EXPERIENCE Southeast Asian music from Sept. 19 to 20 as the ASEAN Music Showcase Festival holds its first run digitally via Facebook and YouTube, featuring 20 artists from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

“We are a subregion in Asia best known to the world for our tropical vacation destinations and our delicious food — but not our music… and we want to change that,” the festival’s website reads.

The inaugural digital festival will have performances by Singapore’s Linying, Marian Carmel, Coming Up Roses, and J.M3; Thailand’s TONTRAKUL, Valentina Ploy, STOIC, and H 3 F; Malaysia’s Bayangan, Buddha Beat, Golden Mammoth, and Mutesite; Indonesia’s Tanayu, Bangkutaman, Rangkai, and Oslo Ibrahim; and the Philippines’ Pikoy, Cheats, Uprising Records Artists, and August Wahh.

The music showcase is meant to “create a platform that elevates Southeast Asia’s music scene to the world stage,” according to a release — a music scene with its array of genres and subgenres “virtually invisible to the world,” said the event’s website.

Created by concert and festival promoters from the region alongside conference organizers and music influencers, the festival will also be holding virtual networking meetings with “some of the biggest and most promising music business professionals in the world, as well as up-and-coming and established artists in Asia,” on Sept. 21.

The ASEAN Music Showcase Festival will run from Sept. 19 to 20 via Facebook and YouTube on their official media pages. — ZBC

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