2022 Southeast Asia Music Festival Grand Debuts at Kaohsiung Music Center on December 17

A major Southeast Asian music festival will debut in southern Taiwan for the first time ever! On December 17, Kaohsiung Haifeng Plaza will play home to the first "M.I.K. Style-Migrants in Kaohsiung Music Festival," hosted by the Kaohsiung Pop Music Center (KMC).

The list of artists slated to perform on music festival is impressive. In addition to inviting Thai pop group Retrospect, which is similar to Taiwan's Mayday, Talahib People's Music, a world music group that features traditional Filipino culture, and the band Soegi Bornean, Vietnamese singer-songwriter and actor LENA, will collaborate with KMC to bring the music vitality in southern Taiwan.

The first "M.I.K. Style-Migrants in Kaohsiung Music Festival," debuts In Kaohsiung Photo provided by Kaohsiung Music Center

The "Southern Riot," a group of migrant workers in Taiwan, was also specially asked to perform by KMC. As for the Taiwanese representatives, Abao, an indigenous Taiwanese singer (Aljenljeng) and "Wild Thing" the nominee for the best new artist of Golden Melody Award. There will be more than 30 authentic Southeast Asian cuisine, handicraft, and lifestyle markets on that day. Through culture and food, everyone's senses of hearing, seeing, and tasting were satiated from noon till night.

Soegi Bornean, the Indonesian band Photo provided by Kaohsiung Music Center

Famous Indigenous singer, Abao Photo provided by Kaohsiung Music Center

Immigrant workers and new immigrants come to Taiwan to support the economy and construction with us, offer service to our families, and enrich our lives, according to Li Xin-Yun, CEO of KMC. She hopes to make the place that is “closest to home."

Chen Pei-Ting, the CMO of Mombaby, is deeply moved to learn that the festival particularly welcomes new immigrants. "The new immigrant mothers used to be girls who enjoyed dancing and listening to music before they moved to Taiwan." She said. There are many new immigrant mothers. She believes that the music festival can soothe their homesickness with familiar lyrics and songs.