Kris Allen at Music Fest 2010, Manila, Philippines
Youtube hit sensation Boyce Avenue, America’s Best Dance Crew winner Jabbawockeez, and American Idol Season 8 winner Kris Allen performed in the recently concluded Music Fest 2010 at the Philippines. They had two concerts – one in Cebu and the other one was at the Mckinley Hills Open Ground at the Fort Bonifacio. Mich and I were able to watch the concert at the Fort. Over-all the event was definitely okay but there were a lot of things that they could have improved on. This is a quick review and summary of the event.
Boyce Avenue
First up we have Boyce Avenue. According to the emcees, they have over 160,000,000 hits on Youtube and there’s a good reason why they have those views. These guys are really good singers and they were able to connect with the crowd quite well. When they sang their popular covers like Bleeding Love, they had everyone jumping up and down and screaming like giddy teenagers. However, for people who don’t really follow them it was kinda boring. Personally I found them entertaining but only during their cover songs. I literally zoned out when they were doing originals.
Jabbawockeez
Next up is what I consider to be the best act for the evening. The Jabbawockeez brought the house down with their funny, entertaining, dramatic, and flawless routines. They are literally poetry in motion and I never imagined in my life that I would enjoy a dance concert so much, haha! There’s a reason why these guys won ABCD and now I know why. They just have insane skills! I loved their “Apologize” and “Transformers” routines and I hope they visit Manila more often. I’ll definitely make it a point to watch them as long as they change up their routines every now and then. It will probably get boring if they keep doing the same thing over and over.
There was also one part in the act where they brought up a girl from the crowd and they danced for her using the Little Mermaid OST “Kiss the Girl”. That was just hilarious! Another favorite would definitely when they did the tribute for Michael Jackson. A major plus factor for them was that several members of the crew were actually Filipinos. This definitely got the crowd more rowdy especially when the guys finally took their masks off. Two thumbs of to Jabbawockeez! You guys definitely rock!
Kris Allen
And of course we have American Idol Season 8 winner Kris Allen. He’s an awesome singer but I think he still needs to improve on his performance and his song list. Most of his songs that are well-known are mostly from his numbers on American Idol.
He started pretty strong with Heartless but he then went on to do songs that I’ve never heard of before. This was kinda a let down since people were really excited to watch him perform his major hits from Idol. After 2-3 of originals though he’d do one AI number. Personally the highlight for me and Mich was his performance of Fallin’ Slowly. To those who don’t know, I proposed to Mich with this song, hahaha. For more of that you can check our engagement blog.
Kris Allen singing Fallin’ Slowly at Music Fest 2010, Philippines
It’s a good thing that Kris finished strong though. His last two songs were “Live like we’re dying” and “Ain’t No Sunshine”. Both these songs got the crowd really excited and I had to cover my ears every now and then because of the insane mob of girls screaming all over the place, hahaha.
Over-all we liked the concert but it could definitely have been done much better. Jabbawockeez were the saving grace for the night and if they weren’t there I would feel really bad for spending P3160 for my silver tickets. It’s a good thing I decided not to get the Gold/VIP tickets. =_=
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