Saturday Music at Laundry Steps

General

Designated Saturday of each month, an exciting line-up of established and up-and-coming Hong Kong musicians will gather at Tai Kwun’s Laundry Steps to offer an afternoon of light-hearted music. Curated by singer-songwriter Vicky Fung, an avid promoter of Cantopop, these Saturday afternoons will showcase the best of Hong Kong’s jazz, pop, independent and world music, where you will revisit and discover the musical talents of our city at the unique heritage site of Tai Kwun.

THEME OF THE WEEK: Whatever, Whenever, Wherever Under the new normal, we have learned to live day by day, taking things as they come. To live flexibly, nimbly with a free will: such is awareness, such is wisdom.
Time	Line Up	Music Genre
2:30pm – 3:10pm	Lester Lam feat. Daniel Toh & Enoch Cheng	POP
3:40pm – 4:20pm	XTIE	Electropop / Singer Songwriter
4:50pm – 5:30pm	Manson Cheung	Folk / Indie Pop / Pop Rock

Saturday Music Steps will adhere to the latest health and safety regulations and enforce social distancing measures

Biography

Lester Lam feat. Daniel Toh & Enoch Cheng

XTIE

Manson Cheung

Lester Lam is a singer-songwriter from Malaysia who is now based in Hong Kong. A new journey of his embarked after winning the ICMA Singing Competition in 2019. The mixture of influences from Pop, R&B and Indie music has built the foundations for his raw and personal style of storytelling, reflected in his debut EP "Unwithered Blue". The project consists of five brutally honest conversations with his deepest emotions, including his singles "Out of This World" and “Realize".

Lester Lam will perform together with the singer-songwriter and guitarist Daniel Toh and the keyboardist Enoch Cheng.

XTIE is an independent singer-songwriter / electro-pop artist from Hong Kong. She weaves ear-candy pop beats with candid storytelling and her warm jazz-tinged vocals. As a self-produced artist, she writes, arranges, produces and performs her songs.

Since her debut in mid-2020, her tracks have reached over 110K streams on Spotify. Already having garnered support from BBC Radio Scotland, RTHK, Commercial Radio Hong Kong, SCMP Young Post, LOCK Magazine UK, The Noise Gate UK, XTIE shows her ability to create shimmering candy-pop beats, sweeping melodies with vocal chops, mellow chill out vibes and euphoric dancefloor moments.

For this show, XTIE has invited Isaac Chan on guitar and specially invited Ng Lam Fung to come share their latest release “Simplest Things”.

Born in Hong Kong, Manson graduated from Academy of Film of Hong Kong Baptist University. He was the vocal lead of the metal band Puzzle Experiment. In 2020, he officially joined Dumb Youth as an artist and participated in the “King Maker III" competition held by ViuTV.

As a singer and songwriter, Manson composed and performed the ending theme “OH! REGRETS” for the film "Hong Kong Master”, the ending theme “Your Lights” and interlude song “撒哈拉初雪” for TV series “The Republic" (Ep 5: “Before Our Spring”). His debut single named “I Wanna Do Nothing” will be released in 2021. As the composer and lyricist of his debut song, he also participated in the song arrangement.

Saturday Music at Laundry Steps