August 25 , 2009 , TueZhangbei InMusic Festival, Ryan, and Summer Interns
By: Lisa Li
We have talked about music festivals in China for a couple of times (here and here). Our team members went to Zhangbei Inmusic Festival from Aug 7 – 9. From their videos and photos, we just see that the enthusiasm towards independent and music concerts/ festivals is continuing to grow in China. Many young people are just back from Zhangbei’s festival but already marked Modern Sky festival (in Oct) in their event calendar.
Hope the video clip by China Youthology’s young and passionate team can give a feel about the independent music community and fans in China. Zhangbei is located at Hebei province – more than 4 hrs drive from Beijing. The audience need to travel at least 4 hrs to come to the spot, yet we still see a big crowd of more than 80 thousands…
Despite the poor environment (the so-called ‘grassland’ is more like ‘mud land’ according to the audience), disappointing service and unreasonably expensive price for food and drinks, the young music fans highly praised the music performance, enjoyed the free air, and fully unleashed their passion there.
The movie was done by Ryan. And here a warm welcome for Ryan to join China Youthology (after several months of internship) for creative production! Ryan graduated from China Music Academy. He has a genuine passion for videos and creative. When people make ppt for our internal sharing events, this guy makes video clips and argues that making a video is much easier for him than making a ppt. Well, trust Ryan will continue to bring to us more video shots about China’s youth culture.
Great thanks to our talented summer interns Tao and Temple as well (who also went to the festival, did interviews, shoot videos, and had great fun). As I mentioned the other day on twitter – Tao and Temple made us feel so lucky and realized China Youthology should never bear not to live and work with the ‘real youth’.
4 hours drive is a very optimistic estimation. It took us 5 1/2 hours to get there :O Was totally worth it though. We really loved the music and the atmosphere. Will stay for more that q day next time. Keep us updated about the modern sky festival. Sounds fun!
August 26th, 2009 at 2:11 am
6:42 and I though Zafka was in the US :O or is that his younger (and slightly less attractive) brother?
August 26th, 2009 at 2:28 am