Join AsianInNY for this year’s Passport to Taiwan Festival 2012! We have helped to organize some amazing performances! Bring your mom to celebrate Mother’s Day with us!
May 13th Sunday from 12~5pm
Location: Union Square North

Since the initiation of the “Passport to Taiwan” festival in 2002, it has become the most important event for the Taiwanese American and the Mandarin Speaking community in the New York Tri-State area. At the “Passport to Taiwan” event each year, participants can sample local delicacies from in Taiwan, observe dough figurine makers and calligraphy masters at work in the arts & crafts area, learn about various organizations and agencies, play children’s games, learn about traditional Taiwanese toys in the interactive area, fold cranes in the kids workshop area, and learn more about Taiwan and Taiwanese Americans in the exhibition area.

Join us to enjoy amazing performance from

11:30 Church Service/ TAA-NY Chorus with musician Ya Han Chang
12:00 Opening Ceremony
12:10 Double Helix by Hsiao-Wei Hsieh & Hsiao-Ting Hsieh and Nan-Cheng Chen
12:20 Dulan Mountain Theater
12:50 Isaiah Richardson
01:10 Red Flower 紅花樂團
02:00 Three Sheet
02:55 Chairman 董事長樂團
03:50 Hsu-Nami
04:30 Giga Herb

Eric Hsu of Johnny Hi-Fi 1:55/2:45/3:40/4:25

The Chairman Band 董事長樂團 (Taiwan)
The Chairman, formed in 1997, has released 8 albums, and received numerous domestic and overseas awards. The Chairman is famed for its particular Taiwanese local rock and roll style and has dominated the Taiwan music industry for years. The Chairman has been nominated and won awards including Golden Melody Awards and Golden Indie Awards in Taiwan. They were also invited to perform at 2011 Taiwan Heritage Night at the Mets Citi Field, the first Taiwan live band to perform at any Major League Baseball. The Chairman’s facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/chairman.taiwan

Red Flower 紅花樂團 (Taiwan)
Emerging band Red Flower straddles the murky line between pop and indie band. Red Flower Band was found in 2005 and since then, two tracks have become TV drama theme songs including “Love Second Time Around” makes a nod to 1980s happy-go-lucky rock, while “Pillow Talk” veers into atmospheric slow rock redolent of Coldplay. Red Flower Band facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RedFlowerBand

The Hsu-Nami (New York city)
An international renowned prog-rock band from the United States. The Hsu-Nami. Integrates an amplified electric ”erhu”, a tweaked two-string spike fiddle used in Chinese classical and folk music, into a rock lineup. The band typically compose lengthy erhu melodic-based instrumental pieces that feature dynamic contrast, heavy guitar riffs, melodic bass guitar lines and trading solo. Part of the new-fusion rock movement, the Hsu-Nami redefines the 1960s and 1970s progressive fusion rock music. Hsu-Nami’s Facebook: http://www.hsu-nami.com/

Three Sheet (Canada)
Tour the whole country of Taiwan with 2012 “Hello Taiwan Tour” this past April. Three Sheet is a five member, genre-bending power house with a firm base in hip hop and backed by 100% beatbox percussion. With a highly portable composition of 3 microphones, a guitar, and a bass, Three Sheet is known for their mind-melting organic sound with no samples, no loops and no synthesized drums. Three Sheet’s Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Three-Sheet/74256272845

Eric Hsu of Johnny Hi-Fi
With appearances on the House of Blues Tour, the Beijing Pop Festival, MTV, Billboard Magazine, CBS News, and the NY Times, Johnny Hi-Fi has captured the hearts of fans worldwide, with their haunting melodies and singer songwriter sensibility, fused with an alternative rock edge. Johnny Hi-Fi’s Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JohnnyHiFiband

Isaiah Richardson
Isaiah Richardson, famous street jazz saxophone player. he first got the whole nation of Taiwan’s attention by performing Taiwanese tunes in the subway of New York and post it on on video site which made him became a youtube sensation. https://www.facebook.com/brownricefamily

Giga Herbs (New York city)
Nestled in between thoughts that manifest themselves into songs about forlorn goddesses of the information age and magical dragons powering a local ferryboat. Mystical, middle-earth, space rock inside your computer would be the best summation. Giga Herb’s Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Giga-Herbs/147297825370523

Poster design by Dana Goldberg