Radio Television Hong Kong’s The Works is the longest continuously running arts magazine show on Hong Kong Television. This year, it’s celebrating its 10th anniversary.
Every week, The Works features news and reviews of visual and performing arts, design, literary and other creative works. We also focus on interviews with leading performers and producers, both local and from overseas, interspersed with updates on events affecting the development of the territory 's artistic and cultural life. Most weeks the show also includes a live studio performance.
As part of the celebration we are arranging a free 10th anniversary concert at the West Kowloon Cultural District from 4.00 pm to 6.30 pm on Saturday 8th March. The show will be presented by the presenters of “The Works” and its Chinese sister programme 《藝坊星期天》- Ben Pelletier, Ben Tse, and Billy Lee. It will feature jazz, acoustic rock, city folk, and drum ensemble with: Eugene Pao, Chochukmo, New Youth Barber Shop, O • Daiko
Chochukmo is a 5-piece indie rock band based in Hong Kong featuring Jan Curious (vocal), Mike Orange (guitar/keyboard), Les Hunter (guitar), Waiting Soul (bass) and Kitty Trouble (drum/percussion). The band members have been merging their talents and innovations into their music since the summer of 2005. The combination of different musical interests and thoughts gives Chochukmo a unique style ranging from jazz to punk, from bossa nova to dance. Chochukmo has been selected as the “Top 20 Hong Kong Musicians” by Time Out Hong Kong in 2008, has been described as “the most charismatic band to have emerged in southern China in recent years” by TIME Magazine, and has been included in “The Hong Kong Hot List: 20 people to watch” by CNNGo in 2009.
In 2013, the three of them met at the university by chance. They hit it off and formed "New Youth Barber Shop" to record their lives in the hope of finding someone to share them with one day.
O • Daiko is Hong Kong’s first all-female Taiko band. Since they were set up in 2004, they’ve been engaged in numerous theatre productions and performed in a range of shows of varying scale at cultural events in Hong Kong. Now based in Mui Wo in Lamma Island, the artists in the group come from different artistic fields including improvisational theatre, music theory study, filmmaking, dance and violin performance. The band gave its first concert in Spring 2011.
Over the last two decades and more, Eugene Pao has established himself as Hong Kong’s premier jazz guitarist. He continues to travel the world for performances at international jazz festivals, concert halls and jazz clubs, and to take part in select recording projects.
Eugene returned from studies in the U.S. in the mid 1980’s and began playing around town. Some of his early recordings featured such legends as bassist Eddie Gomez, blues great Jimmy Witherspoon and saxophonist Michael Brecker. He made his first solo album in 1996 called “By The Company You Keep” with a stellar cast of Jazz greats, drummer Jack DeJonett, bassist John Patitucci and Michael Brecker on saxophone.
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