Debra Li

    debra_lidan@163.com

    A THREE-DAY pop music extravaganza featuring 27 pop bands as well as singers and DJs will rock a theme park at the foot of Luofu Mountain in the neighboring Huizhou city during the National Day holiday.

    The Flower Blossom theme park (Nali Huakai) in Boluo County, featuring vast fields of colorful flowers, seems the right place for singer-songwriter Pu Shu to perform his pop hits “Flowers” and “Birch Forest.” Pu, 42, quit college in 1994 to become a singer. His first album released in 1999 won him the best young Chinese pop artist award given out by China National Radio that year. The singer will also perform “The Ordinary Road,” a song he wrote for the 2014 movie “The Continent” that made him known and embraced by the younger generation.

    The marathon show will also feature legendary rock band Black Panther. First founded in 1987 and once fronted by Chinese rock music pioneers like Ding Wu and Dou Wei, the band reunited and released a new album in 2013. The current members include frontman Zhang Qi, guitarist Li Tong, bass player Wang Wenjie, percussionist Zhao Mingyi and keyboardist Hui Peng.

    Chen Chusheng, singing competition show “Happy Boy” champion in 2007, will also perform. Fans will hear familiar songs that include his debut single “Has Anyone Told You.”

    Younger fans will be pleased to see that indie pop band Escape Plan fronted by Mao Chuan will be playing. Showing influences from post-punk and new wave music, the band shot to fame in 2008 when Midi Music Festival used their single “Let’s Get Married in 2008” as the theme song for their promo video. The band’s first album “Earth” was released on New Year’s Day 2012, and a single from it — “The Brightest Star in the Night Sky” — became an instant hit. The song has since been repeatedly sung by contestants at singing competitions.

    The show will have 20-year-old Liu Yating, a contestant on the second season of “The Voice of China” known for her coarse and explosive voice. Many Shenzhen-based bands like hardcore band Force Defender, Mango Band, Le You Ji and Radio Band will also perform.

    The show, on a stage set up at the center of flower fields, will last from Oct. 1 to 3 between 10:30 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. Each set will feature a band or singer and will last for 45 minutes, with a 15-minute intermission, during which DJs will perform on another stage set up on a pool at a nearby venue in the park.

    “More than 100 entertainers will be performing. This is going to be a big party for young pop music fans,” said Liu Yangtian, general manager of Shenzhen Feitian Culture and Media Co.