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Live and Kicking

While performing at the Rye Music Festival in Jinan, Shandong Province, on April 29, Lala Hsu, a singer from China’s Taiwan Province, tearfully exclaimed, “It’s been too long!”

She voiced the feelings of many live music fans who have long and eagerly been waiting for a musical fête to once again lose themselves in dazzling stage shows—and some pounding beats.

After a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, several popular music festivals have recently gotten back on stage in China, gathering hundreds of thousands of stylish crowds hungry for a stellar musical extravaganza. As festival season got underway, audiences have already had a wonderful musical time at major happenings like the Strawberry Music Festival, one of the

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