The Old Globe invites concertgoers, friends, and music and dance lovers to the first-ever evening concert in the free AXIS performing arts series, Manila Disco Fever, on Thursday May 9, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on the Globe's Copley Plaza in Balboa Park. Doors will open at 5:00 p.m.
Break out the bell-bottoms! This concert will make you get up on your feet, so don't forget to bring your dancing shoes and come on down to this joyous party celebrating the enduring disco hits that are still heard in the Philippines and at Filipino events around the world. Disco fever wasn't just an American epidemic. In the late 1970s, those lithe, funk-inflected bass lines, slinky keyboards, and punchy horns spread around the globe, finding a particularly receptive audience in the Philippines. Manila Disco Fever celebrates the Manila Sound, a hugely popular movement that blossomed in the late '70s and early '80s with acts like VST & Company, Boyfriends, Hagibis, and Cinderella. This event features special guests Spanky Rigor and Roger Rigor (original members of VST & Company) and is built around The Union, a dynamic show group with a five-piece rhythm section and five vocalists from various show bands of the '80s: Jet Montelibano (Music & Magic), Jessica Casas (Something Special), Nino de Jesus (New Minstrels), Joann Visitacion (The Union), Fulton Montoya (NuClear Projekt).This event is open to the public, part of the Globe's commitment to making theatre matter to more people as a public good.
Singing along and dancing can create an appetite. Not to worry! Aunty Lynne's Food Truck will be on our plaza selling delicious authentic and fusion cuisine from around the Pacific Rim.Videos