising acts to Shanghai and vice versa. We’re pretty sure Shanghai has the better end of this deal with Omnipotent Youth Hotel, mellow Hebei rockers with a traditional Chinese twist, coming on March 20, and Yufeimen, Indie-electronica from Guangzhou, playing on March 27.

Sadly art offerings are still a bit skimpy but two highlights in the line-up are NeochaEDGE’s screen printing workshop on March 13 featuring Nini Sum (it’s free) and Shanghai Photographer Night at Dada bar. This March 24 event will be host Beijing’s live music photographer Matthew Niederhauser.

Not a bad start and we’re sure there will be more Jue Festival announcements to come. Keep an eyeout for the Jue Festival website that will launch (fingers corssed) before Chinese New Year. 

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