Sounding out across borders

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Wutiaoren, an urban folk music duo from Haifeng county of Guangdong province, sings in their local dialect. Their humorous musical renderings of urban migration, alienation in modern society, and the joys and pains of young people in small southern towns have touched hundreds of thousands of people.

Irma Pany, known as Irma, is a Cameroonian singer-songwriter living in France. She's known for her soft vocal and hazy aura－a voice that is refreshingly smooth. Her voice may be immediately recognized from her performance in I Know, a Google Chrome commercial in Europe where the song has had massive exposure. Irma will perform songs of her soon-to-be-launched album Face at the concert.

The venue, Life Hub @ Jinqiao and Life Hub @ Anting, is famous for its open, spacious court and well-designed layout that enables visitors to enjoy a day with families, with facilities for entertainment, shopping and dining.

Organizer and music critic Sun Mengjin says exchanges between Chinese and French musicians have reached a stage where people are looking for diversified, original and multi-genre works, compared with a decade ago, when musical exchanges mainly relied on listening to albums.

Now the live shows and musical events bring artists and audiences closer together, Sun says.