Tag archive for ‘live music’
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Eddy, Jingjing & Bong Trio
Eddy Lewis, Bong, Hong Jingjing are playing together again in Eudora Station, Hangzhou. It’ll be a big gig.
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Eudora Station
Chatting about Eudora Station, the restaurant’s owner wanted to know if it was a good thing that many were saying that Eudora is the “new Paradise Rock”. I am sure nobody much likes to be compared with somebody or something else, especially when you don’t know the other, but I told Thomas that it was probably a good thing.
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Joy Luck Club
Joy Luck is a simple pub with quite a few live gigs on, definitely more underground and alternative music. Long bar, big stage, some interesting murals on the walls. Lots of wood. But it is a ways out on the edge of the west side of town. The road gets dark before you get to [...]
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Shangri-la Garden Bar
The Shangri-la Garden Bar probably isnt going to be a destination for the evening unless you are staying in the Shang, or tucked into dinner at one of their restaurants, Peppino’s or the Coffee Garden, but if you are ever after a quiet good cocktail with a bit of live background jazz, you cant go [...]
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JZ Bar
But if you want something that isnt tasteless mainstream, you have to look a little harder. Right at the top of your research list will be JZ. It is certainly one of the most sophisticated places in Hangzhou. Well decorated in a darkened modern way and with huge velvet curtain backed stage showing off a Yamaha Grand. A long wine … …all add to the impression that you might possibly have teleported out of China when you walked in.
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Maya Bar
Maya Bar has become an institution for the expat crowd living in Hangzhou. The small unassuming place fills up quickly after 9pm pretty much any night of the week drawing people who want to have a couple, or more, well poured drinks and properly served Tiger beer. By midnight, the bar is often in full swing with many looking like they are going to be settling in for a night…
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