Acid Jazz | Funk Night

ACID JAZZ // FUNK NIGHT | JULY 8 | 9 PM NYC musician Simon C.F. Yu is visiting HK this summer and he is bringing you some Acid Jazz/Funk music featuring some of the top local musicians! Date: July 8, 2017 Time: 9-11 PM Ticket Price: Early Bird $120 (purchase on/before 7 July); On-the-day $140 Address: FLOWER MUSIC 10, 10/F, Tack Building, 50 Gilman Street, Central, HONG KONG Sax: Callum MacKenzie Guitar: Wilson Lam Guitar: Simon C.F. Yu Bass: Wong Tak Chung Drums: Blue Kwok BUY YOUR TICKETS TODAY! https://goo.gl/8KYV4D [https://goo.gl/8KYV4D] Payment Method: A) BY BANK TRANSFER 1. Please transfer the payment to Hang Seng Bank account: 385-804893-883 (Account name: Flower Music Co.Ltd) 2. Then send us a copy of the bank transfer slip by email to info@flowermusic.hk B) BY PAYPAL EARLY BIRD (purchase on/before 7 July) - https://goo.gl/8KYV4D [https://goo.gl/8KYV4D] REGULAR - https://goo.gl/18fEJP [https://goo.gl/18fEJP] ABOUT THE MUSICIANS: Simon C.F. YU Born in a family of musicians and film directors in HONG KONG, Simon C.F. Yu became a specialist working on both fields. Currently based in NYC, Simon C.F. Yu graduated from Berklee College of Music for Production & Guitar Performance, and later on attended New York Film Academy to study Digital Film making. Simon has worked for celebrity clients on both sides, such as toured as lead guitarist with Grammy Award winning Hip-Hop icon MS. Lauryn Hill, and filmed for Grammy Award winning artist Snarky Puppy & Lalah Hathaway’s best R&B performance “Something”. Simon also been the director of photography for HBO Latino’s TV show on Billboard Latin top chart singer Romeo Santos’s Special. As a musician, Simon has been touring around the world (US, Canada, Japan, Taiwan, China) and performed in prestige venues such as; Bluenote Jazz Club NYC, Highline Ballroom NYC, Bowery Ballroom NYC, Music Hall of Williamsburg, Wellmont Theater NJ, House of Blues Chicago, House of Blues Atlantic City, Wilbur Theatre Boston, First Avenue Minneapolis…etc His band “The Exotic Experiment” (www.theexoticexperiment.com) has been recently featured in the 2013 MISA festival in Shanghai which was sold out and been featured on local news papers. Simon released 2 albums (Beginning… 2008; Exotic Species 2009) and a 4 songs EP (The Exotic Experiment EP 2012) as a bandleader. He also recorded guitars for Evan Marien’s 4th album “The Way”, and Megumi Habuka’s first EP “Perfect”. Over 7yrs in the professional field, he has been arranging songs for many Major label artists in HONG KONG, such as: Chilam Chang, Sita Chan, Theresa Fu, Alex Fong, Elanne Kong and many mores. https://www.youtube.com/playlist [https://www.youtube.com/playlist]? https://www.facebook.com/simoncfy [https://www.facebook.com/simoncfy] https://www.instagram.com/simoncfyu/ [https://www.instagram.com/simoncfyu/] Wilson LAM Graduated from Berklee College of Music (BA) in 2003, Wilson studied guitar performance and composition with Mick Goodrick & Yakov Gubanov. He then studied film scoring with Sonny Kompanek at New York University and received his Master of Arts in 2005. Returning to Hong Kong in 2007, Wilson has been active in the music industry and participating in various activities, which include but not limit to arranging, media scoring, jazz guitar performance and teaching. Callum MACKENZIE Callum MacKenzie makes a living playing smooth sounds at lovely weddings. In spite of this he has cultivated a reputation as one of the noisiest and least inhibited saxophone players in Hong Kong. He plays with a number jazz and rock acts around town including The Wong Way Down, OWK and Jing Wong. Like this silly bio he will be making up his set as he goes along. WONG Tak Chung Wong Tak-Chung is currently a local jazz bassist, studied with Tsang Tak-Hong who is one of the most famous and versatile bassists in Hong Kong. In 2007, after Wong was awarded the best bass player in a local youth music competition, he decided to turn his passion for music into a career and finally became a full-time musician. Wong Tak-Chung is very experienced in jazz music performing with different musicians and groups. He has been playing with famous musicians such as Ted Lo, Wilson Lam, Andrew Gander, Orlando Bonzi, Ng Cheuk Yin, Stephen Lam, Ray Wang, Joey Ou, Patrick Tang, Rebecca Pan, Anthony Wong, C All Star e.t.c. He is now performing at Cali Cali (TST), Peel Fresco, Fringe Club, Manchester United Bar. Wong was performing in the Tai Wan Jazz Festival 2009, Beishan World Music Festival 2011 and Beishan International Jazz Festival 2011.In last year, Chung and three Hong Kong jazz musicians formed a jazz quartet "In One Stroke". In One Stroke released their first album under the same name in 2016 Spring, and has performed 2 concerts at EUROPAfest and completed their first Europe and Tai Wan tour in 2017. Blue KWOK Blue Kwok is a Hong Kong based drummer. Started playing drums since age of 12. He attended The Collective School of Music, NYC for drums. After graduating, he started gigging with musician and pop artists in Hong Kong, playing different kinds of genre of music from Jazz to Electronic music.