Eldee Young performed last weekend at the Emporium Music Festival. The festival continues this weekend. Photograph by Robert Lorimor. (more pictures)
Story by Cecil Pearson Brown
The 7th Annual Emporium Serenade Music Festival opened Friday, February 18 to a group of appreciative music lovers including a number of Bangkok celebrities. The event was held at Fashion […]

Violinist Jonathon Glonek and pianist Dr. Mikhail Solovei
perform at the Conrad Hotel in Bangkok. Photograph by George Yamamoto.
Story by Robert Lorimor
Violinist Jonathon Glonek and Pianist Dr. Mikhail Solovei performace held the audience capttive as they listened to a stirring and emotional “Gypsy Duo” concert last night at the Conrad Hotel’s Ballroom. The concert was […]

Welcome to our new Jungle Vine column. This will be a “no rules” never-ending column in which we will cover various loose ends and the week’s upcoming events in Bangkok and Thailand.

Emporium Serenade Music Festival continues this weekend. Lots of music. It’s worth dropping by the Emporium mall to check it out.
The last […]

DJ Cash Money, “The World’s Greatest DJ as hailed by DMC, Hip Hop Connection Magazine, Radio One and over 50 million fans worldwide performed at Bed Supperclub Tuesday night, February 22 to a capacity crowd. Credited with having invented the now mandatory “Battle Style” of placing the decks and four different styles of scratching.

Bangkok Jungle is proud to be among the Sponsors of this year’s One World Beat Global Music Festival. We will be covering the entire event. Look for upcoming additional information.
One World Beat
One World Beat is a Switzerland-based non-profit organization whose mission is to unite socially conscious musicians and charities for social change—Music Making a Difference! […]

The pilot for “The Farang Show” was recorded at Bale’s Restaurant located on Lat Phrao Soi 35 on Sunday, February 20. The show is hosted by Tony King and Cannonball appears as the house band. This may become the first bilingual show in Bangkok. The talk show will feature “farang” personalities, the Thai expression for […]

story by Guy Baker
The Vulcan Love Launch started on Friday, February 11, in Pataya on Koh Larn, with a street fair and night parade, complete with stilt-walkers and girls in multi-colored butterfly costumes, with giant wings. The following day, the music started in the afternoon. Japanese DJ Katsugi got the crowd in the mood with […]

AllHipHop.com has a story about the Thailand Ministry of Culture introducing a new genre of rap called “Dhamma Rap.” February 23 is the launch day.

The Emporium department store on Sukhumvit is having their annual jazz festival beginning tonight at 6 pm, continues tomorrow and ending on Sunday, and then continues on the following weekend, February 25, 26, and 27. The event will be on three stages throughout the department store complex, Fashion Hall, Motion Hall and the Fountain Square […]

Carmen Bradford performs with Jeremy Monteiro on piano, Eldee Young on bass fiddle at the Sukhumvit Sheraton’s Living Room. Not pictured is Tama Goh on drums.
Story and Photograph by Robert Lorimor
Carmen Bradford remembers listening to music all of her life. Her father is the legendary trumpeter-composer Bobby Bradford and her mother is the legendary-singer […]

SPLASH ENT is recording a pilot for a new English speaking entertainment show which will be broadcast on Thai Terrestrial Television. The show is a humorous mix of music, chat and more. The show will be hosted by top American MC, Tony King. There will be some very special celebrity quests appearing along with […]

We couldn’t resist posting a link to this story from the Sun Herald in Mississippi. The final resting place of bluesman Robert Johnson is being disputed.