Midi Modern Music Festival is China's largest rock music festival, based in Beijing, since 1997 the festival is held every year during the May holiday (May 1st - May 3rd) with some breaks due to government problems in 2003 and 2004 (both times hold in October). For other uses, see Rock music (disambiguation). ... Beijing (Chinese: 北京; pinyin: Běijīng; IPA: ; ), a metropolis in northern China, is the capital of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ...
The festival is hosted by the Midi School, Beijing's first and only rock music school.
The 2006 festival hosted 40-80 thousand visitors, more than 50 bands (including 18 foreign bands Alev, Monokino, Yokohama Music Association, The Wombats, The Mayflies etc.) and presented four different stages (Main Stage, Guitarchina Stage, Mini Midi Stage, Disco Stage) featuring artists of rock, electro and DJ genres. The Wombats are a three-piece band from Liverpool, England. ... Disco was a genre of dance-oriented pop music that blends elements of funk and soul music that was first popularized in dance clubs (discothèques) in the mid-1970s. ... Electro, short for electro funk (also known as robot hip hop and Electro hop) is an electronic style of hip hop directly influenced by Kraftwerk and funk records (unlike earlier rap records which were closer to disco). ...
External links
Official Midi Homepage
Interview with Zhang Fan, headmaster of the Midi School about the Midi Festival
Schedule of past 2006 festival
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Taiwan is densely-populated and culturally diverse, including a majority of Han Chinese, including the Holo and Hakka peoples and significant quantities of "Mainlanders", refugees who arrived with Chiang Kai-shek in the middle of the 20th century, and the minority of aboriginal peoples.
Holo folk music is most common today on the Hengchun Peninnsula in the southernmost part of the island, where performers sing accompanied by yueqin (moon guitar), which is a type of two-stringed lute.
Taiwanese enjoyment of popular music often manifests itself on a practical level with the national obsession for KTV, a variant of karaoke.
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