Timbre Music puts forward its largest-scale music-oriented event with Timbre Rock & Roots – a two-day evening festival to be held on 26 & 27 March 2010 at the Marina Promenade (F1 tracks behind the Singapore Flyer, Marina Bay precinct) featuring a host of world-class musicians, Grammy Awards winners and nominees.

Timbre Rock & Roots is a joint collaboration project between Timbre Music Pte Ltd (of Ublues Group) and Bluesfest Pty Ltd, the organizer behind one of the world’s most prominent music festivals, East Coast Blues Festival also known as Bluesfest (Byron Bay, Australia) headed Festival Director, Mr. Peter Noble.

Timbre Music has been presenting a myriad of artists through its Timbre chain of live music bars and a strong portfolio of music events since its inception. Rock & Roots is a true testament to Timbre Music’s mandate of bringing quality musicians to Singapore audiences regardless of artists’ origins. This is in line with Bluesfest’s programming decree.

An industry veteran, Mr. Peter Noble has led Bluesfest to be one of world’s most acclaimed and respected festivals, and one of the most highly awarded. After 20 years, it is still the inspiration for dozens of blues and roots festivals in Australia.

The current artists line-up is as follows:
Blues Train; Buddy Guy; Gipsy Kings; Gugun & The Blues Shelter; Jools Holland & His Rhythm and Blues Orchestra; Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club® and The Fray. More artists to be announced in the coming days.

Timbre Rock & Roots Event Details

Date: Friday 26 March and Saturday 27 March 2010
Time: Gates opened from 6pm. Performances from 7pm
Venue: Marina Promenade, F1 tracks behind Singapore Flyer
Organizers: Timbre Music Pte Ltd and Bluesfest Pty Ltd

Ticketing Information

1-day Pass
Early-bird: SGD 88* (limited to the first 2,000 tickets purchased)
Standard: SGD 108*
2-day Pass
Early-bird: SGD 148* (limited to the first 200 tickets purchased)
Standard: SGD 178*
Kids 7 years old and younger enter for free. Please enquire at (65) 6338 8277 on corporate hospitality packages.
* SGD 2 ticket handling fee applies.

Both 1-day and 2-day passes to the festival are available. For the first 2,000 1-day and first 200 2-day passes purchased, buyers get to enjoy the Early-bird prices of SGD 88* and SGD 148* respectively. Ticket prices revert to standard prices of SGD 108* (1-day) and SGD 178* (2-day) after Early-bird specials are
sold out. Corporate hospitality packages information to be released soon. A SGD 2 ticket handling fee applies to all tickets.

Tickets sales begins on 20 January 2010 from BYTES via website http://www.bytes.sg/; hot-line (65) 6332 6919 and box office located at The Arts House at 1 Old Parliament Lane.

For more information on the festival, please visit http://www.timbre.com.sg/

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